Arts and Culture
Improving the financial and creative health of Arizona’s arts-and-culture organizations.
Connect with Flinn Arts: Stay up to date. Join our email list.
Flinn Arts & Culture
The Flinn Foundation supports arts and culture in Arizona principally through the Initiative for Financial and Creative Health, which helps some of Arizona’s largest arts-and-culture organizations identify and design strategies to impact programmatic innovations and priority capitalization needs.
The Foundation also supports SMU DataArts, which gives Arizona’s arts-and-culture sector access to standardized data to strengthen organizational effectiveness, and a partnership with the Arizona Commission on the Arts to support organizations, primarily in rural areas of Arizona.
Flinn and SAACA unveil Flinn Scholars-themed art exhibition
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.
Twenty-one Flinn Scholars were profiled by the artists—nine of which were also Flinn Scholars—who created visual, literary, or musical pieces interpreted by their conversations.
The gallery at the Flinn Foundation will be open to the public through 2025. [Read more]
Flinn commits nearly $4M to Arizona arts groups
The Flinn Foundation is pledging almost $4 million to Arizona arts and culture organizations, a substantial financial commitment designed to support the groups’ long-term sustainability.
The grants, which run through 2027, will directly support 18 of the state’s largest arts organizations as well as smaller groups operating in rural or underserved areas. The initiative will provide grants ranging from $100,000 to $300,000 over three years to large organizations in the Phoenix, Tucson, and Flagstaff areas and a $150,000 grant to the Arizona Commission on the Arts to support its Creative Communities program. [Read more]
Flinn, SAACA hosting bioscience-themed exhibition
Have you ever wondered what the retinal images of your eyes would look like printed on cotton? Perhaps a watercolor version of a breast cancer cell? Or DNA on fused glass?
These are three of the 29 works of art on display through January 2025 at the Flinn Foundation in Phoenix through a partnership with the Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance.
“From Micro to Macro” is an evocative bioscience-themed exhibit delving into the connection between art and health care. The art, on display in the Foundation’s lobby and conference center, explores themes of scientific discovery, research, exploration, illness, recovery, and the transformative power of creative expression. [Read more]
Art exhibit highlights early disease diagnosis at Flinn Foundation
The Flinn Foundation’s longtime support of Arizona artists and the biosciences was represented this year with an art installation on display in its Phoenix building’s lobby and renovated conference center—the first since the art series was launched in 2022.
The exhibition, Uncommon Knowledge, is a partnership between the Tucson-based Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance and Roche Tissue Diagnostics that highlights the value of regular disease screenings and patient self-advocacy. The artwork tells the stories of 21 Roche employees as interpreted by 14 literary and visual artists. Uncommon Knowledge was on display in fall 2023 at the Ventana Gallery on the Roche campus in Oro Valley and then on display from spring through August 2024 at the Flinn Foundation. [Read more]
Flinn Foundation adds two Phoenix business leaders, arts supporters to board
Arizona business leaders Chris Camacho and Adam Goodman—the heads of Greater Phoenix Economic Council and Goodmans, respectively—have been elected to the Flinn Foundation board of directors, which is responsible for allocating funding for the foundation’s grants and programs while setting its strategic direction.
Camacho, an advocate for the biosciences, other innovation industries, and the arts has served as president and CEO of the economic development organization for nearly a decade. Goodman represents the third generation to lead the Goodmans family business, a furniture and office design company. Goodman, an ardent supporter of the arts, journalism, and health care, is also an Arizona Center for Civic Leadership 2023 Flinn-Brown Fellow. [Read more]
News and Updates
Arts and Culture
Arts & Culture News: Science Center debuts Dorrance DOME; Heard Museum earns national accolades; Phoenix Zoo orangutan undergoes rare cancer surgery; Music teacher brings piano dream to life for students
WATCH: AZ music teacher’s dream to help students one key at a time now a reality / ABC 15
A music teacher at a small Title I charter school on the Pima reservation has made a dream for his students a fully tuned reality thanks to help from the community.
Arts and Culture
Arts & Culture News: Phoenix theater leader Ben Tyler remembered; Tucson arts funding saved before NEA rescission; Phoenix Art Museum welcomes new curator
‘Lost a giant’: Remembering Ben Tyler, powerhouse player in Phoenix theater / Arizona Republic
Ben Tyler, powerhouse player in the Phoenix theater community and beyond, has died after a yearlong battle with cancer. Tyler was an actor, director, playwright, producer, artistic director and a founder of the Mill Avenue Theatre in Tempe.
Arts and Culture
Arts & Culture News: New Arizona Opera director named; Phoenix Zoo gets $500K grant; Bisbee crowned cultural capital; New murals celebrate Tucson’s 250th
New Arizona Opera director says it’s being reborn through innovation, connection / KJZZ
Arizona Opera has a new leader. Brian DeMaris has taught at Arizona State University for around a decade. But his musical experience is not limited to the genre — he’s also worked in the areas of ballet, musical theater, and symphony.
Arts and Culture
Arts & Culture News: Arizona Opera names new leader; Stolen art returned after 40 years; MNA exhibit explores plant climate response; Young playwrights shine in Tucson
Arizona Opera appoints new president and general director / Phoenix Business Journal
Brian DeMaris is the new president and general director of the Arizona Opera. DeMaris brings more than two decades of experience as a conductor and educator across opera, musical theater, and symphonic performances to his new position.
For information about Arts and Culture, please contact:
arts@flinn.org or (602) 744-6829
