Category Archives: Outreach

MAY 2016 TAG / CITY OF TEMPE  ARTS MINI GRANT FOR SCHOOL MURAL TAG’S application for a City of Tempe Arts Grant was accepted in April 2016 and the project was completed in May 2016. Tempe matched a $500 donation by TAG to fund an arts project at the Tempe Academy of International Studies. With the guidance…

OCTOBER 2016 TAG SPONSORS ART SUPPLY AWARDS TO MCC STUDENTS At TAG’s October meeting, six students studying art at Mesa Community College (MCC) each received a $100 gift card to spend on art supplies. Arizona Art Supply, Blick Art Materials and Jerry’s Artarama generously donated three cards for the awards and TAG purchased three matching…

MAY 2016 "MODERNIZING WARHOL": TEMPE MIDDLE SCHOOL ART PROJECT TAG and City of Tempe co-funded a mini-grant titled “Modernizing Warhol”; a Tempe middle-school art project. Transportation support for the art project was provided by the Phoenix Art Museum and was implemented by Kelsey Mapson, Art Teacher at the Tempe Academy of International Studies. For this project,…

MAY 2016 2015 RECIPIENT OF TAG’S HOWARD G. SIMPSON SCHOLARSHIP Liliana Cervantes, a senior in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at ASU, is the 2015 recipient of TAG’s Howard G. Simpson $1,000 scholarship; Liliana is currently painting a series dealing with the deserts of Arizona. She said that “As a child I used to hate…