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Arizona Commission on the Arts Arts Commission Change Jaime Dempsey is leaving her position as executive director for Arizona Commission on the Arts, a state agency designed to foster the creative and professional development of the arts sector, in June. Dempsey will assume the newly created position of senior vice president for philanthropic initiatives with Arizona Community Foundation, which facilitates philanthropy in many sectors, including arts and culture. As of this writing, the commiss...

A new face towers over downtown Phoenix, anchoring a fresh mural painted by Miles "Mac" MacGregor (a.k.a. "El Mac") and Thomas “Breeze” Marcus. The artwork is located on a brick building adjacent to The Monroe tower at 111 West Monroe Street, where the collaborators quietly began bringing the mural to life in mid-March. The central image is a young woman holding a rose, who appears to be looking eastward toward the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Community where shes from. "The mural is really a m...

People felt comfortable with him: Remembering Isaac Fainkujen, tattoo artist and friend Elizabeth Montgomery, Arizona Republic No matter what you needed, Isaac Fainkujen found a way to be there and many knew him as a person who could create a unique connection with everyone he met. The longtime Valley visual and tattoo artists died March 20. He was 44. Fainkujen is survived by his brother Seth and sister Bonny Fainkujen and many family and friends. “He found a way to connect w...

The longtime Valley visual and tattoo artists died March 20. He was 44. Fainkujen is survived by his brother Seth and sister Bonny Fainkujen and many family and friends. “He found a way to connect with everybody that he talked to whether it was the clerk at the gas station to anyone, people felt comfortable with him and opened up to him,” said Bonny. “I’ve had people in the United States, Germany and Spain reach out to tell me stories of their unique, special connection that they had wi...

Listen • 4:03 The Akron Civic Theater is undergoing a significant makeover. But the $8.5 million worth of capital improvements isn’t only focused on the inside of the building. The Civic is hoping to have a bigger impact on the neighborhood around it. Downtown Akron’s Main Street is undergoing a transformation. The city has wrapped up a major street reconstruction project along several blocks, including the one where Akron Civic Theater is located. The long-vacant buil...

It seems like almost every Tucson wall tells a story. Some of them involve the Virgen de Guadalupe and others involve a mans skull shooting colorful beams of light into the ether. Heres just a little selection of some of our favorites seen around town. Tucsons muralists continue to be hard at work during the pandemic creating images that are both hopeful and thought provoking.  UPDATE: Now with 12 more murals that you can find all around Tucson and Sahuarita.  Tucson Medical Center Mural ...

Jon Paul Pérez It took about three months for Jon Paul Pérez to persuade his father to invest in the luxury apartment tower Wynwood 25 back in 2017. The eldest son of Related Group founder and Miami “condo king” Jorge Pérez said last year that he negotiated the partnership with developer East End Capital “from soup to nuts.” East End was looking for a strong partner with construction expertise, and it found that in Related. Wynwood 25’s nearly 290 rental units and retail space were...