Advisory Board

Beth Murfee Deconcini

Beth has vast experience working on behalf of some of the country’s most prominent national foundations, bringing the national arts philanthropic sector to Arizona in support of the work of numerous Arizona arts groups. After bringing the Rockefeller Foundation to Tucson in the 1990s to help resolve a community conflict over the firing of a high school drama teacher, she introduced a number of Arizona arts and culture organizations to Rockefeller, which ultimately led to grants for these organizations. Beth has authored numerous arts policy publications stemming from her work with the Independent Committee on Arts Policy and the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. She was commissioned by the Herberger Foundation to write “Play by Play, Phoenix and Building the Herberger Theatre,” which tells the 10-year history of Phoenix in the context of the civic project. Beth has served on the boards of the Centro Cultural Mexicano de Phoenix, the Scottsdale Chapter of the National Writers’ Voice, and the Heard Museum.