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Arts

Organizations, Galleries & Performing Arts.

Organizations

Tucson/Pima Arts Council: The Tucson/Pima Arts Council, a nonprofit organization, funds and promotes arts programs for the community, the work of local artists, public art and community design, diverse cultural traditions, and programs in arts educations and arts technology, enhancing the quality of life for residents and visitors of Tucson and Pima County, Arizona.

WAMO (Warehouse Arts Management Organization)

Central Tucson Gallery Association
A member based gallery association that organizes 3 first-Saturday Art Walks in and around Downtown Tucson. The Art Safari is held in February; the Summer Art Cruise happens in June; The Big Picture commences in October. Call Mike Dominguez at (520) 629-9759 for more information.

Tucson Museum of Art
The Tucson Museum of Art connects art to life, inspiring discovery, creativity, and cultural understanding through meaningful, engaging experiences. Please see Museums for more information.

Learn more about Tucson’s arts organizations here (pdf), courtesy of the Tucson-Pima Arts Council.

Galleries

Central Arts Gallery
2174 E. Congress St. Hours: Tuesday-Friday and Sunday, noon to 5pm; Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm.

Conrad Wilde Gallery
210 N. 4th Ave., 622-8997. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am to 5pm and by appointment.

Davis Dominguez Gallery
154 E. 6th St., 629-9759. Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11am to 5pm and Saturday, 11am to 4pm. Summer Hours: (July 6-September 13) Thursday-Friday, 10am to 5pm and Saturday, 10am to 4pm.

Dinnerware Contemporary Art Gallery
264 E. Congress St., 792-4503. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, noon to 5pm and by appointment.

The Drawing Studio
33 S. 6th Ave., 620-0947. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, Noon to 5pm.

Etherton Gallery
135 S. 6th Ave., 624-7370. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am to 5pm. Thursday, 11am to 7pm.

The Gallery at 6th & 6th
439 N. 6th Ave., #171, 903-0650. Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11am to 5pm. Saturday, 11am to 4pm and by appointment.

Got All Your Marbles/Studio 220
220 E. Congress, 628-1433. Thursday-Saturday 10:30 to 2:30 or call for appointment. Featuring our own interchangeable marble jewelry, as well as other fun, creative jewelry and art.

Griffonage Studios
270 E. Congress St.

LuLuBell Toy Bodega
439 N. 6th Ave. #187, 622-5858. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, noon to 6pm.

Meliora - An Architectural Galllery
178 E. Broadway Blvd., 792-9544. Hours: Monday-Thursday, 9am to 5pm.

Philabaum Glass Studio & Gallery
711 S. 6th Ave., 884-7404. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10am to 5pm.

Platform Gallery
439 N. 6th Ave., 882-3886. Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 11am to 5pm, Tuesday-Wednesday by appointment.

Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery
222 E. 6th St., 792-9619. Hours: Friday-Saturday, 1pm to 5pm and by appointment.

Solar Culture Gallery
31 E. Toole Ave., 884-0874. Hours: Daily, noon to midnight.

Temple Gallery @ Temple Of Music & Art
330 S. Scott Ave., 624-7370. Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am to 6pm and prior to Arizona Theatre Company performances.

Womankraft Art Gallery
388 S. Stone Ave., 629-9976. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 1pm to 5pm.

Performing Arts

Downtown Tucson is the city’s cultural center as well, featuring nationally acclaimed performing arts groups.

Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
Arizona Friends of Chamber Music is a nonprofit organization presenting the world’s finest chamber music. The Evening Series of concerts are generally on Wednesdays at 8pm. Piano and Friends matinee concerts are on Sundays at 3pm. The Festival is a series of five formal concerts and other events the first week of March, including free open rehearsals, a gala benefit dinner with wonderful music by Festival musicians, a children’s concert and master classes.

Arizona Onstage Productions
This professional not-for-profit Actors’ Equity approved live theatre company brings musicals and dramatic/comedic works that are new, daring, edgy and exciting to Tucson. Winner of BEST MUSICAL from the Arizona Daily Star for two years, the company reflects the energy, excitement and depth of new composers, playwrights and lyricists. Bridging gaps between cultures, social, economic and religious backgrounds, breaking down the walls of stereotypes based on sexual orientation and providing material that is conducive to positive and healing conversations is achieved through performances that are honest, sincere and true. This is the major force of this dynamic company.

