Art

The Phoenix-based artist is the first Chicana and Native American artist to partner with the NFL to design art for the Super Bowl.

Artist Joella Jean Mahoney fell in love with Northern Arizona when she first stepped off the train in the early 1950s. Her large-scale expressionist paintings recount her passion for the landscape of the Southwest. Now, a new exhibit at the Museum of Northern Arizona serves as a retrospective for the late Mahoney, who died in 2017.

There’s a new exhibit at the Coconino Center for the Arts called 25 Million Stitches: One Stitch, One Refugee. It’s a global participatory art project that uses thousands of hand-stitched panels to represent refugees worldwide. It’s meant to bring awareness to the enormity of the crisis.

A new exhibit at the Coconino Center for the Arts in Flagstaff uses sculpture to tell the story of colonialism, migration, and environmental destruction in Arizona. It’s called “Virga: Beneath the Sierra Sin Agua.” KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny met the artist Shawn Skabelund in the exhibit to talk about how he uses natural and found objects in his work to illuminates scars on both landscapes and people.

Music can tap hidden wellsprings in the mind and help listeners solve problems that once seemed insurmountable. That’s the idea behind a unique collaboration called Rising Tide: The Crossroads Project. It mixes original music by composer Laura Kaminsky with the science of climate change. The Fry String Quartet brings the performance to Northern Arizona University tonight. In KNAU’s latest installment of Eats and Beats, stories about food and music, Melissa Sevigny spoke with a scientist and a violinist about how the project was born.

The painting will be in the same spot it was stolen from — but under a case.

Northern Arizona University’s Cline Library has acquired a vast collection of photographs from the renowned nature photographer David Muench.

A group that represents cultural organizations in Germany has criticized climate activists for gluing themselves to the frames of famous paintings in museums.

A new coloring book written by farmers and Indigenous artists in Flagstaff spotlights forgotten food plants that can survive hot, dry weather. And it includes packets of drought-tolerant seeds. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny reports, the project’s creators think it’s an imaginative, inclusive way to confront the Southwest’s long running drought.

Famed artist Frida Kahlo will be the subject of an upcoming musical. “Frida, The Musical” will follow Kahlo’s journey from Mexico City, to Paris, New York and back home again to the house of her birth.