At the Arts Foundation, we serve and fund organizations and community members residing in the city of Tucson, Pima County, and increasingly, in the Southern Arizona region.
We aim to reach and engage both urban and rural communities, knowing important art is being created in the large cities and small towns of Southern Arizona. We work to learn from and support these artists as well as the place they call home.
“…cultural self-determination is a crucial dimension of equity. That is the ability to make sense of the world on one’s own terms, to tell one’s own story, to dream, imagine, assert aesthetically. This is foundational to our American ethos, and access to the resources and opportunities for arts engagement is a crucial dimension of an equitable community.”
–Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, Welcome remarks at the 2022 National Arts Action Summit.
Arts Foundation Team
Gibran Villalobos
Interim Grants and Programs Director
520-624-0595 ext. 2
Sadie Shaw
Public Art & Community Design Administrator
520-624-0595 ext. 3
Arts Foundation Board of Directors
To reach members of the Arts Foundation Board of Directors, email agallego@artsfoundtucson.org or call 520-624-0595 ext. 1.
Stephanie Rosenberg
President
Cristal Franco
Vice President
Tyler Miller
2nd Vice President
Veda Kowalski
Secretary
Junior Roman
Treasurer
Marcos Ysmael
Past President/ Director
Miguel Angel Lopez
Director
Brandon Varela
Director
Dana Roes
Director
Melissa Brown-Dominguez
Director
Ricardo Morales Bermudez
Director
Arts Foundation Contractors
Ammi Robles
Communications Associate, Independent Contractor
Ryann Hodge
Tax and Financial, Momentum Tax and Financial
Julie Ray Creative
Web Development and Design, Julie Ray Creative