Arts and Culture
Improving the financial and creative health of Arizona’s arts-and-culture organizations.
Flinn Arts & Culture
The Flinn Foundation supports arts and culture in Arizona principally through the Initiative for Financial and Creative Health, which helps Arizona’s largest arts-and-culture organizations identify and design strategies to impact 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 the Creative Communities program of the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
Musician and entrepreneur Gerd Wuestemann enters second year leading Scottsdale Arts
For Gerd Wuestemann, having grown up in a small town in Germany, Arizona might not have seemed like the obvious choice to find his home and inspiration.
But with a last name that translates into “desert man,” it looks like his path to leading Scottsdale Arts was destined.
Wuestemann became the CEO and president of the nonprofit arts organization in March 2018. The multifaceted institution, based in Old Town fronting the lawns and fountains of Scottsdale Civic Center Mall, includes the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale Public Art, and the Scottsdale Arts Education and Outreach programs. [Read more]
Flinn Foundation awards rural arts grants
Six Arizona arts-and-culture groups, from Globe to the international border, have received a combined $60,000 in grants as part of a Flinn Foundation-supported program designed to spur engagement between the small-town organizations and their communities. The Creative Communities Program supports arts-and-culture organizations in small and rural communities that have participated in the AZ Creative Communities Institute, a program of the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design, and Southwest Folklife Alliance, a University of Arizona affiliate. [Read more]
Flinn Scholar’s first full-length play hits the stage
Paul Michael Thomson, a 2011 Flinn Scholar, remembers as a 12-year-old acting in “Lost in Yonkers” on stage at the Arizona Jewish Theatre. He auditioned, was paid, and afterward read positive reviews about his performance.
At that moment, acting became more than just a childhood hobby. [Read more]
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Arts and Culture
Musician and entrepreneur Gerd Wuestemann enters second year leading Scottsdale Arts
By Julie AndersonFlinn Foundation For Gerd Wuestemann, having grown up in a small town in Germany, Arizona might not have seemed like the obvious choice to find his home and inspiration. But with a last name that translates into “desert man,” it looks like his path to leading Scottsdale Arts was destined. Wuestemann became the […]
Arts and Culture
Flinn Foundation awards $60,000 to rural arts groups
Six Arizona arts-and-culture groups, from Globe to the international border, have received a combined $60,000 in grants as part of a Flinn Foundation-supported program designed to spur engagement between the small-town organizations and their communities. The Creative Communities Program provides funding to arts and culture organizations within small and rural communities that have participated in […]
Arts and Culture
Actor, writer, Flinn Scholar Paul Michael Thomson’s first full-length play hits the stage
By Brian Powell Flinn Foundation Paul Michael Thomson remembers as a 12-year-old acting in “Lost in Yonkers” on stage at the Arizona Jewish Theatre. He auditioned, was paid, and afterward read positive reviews about his performance. At that moment, acting became more than just a childhood hobby. Thomson, a Class of 2011 Flinn Scholar, continued […]
Arts and Culture
Flinn Foundation convenes Arizona arts-and-culture leaders to learn, share successes
By Brian Powell Flinn Foundation What happens when a museum curator asks patrons what they want in an exhibit? How does a performing company’s repertoire evolve with careful study of a changing subscriber base? Since 2013, the Flinn Foundation has worked with nearly 20 of Arizona’s major performing-arts organizations, museums, and cultural pillars through a […]
For information about Arts and Culture, please contact:
arts@flinn.org or (602) 744-6829
Tammy McLeod, Ph.D.
President & CEO
Julie Anderson
Bioscience & Arts Program Coordinator