ArtsEd West proudly announces our Creative Futures Campaign
Founded by arts educators, arts leaders, Arizona natives, and parents, our mission is to secure a well-rounded and artful education for all students. We envision a connected community of artists, teachers, youth, community members, and parents working together to shape the policies that influence access to the arts in their schools and community spaces. Our approach includes advancing community-centered systems navigation, life-long creative learning programming, and creative ecosystem development.
We are committed to securing creative futures!
A lack of arts education courses and opportunities leaves our students and our state behind. Arts education produces artistically literate individuals who are more likely to:
- have higher school attendance rates (Arts Attendance Report 2021)
- graduate from high school (The Arts and Dropout Prevention)
- perform higher academically (The Arts and Achievement in At-Risk Youth)
- have higher school and community engagement rates (Investigating Causal Effects of Arts Education Experiences)
- participate in civic engagement and the creative industry sector (Civics Source), (Creative Industry Source)
Did you know the arts also benefit our state's economy?
In 2025, arts and cultural industries contributed $15.8 billion to Arizona’s economy, about 3% of the state's economy. Plus, the sector employs about 95,294 workers in Arizona. (The U.S. Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account)
The benefits of access to the arts are clear, yet 43% of Arizona's students still lack access to arts education, which may make them less likely to become producers or consumers of the creative or cultural industries.
ArtsEd West was created to remedy this disparity and introduce more Arizona students to the arts, bolstering the creativity in our schools and community spaces while supporting impactful initiatives already occurring across the state.
Our first two key goals are:
- Hosting the first 2026 Arts Learning and Leadership (ALL) AZ Summit
- Securing our Staffing and Capacity
2026 Arts Learning and Leading (ALL) AZ Summit
Partnering with ArtsEd West now will allow us to create the first UNITED arts education event in our state. This collective energy will allow ArtsEd West to directly address the arts access gaps in our schools by providing customized training and community building across schools, artistic disciplines, parents, and youth leaders.
Together, we can learn how to participate in local, state, and national systems that shape the policies that impact arts education.
- The ALL AZ Summit will launch in September 2026 to celebrate the 2026 National Arts in Education. Authorized by Congress in 2010, National Arts In Education Week is an annual nationwide celebration recognizing the transformative power of the arts in education.
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The ALL AZ Summit is a half-day event that will be centrally
located in Phoenix and will include featured keynotes and breakout sessions.
- all arts education
- all artistic mediums
- all of Arizona
Staffing and Capacity
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We are currently supported 100% by volunteer staff
- With your gift, we intend to fund the salary of our Director of Community Engagement, who oversees our programming and membership.
- Providing state-wide support for arts education
Participants in the top donation tiers will join the ArtsEd West Horizon Society with lifetime access to specialized donor events and opportunities. E very dollar helps us support student creativity. One-time and monthly donation offers are available.
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well-rounded and
artful education for all. Our students can't wait.
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*ArtsEd West is an internal fiscally sponsored project of the Technical Assistance Partnership of Arizona. All donations will be to the Technical Assistance Partnership of Arizona on behalf of ArtsEd West. Technical Assistance Partnership of Arizona's EIN: 86-0975231
*Donations are tax-deductible. Consult with your local tax expert.
