Welcome to the Arizona Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Application Deadline is September 21, 2006.

Applications will be accepted for any folk community, not limited by ethnicity, region or discipline.

The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program is a pilot program in Arizona that supports folk master artists and apprentices working and studying together. It is a collaborative program between the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona.  This program is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Arizona Commission on the Arts is the state agency that connects artists and communities across the Grand Canyon State. With a staff of 16, the Commission features many diverse programs and services for Arizona residents.

The purpose of the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona is to work toward a definition, to illuminate and to present the character, of the Greater Southwest: the heartland of Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, and Chihuahua, and its peripheries. The region has for a millennia been a crossroads of cultures, languages, customs, and ideas. Its diverse ethnic groups and societies, past and present, lend the Southwest a distinct regional identity, shaped by the land itself.

The National Endowment for the Arts is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, both new and established; bringing the arts to all Americans; and providing leadership in arts education. Established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, the Endowment is the nation's largest annual funder of the arts, bringing great art to all 50 states, including rural areas, inner cities, and military bases. 

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