Arts & Culture News: Tucson arts push through funding cuts; Carmen Baron earns NEA honor; UA celebrates 50 years of photography; Scottsdale grant supports Memory Lounge
May 09, 2025
How Tucson’s arts sector is weathering a turbulent era / Inside Tucson Business Despite federal funding cuts and policy shifts, the resilient arts community in Southern Arizona and deep-rooted civic involvement are helping the region power through the changes. Read more: Tucson and…
Drew Brown reflects on service to Flinn Foundation, arts community
May 09, 2025
By Brian Powell Flinn Foundation Drew Brown is a Phoenix civic leader whose role in professional and community organizations has made a significant and lasting impact on the city and state. He retired from the Flinn Foundation’s Board of Directors this…
Arts & Culture News: Keith Haring exhibit opens in Phoenix; Symphony supports student composers; Flinn Scholar’s memoir; Nogales borderlands art; Women in arts symposium
April 25, 2025
Phoenix Keith Haring exhibit exemplifies the power of art as activism / Phoenix New Times "The Collection: Keith Haring," on view at Phoenix Art Museum through July 20, celebrates the relationship between the pop artist and the local museum in…
Arizona Arts & Culture News: Arizona Theatre Company leadership; Mariachi Las Panteras De Oro; ‘Big Cats of Arizona’
April 17, 2025
Arizona Theatre Company announces leadership transitions and national executive director search / Broadway World Arizona Theatre Company has announced the upcoming departures of two key leaders: Executive Director Geri Wright and Chief Development and Marketing Officer Paula Taylor. After five-and-a-half…
Arizona Arts & Culture News: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation CEO; Lowell Observatory named best; Indigenous southwest road trip
March 28, 2025
Outgoing opera leader to helm Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation / Arizona Daily Star The Scottsdale-based Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation named Arizona Opera’s outgoing general director and president Joseph Specter as its new president and CEO. His move to the foundation keeps him…
Flinn and SAACA unveil Flinn Scholars-themed art exhibition
March 12, 2025
By Jodicee HarrisFlinn Foundation The Flinn Foundation and Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance have partnered on the exhibition, Art of Achievement: Celebrating 40 years of Flinn Scholars, to display their journeys, evolution, and achievements. About 200 people attended the…
Arizona Arts & Culture News: Immigration art exhibit; Pow Wow portraits; African American Museum of Southern Arizona; Art in algae
February 14, 2025
Three Tucson art shows reflect on border scenes; joys, anxieties of immigration / Arizona Daily Star Three independent exhibits at the Tucson Desert Art Museum, Tohono Chul and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum reflect on the constancy of immigration throughout history, with…






