Equity in the Arts

JustArts Fellowship for Student Leaders in the Arts

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The JustArts Fellowship empowers students to use the art forms they love to shape a better future.

Five students are select to participate in the fellowship cohort each year. Selection is based on student proposals for change-oriented projects that will address a specific challenge they have identified. Fellows collaborate with student peers, mentors, and community partners to bring their vision of change to life.

Meet alumni of the JustArts Fellowship and read about students’ experiences in the fellowship.

Award: $6,000 stipend + $1,500 project execution budget

Priority Deadline: April 4, 2025

JustArts Fellowship

MAP – Mentoring in the Arts Professions

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The MAP program is a student-centered series of “ask me anything” conversations with professionals and alumni who are living artful lives.

MAP offers students from all majors a welcoming and safe space for building career knowledge and networks so they may successfully navigate a wide range of arts and culture industries.

All are welcome to join. Those who do will gain access to exclusive stories, insider advice, and a diverse community of makers, performers, scholars, activists, and educators working on campus and throughout the world.

Event dates: fall/spring semesters

MAP Events

SALON

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The annual SALON (a.k.a. Students in the Arts Live Opportunity Night) is an event that takes place in spring semester. Students, faculty, staff, and friends gather to celebrate completed works and works in progress by performing and visual arts students of diverse backgrounds.

SALON takes its name from salons of the 18th-century Paris that drew artists, scholars and supporters together to share their art and knowledge with each other in a social environment. This energizing event is open to all students interested in creating community, conversations, and connection and all who wish to support them in their artistic journey.

Date: spring semester

Location: To be announced

2024 Event Details

Racial Justice Studio

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Racial Justice Studio 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 University of Arizona campus. Racial Justice Studio is a hub for the study and practice of anti-racism in and through the arts. It was established in 2021 as an initiative at Arizona Arts, the gateway to visual and performing arts assets of the University of Arizona.

Opportunities include:

• Racial Justice Studio speaker events
• Race/Remix podcast

Racial Justice Studio

Race/Remix Podcast

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Race/Remix podcast by the Racial Justice Studio, an initiative of Arizona Arts. We partner with and amplify the work of scholars, artists, educators, activists, and public intellectuals for whom anti-racism is a core tenet embedded in their professional and personal lives. University of Arizona students are centered through direct involvement with the podcast series as council members, audience members, and creative contributors.

Listen to episodes and read about our guests on the official Race/Remix podcast website.

Follow Race/Remix on Instagram and Facebook for the latest episodes.

Race/Remix Website

Black Faculty Speaker Series

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The Black Faculty Speaker Series (BFSS) at the University of Arizona is a pivotal platform dedicated to fostering critical dialogue within academia. The series celebrates the intellectual and cultural contributions of Black scholars while amplifying diverse perspectives and enhancing collaboration among Black faculty, students, and staff.

A BFSS partner since 2022, Arizona Arts is proud to support the 2025 Black Faculty Speaker Series: Collective Community Vision featuring events with Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, and journalist Henry Louis Gates, Jr. All events are free and open to the public.

Listen to conversations with previous BFSS guests, including Ruha Benjamin and Silas Munro, on Race/Remix, a podcast produced by Racial Justice Studio at Arizona Arts.

Upcoming Events

Sustainability

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Funding from $250-5,000 is available for projects oriented toward environmental and/or social sustainability.

• Campus Sustainability Fund Mini-Grant
• Indigenous-Centered Mini Grant

Interdisciplinarity

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Funding up to $1,500 for short-term creative inquiry projects that are interdisciplinary and collaborative.

• Confluence Center Director’s Fund Award

Servingness

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Funding up to $25,000 to support scholarly research and creative work that fulfills U of A’s Purpose and Values.

• HSI Faculty Seed Grants

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: one staff member, one faculty member, one undergraduate student, and one graduate student. Recipients will receive a plaque with their name engraved and a $1,500 monetary stipend.

Amount:  $1,500 per individual

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 the U of A. Prospective students admitted as majors in CFA programs are eligible to apply.

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 the U of A. Students currently enrolled as majors in CFA programs are eligible to apply.

Award: $1,500

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 were eligible to apply.

Award: $1,000 – $2,000

2023 Awardees

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

• Dr. Daniel Linder | 2024 Trester Festival for Latin American Music (School of Music)
• Dr. Elizabeth Schauer | Performance of Terza Messa by Marianna von Martines (School of Music)
• Jaime Elena Abarca | Call to Queer Artists (School of Art)
• Jenna Green | The Place Where Clouds are Formed artist panel (Center for Creative Photography)

Benefits and Impact

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 were eligible to apply. 

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)

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.

Copies of the book were 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 were invited to join.