News
The Fronteras News Desk Wants Your Arts Insight
KJZZ, Phoenix’s NPR station, and its project Fronteras: The Changing America Desk, recently joined the Public Insight Network, an interesting news experiment, that puts your experiences and perspective to work in telling a news story. The following is an invitation from Fronteras News Desk reporter, Nick Blumberg, for you to join the Public Insight Network. When you join the network, you’ll get to share your arts and culture expertise, insights, and ideas, and make yourself available as a source for their team of reporters. Recent Arts and Culture news stories published by the Fronteras News Desk can be found here.
Public Insight Journalist Nick Blumberg (Phoenix) has served as an Associate Producer for KJZZ’s Here and Now, a news and public affairs talk show covering the Phoenix area. He grew up on the far North Side of Chicago, and has been a news junkie as long as he can remember. He moved to Arizona to attend the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, graduating magna cum laude. (more…)
We Need Your Feedback: Take the Arts Commission’s Satisfaction Survey
At the end of each fiscal year we take time to reflect upon our many programs and services in order to improve our work on your behalf. Considering the multiple roles of the Arts Commission, we would appreciate your input as we plan for the coming year. Therefore we ask that you rate your satisfaction level for the last year (July 2010 – June 2011) with the programs, services and staff of the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Your participation in this survey will help us become a more effective public agency and partner. Specifically, the information you provide will be used as we construct our annual reports to the Governor and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as for our own internal performance measures.
This confidential survey contains 35 questions and should take 10-15 minutes to complete, depending on the complexity of your comments. PLEASE RESPOND BY August 29, 2011.
Phoenix Arts and Business Council Honorees
Congratulations to the honorees of the 2011 Business in the Arts Awards Breakfast, presented by the Arts and Business Council of Greater Phoenix! The following is a press release issued today by the Arts and Business Council. (more…)
Connecting Schools with Arts and Culture Resources
Learning opportunities can be found both in and out of the classroom, and arts field trip experiences can be an essential tool in expanding student learning. As stated in Highlights from the Arizona Arts Education Census Project, “Community resources are vital components of any high quality arts education program. From an opera company to a school of dance; a large art museum to a teaching artist specializing in a traditional craft; community resources offer Arizona schools opportunities to originate, strengthen and continue arts experiences with their students.” (more…)
Art Exhibition Opportunity at the Office of the Arizona Attorney General
The Arizona Art Alliance, a non-profit organization whose membership represents over 3,500 Arizona visual artists who produce fine art in over a dozen mediums, will manage an exhibition for the office of the Arizona Attorney General. The call to artists is open to submissions of two and three-dimensional art pieces by Arizona artists over the age of 18. The selected pieces will be placed in the spaces in and around the Attorney General’s office, located at 1275 West Washington, in downtown Phoenix.
NEA Announces New Research on the Value Added By Cultural Industries
Cultural industries are economic powerhouses and states have the data to prove it, according to a new analysis from the National Endowment for the Arts. Drawing on data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Arts and the GDP: Value Added by Selected Cultural Industries is a new NEA research note that examines the value added by three selected cultural industries: (1) performing arts, sports, and museums; (2) motion pictures and sound recording; and (3) publishing (including software). Combined, these three cultural industries contributed a total of $278.4 billion to the U.S. economy in 2009. The NEA research note also looks at dollars and jobs added to individual state economies by these cultural industries. (more…)
City of Mesa Announces Rental-Reduction Support Program for Arts and Culture Non-Profits
The City of Mesa Department of Arts and Culture recently announced a new program that makes available rental-reduction support for non-profit organizations interested in using Mesa Arts Center facilities. Learn more and find guidelines and application at mesaaz.gov/artsculture. (more…)
The Culture Pass
Having a hard time firguring out how to spend your free days in the Arizona summer? Thanks to a partnership between the Phoenix metro public libraries and arts and cultural organizations, library cardholders can check out the Culture Pass for admission for two to many arts and culture institutions in the greater Phoenix area.
Here’s how it works:
Culture Passes are checked out like library books at the 39 local branches of participating city libraries in Chandler, Glendale, Mesa, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, Peoria and Cave Creek’s Desert Foothills library. The passes are also available for check out at four of the University libraries for ASU staff, students and faculty. Each pass grants admission for two people. Libraries have a limited number of passes for each organization. Passes are available on a first-come, first-served basis and are checked out at the library’s circulation desk. Passes cannot be reserved, renewed or requested through interlibrary loan and are valid for seven days. Passes do not need to be returned. Get going today!
