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 [email protected].
Cafesito con Claudio Dicochea: A conversation over coffee and pan dulce.
Join us for a conversation with artist Claudio Dicochea. He will talk about the personal creative journey of artmaking as well as the social process of placing our work out in the world. Dicochea will present and share insight on his work as a means of exploring practical questions about the commitment, discipline, and passion necessary for a life in the arts. The conversation will focus also on the more social and professional aspects of artmaking, which includes the development of varied skills outside the studio to help us convey the importance of our work in a meaningful and successful manner. Through open discussion, we’ll share ways of developing our own unique artistic visions and of strengthening our social participation and effect as creative thinkers.
Acompáñenos a una conversación con el artista Claudio Dicochea. Él hablará sobre su trayectoria artística, así como el proceso social de colocar su trabajo en el mundo. Dicochea presentará y compartirá su visión sobre su trabajo como un medio para explorar preguntas prácticas sobre el compromiso, la disciplina y la pasión necesaria para una vida en las artes. La conversación se centrará también en los aspectos más sociales y profesionales de la creación artística, incluyendo el desarrollo de habilidades variadas fuera del estudio que transmiten la importancia de nuestro trabajo de una manera significativa y exitosa. Mediante la discusión abierta, vamos a compartir formas de desarrollar nuestras propias visiones artísticas y fortalecer nuestra participación social nuestra influencia como creativos.
* Bilingual meet and greet. Convivio bilingüe.
Painting Workshop with Claudio Dicochea
Join us for a workshop that will provide you with an understanding of paint as a material for artistic expression and painting as an activity that explores our sense of self and our sense of place. Through a set of different exercises, this workshop will cover the techniques, information, and skills necessary for building an ongoing studio practice. Including an understanding of pigments, blending and glazing, medium and surface drying time, gels, archival tips, mixed media, and more. Artists of all experience will learn about the versatility of painting as a contemporary discipline along with its potential for open and rewarding creative exploration.
Acompáñenos a un taller enfocado en la comprensión de la pintura como material para la expresión artística y la pintura como una actividad que explora nuestro sentido de ser y nuestro lugar en la comunidad. A través de una serie de diferentes ejercicios, este taller cubrirá las técnicas, información y habilidades necesarias para la construcción de una práctica artística en el estudio. Incluyendo la comprensión de los pigmentos, la mezcla y el tiempo de secado de la superficie de pintar, geles, tips para la preservación, técnicas mixtas, y mucho más. Los artistas a todo nivel de experiencia aprenderán acerca de la versatilidad de la pintura como una disciplina contemporánea, así como su potencial para la exploración creativa abierta y gratificante.
Bilingual painting workshop. Taller de pintura bilingüe.
Cost: $20
Workshop size is limited to 20 participants. Advance registration is required. Register online at: http://conta.cc/1tiGzWu
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FY2016 Community Investment Grant, Festival Grant and Arts Learning Grant Final Report Deadline
Complete a Final Report in the GO system at http://arizona.culturegrants.org. While Final Reports must be submitted no later than Monday, September 12, 2016, the Arts Commission recommends that Final Reports be submitted within 30 days of the completion of the funded activities (for Festival and Arts Learning Grants) or the organization’s Fiscal Year (for Community Investment Grants).
Failure to submit a FY2016 Final Report by the posted deadline will render your organization ineligible to apply for future Arts Commission grants.
All grant-related materials must be received by the Arizona Commission on the Arts by close of the business day on the deadline date. Without exception, organizations that neglect to submit required materials by the published deadlines will forfeit their current grant award and/or be ineligible for future funding.
For assistance, please contact Kristen Pierce, Organizational Grants and Services Manager, (602) 771-6517 or [email protected]
AZ ArtWorker Workshop with Liz Lerman
Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process: Introductory workshop
With an introduction by Julia Akerly and Allyson Yoder of [nueBOX]
Join Macarthur “Genius Grant” recipient Liz Lerman for an introductory workshop on her Critical Response Process (CRP), a facilitated structure for giving and getting feedback on artistic works in progress. Grounded in principles of meaning, inquiry, and dialogue, it is designed to leave the maker eager and motivated to get back to work on the project under consideration. This workshop will introduce the four steps of CRP and explore the values that support useful critique through conversation, participation, and reflection.
Participants in this introductory workshop will have priority registration privileges for a one-day CRP intensive presented by [nueBOX] in November.
Cost: $10
Workshop size is limited to 30 participants.
FY2017 Community Investment Grant & Festival Grant Award Agreement Paperwork Return Deadline
Return your grant award agreement, signed and dated by an authorizing official, and State Substitute W-9 Form by Monday, October 17, 2016.
For assistance, please contact Kristen Pierce, Organizational Grants and Services Manager, (602) 771-6517 or [email protected]
In October 2016, AZ ArtWorker will host a workshop and a binational performance led by visiting artist Yadira De La Riva in Douglas, Arizona. Participants will develop short dramatic works focused on reclaiming community narratives, some of which will be featured in a binational performance on October 22.
More info at http://azarts.gov/az-artworker/az-artworker-yadira-de-la-riva-douglas/
In October 2016, AZ ArtWorker will partner with Tohono O’odham Community College, Shining Soul, and Red Ink Magazine to present a workshop and a performance led by visiting artist Yadira De La Riva. Participants will develop short dramatic works focused on reclaiming community narratives, some of which will be featured in a performance on October 27.
More info at http://azarts.gov/az-artworker/az-art-worker-yadira-de-la-riva-sells/
Join Richard Montoya, co-founder of Chicano theatre group Culture Clash, for a writing and acting workshop. Participants will focus on the use of satire and humor to address social and culturally relevant content. This workshop is ideal for playwrights and actors whose work addresses identity and social justice.
The workshop will be introduced by Ricky Araiza, Artistic Director of Teatro Bravo.
Workshop size is limited to 15 participants. Advance registration is required. http://conta.cc/2fartMT
To learn more visit http://azarts.gov/arts-op/
Presented in partnership with ASU – SFDT Performance in the Borderlands, Teatro Bravo, and CALA Alliance
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
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.
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=
Join us for the closing of “Para Un Muro Ensimismado,” Mexican contemporary artist Betsabeé Romero’s temporary art installation. During her Phoenix residency April 3-10, Romero collaborated with Arizona artists to create a site-specific project connecting global histories of migration and power.
For additional updates and information, visit the event’s Facebook page.
