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.
The first of several online and in-person information sessions for potential applicants to the Festival and Community Investment Grant programs will be held on Wednesday, January 20, 2016, at 3:30pm. If you would like to participate in this live, web-based information session, please click here to fill out the form and we will email you information on how to participate.
Further sessions, both online and in-person, will be announced shortly.
In February, 2016, the Arizona Commission on the Arts will begin accepting applications for Fiscal Year 2017 Festival Grants and Community Investment Grants. Prior to the March 17 application deadline for these grant programs, arts Commission staff will present online information sessions to help applicants prepare their application materials.
If you would like to participate in one of these web-based information sessions, please register here.
Join Goodyear Arts & Culture Commission on February 23, 2016, at 7:00pm to hear Arizona Poet Laureate Alberto Rios share about his life and literary work. Light refreshments will be served. This program is offered for free and does not require registration.
For more info, please contact Goodyear Arts & Culture Commission at 623-882-7530.
In February, 2016, the Arizona Commission on the Arts will begin accepting applications for Fiscal Year 2017 Festival Grants and Community Investment Grants. Prior to the March 17 application deadline for these grant programs, arts Commission staff will present online information sessions to help applicants prepare their application materials.
If you would like to participate in one of these web-based information sessions, please register here.
Do Arizonans attend the arts? Are Arizona’s arts organizations truly undercapitalized? On Friday, March 25, 2016, Arizona Commission on the Arts Grants and Operations Coordinator Ben Watters will present a data-driven analysis of Arizona’s non-profit arts organizations and break down common misconceptions surrounding the sector. Using data aggregated via DataArts’ Cultural Data Profile, Watters will examine trends in revenue streams and how they relate to changes in modes of arts participation and engagement. Watters will also look at models of development for young and emerging organizations and employment of artists and other art workers.
Hosted by ASU’s School of Film, Dance & Theatre, this presentation is free and open to the public.
Grant Information Session
During the month of April, the Arizona Commission on the Arts will host an online information session on the new Arts Learning grant programs: Arts Learning Collaboration Grants and Lifelong Arts Engagement Grants. This session will be offered on two separate occasions.
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 3:30 pm
Wednesday, April 20, 2016, 3:30 pm
- Arts Learning Collaboration Grants enhance the work of arts educators, classroom teachers and school-based arts programs through collaborative projects taking place in-school (during regular school hours), after-school, or during summer/inter-session and in-services.
- Lifelong Arts Engagement Grants enhance the work of community and social service organizations/ governmental entities through partnership projects with professional teaching artists and/or arts organizations.
Grant guidelines for both Arts Learning Collaboration Grants and Lifelong Arts Engagement Grants are available for review now. The application period for Cycle A will open the first week of April, 2016.
Grant Information Session
During the month of April, the Arizona Commission on the Arts will host an online information session on the new Arts Learning grant programs: Arts Learning Collaboration Grants and Lifelong Arts Engagement Grants. This session will be offered on two separate occasions.
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 3:30 pm
Wednesday, April 20, 2016, 3:30 pm
- Arts Learning Collaboration Grants enhance the work of arts educators, classroom teachers and school-based arts programs through collaborative projects taking place in-school (during regular school hours), after-school, or during summer/inter-session and in-services.
- Lifelong Arts Engagement Grants enhance the work of community and social service organizations/ governmental entities through partnership projects with professional teaching artists and/or arts organizations.
Grant guidelines for both Arts Learning Collaboration Grants and Lifelong Arts Engagement Grants are available for review now. The application period for Cycle A will open the first week of April, 2016.
Join the Arizona Historical Society for an evening with Arizona Poet Laureate Alberto Ríos. Ríos will share some of his work and discuss the role that oral history plays in his writing. A native of Nogales, Arizona, Ríos writes about life along the U.S. and Mexico border, blending the personal with the political in a way that makes us see both in a new light.
For more information, contact the Arizona Historical Society Archives at: 520-617-1157 ahsref@azhs.gov. A flyer about the event can be seen by clicking here.
Presented by the Arizona Historical Society, in partnerships with with the University of Arizona’s Spanish and Portuguese & the Gender and Women’s Studies Departments,
This event and all events in the Nuestro Tucson series are made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association.
The Arizona Commission on the Arts is proud to host a special orientation session for the Southwest Folklife Alliance (SFA) Master-Apprentice Award.
The Southwest Folklife Alliance Master-Apprentice Award is designed to support the teaching/learning relationship between traditional artists and their apprentices. The goal of this award is to strengthen the transmission of community-based traditions throughout the Southwestern United States. The award supports a master artist or tradition bearer who has identified a qualified apprentice (or group of apprentices), to engage in a relationship that includes intensive learning, one-on-one mentorship and hands-on experience in his/her traditional artistic practice.
April 30, 2016: 10 am – 11:30 am
More info at: https://www.southwestfolklife.org/master-apprentice-program/
This online information session will include discussion of ARDG application and eligibility requirements, a breakdown of the application components and a live Q&A with Arts Commission staff.
In preparation for Fiscal Year 2018 grant deadlines for the Community Investment and Festival Grant programs, the Arts Commission is offering information sessions online and around the state during the month of January, 2017. These sessions will be suitable for both new and returning applicants and will cover the application process, highlight changes to the guidelines and requirements for the upcoming grant cycle and allow time for questions from participants.
Community Investment Grants (CIG) are available to nonprofit arts organizations, local arts agencies and tribal cultural organizations whose primary mission is to produce, present, teach or serve the arts. Organizations may use CIG funds for general operating expenses.
Festival Grants assist local arts agencies, tribal cultural organizations, government departments or agencies, university/college departments and other nonprofit cultural and social service organizations in their efforts to provide quality arts programming through festival activities.
In-person information sessions will be held in Mesa, Surprise, Tucson, Phoenix, and Flagstaff. In addition to the in-person information sessions, online information sessions will also be offered covering the same content.
![Axis Dance Company released this excellent resource to aid presenting organizations and others in integrating accessibility measures into their routine work and programming. Congratulations to project managers & writers, Kevin Gotkin (@who____girl )& Vanessa Hernandez Cruz (@galaxiesdance) for a job well done. Our own Artist Programs Coordinator, Delia Ibañez, served as a reviewer for this guide. You can engage with the guide (and see a wonderful example of accessible website design) at https://accessguide.axisdance.org/
Reposted from @axisdanceco
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