Phoenix Public Library
Mitch Menchaca Appointed Acting City Librarian
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City Librarian Rita Hamilton (pictured on the left) has announced she is retiring effective April 5, 2024. "I want to first thank Rita for her leadership these past 13 years in her role as the City Librarian, as well as recognize the positive partnerships that have been developed during her tenure, including the Public Health efforts that were successful as a result of the Phoenix Public Library Team," said Phoenix City Manager Jeff Barton. "Effective March 18, 2024, I have asked Mitch Menchaca (pictured on the right) to help with the transition as the Interim City Librarian while we conduct a national recruitment."
"I am thrilled to have been asked to step into this important role and work with the Library team," said Mitch Menchaca, who will continue in his current role as Arts and Culture Director in addition to the acting role. "There is a lot of synergy between the arts and culture sector and our public libraries—not just in literacy but as community hubs that advance the quality of lives for residents."
The Phoenix Public Library celebrated its 125th anniversary last year and served 200,000 visitors a month with its 16 branch libraries and flagship, Burton Barr Central Library. Learn more about the Phoenix Public Library at www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org.
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Community Arts Grants Now Open
Deadline to Apply is March 22
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The City of Phoenix Arts and Culture Department believes that investing in arts and culture builds community and enhances the quality of life for residents. The agency provides a variety of funding opportunities that enable artists, arts and culture organizations, schools, and neighborhood groups to carry out high-quality public arts programming for all residents.
Our annual Community Arts Grants program strengthens the community’s access to arts and culture programming. We provide support in this program in two distinct ways:
- The General Support program provides core operating support to arts and cultural organizations of all sizes that have a primary mission to create, produce, or provide arts and cultural programming to enhance the quality of lives for Phoenix residents.
- The Project Support program promotes and encourages the breadth of arts and cultural programming in our community by supporting large and small projects throughout the City of Phoenix.
Video one-on-one appointments and application consultations can be made with grants staff between February 7 and March 21, 2024. A virtual information session is also available on demand. The deadline to apply is Friday, March 22, 2024.
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Last Call to Apply to be a Grants Panelist
for the FY25 Community Arts Grants Program
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The Phoenix Arts and Culture Department seeks knowledgeable, fair-minded, and responsible individuals to serve as grant review panel members for the FY25 Community Arts Grants Program. Panelists are critical to the integrity of the grant process, including laypersons, artists, arts professionals, and educators, each representing different points of view and various cultural orientations.
Panelists spend 10 to 12 hours reviewing grants, taking notes, and attending meetings and orientations over six to eight weeks between April and May. Specific timelines and amounts vary depending on the program. Each panelist receives a modest honorarium of $100-$150, depending on the number of applications reviewed. All reviews and meetings will take place virtually.
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Art Detour
Running the Entire Month of March
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Artlink, the non-profit credited with establishing Downtown Phoenix’s amazing First Fridays and the organization responsible for connecting artists and businesses to the community, is thrilled to announce the month-long celebration of Art Detour, which celebrates its 36th year throughout the month of March.
Art Detour invites the public to enjoy impromptu excursions or plan a customized “Artinerary” of cultural discovery that defines their life’s style in Arizona through visual, performing, and culinary arts, fashion design, public art, and more. Patrons can choose from hundreds of experiences produced by Arizona’s creative community and explore and appreciate all that is beautiful, energizing, compelling, stylish and flavorful.
The event schedule offers art patrons, collectors, and art lovers a broad range of ways to engage with artists and destinations throughout the state, in partnership with the Arizona Commission on the Arts, City of Phoenix Arts and Culture Department, Valley Metro, Downtown Phoenix Inc., Park Central, Phoenix Art Museum, FOUND:RE Phoenix Hotel, Greater Phoenix Economic Council, and more.
A highlight of Art Detour’s month-long celebration is the 11th annual Art d’Core Gala, to be held at a new location, the Phoenix Art Museum, on Saturday, March 16th, 2024. The evening will honor Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, Owner of Bentley Gallery Bentley Calverley, Associate Vice President at Arizona State University Rick Naimark, and Honorary Commander Doris Ong.
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S'edav Va'aki Museum
Behind the Scenes Tour is March 20
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Join collections staff for a "behind-the-scenes" tour of S'edav Va'aki (formerly Pueblo Grande) Museum, an archaeological site left by the Ancestral Sonoran Desert People (Hohokam). Take a private tour of the areas not open to the public, where the museum keeps all the artifacts not on display. As the official archaeological repository for the City of Phoenix, the S'edav Va'aki Museum receives the majority of archaeological objects found during excavations in the city. See how the museum processes, organizes, and cares for the various objects in the collections, including pottery, baskets, stone tools, and more.
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 10:00 a.m.
