Arts and Culture
Improving the financial and creative health of Arizona’s arts-and-culture organizations.
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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.
Flinn awards nearly $900K to assist arts groups in COVID-19 recovery
Eleven Arizona arts-and-culture organizations have been awarded a combined $870,000 from the Flinn Foundation to assist in their continuing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The grants approved by the Flinn Foundation Board of Directors range between $60,000 and $125,000.
The organizations include the Arizona Opera, Arizona Science Center, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Ballet Arizona, Children’s Museum of Phoenix, Childsplay, Desert Botanical Garden, Heard Museum, Museum of Northern Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum, and Phoenix Zoo. [Read more]
Phoenix artist Ann Morton creates a ‘Violet Protest’ with latest collaborative project
Ann Morton is a fabric artist by trade, weaving and sewing textiles to translate her vision through her work. With her latest project, “The Violet Protest,” now on display at the Phoenix Art Museum, she has woven a new thread into her repertoire: a community of thousands interested in changing the tone of political values. Morton reports that to date, nearly 3,000 makers have pledged more than 17,000 squares to the project which references the colors traditionally attributed to the country’s two largest political parties.
Once the exhibition ends in September, the squares will be sent in packages of 25 to 50 to every member of the United States Senate and House of Representatives. [Read more]
Flinn Foundation gives $40,000 for small Arizona arts groups
Ten Arizona arts-and-culture organizations will receive a combined $40,000 under a Flinn Foundation initiative that will support rural and diverse art galleries, festivals, dance classes, museums, workshops, and education.
“Our hope is that each of these grants will make a difference to the community, enabling festivals to flourish, galleries to spotlight local talent, creators to engage the next generation, and so much more,” said Tammy McLeod, Flinn Foundation president and CEO. “We are proud to be supporting the arts in these Arizona towns that add so much to our state’s vibrancy.” [Read more]
Flinn-Brown Fellow Sarah Douthit strives to improve criminal-justice system as county chief probation officer
Sarah Douthit, a Flinn-Brown Fellow and chief probation officer for the Coconino County Adult Probation Department in Flagstaff, was awarded funding from the Creative Communities program for an arts project that resulted in client-created murals that allowed her office to focus on the creative strengths of her clients to make a positive impact on the community.
Douthit, who also answers questions about her profession, public policy, and the Flinn-Brown Network, is dedicated to servant leadership in Arizona to promote successful outcomes and healthy communities. [Read more]
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Arts and Culture
Arizona Arts and Culture News: A summary of the leading media stories about the state’s arts and culture community
Shakespeare helped her through hard times. Now she shares that love with Arizona audiences / Arizona Republic Debra Ann Byrd, Southwest Shakespeare’s new artistic director, hopes to foster diversity and inclusion at the Mesa-based organization as she did in Harlem while growing a bigger audience. Phoenix Art Museum names Jeremy Mikolajczak next director / ARTnews […]
Arts and Culture
Flinn awards nearly $900K to assist arts groups in COVID-19 recovery
Eleven Arizona arts-and-culture organizations have been awarded a combined $870,000 from the Flinn Foundation to assist in their continuing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The grants approved by the Flinn Foundation Board of Directors range between $60,000 and $125,000. The organizations encompass the state of Arizona from Flagstaff to the Phoenix area and south to […]
Arts and Culture
Phoenix artist Ann Morton creates a ‘Violet Protest’ with latest collaborative project
By Julie AndersonFlinn Foundation Ann Morton is a fabric artist by trade, weaving and sewing textiles to translate her vision through her work. With her latest project, “The Violet Protest,” she has woven a new thread into her repertoire: a community of thousands interested in changing the tone of political values. With the project name […]
Arts and Culture
Flinn Foundation gives $40,000 for small Arizona arts groups
Ten Arizona arts-and-culture organizations will receive a combined $40,000 under a Flinn Foundation initiative that will support rural and diverse art galleries, festivals, dance classes, museums, workshops, and education. The grants, distributed in partnership with the Arizona Commission on the Arts, provide funding to arts and culture organizations within smaller and rural communities. Each of […]
For information about Arts and Culture, please contact:
arts@flinn.org or (602) 744-6829
Tammy McLeod, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Julie Anderson
Bioscience & Arts Program Coordinator