News and Updates

Arizona Arts & Culture News: ‘Road to Healing’ tour; Super Bowl Experience mural; Childsplay receives $15K grant

January 27, 2023

Governor’s FY2024 Executive Budget Proposes $20 million for the Arts / Arizona Commission on the Arts The 2024 executive budget from the Office of Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs proposes a historic $20 million one-time allocation to the Arizona Commission on…


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Arizona Arts & Culture News: New Arizona Commission on the Arts director; Borderlands Theater wins award; Phoenix Theatre expands

January 13, 2023

Arizona Commission on the Arts hires Jacky Alling as interim executive director / Arizona Commission on the Arts The Arizona Commission on the Arts announced the hiring of Jacky Alling as interim executive director, who comes to the agency from…


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Arizona Arts & Culture News: $320K to Coconino County; Artist tribute to indigenous women; ‘Black Nativity’ is back

December 16, 2022

Phoenix City Council approves $500 million bond program. Here’s where the money will go / Arizona Republic If approved by Phoenix voters in 2023, more than $50 million would be set aside for arts and culture projects, including the construction…


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Arizona Arts & Culture News: Phoenix Art Museum welcomes curator; Healing Hopi art; Frank Lloyd Wright photo exhibit

December 02, 2022

  NAU to provide full tuition to members of Arizona’s tribes / Navajo-Hopi Observer Northern Arizona University will provide full tuition coverage for members of Arizona’s 22 federally recognized tribes beginning in fall 2023 through an expansion to the Access2Excellence…


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27 Arizona artists on display in Flinn Foundation exhibit

November 23, 2022

The Flinn Foundation is featuring the work of 27 Arizona artists during its latest art exhibition, nearly double the number of works from its inaugural display earlier this year. The new exhibit, which opened Oct. 26 at the Flinn Foundation…


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Arizona Arts & Culture News: New Phoenix Suns jersey; ATC artistic director named; Museum of the West honored

November 18, 2022

  A new jersey brought together Arizona’s tribal nations and the Phoenix Suns. Here’s how / 12 News The Phoenix Suns worked with the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona to develop new turquoise uniforms with a medicine wheel logo and the…


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Arizona Arts & Culture News: Scottsdale’s Canal Convergence; Apache culture exhibit; Southwest Shakespeare at Taliesin West 

November 04, 2022

  Canal Convergence comes to Scottsdale / Arizona PBS Canal Convergence 2022, which will mark 10 years of large-scale public art in and around the Arizona Canal at the Scottsdale Waterfront, is a free event from Nov. 4-13 that will feature large…


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