S'edav Va'aki Museum
4619 East Washington Street
Phoenix, AZ 85034
44th Street and Washington Light Rail Stop
Fee: $15.00 per person which includes Museum Admission
The S'edav Va'aki Museum is an extraordinary archaeological site where visitors can see a platform mound, a ballcourt, and centuries-old irrigation canals. These are among the rare, remaining examples of the Ancestral Sonoran Desert People’s exceptional architecture and engineering skills. The museum and site anchor Phoenix to its prehistoric roots and are the only publicly accessible ancestral village site in the City.
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Tercer Festival Cultural Latino
March 23 at Maryvale Community Center
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Teatro Meshico and the Phoenix Arts and Culture Department invite you to the third annual Latino Cultural Festival, a free event for the whole family! The festival will feature live music, folkloric dance, poetry, theater, community dance, an art exhibit, and hands-on activities for kids and adults.
Saturday, March 23, 2024
12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Maryvale Community Center
4420 North 51st Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85031
For questions or for more information, please contact Teatro Meshico at teatromeshico@gmail.com.
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New Performance and Temporary Art Series
The Final Event is April 14
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The Phoenix Arts and Culture Department has commissioned several Arizona artists and artist teams to create performances and installations through its Public Art and Grants & Community Engagement programs for a performance and temporary arts series.
In partnership with the Phoenix Public Library, these temporary works will be presented free of charge at the Pulliam Auditorium at the Burton Barr Central Library at 1221 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004, from October 2023 to April 2024.
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Eternal Home: A responsive collaboration between art, dance, and audience
Sunday, April 14, 2024
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Burton Barr Central Library
Artist Patricia Sannit and choreographer and dancer Nicole L. Olson have mutually created a dance and visual art event that expresses the power of community, its resilience strengthened by migration, shared histories, and cooperation. Eternal Home features Olson in an energetic, elegiac, participatory dance performed amid a sculptural installation created by Sannit. As Olson performs, the art responds, and the audience will be invited to interact within the art/dance setting.
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Arizona Commission on the Arts
FY25 Grants to Organizations
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The Arizona Commission on the Arts is now accepting applications for Fiscal Year 2025 grants for arts organizations, arts festivals, and arts engagement programs. Grant Opportunities include:
Creative Capacity Grants provide general operating support to nonprofit organizations whose primary mission is to produce, present, teach, or serve the arts. The deadline to apply is Thursday, April 11, 2024.
Festival Grants support the presentation of quality arts and culture programming through festival activities, connecting artists and culture bearers (or their artistic work) with communities. The deadline to apply is Thursday, April 4, 2024.
Lifelong Arts Engagement Grants support projects that foster meaningful arts learning experiences for adult learners of any age and/or intergenerational projects in community settings. The deadline to apply is Thursday, April 4, 2024.
Youth Arts Engagement Grants support arts learning projects for young people that occur outside of traditional school hours. The deadline to apply is Thursday, April 4, 2024.
Created and reviewed by the Arizona Commission on the Arts AZ Youth Arts Council, the Creative Youth Grant is a funding opportunity for young artists ages 12 -17. The deadline to apply is Thursday, April 4, 2024.
Leading up to the application due date, the Arizona Commission on the Arts will present webinar-style information sessions and workshops to help prospective applicants in preparing competitive applications.
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A Note on Agency Funding and Grantmaking Capacity for FY2025
In 2012, the Arizona Commission on the Arts was removed from the State’s General Fund as an ongoing budget line item. Since that time, the agency’s annual grantmaking budget has been especially volatile, dependent on one-time legislative appropriations, which have ranged from $0 – $5 million.
The agency’s grantmaking capacity for Fiscal Year 2025 will not be known until the State’s budget is passed by the Legislature and signed into law by the Governor. This typically happens in late spring.
The number and size of grants the agency will award in Fiscal Year 2025 will depend on the outcome of this legislative budget session. Learn more about the Arts Commission's funding.
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Arizona Community Foundation
ACF Connects Forum is April 18
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Join and support the Arizona Community Foundation's (ACF) network of donors, advisors, nonprofit leaders, and community influencers for a day of learning at this inaugural forum. This event was designed based on feedback from partners to build connections that strengthen Arizona communities.
This one-day forum will convene ACF's network of donors, professional advisors, nonprofit leaders, and community influencers for an opportunity to network, share, and learn about best practices that can strengthen our communities. Nonprofit staff and board members will explore tools and resources that can amplify their work, including investment strategies, moving beyond the annual gift and trends in philanthropy.
Keynote speakers include CNN’s Van Jones, a U.S. media personality, entrepreneur, and world-class change maker, and Dan Porterfield, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a global nonprofit organization committed to realizing a free, just, and equitable society.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Arizona Biltmore
2400 East Missouri Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85016
Registration Fee: $180
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