Valley Voice December 2016 | Page 62

The Arizona Consortium for the Arts dream rendering, designed by Dr. Effie Bouras, Building Designer, Mechanik Design Office, LLC

The Arizona Consortium for the Arts is 9 years old. We invite you to join us in celebrating this milestone by looking back at what we've accomplished with your help and encouragement. Let's look forward to friend-raise and fund-raise so that we can continue in our vision to add dynamism and vitality to our communities in establishing a multidisciplinary arts center/space and leaving a legacy for this generation and future generations.

It's been an amazing ride since we began in the fall of 2007. Over the course of our history, The Arizona Consortium for the Arts has carved out a distinctive role among the region's thriving arts and cultural institutions as a unique organization. The Consortium also partners with other organizations and provides children and adults with a wide range of programs with hands-on, up-close encounters with their own creativity and previously untapped talents. And that's just for starters.

One of the best known and most prominent projects is the highly acclaimed The Blue Guitar Magazine, noted for both its quality and its range. The Blue Guitar is a literary and arts journal/magazine. It features Arizona emerging and established writers and artists. The Blue Guitar has drawn statewide submissions and is currently published online. The magazine has thousands of readers in Arizona, throughout the country and abroad. We also publish The Blue Guitar Jr. Edition, which features works by children and works by adults who write for children.