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.
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
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.
A program of TimeSlips, presented by Arizona Commission on the Arts and ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
Create/Change is a 3-day intensive institute developed by Anne Basting and the TimeSlips team, which focuses on transforming care for elders through creative engagement. Since 2012 the Institute has been held every other year in Milwaukee; Create/Change: AZ brings this exciting learning opportunity to Arizona!
For more information, visit http://azarts.gov/programs/create-change/
Join us for Create/Change: Cultural Perspectives on Creative Aging, the opening plenary of the Create/Change: AZ Institute, for a conversation about arts and aging around the complexities of creative practices across communities and organizations, featuring a diverse group of speakers including community organizers and local and visiting artists.
Light breakfast and registration from 8:15am – 9:00pm; program from 9:00am – 10:30am.
This event is free and open to the public, but advanced registration is required.
Join the Arizona Commission on the Arts at Grand Central Coffee Company in downtown Phoenix for an evening of story sharing from Lakota performer Charlene O’Rourke and an introduction to Anne Basting’s new storytelling project. With host Liz Warren, South Mountain Community College Storytelling Institute Director.
This event is free and open to the public. Participation and community sharing encouraged.
Join us for a day of accessibility training!
Is your organization ADA compliant? Looking for new ways to reach new audiences? Join us on Monday, June 12th for an all day conference on accessibility on the arts. Hear from leaders in state on how to create accessible programs in the arts and build audiences for your programs. Connect with colleagues from around the state who share your commitment to accessibility.
Monday, June 12th from 9:00 am until 4:30 pm
Ability360 Center
Confernce Room
5025 E. Washington Street
Phoenix, AZ 85034
Conference registration is now open! Admission to the conference is $25 for current ARTabilityAZ members and $50 for non-members. Lunch will be provided.
ACCOMMODATIONS
Requests for accommodations must be made at least 2 weeks in advance of the conference.
Funding in part for the conference is provided by Arizona Commission on the Arts, Unlocking Arizona’s Creative Potential.
ARTabilitAZ| 602-757-8118 | info@artabilityaz.org | artabilityaz.org
Theatricalizing Oral Histories in Community : Writing Workshop with Milta Ortiz
Saturday, September 23, 2017
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Palabras Bookstore
1738 E. McDowell Rd.
Phoenix, AZ 85006
Join us on Friday, October 27, 2017 for a day-long professional development workshop on teaching artistry in the field of Creative Aging. Through panel discussions, interactive learning sessions, and dynamic presentations, facilitators will address a holistic approach to thinking about the fundamentals of Creative Aging and the aging process.
This workshop is now at capacity. We are not accepting new registrants at this time.
![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
Photo by Konstantin Braverman
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