We are hiring tw0, full-time positions. Join our team! Both positions include University of Arizona benefits packages and the hiring processes follow UA's equity and inclusion policy. Positions open until filled. (Closing date Feb 28, 2022.) MANAGING DIRECTOR The Managing Director performs a senior role of …
James “Big Jim” Griffith: July 30, 1935-December 18, 2021
It is with humility and sadness that we share our beloved teacher, elder, and Tucson Meet Yourself Folklife Festival co-founder, Dr. James S. “Big Jim” Griffith has transitioned from this earth. Big Jim passed quietly and peacefully at his home. His love for these lands and their cultures is a light that will continue to illuminate new ways to come …
NEA Funds Tucson Meet Yourself 2022
We are thrilled to share that we've been awarded a $35,000 Grant for Arts Projects from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of our annual folklife festival, Tucson Meet Yourself. To be included in the NEA's first round of awards for 2022 is an honor, and these funds monies will help us produce TMY 2022 and bring you three days of …
La Doce
In collaboration with grassroots organizers from Regeneración, SFA is working to launch a Center for Cultural Organizing in “La Doce,” the corridor of South 12th Avenue from 44th Street to Drexel Road and adjacent neighborhoods in Tucson, Arizona. This largely Indigenous, Latino, immigrant, and economically disenfranchised area has faced a legacy …
Announcing the 2021 Master-Apprentice Artist Awardees
We are delighted to announce the SFA Master-Apprentice Artist Awardees for 2021! (Just in time.) This award program supports master traditional artists/culture bearers with $5,000 to work with emerging-artist mentees ($500) in a yearlong exchange to support the transmission of traditional cultural knowledge and practice. The first award program of …
December 2021: Shining light on new narratives, old words, and ever-present darkness
Check out the latest stories from BorderLore: This month: Kimi Eisele visits emerging artists in Douglas and Agua Prieta who are creating safe spaces to shift border narratives, Mele Martinez considers the valuable project of reclaiming language in New Mexico and beyond, and we revisit the archives for a 2017 interview with bereavement specialist …