The calendar below features upcoming Arts Commission deadlines, events, information sessions and workshop opportunities. Times, dates and event details may be subject to change. For more information, please email info@azarts.gov.

 

Jan
1
Thu
New Year’s Day | Office Closed
Jan 1 all-day
Jan
12
Mon
Arizona Art Tank: 2015, Eastern Region
Jan 12 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Arizona Art Tank: 2015, Eastern Region @ Chandler Center for the Arts | Chandler | Arizona | United States

At this free, public event, top applicants from throughout the East Valley will be given six minutes each to pitch an innovative arts-based venture to an expert panel and a live audience for a shot at up to $10,000 in seed funding.

Jan
13
Tue
Arizona Art Tank: 2015, Southern Region
Jan 13 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Jan
15
Thu
Arizona Art Tank: 2015, Northern Region
Jan 15 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Jan
19
Mon
Martin Luther King Jr Day | Office Closed
Jan 19 all-day
Jan
20
Tue
Arizona Art Tank: 2015, Western Region
Jan 20 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Feb
10
Tue
Audiences Everywhere™ Workshop
Feb 10 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

The Arizona Commission on the Arts is partnering with Audience Avenue to bring Matt Lehrman’s Audiences Everywhere™ workshop to Phoenix and Tucson in February 2015. Intended for nonprofit arts organizations large and small, Audience Everywhere‘s whole-organization approach to understanding your audience promises to “blow away conventional wisdom, energize new ways to advance your mission and inspire innovation at every level of your organization.

Thanks in part to the sponsorship of Patron Technology, Audience Avenue and the Arizona Commission on the Arts are please to offer these workshops free of charge to those who register in advance. Click here to register today! For more information on this opportunity, please contact kpierce@azarts.gov or 602-771-6517.

Feb
11
Wed
Audiences Everywhere™ Workshop
Feb 11 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

The Arizona Commission on the Arts is partnering with Audience Avenue to bring Matt Lehrman’s Audiences Everywhere™ workshop to Phoenix and Tucson in February 2015. Intended for nonprofit arts organizations large and small, Audience Everywhere‘s whole-organization approach to understanding your audience promises to “blow away conventional wisdom, energize new ways to advance your mission and inspire innovation at every level of your organization.

Thanks in part to the sponsorship of Patron Technology, Audience Avenue and the Arizona Commission on the Arts are please to offer these workshops free of charge to those who register in advance. Click here to register today! For more information on this opportunity, please contact kpierce@azarts.gov or 602-771-6517.

Sonoran Strange
Feb 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

sonorastrangeJoin us for an evening of poetry* and performance celebrating the culture and history of Arizona/Sonora Desert borderlands. Tucson poet Logan Phillips will read from “Sonoran Strange,” his debut full-length poetry collection, which explores the deep contradictions of the landscape and culture of his homeland.

Arizona Poet Laureate Alberto Ríos will make a special appearance with a reading of his award-winning work.

*Languages: English and Spanish

Presented by: Arizona Commission on the Arts and Performance in the Borderlands.

Logan Phillips is an Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Project Grant Recipient. (2012)

Feb
16
Mon
President’s Day | Office Closed
Feb 16 all-day
Mar
26
Thu
Quarterly Commission Meeting
Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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May
13
Wed
Grant Review Panel Meeting: Arts Learning Grants (a)
May 13 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm