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
Spring 2023
- 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)
Fall 2023
- 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.