Flagstaff

A sculpture of hands made from black pine pitch, cradling ponderosa pine seeds.

Work in Progress with Shawn Skabelund

Flagstaff-based artist Shawn Skabelund returns to the storm-swept ravine that birthed his latest show—and explains what a squirrel stick is—in an intrepid studio visit.

Camille LeFevre • September 26, 2024

A young Diné boy, wearing dungarees with a concho belt and moccasins embellished with turquoise-studded silver stars, letters into the russet-tan dirt, with a stick, “Santa Fe All the Way.”

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Selling the Southwest Unpacks the Colonialist Mythology and Marketing of the Santa Fe Railroad

This Museum of Northern Arizona exhibition unpacks how the marketing efforts of the Santa Fe Railroad and Fred Harvey Company romanticized and exploited the artistry and culture of Indigenous people.

Camille LeFevre • May 02, 2024

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Francisco González Castro’s Durational Art Investigates, Illuminates, and Confronts Hegemonic Societal and Power Structures

Francisco González Castro: Does Not Say «I», But Does «I»: Bodies, Limits and Transgressions at the Coconino Center compiles a decade of the artist’s endurance work challenging social structures.

Camille LeFevre • April 08, 2024

Interior of an abandoned building with a black and white photograph of a woman printed on fabric hanging in the space, and two other photographs pasted on the wall in the background.

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Chip Thomas: Living Histories

Medical doctor, photographer, and public artist Chip Thomas has taken a historical turn in his work, building on deep, place-based research and activating architecture with archival discoveries.

Natalie Hegert • March 01, 2024

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Designed to Move at Museum of Northern Arizona Elucidates Complete Worlds in the Microscopic

In Designed to Move, the microscopic is magnified in Taylor James’s photographs of Colorado Plateau seedpods, revealing a design intelligence humans can only hope to approximate.

Camille LeFevre • July 06, 2023