Mar 28 Thursday
Visualizing Scientific Discovery
Work with experienced researchers to illustrate scientific discoveries through digital artwork and visual communication. In a series of online lectures, exercises, and activities, you'll create figures and illustrations for research presentations, publications, and social media posts while developing skills using Adobe Photoshop to reflect your personal style. Exploring how artistic and scientific expression operate synergistically, you'll collaborate with your peers and instructor to support your research with visual aids. After completing this course, you will understand and recognize the elements of effective visual communication to inform your publications and presentations. This non-credit course is designed to help practicing scientists and students from all scientific disciplines improve their communication skills.
Course Modality: This course is offered online with synchronous Zoom office hours.
Course Instructor: Victor Leshyk
Course Dates: Tuesday, January 30 through Friday, May 24 2024
Cost: $499
Course Materials: It is highly recommended that each student purchase a digital drawing tablet.
NAU employees are eligible for a 10% discount! Please contact ContinuingEd@nau.edu for more information.
Registration Deadline: January 31st
For more information, contact: ContinuingEd@nau.edu
Victor O. Leshyk is the Director of Science and Art for the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at Northern Arizona University. He brings more than two decades of experience as a freelance science artist for major museums, top scientific journals, news outlets, national labs, universities and other educational outreach. His work has featured prominently in both lay-friendly media such as popular science magazines as well as Congressional reports and other formal communications.
Stop by the NACA Oak Creek Overlook Vista for beautiful & authentic Native American crafts! Our Artisans can also be found at the Grand Canyon Tusayan Museum!
The Overlook Vista is open daily from 8 AM to 4 PM, depending on the weather. Crafts that can be found at our Artisans' tables include jewelry, ornaments, pottery, sculptures and much more! Check out the Oak Creek Overlook Facebook and Yelp pages for more info and up-to-date hours.
If you have questions or would like general information, please contact Pearl Tsosie at (928) 526-2968 ext.135 or email her at ptsosie@nacainc.org
Sedona Arts Center’s 43rd Annual Juried Art Show, our community’s largest and longest-running group exhibition of visual art in Uptown Sedona is now showing! Free to the public and all the works are for sale, with no sales tax included.
Visitors will find everything from painting and watercolor to metal, wood, jewelry, and fiber art. A focus is also placed on drawing, mixed-media, photography and digital art. The Juried Art Show is steeped in tradition and remains open to all current Arts Center Donors, whether seasoned professionals or new and emerging artists.
The Arizona Pastel Artists Association (APAA) brings its 8th National Exhibition and Sale to the Phippen Museum in Prescott from March 10, 2024 to April 21, 2024. Pastel works, prized for their brilliant color, will be on display and for sale at this open and juried show.
A grand opening reception will be held on March 23rd from 10:30 AM until 2:00 PM. The reception includes a pastel demonstration and awards ceremony, both of which are open to the public and free of charge.
A free demonstration by awards judge Allen Garns, begins at 11:00 AM on the 23rd. Garns is an award-winning Mesa artist. His works are inspired by the words of Walt Whitman who said, ”To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.” Garns added that expressing and translating these miracles into paintings is one of the great continuing adventures of his life.
Paintings in the exhibition include works from eleven local artists plus over 65 artists from the United States and Europe, showing off pastel’s ability to create rich, saturated color and light. Collectors and enthusiasts will find unique concepts amidst a selection of figurative, landscape, still life and abstract works.
"Tsegi" by Southwestern Artists Lorenzo Chavez
Joella Jean Mahoney’s abstract paintings convey the poetic essence of the Colorado Plateau, illuminating the enigmatic spaces of its landscapes with incandescent light and color. Her luminous paintings reveal her spiritual communion with nature that transcends time and place.In 1951 Mahoney came to Flagstaff from Alameda California to attend Arizona State College, now Northern Arizona University. Her description of her first experience with the atmosphere of Arizona is revealing; “I saw Arizona for the first time when I stepped off the train in Flagstaff. It was dawn. The stars overhead were like lanterns, the sky was crystalline and in the distance the mountains were like cardboard cutouts. I saw a landscape that matched how I felt inside and I stepped into my future.” Her bond with the area would become the source of her life’s work.Throughout her long career Mahoney conceived of, and executed, her work in thematically coherent series. This exhibition consists of work selected from her most important series including: the Rush to Meaning Series, the Southwest Landscape Series, the Sunflower Series, and others.When Mahoney passed away in 2017, she left a great legacy for women artists of the West. While comparisons with other painters are natural, it is important to acclaim Mahoney’s powerful intuitive response to the region, and to celebrate her as a master of capturing the Southwestern landscape. Essence and Metamorphosis is a look at some of the highlights of her long and productive career.
Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival celebrates 22 years of the best in outdoor adventure, cultural, social and environmental films from around the world.
The festival is one of about 50 mountain & adventure films across the world, and aims to provide an alternative cinematic experience that inspires, educates, fosters creative connections, and enriches the quality of life for Flagstaff citizens and visitors to Northern Arizona through the art of filmmaking and the stories of documentary films.
The host city of Flagstaff — just one hour south of the Grand Canyon and two hours north of Phoenix is a thriving university town with over 65,000 recreationally and culturally minded residents. The majesty of the San Francisco Peaks, the ecological diversity of the Colorado Plateau, and the proximity of the Hopi and Navajo Nations provide for an ideal setting to celebrate documentary film. For the past 21 years, outdoor and film enthusiasts from across the state, region and world have enjoyed a high-quality film experience while soaking up the breathtaking beauty of Northern Arizona.
Join us for four days of film premieres, filmmaker panels, book releases, author talks, a community run/walk, VIP events, community parties celebrating our array of nonprofits and more.
Get one-to-one homework help for your child with the library's new Homework Help service for youth in grades K-8! Local high school student volunteers will be available for 30-minute appointments at 4. 4:30, and 5 pm. Schedule an appointment at the Youth Desk or call 928.777.1537. Homework Help for Kids is available from 4-5:30 pm every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month in the Youth Area. This free service is presented in partnership with North Star Youth Partnership and its Peer Assistance & Leadership (PAL) program.
Community members are invited to celebrate 20 years of the County’s Sustainable Building Program. The community inspired program, which began in 2003, came out of a desire from county residents for an easier path to building sustainably. They also saw a need for more community education and awareness about sustainable building practices, methods, technology, and innovations. As part of the celebration, the County will also be recognizing those certified in the program in 2022 and 2023. The County Sustainable Building Program’s annual award ceremony showcases sustainable building projects that went through the certification process and received a designation: bronze, silver, gold, or platinum. The celebration is open to the community and light refreshments will be served.
Join Comparative Cultural Studies for a screening of The Wind Rises, preceded by a small panel discussion for fans of anime of all ages. There will be Japanese themed snacks! Free and Open to the public.
Theatrikos Theatre Company will host a special performance of their show entitled 'Gods of Comedy' in conjunction with a silent auction. Doors open at 6:30 for Happy Hour with curtain up for the play at 7:30. The event's proceeds will be split between Habitat for Humanity and the Rotary Club of Flagstaff to be used for support of local community projects.