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…

The Art of Memory Tour: Providing dementia patients and caregivers a safe space / KGUN | Support for families who have been diagnosed with dementia comes in many forms. One way the Alzheimer’s Association does that is through the Art…

The Flinn Foundation’s longtime support of Arizona artists and the biosciences is currently represented with an art installation on display in its Phoenix building’s lobby and conference center.  The exhibition, Uncommon Knowledge, is a partnership between the Tucson-based Southern Arizona…

Ballet Arizona names first female artistic director / Phoenix Business Journal | Ballet Arizona has selected its new artistic director, naming internationally acclaimed dancer, choreographer, director, and arts leader Daniela Cardim to the position—the first woman and fourth artistic director…