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2012: Advocacy and Events Celebrating 100 Years of Arts and Culture in ArizonaGovernors Arts Awards 2012
On Tuesday, March 27th, 2012 please join AzCA and arts and culture organizations around the state at the 2012 Governor's Arts Awards. This hallmark event of the arts and culture community will be held at the Herberger Theatre in downtown Phoenix.
The Arizona Governor's Arts Awards is the largest annual statewide gathering of arts and culture supporters in our state. Presented by Arizona Citizens for the Arts, the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Office of the Governor, these awards celebrate the extraordinary contributions of artists, arts organizations, businesses, educators and individuals to the quality of life in our state.
The 7th annual Shelley Award recipient will be recognized for advancing the arts through strategic and innovative leadership to create and support public policy beneficial to the arts in Arizona. The award is named for Shelley Cohn, who spent more than 25 years as executive director of the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
The celebration begins at 5:00 p.m. with a reception featuring a Silent Auction. Honorees will be recognized at the Oscar-style ceremony at 7 p.m., followed by a dessert reception at 8 p.m.
Tickets can be purchased online by clicking here. Special sponsorship packages are also available.
Advocates, You Made a Huge Difference!Thank You, Arts and Culture Advocates!
Thanks to all of you, it's been a good week for Arts Advocacy at the State Capitol. The best news is that HB2265, the bill to reauthorize the Arizona Commission on the Arts for another 10 years, passed unanimously out of the House Commerce Committee, on Wednesday February 8th. This is another significant step in the legislative process we believe will result the bill being passed and sent to the Governor for her signature.
After a number of discussions with the bill's bipartisan legislative sponsors, an amendment was attached to the bill and approved that restates Federal and Arizona laws which have informed the Arts Commission's policies and practices for the past two decades, regarding the Arts Commission's commitment to respecting the American flag and other sacred objects and its responsibility to promote practices that engage, involve and represent the standards of Arizona's deeply diverse communities.
