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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. 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 »

October is National Arts and Humanities Month (NAHM). Click the buttons to find or create a NAHM event. How will you celebrate?

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 »

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 »

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 »

The following article originally appeared in NEA Arts Magazine 2011, Number 2. A Cultural Bridge Across a Desert: Arizona’s International Sonoran Desert Alliance by Rebecca Gross The Curley School in Ajo, Arizona, after being renovated by the International Sonoran Desert Alliance. Photo by Ron McCoy When the New Cornelia copper mine shut in 1985, the… Read more »

Thanks for tuning in to our series of National Arts in Education Week blog posts. We’ve enjoyed highlighting local and national arts education news this week and hope you’ll continue to engage with us as we work to support arts learning year-round. As the state arts agency of Arizona, we are committed to making the… Read more »

Last June we shared some information on the beginning of a movement to develop the next generation of national voluntary arts education standards in the post, What are the Common Core Arts Standards?. In May of 2010, the State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE) convened community and cultural partners to determine how to… Read more »

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts recently announced that Phoenix’s Mountain Pointe High School would receive one of four national awards for schools of distinction in arts education. This Kennedy Center award honors schools that “have done an outstanding job of making the arts essential to the education of their students.” Mountain… Read more »