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.

 

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
Grant Review Panel Meeting: CIG II(a)
May 13 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Applicants assigned to this section:

-Arizona Art Alliance

-Arizona Choral Arts Association

-Arizona Repertory Singers

-Borderlands Theater

-Central School Project

-Chandler Children’s Choir

-Desert Sounds Performing Arts

-Detour Company Theatre

-Dry Creek Arts Fellowship

-Flagstaff Master Chorale

-Gold Canyon Arts Council

-Grand Canyon Music Festival

-Kore Press

-Pan Left Productions

-Prescott College Art Gallery at Sam Hill Warehouse

May
14
Thu
Grant Review Panel Meeting: Arts Learning Grants (b)
May 14 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Grant Review Panel Meeting: CIG II(b)
May 14 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Applicants assigned to this section:

-Red Rocks Music Festival

-Salt River Brass Band

-Scottsdale Philharmonic

-Sonoran Desert Chorale

-Stray Cat Theatre

-The Rag Collection

-The Symphony Women’s Association

-Tucson Pops Orchestra

-Verde Valley Sinfonietta

-West Valley Youth Orchestra

-Wickenburg Cultural Organization (dba Wickenburg Children’s Cultural Organization)

-WomanKraft

-Young Arts Arizona

-ZUZI Inc.

May
15
Fri
Grant Review Panel Meeting: CIG IV-VI
May 15 @ 1:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Applicants assigned to this section:

Level IV

-Desert Foothills Theater

-Smoki Museum

-Xico Inc.

Level V

-Sedona Arts Center

-The Mini Time Machine Museum

-Tucson Children’s Museum (dba Children’s Museum of Tucson)

Level VI

-Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture

May
18
Mon
Grant Review Panel Meeting: CIG III(a)
May 18 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Applicants assigned to this section:

-Act One Foundation

-Actor’s Youth Theatre

-Arizona Classic Jazz Festival

-Arts Express

-Black Theatre Troupe

-Canyon Movement Company

-Center Dance Ensemble

-East Valley Children’s Theatre

-Flagstaff Friends of Traditional Music

-Grand Canyon Men’s Chorale

-Literacy Connects (Stories that Soar)

-Many Mouths One Stomach

-Mesa Encore Theatre

-Metropolitan Youth Symphony

-Northern Arizona Celtic Heritage Society

May
19
Tue
Grant Review Panel Meeting: CIG III(b)
May 19 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Applicants assigned to this section:

-Odaiko Sonora

-Orpheus Male Chorus of Phoenix

-ProMusica Arizona Chorale and Orchestra

-Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation

-Shemer Art Center and Museum

-Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra

-Spotlight Youth Theatre

-The Bisbee Radio Project

-The Drawing Studio

-Theatrikos Theatre Company

-Weavel Inc.

-White Mountain Apache Tribe Nowike’Bogowa Cultural Center and Museum

-Willcox Historic Theater Preservation

-Yavapai Symphony Association