The Arts Foundation is looking for Artists and community members in Ajo

The Arts Foundation is looking for Artists and community members in Ajo for paid participation in SaludArte Program

The Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona in collaboration with the Pima County Health Department, is launching SaludArte, an arts and health grant program within the areas of each of Pima County’s five Supervisory Districts that were most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The following zip codes and neighborhoods SaludArte will focus on are:

District 1: 85741
District 2: 85713 (Las Vistas, Western Hills & South Park)
District 3: 87321 (Ajo)
District 4: 85710 & 85614 (Green Valley)
District 5: 85746 (Midvale Park)

The Arts Foundation is looking for interested participants living within each zip code to participate in a series of community meetings. Participants will be paid $100 per meeting for their time.

The goals of SaludArte are to create avenues where community engagement and public art can intersect to amplify the voices and experiences of our community while also helping to increase health equity, access, literacy and COVID-19 mitigation across Pima County. This initiative will produce storytelling timeline on the project website as well as five temporary art projects in each district in Pima County.

In the Fall of 2023, SaludArte will culminate with a community-wide event to celebrate the stories of the participants, exhibit the artwork created through the voices of the participants and serve as an opportunity to promote health equity and access to the COVID-19 vaccine and other health services, like health screenings, COVID-19 testing kits, chronic disease management resources, etc..

Additionally, the Arts Foundation launched a Request for Qualifications for Artists and Artist Teams apply for a $30,000 grant to produce a temporary public art installation based off of the information gathered from SaludArte participants in the Ajo area. Click here to learn more and apply.

“SaludArte is an important new grant program that aims to bridge the gap between public art and public health.” – Sadie Shaw

Contact Sadie Shaw, Community Design Manager at sadie@artsfoundtucson.org or call 520-979-2142 for more information.

“We are excited to collaborate with the Pima County Department of Health to introduce the SaludArte Grant Program to the Ajo community. I encourage our Ajo artists and community members to participate and join each Pima County District in translating the lived experiences of the Ajo community through art.” – Cristal Franco, Arts Foundation Board Member representing the Ajo community.

For more information, visit the Arts Foundation website: https://artsfoundtucson.org/
The Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona is a 501(c)3 nonprofit and funding agency with a mission to advance the artistic expression, civic participation, and equitable economic growth of our diverse communities. Through forward-thinking, accountable leadership, the Arts Foundation works to affect systemic change that fosters an accessible, diverse, inclusive, and equitable local arts community.
As the designated local arts agency, the Arts Foundation provides arts and cultural development across Southern Arizona for individual working artists, artist collectives, ensembles, and nonprofit organizations through grant programs, professional development opportunities and public art management for the City of Tucson and Pima County.

The work of the Arts Foundation is made possible through generous support from the City of Tucson, Pima County, Arizona Commission on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and individual donors. Our service area includes all counties and native sovereign nations South of the Gila River, including 372 miles along the US-Mexico international border in the South and along the 590 mile stretch of the Gila River, which flows west from the New Mexico border to the Colorado River.