Episode 10: Fine art and the Hereafter, To Space and Beyond

Girls holding up their artwork

Girls holding upward their artwork

The arts play an essential part in shaping the future of both private people and humankind as a whole. Using Maslow's pyramid of needs as a guide, this episode shows how art can help people make social connections, proceeds self-confidence, and ultimately self-actualization. Art therapy, for example, is a powerful tool for undoing the lasting effects of trauma on abused or neglected children. We hear from art therapy'south experts, mentors, and participants, as well as a former NASA astronaut and current leader of ASU's initiative to imagine humanity's future on other planets. All of them explain how fine art can requite us the skills, confidence, and inspiration to imagine a improve hereafter and make it a reality.

Episode 9: Hidden History, A Better Hereafter

Dominique Holley

Dominique Holley

We wait to the past to understand the nowadays and plan for the time to come. ​Notwithstanding, for centuries, history has been told selectively​, leaving a lot of people out. ​In Episode nine, learn how art tin can help united states of america better understand the history of the disadvantaged​. Hear from one activist working to tell the story of Black history in Arizona and a "music archaeologist" who's working to uncover the under-appreciated and forgotten work of Blackness musicians and composers. When nosotros have a more consummate story of the past, we just might exist able to brand a amend future.

Episode viii: Art, Authenticity, and Changing Minds

ASU Art Museum

ASU Art Museum

What exactly is empathy? And why is it so important? It can solve many of humanity's worst self-inflicted problems, but it can be hard to muster up and inspire in others. However, research does bear witness that empathy tin be taught—passed from one person to another—and that art can brand that happen. On this episode, we hear from artists from reverse ends of the Earth who both use their work to prompt people to run into the world from a dissimilar perspective. And we hear from researchers who've investigated just how impactful this perspective shift can be, and what needs to be done in club for people to experience it.

Episode vii: Investing in Art

Nazafarin Lotfi

Nazafarin Lotfi

Arizona ranks well-nigh the lesser of the country in state funding for the arts. So here, artists and arts organizations rely heavily on the generosity of donors large and small-scale—and that generosity pays off in a myriad of ways. We hear from a number of fine art arrangement leaders about how they're working to make a community that'due south full of inspiration, character, and growth. We'll also hear about their dreams for  the hereafter and what they could do if we continue to support them.

Episode vi: The Violet Protest

Violet Protest project

Violet Protest project

How tin fine art make community out of conflict, and assistance u.s. come across the earth with a footling more than colour and empathy? Throughout this tumultuous past twelvemonth in American history, Arizona artist Ann Morton has led a decidedly non-radical protestation: "The Violet Protestation." She, and thousands of collaborators from all 50 states, wove opposing colors—blue and ruby-red—together to brand a harmonious whole. In this episode, we dive into that project and the larger effect of partition and political polarization. We'll hear from a political scientist, philosopher of art, museum CEO, and several everyday people that take experienced the protest in person at the Phoenix Art Museum.

Episode v: The Value of Fine art

Mesa Arts Center

Mesa Arts Centre

What is the value of art? Is it just a prissy add together-on, luxury or past-time? Or is it truly valuable and perhaps essential for a thriving and salubrious life and club? In the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, research revealing the surprisingly strong link between arts participation and health outcomes has led doctors at that place to prescribe cultural activities as medicine. In this episode, we hear from Arizonans benefiting from the healing power of art—from veterans doing drinking glass fine art to people dancing with dementia—and the researchers and advocates supporting them. Arizona may exist on the precipice of an art scene quantum, and America on the verge of a groundbreaking wedlock between healthcare and arts.

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Episode 4: A Yr Without Live Functioning

Trio of musicians playing in a parking lot

Trio of musicians playing in a parking lot

The pandemic has nearly completely deprived u.s.a. of going in-person to concerts and plays. What is still unclear is how bachelor they will be to us once the threat of the virus subsides. Smaller theaters like the Brelby Theatre Visitor in Glendale and The Rogue Theatre in Tucson are scratching and clawing to survive, merely even more established arts organizations, like the Arizona Theatre Visitor and The Phoenix Symphony, are struggling.

We hear from researchers, actors, playwrights, and theater owners about the invaluable role that performing arts play in our lives and society—and how they tin promote unity at a fourth dimension when our land becomes increasingly divided.

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Episode 3: Small Venues, Large Mission

The Rebel Lounge in Phoenix

The Insubordinate Lounge in Phoenix

With nearly all concerts, festivals, and comedy shows canceled over the past year, the live event industry has been significantly impacted by the pandemic. And it's been particularly tough for America'south small, independently endemic venues—those like The Rebel Lounge on 24th street and Indian School. One survey in Apr found that xc% of these venues across America were in danger of endmost. There was merely one affair that could relieve them: unprecedented authorities activeness.

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Episode two: Arts' Economical Perseverance

Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra

Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra

The arts and the economy are inextricably linked. The arts community creates 90,000 jobs and 3 percent of the state'south Gross domestic product -- withal the country allocates less than one-tenth of 1 pct of the annual upkeep to the arts. Equally Arizona navigates a post-pandemic economic recovery, the local arts scene will inevitably play a big role in the country'southward future.

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Episode 1: Arts off Pointe

Mural in downtown Phoenix

Landscape in downtown Phoenix

Even in the best of times, arts organizations sometimes struggled to stay adrift, despite their pregnant economic and cultural touch. The upheaval of 2020 has forced them to adjust to a world where revenue is even less stable than before, and even their most basic mission could exist unsafe. Leaders of some major local arts nonprofits share their insights on the state of the arts in Arizona.

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