UPDATE: Mask Raffle Extended

Take home your very own one-of-a-kind mask made by master sculptor Zarco Guerrero! All proceeds from the raffle help fund our amazing festival artists and performers. Make a donation today at Cultural Coalitions’ PayPal page to get your raffle tickets. $20 – One raffle ticket $100 – Six raffle tickets The lucky winner will be…

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Meet the Staff: Renee Aguilar

Image of woman standing outside with blue sky and white clouds above and green grass and white chairs in the background. Woman has half her face painted as a calaca with red flowers in her hair and a tie-die shirt that has a dia de los muertos design on it

Cultural Coalition is proud to announce that it has hired its first full time employee! Please join us in welcoming our new Assistant Director Renee Aguilar. Renee has been working with Cultural Coalition part time as a contract employee since 2020, assisting with marketing, public relations, grant writing, and our Mask Alive Museum & Cultural…

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Meet Our Spring Museum Intern: Shay

Cultural Coalition is thrilled to introduce our new spring 2023 intern for Museum Collections Management, Shay Fischer-Barstad! Shay is working on his Masters in Library and Information Science with a focus in archives. His experience with metadata, archival databases, and cataloging both physical and digital archival materials will benefit Cultural Coalition’s Mask Alive Museum &…

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Cultural Coalition Receives Gift from Friends of Mexican Art

This January, Cultural Coalition received a $1,700 gift from the Friends of Mexican Art (FOMA) towards the Cultural Coalition Guerrero Family Apprenticeship Program in support of an Arts Studio/Collections/Museum Studies Intern. This gift is intended to encourage the education of future museum professionals in working with and presenting Mexican, Mexican-American and Indigenous art. “After nearly…

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Mariachi STEAM Program Receives Funding

Cultural Coalition is excited to share that we have been select as part of the 2023 Cohort for the Equity in STEAM Initiative 2.0 from YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix and Intel! Working with youth mariachis and volunteers from the Intel Latinx Group Chapter and ASU’s student chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Cultural Coalition…

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