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Perilous State of the Arts Agencies State arts agencies, which provide vital funding and assistance to nonprofit arts institutions, are threatened with extinction across the U.S. By Tom Jacobs This article, posted in full below, clearly articulates the value of public funding for the arts through the voices of state arts agency directors across the… Read more »

Early last week, the Arts Commission announced the launch of the Arizona Cultural Data Project. A brief overview of the project: The Arizona Cultural Data Project (Arizona CDP) is a powerful online management tool designed to strengthen arts and cultural organizations.  Arts and cultural organizations enter financial, programmatic and operational data into a standardized online form… Read more »

Early last week, the Arts Commission announced the launch of the Arizona Cultural Data Project. A brief overview of the project: The Arizona Cultural Data Project (Arizona CDP) is a powerful online management tool designed to strengthen arts and cultural organizations.  Arts and cultural organizations enter financial, programmatic and operational data into a standardized online form… Read more »

Early last week, the Arts Commission announced the launch of the Arizona Cultural Data Project. A brief overview of the project: The Arizona Cultural Data Project (Arizona CDP) is a powerful online management tool designed to strengthen arts and cultural organizations.  Arts and cultural organizations enter financial, programmatic and operational data into a standardized online form… Read more »

Early last week, the Arts Commission announced the launch of the Arizona Cultural Data Project. A brief overview of the project: The Arizona Cultural Data Project (Arizona CDP) is a powerful online management tool designed to strengthen arts and cultural organizations.  Arts and cultural organizations enter financial, programmatic and operational data into a standardized online form… Read more »

2011 Arizona Poetry Out Loud is fully underway across our state. High school students in many communities throughout Arizona are learning and reciting poems that resonate with them, and competing to advance to the state level of a national scholarship competition. Two Tucson Magnet High School students were recently interviewed by Arizona Illustrated. See the… Read more »

We’re on the road…  In early January of this year, guest presenters and staff of the Arizona Commission on the Arts began moving around the state to facilitate the Building an Artistic Future for Arizona community workshop series. Workshops have already taken place in Ajo, Mesa and  Show Low. Next is Flagstaff, where the Flagstaff… Read more »

P.A.V.E. Symposium on Entrepreneurship and the Arts Arizona State University, Tempe Campus Lyceum Theatre, the Nelson Fine Arts Center, and the Secret Garden April 1-2, 2011 In just two months from now, the second bi-annual P.A.V.E. Symposium on Entrepreneurship and the Arts will take place in Tempe, Arizona. This year’s symposium, Creating Infrastructure for Creativity… Read more »

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 »

The Arizona Commission on the Arts is proud to announce the official launch of the Arizona Cultural Data Project. With the support of a consortium of public and private funders, Arizona joins eight other states around the country in offering this powerful web-based data collection tool. Operated by the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Cultural Data… Read more »