The Choice is Art Campaign: Year One

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The Choice is Art, a campaign for the arts in Arizona developed by the Arizona Commission on the Arts, launched in November 2010. Since its ambitious beginning, the campaign has appeared in weekly newspapers across the state, in well-known publications like Phoenix Magazine, national blogs, such as Americans for the Arts, at AdVision Outdoor bus… Read more »

National Arts and Humanities Month: Arizona Creative Conversations

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Taking place every October, National Arts & Humanities Month (NAHM) is the nation’s largest collective annual celebration of the arts. In honor of NAHM, Americans for the Arts has partnered with arts and community leaders from across the country to host Creative Conversations every year since 2004. What are Creative Conversations? Creative Conversations are local… Read more »

National Arts and Humanities Month: Arizona Creative Conversations

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Taking place every October, National Arts & Humanities Month (NAHM) is the nation’s largest collective annual celebration of the arts. In honor of NAHM, Americans for the Arts has partnered with arts and community leaders from across the country to host Creative Conversations every year since 2004. What are Creative Conversations? Creative Conversations are local… Read more »

National Arts and Humanities Month: Arizona Creative Conversations

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Taking place every October, National Arts & Humanities Month (NAHM) is the nation’s largest collective annual celebration of the arts. In honor of NAHM, Americans for the Arts has partnered with arts and community leaders from across the country to host Creative Conversations every year since 2004. What are Creative Conversations? Creative Conversations are local… Read more »

National Arts and Humanities Month: Arizona Creative Conversations

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Taking place every October, National Arts & Humanities Month (NAHM) is the nation’s largest collective annual celebration of the arts. In honor of NAHM, Americans for the Arts has partnered with arts and community leaders from across the country to host Creative Conversations every year since 2004. What are Creative Conversations? Creative Conversations are local… Read more »

The Gauntlet has been Thrown

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The Gauntlet has been Thrown. Yesterday, the new Executive Director of the California Arts Council, Craig Watson, issued a challenge to the Executive Director of our very own Arizona Commission on the Arts, Bob Booker. You see, the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the California Arts Council are neck and neck for the most… Read more »

Faces in the Arts: Patricia Sannit

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Faces in the Arts is a blog series dedicated to highlighting the work of Artist Project Grant recipients. These grants have been known to springboard recipients into the next level of their careers as artists, whose business is researching, developing, marketing and delivering their creative product. Through their work with communities, in education and in… Read more »

Creating Connections: Scottsdale Public Art’s IN FLUX Program

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IN FLUX, a program of Scottsdale Public Art, was featured this month in the Americans for the Arts’ monthly member newsletter. Kirstin Van Cleef, Project Manager at Scottsdale Public Art, contributed the article, posted in full, below, and here, on the Americans for the Arts website. Read on to learn about a unique program where… Read more »

Arts and Business Council of Greater Phoenix: Diversity Leader Search

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The following post was contributed by Debbie Paine, Executive Director of the Arts & Business Council of Greater Phoenix. Debbie has been with the Arts & Business Council of Greater Phoenix since 2001. She received her certification in nonprofit management from ASU’s Non Profit Management Institute, is a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP), a Valley Leadership… Read more »