Coconino Center for the Arts

DARCY FALK: Regarding Privilege
2023-09-23 - 2023-11-03 | Coconino Center for the Arts, 2300 North Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, United States
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 23
Members Preview 5-6 pm
Public Reception 6-8 pm
Artist Talk: October 17, 6:30 pm
DARCY FALK: REGARDING PRIVILEGE
SEPTEMBER 23 – NOVEMBER 2, 2023
In Regarding Privilege, Falk exhibits embroidered artworks that address white privilege by exhibiting the backside of the embroideries as the primary message. Each embroidery is accompanied by a mirror, so that the words can be read over the shoulder of the viewer, with their back turned toward the message. The embroidered quotes are by prominent Black politicians, writers, activists, and others, and are rendered in the artist’s handwriting using embroidery on cloth.
Image credit: Darcy Falk | Blue cloud cloth, Langston Hughes | 2020 | embroidered textile | 20” x 24”

TOM KIEFER: El Sueño Americano
2023-09-23 - 2023-12-24
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 23
Members Preview 5-6 pm
Tom Kiefer in Conversation with Liz Allen 6 – 6:30 pm
Public Reception 6-8
TOM KIEFER: EL SUEÑO AMERICANO / THE AMERICAN DREAM
SEPTEMBER 23 – DECEMBER 23, 2023
Tom Kiefer: El Sueño Americano / The American Dream is a photographic documentation of the personal belongings carried by migrants and those seeking asylum that were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at a processing facility near the artist’s home in Ajo, Arizona, about 40 miles from the U.S./Mexico border. U.S. border agents deemed these belongings as non-essential or potentially lethal. Kiefer asks the viewer to consider these photographs as untold and unknown stories, markers of human journeys cut short, creating a personal connection for the viewer that extends compassion and empathy to those who make the dangerous journey across the desert to seek a better life.
