Trajectory at Sky Harbor

Now showing at Sky Harbor’s Terminal 4 is Phoenix Airport Museum’s newest exhibition of fine art prints by Arizona artists who participated in the Trajectory Print Portfolio Project. Sponsored by the Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art (phICA), twelve artists enhanced their artistic skills by experiencing printmaking. For many of these artists, this was new territory as they typically work in mediums like painting, drawing and sculpture. A big Thank You to phICA for donating these compelling artworks to the Phoenix Airport Museum.

August 1, 2023

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2024 Grants from Arizona Commission on the Arts and Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture

phICA is pleased and appreciative for once again receiving general operating support for our 2024 fiscal year from Arizona Commission on the Arts and Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture! We received record high grants from each agency. The funds will be used to continue our successful Virtual Exhibitions Initiative through June 2024 and perhaps beyond with other available monies.

2023 Grants from Arizona Commission on the Arts and Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture

phICA is elated and appreciative for receiving general operating support for our 2023 fiscal year from Arizona Commission on the Arts and Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture! We received record high grants from each agency. The funds will be used to continue our successful Virtual Exhibitions Initiative through June 2023 and perhaps beyond with other available monies, and for formally launching our Critical Art Writing Initiative which has been on hold due to COVID19.

Alfredo Arraguin’s Rio Salado (1986) on view at the Tucson Museum of Art

phICA is pleased to know a work from our MARS Chicano Print Series, Alfredo Arraguin’s Rio Salado (1986),  is currently on view in the exhibition Noble, Proud, Wise, Lordly: Art of the Jaguar at the Tucson Museum of Art. MARS/phICA donated this print to the Museum Permanent Collection.

Rudy Fernández M.A.R.S. Visitation 3-D serigraph

This 3-D 1993 serigraph by Rudy Fernández was made by the artist …in collaboration with expert master printer John Armstrong for MARS Artspace, the predecessor to phICA, as part of its significant Chicano Print Project. Between 1985 and 2000, Armstrong and Joe Segura, Segura Publishing Company, produced prints by 12 artists for MARS, the publisher. Six print editions are sold out. Currently, there are prints available for purchase through phICA from six editions.

MARS/phICA donated this print and others to the Phoenix Airport Museum Permanent Collection.

Learn more: https://www.phica.org/mars-legacy

Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture awards two grants to phICA

Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture (POAC) has awarded phICA two grants totaling $10,000 for the 2022 fiscal year. Our first ever funding by POAC, we received a Project Support Grant for our Trajectory Print Project which will be completed by December 31, 2021.

“The Project Support program promotes and encourages the breadth of arts and cultural programming in our community by supporting projects both large and small throughout the City of Phoenix,” according to POAC. Funds will used to complete this project which includes prints produced in 2021 by Brent Bond, Santo Press, Scottsdale, of images made by 12 artists living and working in Maricopa County, Arizona. The artists for the project were selected by Rio de Janeiro, Brazil-based curator, art and architecture professor, author, and art critic Marisa Flórido Cesar in Fall 2020.

The second grant is The Phoenix​ City Council approved using federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding as a part of non-profit arts and culture stabilization due to the effect of COVID19 on the Nation’s cultural infrastructure. phICA will utilize these funds to continue our recent 2021 Virtual Exhibitions and Emerging Curator initiatives, and to jump start our _onRadar reposting social media project from 2019.

phICA is pleased to introduce our associates Jade Sullivan and Josiah Jones

Jade earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Arizona State University, and also works in the administration office of the Art Department at Mesa Community College. She has assumed the responsibilities of our Social Media/Marketing Manager. Jade will be working with us to create more visibility for phICA on our two social media platforms – Instagram and Facebook – especially on the three large projects that we are working on in 2021 and 2022. First our Trajectory Print Project which is well underway and will be completed by year’s end. Also, our Virtual Exhibitions Project and Season 3 of our highly acclaimed Emerging Curator Initiative.

Josiah is a photographer who has taken a variety of courses and workshops at Mesa Community College. He is the owner his own web design business, AZ Web Design Studios, and is an avid skater. He has been working with phICA for the past 3 years as our Web and Technology Manager. He updates our website and creates various project pages in conjunction with our scope of activities. Most recently, he designed our Virtual Exhibitions project which will occur throughout 2021 and 2022.

We are thrilled to have an amazing team of phICA people!

2019 Community Investment Grant awarded to phICA

Arizona Commission on the Arts, the state’s cultural agency, has awarded phICA a community investment grant in the amount of $3,000. This represents a significant increase from amounts awarded in previous years. As an institution with virtually no administrative overhead, phICA will utilize these funds to partially print a fine art print portfolio that will celebrate the diversity of artists in our community. The remainder of the funds have already been secured from phICA supporters. We appreciate the commission’s investment in and ongoing support of phICA.

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