How the arts survive challenging times.

Courtesy of Adriana Gallego

Featured on the July 16th, 2020 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:

• Meet Adriana Gallego, a busy visual artist who returned to her local roots, and is now guiding the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona through the challenging times of the pandemic.

Luis Garza

Courtesy of Adriana Gallego

Courtesy of Adriana Gallego

• Find out what Yvonne Montoya, a busy working artist mom, and Buddy, her musically intuitive son, have been creating together during the pandemic. Their new web series Stories from Home: COVID-19 Addendum uses dance, music, videography and sound design to tell intimate, real stories about life in quarantine.

Courtesy of Yvonne Montoya

Trailer for "Stories from Home: COVID-19 Addendum"

• And, can traditional performing arts survive in an online space? Three arts educators in Tucson reveal what is different about fostering creativity in a virtual medium. Alisa Ivanitskaya talks with Brad Richter, director of arts outreach at the University of Arizona and Arizona Arts in Schools, and Amanda Gremel & Stephen Frankenfield of Live Theater Workshop.

Courtesy of Live Theatre Workshop

Courtesy of Live Theatre Workshop

Courtesy of Brad Richter

Trailer for "Stories from Home: COVID-19 Addendum"

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