arts

Flagstaff public artist Chip Thomas is among this year’s group of 20 MacArthur Fellows who will receive the no-strings-attached $800,000 grant to further their work.

Singer-songwriter Dom Flemons is known for a roosty, old-timey sound. But more recently the former Flagstaffian has adopted a more contemporary style reflecting modern convictions, anxieties and joys.

An art exhibit at Northern Arizona University explores the legacy of Black workers who helped cement the enduring western icon of the lumberjack in the region.

For decades, Joy Harjo has challenged what it means to be a poet. The multifaceted author, musician and playwright was the first Indigenous person to serve as U.S. poet laureate.

Award-winning Navajo writer and Arizona State University professor emerita Laura Tohe was recently appointed Arizona poet laureate. She's the second-ever person to serve in the role that's been vacant for seven years.

Brendan Basham is a Diné author, educator and artist who lives in New Mexico near the Navajo Nation and Pueblo of Zuni. Basham was the first-ever culinary resident at Ucross, a foundation that hosts artists in Wyoming, and is working on his second novel after his celebrated debut "Swim Home to the Vanished."

Flagstaff photographer Mike Frankel has had experiences that most any rock ‘n’ roll fan would envy: he shot the Beatles on their first U.S. tour and turned his lens on the Who, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby, Stills Nash & Young, and David Bowie, among many others. Now he's compiled dozens of never-before-seen images into a book called “Hurricanes of Color.”

Poet Sage Marshall is a Colorado native and an avid skier, backpacker, duck hunter and fly fisherman. He works as an outdoor journalist but also writes poetry. He reads his piece “On Perspective.”

New Mexico poet Tina Carlson's latest book, Obsidian, focuses on metamorphosis. She says poetry can take the otherworldly, the unsayable or the horrific and alchemize them into language that can move and sometimes heal.

Colorado poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's book, "The Unfolding," examines the complex space she inhabited after the death of her 17-year-old son, Finn. It’s a liminal realm where heartbreak and happiness, wonder and grief dwell side by side.