Arizona Commission on the Arts

Award-winning Navajo writer and Arizona State University professor emerita Laura Tohe was recently appointed Arizona poet laureate. She's the second-ever person to serve in the role that's been vacant for seven years.

Several northern Arizona artists are among this year’s recipients of research and development grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts.

The Arizona Commission on the Arts has allocated more than $320,000 to more than 20 Flagstaff-based arts organizations and programs in Coconino County.

Sylvia Dale, a senior at Ganado High School in Apache County, will represent Arizona at the 15th Annual Poetry Out Loud national finals competition in…