The legacy of Flagstaff astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker, along with appreciation for Flagstaff’s dark skies, took center stage at the Coconino Center for the Arts from May through August when the team at Creative Flagstaff, in collaboration with the Flagstaff Dark Skies Coalition, celebrated a grand re-opening of the Coconino Center for the Arts with a reception and NightVisions exhibition, following extensive renovation work. CCA Exhibitions and Programs Director Julie Comnick described … [Read more...] about Creative Flagstaff Honored for Celebrating Astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker, NightVisions
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Flagstaff Workers Struggle to Find a Way Home
Clover Jacobs could hardly believe the news when she and her young family had been accepted for a Habitat for Humanity home. She didn’t think she was eligible but then she heard the home would be “a hand up, not a hand out,” and that Habitat helps people get to the next stage in life. Clover shared her story at the Coconino Center for the Arts during the “Arizona Storytellers Presents: Finding Home” event on Oct. 26, a public forum addressing affordable housing challenges in … [Read more...] about Flagstaff Workers Struggle to Find a Way Home
From Earth to Space and into NightVisions
Sculptor Joseph McShane’s style might be considered other worldly. He has engaged outer space and the sun to co-create with him and is the first artist to have his work leave the planet and travel with astronauts on board the Space Shuttle. A photograph of his piece, S.P.A.C.E., will be part of NightVisions: Cultural Interpretations of the Night Sky. The exhibition runs May 21 to Aug. 27, at the Coconino Center for the Arts. In 1984, McShane worked with NASA’s Small Self-Contained Payload … [Read more...] about From Earth to Space and into NightVisions
Public Invited to Flagstaff Art Exhibition at CCA
Opening in the new Hidden Light Gallery in the Coconino Center for the Arts, the Flagstaff Arts Council presents David Christiana’s exhibition of egg tempera paintings, all on 16” x 20” panels, titled Ecstasies and Homilies. Though each piece carries a title referencing ecstatic events, holy days or rituals from Christian traditions, the artist is looking for a more earthbound spiritualism than what is found in predominately anthropocentric Judeo-Christian systems. Technically, these … [Read more...] about Public Invited to Flagstaff Art Exhibition at CCA
Coconino Center for the Arts Announces New Artistic Director
Flagstaff Arts Council announces the hiring of a new Artistic Director, Erin Joyce, from Flagstaff, Arizona. Ms. Joyce is as an independent curator, developing exhibitions in New York, Texas, California, and London, with an upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Northern Arizona, You are on Indian Land in November 2015. Ms. Joyce’s other professional roles include being an art critic for Hyperallergic in New York, an arts writer for Canvas Magazine in Dubai, and faculty in the department of … [Read more...] about Coconino Center for the Arts Announces New Artistic Director
