Mission

The Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance (SAACA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation, preservation and advancement of the Arts.

Vision

Providing new opportunities and leadership for the arts to transform people, communities and the daily lives of individuals everywhere.
With funds generated through community support from individual donors, special event revenues, grants, and collaborative business partnerships, SAACA provides diverse engagement opportunities for artists, organizations, businesses, and individuals in the community. SAACA is committed to the economic and cultural development of Southern Arizona. 

Each year the Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance provides more than 200,000 unique arts and cultural engagement opportunities for the community. 

Business & Arts Integration

Establishing collaborative and innovative arts and business partnerships.  Each day hundreds of businesses are unlocking the power of the arts to expand business development opportunities, inspire employees and brand their business apart from the rest. 

Events & Programs

Creating and producing diverse arts-based community festivals, programming, and events, from culinary to visual arts, cultural events and gallery spaces, no other organization expands the arts across more diverse arts platforms than SAACA in our community.

Creative Aging & Arts Therapy

Supporting and expanding arts therapy, and life-long learning for seniors and Veterans in our community.  SAACA supports Music & Memory Programs, Creative Writing, Music Therapy and groundbreaking visual arts integration programs. 

Arts & Cultural Resource

Expanding networked groups of artists and art organizations, and the engagement opportunities provided to them as a result.  Our Undercover Arts program unveils the wealth of artistic resources that define Southern Arizona.

Arts Education

Advocacy
Through a powerful partnership with Community Share, we help connect artists to the classroom. In addition, SAACA supports creative arts programming in the classroom, and engagement programming for youth, through our Musical Gold in the Morning Program.
SAACA supports efforts to raise awareness for the importance the Arts play in education at all stages of life.  In addition, we support the advancement of the Arts in the field of Health, the preservation of Arts funding mechanisms, as well as the role the Arts play in the economic development of Arizona.