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.
Southwest Folklife Alliance’s Master-Apprentice Grant 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.
Learn more about the Master-Apprentice Grant and the application process during this information session presented by Maribel Alvarez and Leah Maahs of Southwest Folklife Alliance and hosted by the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
Call for Teaching Artists:
The Teaching Artist Institute is a five-month training program that will introduce teaching artists to the variety of settings, programs, and partners that make up the creative aging field, and provide skills-building activities for participants to attain the specialized knowledge needed to work successfully with older adults.
AZ Creative Aging Teaching Artist Institute: Call for Teaching Artists
The Call for Teaching Artists provides additional information about the Teaching Artist Institute and detailed instructions for how to apply.
Please thoroughly review the Call for Teaching Artists prior to beginning your application.
Application deadline: 11:59pm Tuesday, December 1, 2015.
Introduction to Creative Aging: Myths of Aging and the Power of the Arts
Join us to learn about the myths of aging and how arts engagement benefits older adults.
- Jorge Merced, Associate Artistic Director of Pregones Theater, will provide a keynote on Creative Aging and an interactive exploration of the different approaches used across the continuum of care.
- Dr. Walter Nieri, Director of The Center for Health Aging at Banner Sun Health Research Institute, will share current research on healthy aging and the factors that contribute to quality of life.
Who should attend? Anyone interested in the vital relationship between the arts and quality of life for older adults, including aging or healthcare service organization staff, teaching artists, and arts organization staff.
This event is free, but registration is required. Registration closes Tuesday, January 12, 2016.
This AZ Creative Aging event is presented at no cost to attendees thanks to the generous support of Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust.
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.
