Beyond its celebrated concert season, Arizona Musicfest quietly serves more than 5,000 people a year through Music Alive! — a year-round program of free seminars, instrument classes and community connection that has become the organization’s most essential work.
At Jubilate Conservatory of Music in Carefree’s Spanish Village, founder Laya Field is building something rare: a multigenerational musical community where toddlers discover rhythm, teenagers compose original works and everyone finds a seat at the table.
At ASU FIDM’s gleaming Fusion on First tower, fish skin becomes luxury leather and 3D-printed medical braces become runway-worthy — proof that Phoenix is rewriting the rules of sustainable fashion education.
Phoenix fashion educator Tricee Thomas is transforming downtown’s creative landscape — one runway, one tech pack and 920 students at a time.
Ten architectural landmarks across the Valley demonstrate how midcentury and contemporary designers translated brutal climate into sculptural form.
At Arizona Broadway Theatre, scenic designer Clifton Chadick and acting technical director Cody Burgoon built two complete worlds — 1990s Hollywood Boulevard and the Beverly Wilshire Hotel — on a single stage, where emotional vision and structural reality negotiate until opening night.
At West-MEC Northeast Campus, students are mastering framing, masonry and electrical with the precision of artisans — and stepping into a job market that can’t hire them fast enough.
Celebrating 50 years above a city it helped shape, the Hyatt Regency Phoenix opens its archives — and its rotating Compass restaurant serves as the perfect lens for watching Phoenix become Phoenix.
For 50 years, Desert Foothills Theater has shaped careers, built families and proven that a small desert community can sustain serious artistic ambition — and it’s just getting started.
Behind the scenes at Phoenix Art Museum, curator Helen Jean guards 9,000 pieces of fashion history — and less than 1% ever sees the light of day.