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