Art

An exhibit at the Coconino Center for the Arts in Flagstaff celebrates artistic expressions of weather. More than 100 meteorology-themed pieces from 60 contributors were selected by a panel of local artists with the help of KNAU meteorologist Lee Born.

Local artist Ulrike Arnold paints with earth and travels all over the world to collect it, between her homes in Flagstaff and Germany to places like Iceland and Australia.

Renowned Southwestern artist Ed Mell has died at the age of 81 after a long illness. The Phoenix-based painter and sculptor was known for his works inspired by the landscape and culture of the Colorado Plateau and Sonoran Desert.

World-renowned Diné artist Baje Whitethorne, Sr. has died at the age of 73. Whitethorne was a visionary artist, especially known for his colorful paintings depicting Navajo culture.

Theatrikos Theatre Company is bringing the Pulitzer Prize finalist Dance Nation to the Flagstaff stage. The show follows a group of pre-teen competitive dancers preparing for a national dance competition. It’s a violent declaration of girlhood, but also an exploration of the complexity of puberty and the adolescent experience.

For millennia tribal groups of the Southwest made baskets from local plants to use as specialized harvest tools. Skills are still passed down among basket weaving families to maintain the tradition. The baskets played a crucial role in gathering and processing food and other resources, and in celebratory events.

Gene Field Foster was born in Wisconsin in 1917 and attended art school in Chicago. But her destiny lay in the West, where she used her artistic skills to document the beauties of Glen Canyon.

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.