Arizona PBS

The idea that art should be accessible to all of us also means taking the opportunity to create our own art — free from judgment.

Colleen Jennings Roggensack is the heart and soul of theater in Arizona. Without her guidance, Arizona would not even be on Broadway’s radar.

Sam started the Detour Theatre Company after realizing her son with special needs had nowhere to fulfill his dream of performing in a play or musical.

Douglas Miles is a member of the San Carlos-Apache tribe. He is a painter, photographer, and activist. He grew up in Phoenix and moved back to the San Carlos-Apache Indian Community.

Alwun House is Downtown Phoenix’s first art gallery. For more than 45 years, the Alwun House has created opportunities for artists, and served as a pivotal beacon in the Garfield community.

First Friday is one of the largest walking art tours in the country, notable for its ability to attract people from all walks of life to one central area.

Andrew Pielage is a world-renown photographer. He is currently on a mission to photograph all 400 of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs.

We will go behind the scenes as the Arizona Opera prepares for an upcoming opera called ‘Fellow Travelers’.

Ballet Arizona is the state’s premier dance company. We will follow a ballerina and her husband to see what a day in their lives is like and how they prepare for a performance.

In 1970, a Phoenix City Parks supervisor named Helen Mason realized a voice was missing in the city’s art community. From her simple dream, The Black Theatre Troupe, Inc. was born.

Carla Keaton is an extraordinary artist who draws on her family’s rich history to show how we all are connected.

For more than 50 years the Celebrity Theatre has been a mainstay for concerts in the Phoenix area.

Changing Hands is Arizona’s leading independent bookstore, offering new and used books, unique gifts, toys, and more than 300 author events every year.

Founded in 1977, Childsplay is a nationally and internationally respected professional theatre company whose chosen audience is children.

By day they work in car repair shops and at software companies, but their free time is spent singing in the Phoenix Chorale.

Nancy Hill owns Hazel and Violet, a letterpress company. Using hand-operated machines from the early 1900s, Hill creates invitations, cards, posters using old fashioned type and ink.

Standing eye level with some of the tallest buildings in Downtown Phoenix is the amazing steel sculpture, “Her Secret is Patience.” It is the center point of the Civic Space Park across from the ASU

Learning to trust your gut is an important lesson at any age. With this jazz improvisation class, high school musicians learn to lean into their feelings and trust their musical guts.

Jim Sudal decided to become a ceramist after taking a job at the Desert Botanical Garden.

From truck driver to sculptor, Kevin Caron is blowing everyone’s mind by not using traditional tools to make his art. Instead, his sculptures are made using an eight-foot 3D printer he calls Gigante.

Artist John Coleman looks more like the cowboys in his artwork than an artist. He paints and sculpts out of his studio in Prescott.

The Nash opened its doors in 2012 as a place for students to practice and be inspired by Jazz music. It’s named after Lewis Nash, one of the greatest jazz drummers.

Lisa Sette has blazed trails in a quiet and unassuming manner for more than three decades. Sette is one of the first female gallery owners in Arizona.

One million people have Parkinson’s Disease in the United States. Arizona has one of the top programs in the world to study the disease.

The Phoenix Theatre Company celebrates 100 years in 2020.

Roberto Venn has been teaching future guitar makers for more than 40 years and is the longest-running guitar making school in North America.

Arizona PBS tells the story of potter Ron Carlos, a member of the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community, and how he is continuing his elders’ tradition of telling stories through his art.

Folklorico Dance or Baile folklórico, literally “folkloric dance” in Spanish, is a collective term for traditional Latin American dances that emphasize local folk culture with ballet characteristics

Does your mouth water when you watch a food commercial or see one in a magazine? Why is that?

Gregory Sale calls himself a social justice artist. His recent projects focus on artwork by formerly incarcerated individuals to shine the light on our often inconsistent penal system.