Rare ocelot caught on camera in Arizona, the first sighting in its area for 50 years / Smithsonian Magazine | A wildlife camera captured a rare sighting of an endangered ocelot in Arizona this summer. The video marks the first ocelot…

Sculpture at Scottsdale roundabout joins city's public art collection / KTAR | The city of Scottsdale has unveiled a 50-foot steel sculpture at a roundabout in north Scottsdale that geometrically transforms from a circle at its base to a hexagon…

Scottsdale Arts announces 2024 Canal Convergence festival details / Phoenix New Times | Canal Convergence, the annual festival produced by Scottsdale Arts, will be held Nov. 8-17 at the Scottsdale Waterfront. The free, 10-night event features large-scale public artworks created by artists…

Arizona Opera director leaving after eight seasons / Tucson.com | Joseph Specter will leave the Arizona Opera at the end of the upcoming season. Specter has been the company’s president and general director since 2016. The Opera was founded in 1971…

Arizona Commission on the Arts hires Christina You-sun Park as executive director / Arizona Commission on the Arts | Christina You-sun Park, a seasoned leader with a diverse background in arts administration, equitable creative placemaking, grantmaking, and cultural research, has…

Owner of world’s biggest fossilized poop collection opens museum / CNN | George Frandsen, owner of the newly opened Poozeum in Williams, Arizona, offers visitors free access to approximately 8,000 pieces that make up his coprolite collection.

Brad Halvorsen joined the Flinn Foundation in 1989 as its first communications employee. After 35 years of service to the foundation and Arizona, including nearly a decade as executive vice president, Halvorsen retires June 14. Halvorsen’s departure prompts two other…