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Visual Arts Creation & Exhibition

01 Visual Arts Creation & Exhibition · 844 edit slice
171
orgs
947
activities
38
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 171 organizations and 947 activities — Pebble Creek Art Club, SCOTTSDALE ARTISTS' SCHOOL, Sonoran Arts League, SOUTHERN ARIZONA WATERCOLOR GUILD and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Music as Transformative Practice", run by 33 orgs.
who to look at first

shortlist

Ranked by activity breadth, method diversity, and network reach across the slice. Attach a memo to this report and this list re-ranks around your intent.

where this slice is thin

gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
Arizona 100% · 171 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 171

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where the money comes from

funders already active in this field

Funders named as a funding source on these orgs' own materials. The count is the number of orgs in this slice that cite them — higher means a funder with demonstrable commitment to the field.

Arizona Commission on the Arts 8
Government
Arizona Community Foundation 5
Foundation
SRP 4
Corporate
City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture 2
Government
Flinn Foundation 2
Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts 2
Government
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust 2
Foundation
Vitalyst Health Foundation 2
Foundation
2026 Art Contest sponsor (not named) 1
Corporate
AHCCCS ACC Plans (Care1st, Health Steward, Health Choice, Molina Complete Health, Mercy Care, Banner-University Family Care, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan) 1
Government
AMY ZUCKERMAN-SOLOMON FUND 1
Foundation
APS 1
Corporate
AZ Commission on the Arts 1
Government
AZ Coyotes Foundation 1
Foundation
how the field thinks

strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Music as Transformative Practice
257
1
20
Community-Led Systems Change
64
9
Holistic Youth Development
57
Experiential Connection
37
Art and Music as Therapy
48
Development Through Inclusive Athletics
20
Trauma-Informed Care
21
Collaborative Conservation Partnerships
9
1
who works with whom

named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks. Unlike the strategy-sharing graph below (which is inferred from shared approaches), these are relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

Arizona State University Partner
shared by 11 orgs
Arizona Commission on the Arts Funder
shared by 10 orgs
Arizona Commission on the Arts Partner
shared by 7 orgs
National Endowment for the Arts Funder
shared by 7 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 7 orgs
City of Phoenix Partner
shared by 6 orgs
Facebook Partner
shared by 6 orgs
National Endowment for the Arts Partner
shared by 6 orgs
Phoenix Art Museum Partner
shared by 6 orgs
Arizona Community Foundation Funder
shared by 5 orgs
Pima County Partner
shared by 5 orgs
City of Tucson Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Desert Botanical Garden Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Instagram Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Mesa Arts Center Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Pima Community College Partner
shared by 4 orgs
where the field connects

strategy-sharing network

Inferred from shared theories of action: each line connects an org to a strategy it runs. Organizations that share many strategies cluster through the same nodes — funders can spot the field's structural bridges.

scale of the field

rollup metrics

Aggregated scale claims from orgs in the slice. Treat as a floor, not a ceiling — many orgs don't publish these numbers, so totals underrepresent real reach. Extreme outliers (often unit-mismatches upstream) are filtered out.

23.0M
annual revenue
from 5 orgs
6.9M
People served
from 37 orgs
100K
Pounds distributed
from 2 orgs
50K
Staff
from 15 orgs
21K
Partner organizations
from 44 orgs
20K
Volunteers
from 8 orgs