Latino Arts and Culture in Arizona: It’s happening

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At its core, international artistic collaborations are investments that stimulate local economies, bolster innovation, enhance relationships and strengthen multicultural understanding. In the spirit of mobilizing such efforts, the Arizona Commission on the Arts is an active member of the Arizona Mexico Commission (AMC).  Through work with fifteen bi-national committees, the AMC pursues its mission to… Read more »

The Fronteras News Desk Wants Your Arts Insight

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KJZZ, Phoenix’s NPR station, and its project Fronteras: The Changing America Desk, recently joined the Public Insight Network, an interesting news experiment, that puts your experiences and perspective to work in telling a news story. The following is an invitation from Fronteras News Desk reporter, Nick Blumberg, for you to join the Public Insight Network…. Read more »

Phoenix Arts and Business Council Honorees

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Congratulations to the honorees of the 2011 Business in the Arts Awards Breakfast, presented by the Arts and Business Council of Greater Phoenix! The following is a press release issued today by the Arts and Business Council.

Connecting Schools with Arts and Culture Resources

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 Learning opportunities can be found both in and out of the classroom, and arts field trip experiences can be an essential tool in expanding student learning. As stated in Highlights from the Arizona Arts Education Census Project, “Community resources are vital components of any high quality arts education program. From an opera company to a… Read more »

Art Exhibition Opportunity at the Office of the Arizona Attorney General

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The Arizona Art Alliance, a non-profit organization whose membership represents over 3,500 Arizona visual artists who produce fine art in over a dozen mediums, will manage an exhibition for the office of the Arizona Attorney General. The call to artists is open to submissions of two and three-dimensional art pieces by Arizona artists over the age of 18. The… Read more »

NEA Announces New Research on the Value Added By Cultural Industries

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Cultural industries are economic powerhouses and states have the data to prove it, according to a new analysis from the National Endowment for the Arts. Drawing on data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Arts and the GDP: Value Added by Selected Cultural Industries is a new NEA research note that examines the value added… Read more »

The Culture Pass

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Having a hard time firguring out how to spend your free days in the Arizona summer? Thanks to a partnership between the Phoenix metro public libraries and arts and cultural organizations, library cardholders can check out the Culture Pass for admission for two to many arts and culture institutions in the greater Phoenix area. Here’s… Read more »

2012 Application Cycle for Arizona Artist Project Grants is Now Open

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The following post is by Georgina Madrigal. Georgina is currently the Strategic Initiatives Intern at the Arizona Commission on the Arts. She holds a B.A. in Museum Studies and Art History from Arizona State University and has previously held internship positions with the Heard Museum, Tempe Public Art and Willo North Gallery. It is that… Read more »