Opportunities

Arizona Arts Inclusive Excellence Awards

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The Arizona Arts Inclusive Excellence Award recognizes meritorious efforts and impacts toward the advancement of equity, diversity, and inclusion through research, teaching, mentorship, leadership, and service.

This award is given to four individuals annually: 1 staff member, 1 faculty member, 1 undergraduate student, and 1 graduate student.

Recipients will receive a plaque with their name engraved and a $1,500 monetary stipend.

Deadline: November 1, 2023
Amount:  $1,500 per individual

JustArts Fellowship for Student Leaders in the Arts

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The JustArts Fellowship for Student Leaders in the Arts invites CFA students to design and complete a change-oriented project that increases access to meaningful arts experiences.

Fellows identify challenges, generate creative solutions, and collaborate with student peers and Arizona Arts mentors to bring a more just vision of the arts to life. lmpactful projects will educate, inspire, and connect members of Arizona Arts and the broader community.

Submit an application  for 2023-24>

Deadline: May 12, 2023
Amount: $6,000 + $1,500 execution budget

Event Co-Sponsorship Grant

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The Diversity & Inclusion Event Co-Sponsorship Grant program supports diverse programming that features artists and subjects representing a wide variety of identities and perspectives. Students, faculty, and staff in the College of Fine Arts and the division of Arizona Arts are eligible to apply.

Fall Deadline: September 29, 2023 for events beginning no earlier than December 18, 2023
Spring Deadline: February 9, 2024 with funding available by May 3, 2024

Award: $1,000

2023 Awardees:

• Chelsea Farrar | Pulse: Weavings and Paintings  by Marlowe Katoney (University of Arizona Museum of Art)
• Edward Goodman | Residency of Kevin Day (Fred Fox School of Music)
• Jackie Glazier | Disability as a Creative Source (Fred Fox School of Music)
• Yuanyuan (Kay) HE | TURN UP Multimedia Festival 2024 (Fred Fox School of Music)

Curriculum Innovation Grant

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The Diversity & Inclusion Curriculum Innovation Grant program supports efforts to evolve course content and teaching methods in ways that advance equity, diversity, and inclusion. Continuing, tenured, and tenure-eligible faculty in the College of Fine Arts are eligible to apply. 

Deadline (Spring Only): February 9, 2024 with funding available by May 3, 2024
Award: $1,000 – $2,000

2023 Awardees:

• Barbara Selznick | Film Styles and Genres (FTV 465)
• Elaine Romero | New Directions Festival/New Work Equitable Practices
• Kelsey Nussbaum | Introduction to Music Education (MUS 250)
• Nicole Koschmann | Digital Filmmaking: From YouTube to Netflix (FTV 306)

Dean’s Undergraduate Recruitment Award

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The CFA Dean’s Undergraduate Recruitment Award seeks to broaden the number of students in the College of Fine Arts (CFA) from historically underrepresented communities. This award provides a scholarship to aid with college expenses in the first year at UArizona. Prospective students admitted as majors in CFA programs are eligible to apply. 

Deadline: April 2, 2023
Award: $5,000

Dean’s Undergraduate Retention Award

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The CFA Dean’s Undergraduate Retention Award seeks to support continuing College of Fine Arts (CFA) students from historically underrepresented communities. This award provides a scholarship to aid with college expenses while attending UArizona. Students currently enrolled as majors in CFA programs are eligible to apply. 

Deadline: April 2, 2023
Award: $1,500

EDI Book Club

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The Arizona Arts Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Book Club club highlights one book per semester through small group discussions. Welcoming all perspectives and experiences, the club fosters a respectful and courageous space to grow our individual and collective understanding of EDI principles.

The last reading for this semester will be Me and White Supremacy by  Layla F. Saad. Earlier in the semester we met virtually to discuss Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong.

Date: Wednesday, April 26th at 12:00-1:00 pm MST or 4:00pm-5:00pm MST on Zoom

Copies of the book are generously provided for book club members by the Office of Equity in the Arts, Arizona Arts. Arizona Arts faculty and staff, including graduate teaching assistants, are invited to join! Space is limited.

Racial Justice Studio

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Racial Justice Studio (RJS) seeks to amplify the work of Arizona Arts scholars, artists, and educators for whom anti-racism is a core tenet embedded in their professional and personal lives, while also partnering with stakeholders, advocates, and activists beyond the UA campus.

Opportunities Include:

• Rehearsals in Antiracism Course
• Creative Abolitionist Teaching (CAT) Fellows
• Race/Remix speaker series and podcast

S.A.L.O.N.

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SALON (Student Artist Live Opportunity Night) highlights the critical scholarship and need for community-building for our underrepresented students in Theater, Film, and Television and the School of Art. 

Event: March 30, 2023
Location: Slonaker Courtyard