Arts and Culture
Improving the financial and creative health of Arizona’s arts-and-culture organizations.
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The Flinn Foundation supports arts and culture in Arizona principally through the Initiative for Financial and Creative Health, which helps some of Arizona’s largest arts-and-culture organizations identify and design strategies to impact programmatic innovations and priority capitalization needs.
The Foundation also supports SMU DataArts, which gives Arizona’s arts-and-culture sector access to standardized data to strengthen organizational effectiveness, and a partnership with the Arizona Commission on the Arts to support organizations, primarily in rural areas of Arizona.
Flinn to lead new Arizona Community NeuroArts Coalition
Arizona has joined 10 regions across the U.S. as part of a new network exploring how the arts can be used to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities. Partners in the Arizona Community NeuroArts Coalition include the Flinn Foundation, Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, Vitalyst Health Foundation and the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
Neuroarts is an emerging field that explores how arts and aesthetic experiences change the brain, body, and behavior and how this knowledge can be applied as health care. [Read more]
Flinn Scholars-themed art exhibition celebrates 40 years of program
The Flinn Foundation and Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance, now known as Art State Arizona, have partnered on the exhibition, Art of Achievement: Celebrating 40 years of Flinn Scholars, to display their journeys, evolution, and achievements.
Twenty-one Flinn Scholars were profiled by the artists—nine of which were also Flinn Scholars—who created visual, literary, or musical pieces interpreted by their conversations.
The gallery at the Flinn Foundation will be open to the public through 2025. [Read more]
Flinn commits nearly $4M to Arizona arts groups
The Flinn Foundation is pledging almost $4 million to Arizona arts and culture organizations, a substantial financial commitment designed to support the groups’ long-term sustainability.
The grants, which run through 2027, will directly support 18 of the state’s largest arts organizations as well as smaller groups operating in rural or underserved areas. The initiative will provide grants ranging from $100,000 to $300,000 over three years to large organizations in the Phoenix, Tucson, and Flagstaff areas and a $150,000 grant to the Arizona Commission on the Arts to support its Creative Communities program. [Read more]
Bioscience-themed exhibition comes to Flinn Foundation
Have you ever wondered what the retinal images of your eyes would look like printed on cotton? Perhaps a watercolor version of a breast cancer cell? Or DNA on fused glass?
These are three of the 29 works of art on display that were on display through January 2025 at the Flinn Foundation in Phoenix through a partnership with the Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance, now known as Art State Arizona.
“From Micro to Macro” is an evocative bioscience-themed exhibit delving into the connection between art and health care. The art explores themes of scientific discovery, research, exploration, illness, recovery, and the transformative power of creative expression. [Read more]
Art exhibit highlights early disease diagnosis at Flinn Foundation
The Flinn Foundation’s longtime support of Arizona artists and the biosciences was represented this year with an art installation on display in its Phoenix building’s lobby and renovated conference center.
The exhibition, Uncommon Knowledge, is a partnership between the Tucson-based Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance and Roche Tissue Diagnostics that highlights the value of regular disease screenings and patient self-advocacy. The artwork tells the stories of 21 Roche employees as interpreted by 14 literary and visual artists. Uncommon Knowledge was on display in fall 2023 at the Ventana Gallery on the Roche campus in Oro Valley and then on display from spring through August 2024 at the Flinn Foundation. [Read more]
News and Updates
Arts and Culture
State arts commission, philanthropies join national network of neuroarts advocates
Emerging field focuses on arts-based programming to enhance health and well-being Arizona has joined 10 regions across the U.S. as part of a new network exploring how the arts can be used to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities. The Community Neuroarts Coalitions Network is a key building block of the […]
Arts and Culture
Arts & Culture News: Phoenix Symphony launches season; Science Center debuts planetarium; Heard hosts Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Phoenix Symphony’s new season shows new side of classical music / Arizona Republic
The Phoenix Symphony is launching its season while continuing its search for a new music director
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Arts & Culture News: McFarlane joins Phoenix Zoo exhibit; Symphony seasons launch in Phoenix and Tucson; New public art honors Scottsdale firefighters
This reclusive pop culture superstar is teaming up with Phoenix Zoo / Arizona Republic
The Phoenix Zoo has commissioned several artists to create works for a new exhibit that combines comic books and conservation, including Todd McFarlane — creator, writer and artist of the “Spawn” comics series.
Arts and Culture
Arts & Culture News: State invests $2.5M in nonprofits; Flinn Scholar Shelly Lowe to lead IAIA; New leadership at Desert Botanical Garden and Mesa Arts; Tucson celebrates cultural legacy
State invests $2.5 million in nonprofit arts & culture sector / Arizona Commission on the Arts
A one-time legislative appropriation of $2 million in support of Arizona’s arts and culture sector is reaching communities throughout the state with grants to nonprofit organizations, festivals, and arts learning programs.
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