Apr 18 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
Ceramics education has been integral to the Arts Center since it was founded. The Arts Center has educated and developed so many noteworthy ceramicists over the years that we couldn’t let this year pass without celebrating ceramics contribution to the arts in Arizona as well as the artists who’ve graced Sedona Arts Center’s halls over the years. This invitational will feature notable ceramicists from throughout Arizona and will include artist talks and demonstrations.
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
Opening Reception: April 13, 2024 6-8 pmExhibition Dates: April 13 – June 8, 2024Gallery hours: Wed - Sat; 11 am - 5 pm
Mixing genres of video, performance, and drawing, Francisco González Castro’s work examines problems related to territorial borders, social inequalities, and bodily transgressions. The project title refers to German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s (1844-1900) existentialist quote that begins, “The body is a great intelligence,” (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1883), and infers that the human body and soul are one. This title is illuminated in Castro’s own artistic philosophy, which confronts the body, people who reject the body, and how the body is approached as subject and identity. Castro’s personal bodily transgressions and tests of endurance are vehicles for his discourse about geographic landscapes and political borders. It is within this integration of life-and-art, body-and-spirit, that we intend to immerse the audience in this physically ambitious and psychologically profound exhibition by Castro at Coconino Center for the Arts.
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.
Join Dr. Tamsin Kimoto from Washington University of St. Louis’s Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for a talk entitled: “Trans Health in Dark Times.”
The costs of the “Transgender Tipping Point” have been enormously high for trans people. Over the past few years, a rising tide of anti-trans sentiment has resulted in hundreds of individual anti-trans policies being considered at local, state, and national levels across the United States. Conversations about trans health under these conditions tend largely to focus on either attempts to curtail access to gender-affirming care or the clinical encounter more broadly.
Kimoto argues that this focus reproduces the overly narrow analyses common to bioethical inquiry. Building on the work of trans and decolonial scholars, they develop an account of trans health that attends to the worlds produced in dark times.
This event is sponsored by the NAU Departments of Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies, and the Wood Professorship, and is free and open to the public.
Liberal Arts Room 123 at 3:45 PM on Aril 18.
Learn about pollinators in our gardens and yards. There are over 1,100 native species of bees in Arizona -- with lifestyles that are very different from honeybees -- in addition to other types of pollinators. Understanding them can help us find ways to tweak our garden, landscaping, and farming practices to be more inclusive and supportive of our native bees. Learn how to identify them and provide suitable habitat and food sources; how mulching, tilling, winter cleanup, and other common garden practices can destroy native bee habitats; and what you can do to enhance the survival of these vital creatures... with Yavapai County Master Gardener Laurin Pause.The Gardening Talks series is available thanks to a partnership with Yavapai Master Gardeners. For more information about Yavapai Master Gardeners or other questions about gardening, call 928-445-6590 Ext 222.
Join Purina, High Country Humane, and Mother Road Brewing Company as we celebrate the kickoff of the Raise a Pint for Pets partnership and fundraiser.
From April 10 through May 10, each pint of Perpetual Joy purchased at Mother Road Brewing Company will trigger a $2.00 donation to High Country Humane, with $1.00 coming from Mother Road Brewing Company and the other $1.00 from Purina.
On Wednesday, April 10, bring your pup and come enjoy:🍻Samplings of Mother Road Brewing's Perpetual Joy🏆Giveaways from Mother Road Brewing Company and Purina🐶 The opportunity to adopt a pet from High Country Humane
Perpetual Joy by Mother Road Brewing Company is a fruity and refreshing straw-colored, crystal-clear American Lager, brewed in collaboration with Purina. It’s a beer that captures the essence of our ideals: Perpetuating Better Living and Finding Joy in theAdventure.
High Country Humane, the City of Flagstaff and Coconino County's Official Animal Shelter, provides care to 3,600 homeless pets annually. Celebrating 5 years of Animal Welfare Elevated in 2024, HCH's mission is to transform lives by providing exceptional animal care and adoption services, supporting and strengthening the bond between pets and people, and advocating for the well-being of all animals.
Purina’s ‘Raise a Pint for Pets’ program was first launched in 2017 in St. Louis, where a partnership with local brewer Urban Chestnut Brewing Company began raising funds for area shelters. The company has expanded the program to its factory markets in recent years, including a partnership between the company’s manufacturing facility in Hartwell, Georgia and Southern Hart Brewing Company. Purina has operated in Flagstaff since 1975 making some of the most trusted dog and cat food brands, including Beneful, Friskies and Pro Plan, and employing more than 330 local associates.
NACA's Reach Ur Life and Behavioral Health teams hold a virtual bereavement support group, one for adults, and one for youth and adolescents, for individuals wanting gentle support in a group setting, with a focus on healing through grief.
These support groups are FREE for all who are interested in participating. The Healing Circle groups will be hosted via Zoom, but meetings can be changed to in-person, once there is consistent participation
To sign up for the Healing Circle groups, please contact Shoshana James at sjames@nacainc.org or by phone at (928) 526-2968 ext.168