Arizona Arts Live challenges the status quo. Shattering the boundaries that confine creativity to help build an ecosystem where communities, culture, and people flourish. Cultivating spaces and experiences designed to unleash the unpredictable and create lasting change.Art should be an adventure. An exploration into an uncharted realm of innovation and talent that challenges you to think. Enriching and elevating. That’s why Arizona Arts Live is more than just a venue, dance, music, or installation art. It’s a community working to elevate Southern Arizona through the transformative power of the arts.
Take a chance to embrace the unknown and step into a world where the ordinary transforms into the extraordinary. Be it an exhilarating performance featuring extreme acrobatics several stories above ground, a visually striking retelling of a Gothic tale using shadow puppetry set to a hauntingly beautiful live score, or a cutting-edge performance 50 years in the making by one of the world’s greatest quartets. There’s so much to explore.
So, come. Enjoy brilliant, internationally acclaimed artists you know. Discover a whole new world of extraordinary live experiences. All in the heart of Tucson. Arizona Arts Live.
Experience Unexpected.
Biography
Chad Herzog joined Arizona Arts and the University of Arizona as Executive and Artistic Director of Arizona Arts Live (then UA Presents) in August 2019 and became Associate Vice President of Arizona Arts in August 2021. At Arizona Arts Live, Chad oversees all aspects of the organization, from strategy to engagement, including providing creative vision and curating programming for the annual season of experiences both on and off campus for the extended University community. Previously, Chad served as Artistic Director and Co-Director for the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, CT, and as Director of the Performing Arts and curator of the College’s performance series at Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA.