Arizona Opera
Formed in 1972 by a group of Tucsonans, Arizona Opera has established itself as a major regional opera company by presenting riveting theater, powerful and inspiring music, imaginative and sometimes challenging productions with a host of talented young singers, conductors, stage directors, and designers. The Arizona Opera has something for everyone.

Arizona Theatre Company
“Where the best theatre blooms.” Since 1967, Arizona Theatre Companyhas created world-class professional theatre right here in the desert. Each play exquisitely acted, designed and directed by the nation’s top theatre artists expressly for our community. Classics, musicals and award-winning contemporary dramas - the expanse is awesome and inspiring for Tucson and Phoenix audiences.(ATC is the only LORT regional theatre in the country to operate in two cities.) Last year nearly 150,000 people experienced a rich variety of theatre at ATC.

Beowulf Alley Theatre
Beowulf Alley seeks to break typical stereotypes about theatre by producing the newest plays and the best of the classics in a daring and distinctive style for a new generation of theatre goers. Productions will be presented in their new state-of-the-art theatre designed for intimacy and audience comfort where no seat is further than 25 feet from the stage.

Borderlands Theatre
Borderlands Theater is a professional theater company recognized nationally and internationally for the development and production of theater and educational programs that reflect the diversity of the voices of the Southwest border region. Although focusing on the Latino/Chicano voice as the core voice to nurture and support, Borderlands works interactively with all of the voices of the region.

Broadway in Tucson
Join us downtown for Tucson’s ultimate Broadway experience. Presenting a full season of exciting shows, Broadway in Tucson/ A Nederlander Presentation brings Broadway’s best downtown to the TCC Music Hall and Leo Rich Theatre. Check out our website for season ticket and show information!

The Dambe Drum Ensemble
Performing traditional music, song and dance from Guinea and Mali, West Africa, the instruments include the Djembe, the Dununs, the Balaphone, and the Krin. The Ensemble has performed locally with renowned groups as The Refugee All-stars, The African Showboys, Cubanismo, The Cuban All Stars and Baaba Maal. The music is high energy, fluid and will inspire you to move and dance.

Flam Chen
A decade in the making, Flam Chen has amassed a repertoire of extreme theatre, new circus tactics, martial arts weaponry, all set in a medium of fire. Flam Chen creates unique panoramas of spectacle and narrative - performers spin Balinese fire chains, combat with fire staffs and flaming swords, dance with fire fingers and fire fans, eat and breathe flames, and light costume pieces, sculptures and very often the set itself ablaze during the course of the evening.

NEW ARTiculations Dance Theatre
NEW ARTiculations Dance Theatre has gained notable popularity for its performances of traditional modern, post modern, theatrical and interdisciplinary works. In addition to performances, it offers ongoing classes, workshops and choreographers’ showcases to support the creation of new work in the community.

Old Pueblo Playwrights
OPP is a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the creation of new dramatic works by Arizona authors. Its members are writers -both professional and aspiring - who meet weekly to hear readings of their works and to discuss those works critically. OPP membership is open to any interested writers of dramatic works for stage, film, radio, or television (as well as to any other artists in those disciplines).

O-T-O Dance
O-T-O Dance is a flying modern dance company created by Anne Bunker in 1985. We are based here in Tucson, (the Baked Apple), Arizona and perform all over the world. Recently, we have had the pleasure of working in Ireland, Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador and St. Petersburg Russia. O-T-O Dance is also Teaching Company, offering classes to individuals, schools and entire communities. The company participates in residency programs with The Arizona Commission on the Arts and The Tucson Pima Arts Council.

Tucson Convention Center
The Tucson Music Hall and Leo Rich Theater are two of the region’s preeminent arts venues, hosting performances by the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Arizona Opera, Broadway in Tucson, Arizona Friends of Music and Borderlands Theater. In Addition to these facilities, the Tucson Arena hosts a variety of concerts, family shows and sporting events.

Tucson Jazz Society
The Tucson Jazz Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving America’s original music—jazz. The Society seeks to assure continuity of this music through concerts, festivals, media activities and youth programs. A major emphasis is to provide work for instrumentalists and vocalists through society-sponsored activities and joint ventures with allied cultural, educational, and commercial organizations throughout southern Arizona.

Tucson Symphony Orchestra
The Tucson Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1929, is one of the oldest major cultural institutions in Arizona and the largest employer of musicians in Tucson. The Tucson Symphony Orchestra serves Tucson and southern Arizona communities with classical music of the highest caliber.