click to enlarge Review of a performance by The Wiz. Black Theater Troupe Here’s a quick look at the art news surrounding the Phoenix subway so you can keep up with the creative side of the city. Arts and Culture Grants The Virginia G. Piper Foundation recently awarded more than $ 2 million in total to 26 performing arts organizations to help these groups address the significant disruption caused by the COVID-10 pandemic help. The scholarships went to arts organizations in a variety of sectors, including music, theater, and dance. The largest grants went to Childsplay, Scottsdale Arts, and The Phoenix Symphony – which received $ 137,500 each. Other award winners are the Black Theater Troupe, the Herberger Theater Center and the Phoenix Theater. click to enlarge. W. James Burns, director of the new Lynn Trimble museum, will become executive director of the Scottsdale Museum of the West in mid-October as part of a gradual succession plan for the museum’s founding director and CEO, Mike Fox. Fox will continue to serve as CEO for the museum. Burns was previously the Executive Director of the Arizona Historical Society and held executive positions at the University of Arizona Museum of Art, Desert Caballeros Western Museum, and the Center for Creative Photography. click to enlarge Michelle Meyer with one of her snoodmen characters. Snood City ArtPrize Grant Winner Phoenix-based artist Michelle Meyer will be showing a sculpture called Retro Maven during the ArtPrize festival and competition in Grand Rapids this fall, after recently winning an ArtPrize pitch night of Won $ 15,000. Her work is also on display in Flagstaff as part of a partnership between Creative Flagstaff and ArtWins, an ArtPrize-inspired nonprofit based in Arizona. Meyer is a multidisciplinary artist and founder of Snood City on Grand Avenue. Related Stories I Support Local Community Journalism Support the independent voice of Phoenix and help keep the future of the New Times clear. click to enlarge Get ready for a season of personal dance performances by Ballet Arizona. Alexander Iziliaev Ballet Arizona Season Ballet Arizona has announced its 2021-2022 season, which will include a return to the Desert Botanical Garden in May and June 2022. The season also includes Juan Gabriel, a world premiere ballet by the company’s artistic director Ib Andersen, which will be performed in May 2022. Other offerings include Contemporary Moves: An Evening of Three Short Ballets, The Nutcracker, Romeo & Juliet, and All Balanchine. The Mesa Arts Center Foundation helps artists with performance spaces. Mesa Arts Center Mesa Art Center Scholarships The Mesa Arts Center Foundation recently submitted applications for its Arts at the Center Scholarship, which provides financial assistance and rental fee waivers for organizations performing at the center. Interested organizations can submit an expression of interest by September 1st and up to six groups will be selected. Past winners include the Arizona School for the Arts, the Gray Box Collective, the Harmony Project, and the Phoenix Boys Choir. The Mask Museum Funding Cultural Coalition, a Mesa-based arts organization, recently received a $ 3,000 grant from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Gente Chicana / SOYmos Chicanos Fund that will help lay the groundwork for a new mask museum lay. The funds will be used to create a database of masks and re-cast a bronze statue of Cesar Chavez. Kyllan Maney’s Metro Phoenix murals include this piece at The Dhaba in Tempe. Lynn Trimble Interactive Mural Tempe-based artist Kyllan Maney has created an interactive mural in addition to the children’s play area at Desert Ridge Marketplace, where visitors can help fill in the colors of her ornate geometric design. Maney has several murals around Metro Phoenix, and her public art is widespread in Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa. Historical Society Seeks Director The Arizona Historical Society is looking for a new director to replace W. James Burns, who will step down this fall. The organization, which operates history museums in Tempe and Tucson, was founded in 1864 by an act of the first territorial legislature, making it the state’s oldest historical agency.
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