“Often, people cringe or become uncomfortable with blatant statements, but I find that if I take a different, more abstract tack, a broader audience will absorb the performance, and it’ll be in their psyches at a certain layer. They get it without me having to be heavy-handed about it.”
“From Yuma to Teec Nos Pos, from Kingman to Bisbee, the Arts Commission utilizes its grant programs to provide essential investment in communities across Arizona. As part of this grantmaking effort, the State of Arizona is an indispensable partner to Arizona’s arts sector in pursuit of a shared mission: to imagine an Arizona where everyone can participate in and experience the arts.”
Creative aging, a national movement to advance understanding of the vital relationship between creative expression and quality of life for older adults, is a popular topic these days, and it’s not hard to see why. U.S. Census Bureau data estimates that by the year 2020, more than 1 in 4 Arizonans will be over age 60.
The Arizona Commission on the Arts and the ASU School of Theatre and Film’s Performance in the Borderlands will present an evening of poetry and performance commemorating the release of Sonoran Strange, a book-length poetry collection by Tucson poet Logan Phillips, on Wednesday, February 11, 2015. The event is sponsored by AZ Humanities.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 10, 2014 Contact: Steve Wilcox 602-771-6536 swilcox@azarts.gov Arizona Commission on the Arts Announces $1,874,910 in Grants to Catalyze Arts and Culture Experiences across the State Phoenix (July 10, 2014). On July 10, 2014, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, an agency of the State of Arizona, announced 256 grants to nonprofit arts… Read more »
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