The Arizona Business Committee for the Arts is a program partner with the Americans for the Arts and the Partnership Movement.


As today’s business landscape continues to shift, companies need strategies that can respond to an ever-changing world of work. Participation in creative expression fosters and incubates the essential skills and leadership needed in today’s world. Innovation can be defined as applied creativity and partnering with arts organizations and artists unlocks pathways to that innovation. 

Americans for the Arts and the Arizona Business Committee for the Arts  believes that encouraging creative thinking and leveraging creative expression through arts and business pARTnerships is essential for building healthy businesses and vibrant communities.

We’re pleased to offer our top reasons why businesses should partner with the arts.

Cultivate Diversity & Empathy

Partnering with the arts allows your employees, company and community to gain better understanding of diverse cultures and ideas and helps build an inclusive workforce. 

EMPLOYEES

Amplify Skills

The arts reveal and enhance the breadth of talent and creativity among employees and teams by cultivating the creative thinking skills your business needs. 

Drive Innovation

The arts foster inspiration, empathy, and leadership — all which establish a platform to innovate in an ever-evolving economy.

Show Gratitude

​The arts offer meaningful, enjoyable experiences and valuable benefits to your employees and their families. 

COMPANY

Set Your Business Apart

Leveraging a partnership with an artist/arts organization will help you communicate your company’s story by engaging customers and clients, conveying your unique values. 

Enliven the Workplace

​The arts stimulate positive company culture and conversation, foster employee well-being, and inspire a healthier work environment through unique and meaningful experiences for human connection.  

COMMUNITY

Enrich Community Life

​The arts are essential to the development of a vibrant and diverse community in which the best employees want to live, work, shop, create, and contribute. 

Advance Civic & Social Priorities

​Partnering with the arts fuels the economy, promotes health, wellness and safety, creates social cohesion and connectivity, and fosters civic engagement.