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Arizona Arts & Culture News: A summary of the leading media stories about the state’s arts and culture community

March 04, 2022

Top Native artists are showing in Phoenix this weekend. Here’s how to see their best work / Arizona Republic The Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market is back in person. Considered to be one of the largest Indigenous art…


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Arizona Arts & Culture News: A summary of the leading media stories about the state’s arts and culture community

February 18, 2022

Acclaimed Arizona musical to debut in New York: ‘This could be the next ‘In the Heights’ / Arizona Republic Seven years after its start in 2015, the Arizona-birthed musical “¡Americano!” is going to New York City. The new off-Broadway production…


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Flinn, Artlink Inc. partner on program to showcase local artists at foundation building

February 10, 2022

The Flinn Foundation, a longtime supporter of arts and culture in Arizona, is launching an effort that will showcase local artwork throughout the lobby, conference center, and grounds of the foundation’s building near downtown Phoenix. The Flinn Foundation Art Program,…


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Arizona Arts & Culture News: A summary of the leading media stories about the state’s arts and culture community

February 04, 2022

How the Grand Canyon’s new artist-in-residence will approach 2 months on the rim / KJZZ As part of the residency program, run by the nonprofit Grand Canyon Conservancy, painter and visual artist Daniele Genadry will live and work at the…


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Arizona Arts & Culture News: A summary of the leading media stories about the state’s arts and culture community

January 24, 2022

Shakespeare helped her through hard times. Now she shares that love with Arizona audiences / Arizona Republic Debra Ann Byrd, Southwest Shakespeare’s new artistic director, hopes to foster diversity and inclusion at the Mesa-based organization as she did in Harlem…


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Flinn awards nearly $900K to assist arts groups in COVID-19 recovery

September 01, 2021

Eleven Arizona arts-and-culture organizations have been awarded a combined $870,000 from the Flinn Foundation to assist in their continuing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The grants approved by the Flinn Foundation Board of Directors range between $60,000 and $125,000. The…


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Phoenix artist Ann Morton creates a ‘Violet Protest’ with latest collaborative project

August 18, 2021

By Julie AndersonFlinn Foundation Ann Morton is a fabric artist by trade, weaving and sewing textiles to translate her vision through her work. With her latest project, “The Violet Protest,” she has woven a new thread into her repertoire: a…


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