Voices is a series connecting Phoenix community members through conversations about the importance of arts and culture in our city. Hear from local leaders, thinkers, and changemakers as they explore how the arts create a more vibrant, connected, and creative Phoenix—and why a strong creative community is essential to our future.
What feels uniquely “Phoenix” artistically?
Consistent and reliable artist/arts organization support, more arts institutions, and a more diverse representation of AZ artists.
What changes would you like to see in Phoenix—cultural, economic, or civic—that would help arts and culture thrive?
The coffee shop. Here in Phoenix, artists own coffee shops, work at coffee shops, hang out at coffee shops, program events at coffee shops, and even drink coffee at coffee shops.
What does a culturally-thriving Phoenix look like in 20 years?
Coffee each morning, maybe futuro with Meli or dialog with Ruby. Then an event put on by Pachanga Collective or Black River Life or CALA or Thyrd Space or NENA or Thems.
Shaunté Glover is a visual storyteller and interdisciplinary artist based in Phoenix, Arizona. Her work explores Black narratives through sculpture, installation, photography, and video, centering themes of memory, identity, queerness, and representation. Since 2020, Glover has exhibited extensively throughout the Southwest in group exhibitions and was selected for the Arizona Biennial 2024 at the Tucson Museum of Art, where she was awarded the 2024 Contemporary Art Society Award of Excellence. She is a recipient of the inaugural 2025 Sette/Cohn Artist Award, facilitated through the Phoenix Art Museum. Glover holds a BFA from Arizona State University in Photography.
Glover is a member of the Artlink Artist Council.