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.
Arizona Opera opens enterprising RED Series with Frank Lloyd Wright production
Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home until his death in 1959, was one of eight of the iconic architect’s buildings named UNESCO World Heritage sites in July.
And now, two months later, Arizona Opera is set to premiere a new, “Taliesin West” version of the opera “Shining Brow” for Arizona audiences, chronicling the rise of a young Wright.
This renewed version of the 1990s opera “Shining Brow” will premiere on Sept. 27 at the Herberger Theater Center in Phoenix, with additional performances on Sept. 28 and 29. The opera will also be performed at the Temple of Music and Art in Tucson Oct. 5 and 6. [Read more]
FLINNtalks: Matt Rolland | Flinn Scholar Class of 2005
Class of 2005 Flinn Scholar Matt Rolland has had a fiddle in his hand since the age of four. Best known as the bandleader and fiddle player for the Tucson-based band, Run Boy Run, Matt has performed at festivals and concert halls across the country, released six studio albums and was twice featured on American Public Media’s popular radio show, “A Prairie Home Companion.” In addition to being a touring musician and recording artist, he is the director of programs at SAACA (Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance) and serves on the board of the Tucson Folk Festival. Matt is a graduate of the University of Arizona and was a Fulbright Scholar to Mexico. [Watch the video]
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]
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Flinn Foundation issues grant to support COVID-19 testing, cancels events
Conference center closes, staff to work from home Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Phoenix-based Flinn Foundation has issued an emergency $100,000 grant to the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) to support population-based testing of the novel coronavirus in Arizona and to help TGen immediately and dramatically ramp up its capacity to analyze individual samples for the disease. Meanwhile, following guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease […]
Arts and Culture
FLINNtalks: Matt Rolland
Matt Rolland | Class of 2005 On the road—from stockbroker, to touring musician, to arts leader Class of 2005 Flinn Scholar Matt Rolland has had a fiddle in his hand since the age of four. Best known as the bandleader and fiddle player for the Tucson-based band, Run Boy Run, Matt has performed at festivals and […]
Arts and Culture
Arizona Opera opens enterprising RED Series with Frank Lloyd Wright production
By Julie AndersonFlinn Foundation Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home until his death in 1959, was one of eight of the iconic architect’s buildings named UNESCO World Heritage sites in July. And now, two months later, Arizona Opera is set to premiere a new, “Taliesin West” version of the opera “Shining Brow” […]
Arts and Culture
Flinn Foundation incorporates sustainability into its philanthropic work to benefit Arizona
By Brian PowellFlinn Foundation For more than 50 years, the Flinn Foundation has been dedicated to improving the quality of life in Arizona for the benefit of future generations. The Phoenix-based philanthropic grantmaking organization has done so through its support of the Arizona bioscience sector, the Flinn Scholars Program, arts and culture, and the development […]
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