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.
Northern Region Competition
Saturday, February 25 at 2:00pm
Lowell Observatory – Giclas Lecture Hall
1400 W Mars Hill Rd, Flagstaff, AZ 86001
Join us for a lively roundtable conversation of arts professionals from around the country. Moderated by Adriana Gallego, artist and Deputy Director of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, the evening will include information about services to artists. Don’t miss it!
Friday, March 3, 6-8 pm
Free and open to the public
Space is limited, registration required
Register: https://
Raices Taller
218 E. 6th St.
Tucson, AZ 85705
In-person information sessions were held in Mesa, Surprise, Tucson, Phoenix, and Flagstaff in January 2017. In addition to the in-person information sessions, online information sessions were offered covering the same content.
To register for the online information session, click here.
In-person information sessions were held in Mesa, Surprise, Tucson, Phoenix, and Flagstaff in January 2017. In addition to the in-person information sessions, online information sessions were offered covering the same content.
To register for the online information session, click here.
Arizona State Finals
Saturday, March 11 at 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:30pm)
Arizona PBS Studios – Arizona State University
555 North Central Avenue
Suite 500
Phoenix, AZ 85004-1252
Arizona Arts Congress, the annual advocacy day presented by the Arizona Citizens for the Arts, will be held on Tuesday, March 14, 2017 on the Senate Lawn of the Arizona State Capitol, 1700 W. Washington.
Arts Congress is the one day each year that arts and culture advocates, patrons, educators, business people and voters gather to speak directly to Arizona legislators about the importance of support for arts and culture in our state.
Arizona Citizens for the Arts will provide training materials and talking points for meetings with legislators. For more information, visit http://azcitizensforthearts.org
Join the Arizona Commission on the Arts at Raices Taller 222 in Tucson on Saturday, March 18, for a free workshop designed to help artists craft superior grant applications. Whether you’re an emerging artist just learning the ropes or a seasoned pro looking to polish your presentation, this workshop covers the fundamentals while offering an insiders perspective on what funders and review panelists are looking for in a grant application. Using the Arts Commission’s Artist Research and Development Grant as a model, participants will learn the essential components of a strong application as they play the role of reviewers in a mock grant review panel.
Register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=lhhhlrqab&oeidk=a07edvu458346bc546c
The Quarterly Commission Meeting that was scheduled for Thursday, March 23, 2017 has been rescheduled for Monday, April 03, 2017, from 10:30am to 11:30am at the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
Click here for public meeting notice.
Join us for a lecture with contemporary Mexican artist Betsabeé Romero, as part of her Phoenix residency April 3-10.
Betsabeé Romero lives and works in Mexico City. For over 15 years, her work has paid attention to issues of migration and mobility through the symbols and everyday rituals of the culture of global consumption, such as cars, tattoos and urban signage.
Romero has realized more than 30 individual exhibitions in México, the United States and Europe, and has participated in a large number of residencies and international biennials. Her work is part of important collections, including: The British Museum, Daros Collection in Switzerland, Phoenix Art Museum, Nelson & Atkins Nevada Museum of Art, World Bank in Washington D.C., Gelman (México), MOCA Los Angeles, and The Museum of Contemporary Art of Porto Alegre (Brazil). Betsabeé Romero is also renown for numerous monumental installations and interventions in urban communities, including East Los Angeles, Chicago, Mexico City, and Toulouse.
This program is organized by CALA Alliance and AZ ArtWorker, a program of the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and presented in collaboration with Phoenix Art Museum.
Support for substantive school/community partnerships that strengthen teaching and learning in arts education and/or arts integration in Arizona Title I schools.
The application period (for Grant Cycle: July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2018) is now open.
The application deadline is 11:59pm Thursday, June 1, 2017.
To help potential applicants prepare to apply, the Arts Commission will host two online information sessions. These sessions are open to all and offered free of charge, but advance registration is required.
Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 3:30 pm
http://www.anymeeting.com/PIID=ED50DE8087493F
Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 3:30 pm
http://www.anymeeting.com/PIID=ED50DE80874838
Join us for a daylong professional development workshop with content crafted to serve Native American artists led by Linda Essig, Jake Meders, and First Peoples Fund. You will learn how to develop your entrepreneurial thinking skills, marketing basics, budgeting, and receive a free copy of the Arizona Arts Entrepreneur Toolkit.
Register: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ee18vxh9b88e6a03&oseq=&c=&ch=
The 2017 Poetry Out Loud National Finals will be held April 25-26, 2017 at the Lisner Auditorium at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. The semifinals and finals will be webcast live. Click here to view details of the webcast or to host a viewing party.
Don’t forget to follow the action on Twitter @poetryoutloud and #POL17.
