Coconino Center for the Arts

FREE Youth Art Workshop Series with NAU Art Education Student Instructors
2022-11-19 11:00 - 13:00, 2022-11-13 01:00 - 03:00, 2022-11-12 11:00 - 13:00, 2022-10-29 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Phoenix) | Coconino Center for the Arts, 2300 North Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, United States
Día de Los Muertos by Luz Llamas

Saturday, October 29th, 2022 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
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Alebrijes: Students will watch a short film in order to learn and understand where alebrijes come from and what is the meaning of them. They will create their own figure using crayola model magic and acrylic paint.
Ages 11-13

How to Create a Manga Story by Jasmine Serpas
Saturday, November 5th, 2022 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
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Manga is a style of Japanese comic/novel for children and adults to read. Students will create a story using their own characters or characters that they already know. They will have different sizes of sharpies to draw on a three page layout to create their own story.
Ages 11-13

“Home” by Jingwen Li
Saturday, November 12th, 2022 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
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In this session, participants will be taken on a narrative journey into the life of a “child refugee.” Participants will work together on a long scroll with the theme of “home” using traditional Chinese painting techniques, constructing a vivid and imaginative “home” for the “child refugee” with their hands.
Ages 6-13

HOME SMACKDOWN! by Kaylee Cossey
Saturday, November 19th, 2022 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
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Students will be able to create their own imprints of a home on a piece of foam to then “smackdown” on their fall themed background. The notion of “smackdown” is the process of stamping or pressing firmly down on their foam to create a printed image. Once students create their relief prints, they will end up with a neighborhood full of their own unique little homes!
Ages 11-13

NIGHTCAP: Art Social - Evenings at Coconino Center for the Arts
2022-11-18 08:00 - 09:00
Coconino Center for the Arts is now open for a twilight viewing experience 6-9 pm on select Thursdays.
Evening hours enable viewing of exterior video installations at dusk, as well as an intimate exhibition experience in the gallery.
$10 suggested donation, free for CCA members.
Refreshments available for purchase.

Robert Neustadt presents “Re-Weaving the Social Fabric: Artisans Beyond Borders”
2022-11-17 19:00 - 20:30
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Master Chorale of Flagstaff - Safe Harbor: Songs of Refuge & Home
2022-11-13 02:00 - 03:00, 2022-11-13 00:00 - 01:00
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Master Chorale of Flagstaff presents a concert of human journeys through music in collaboration with the opening of the new exhibit at Coconino Center for the Arts, “25 Million Stitches: One Stitch, One Refugee.” Music on this program builds a bridge with cultural and current events in Syria, Ukraine, and East Africa, and U. S. composers invite us to cherish the gifts to be free and loved by neighbors, to help others find refuge and home.

25 MILLION STITCHES: ONE STITCH, ONE REFUGEE
2022-11-12 - 2023-01-22
25 Million Stitches: One Stitch, One Refugee was launched by Jennifer Kim Sohn as a global, participatory art project to address the vast crisis of worldwide displacement. The concept was simple: one stitch of embroidery for each refugee. The project provides a beautifully resonant expression of art activism that raises awareness of the immense scope of people forcibly displaced from their homelands by violence and natural disasters. Since the medium involved basic stitching, the project was able to attract a very diverse group of participants from 36 countries and from every state in the United States. The culmination of this global community effort resulted in a grand tapestry rich with images, symbols and messages of solidarity, hope and community all of which give the viewer a textural way to process and experience the enormity of 25 million people, the number the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimated were refugees when the project commenced in May of 2019.

Location: CCA Main Gallery
Exhibition Dates: November 12, 2022 – January 21, 2023
Exhibition Website: 25millionstitches.com
Exhibition Instagram: instagram.com/25millionstitches

25 Million Stitches
Exhibition Programming:
Saturday, November 12
Opening Reception
CCA Members Preview 5-6 pm
Keynote Presentation by Jennifer Kim Sohn 6 pm FREE
Public Reception 6-8 pm
Sunday, November 13, 2 pm and 4 pm
Master Chorale of Flagstaff – Safe Harbor: Songs of Refuge & Home
Tickets at: https://coconinoarts.org/events/category/concerts/
Thursday, November 17, 7-8:30 pm FREE
Robert Neustadt presents “Re-Weaving the Social Fabric: Artisans Beyond Borders”
Saturdays, November 19, December 10 & 17, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm FREE
“Community Voices through Digital Humanities: Archiving Personal Histories and the Migratory Experience” three-series workshop
Thursday, December 1, 7-8:30 pm FREE
Bjorn Krondorfer, Ph.D. presents “Home & Identity: The Refugee Experience” panel discussion on global perspectives
Saturday, January 7, 1-4 pm FREE
Tasha Miller Griffith presents “Mindful Mending” workshop for adults and seniors
Thursday, January 12, 7-8:30 pm FREE
Erika Hess, Ph.D. and Robert Neustadt, Ph.D. present “Learning On-Site: Service Learning and Experiential Education with Refugees in Greece”
Saturday, January 14, 1-4 pm FREE
Tasha Miller Griffith presents “Stitching as Expression” youth workshop
Visit https://coconinoarts.org/exhibitions/25-million-stitches-one-stitch-one-refugee/ for more details.
Workshop space is limited, registration required

REENGAGING CERAMICS: BOHNERT • HESS • SNELSON
2022-11-12 - 2022-12-24
Bohnert, Hess, and Snelson—each named Jason—make utilitarian and decorative pottery for the table and for daily use, approaching their process and materials from different perspectives. The “Jasons” have each maintained an active studio practice in Flagstaff for over 15 years and have been ceramic art educators between Coconino Community College, Northern Arizona University, and private workshops at art centers across the country.

Location: CCA Project Gallery
Exhibition Dates: November 12, 2022 – December 23, 2022

Saturday, November 12
Opening Reception
CCA Members Preview 5-6 pm
Keynote Presentation by Jennifer Kim Sohn 6 pm FREE
Public Reception 6-8 pm

John Craigie: Keep it Warm Tour 2022
2022-11-11 19:30 - 20:30
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Portland, OR-based singer, songwriter, and producer John Craigie adapts moments of solitude into stories perfectly suited for old Americana fiction anthologies. Instead of leaving them on dog-eared pages, he projects them widescreen in flashes of simmering soul and folk eloquence. On his 2022 full-length album, Mermaid Salt, we witness revenge unfurled in flames, watch a landlocked mermaid’s escape, and fall asleep under a meteor shower.
After selling out shows consistently coast-to-coast and earning acclaim from Rolling Stone, Glide Magazine, No Depression, and many more, his unflinching honesty ties these ten tracks together.
The album comes from the solitude and loneliness of lockdown in the Northwest. Someone whose life was touring, traveling, and having lots of human interaction is faced with an undefinable amount of time without those things. So, he began writing new songs and envisioning an album that was different from his past records. The sound of everyone playing live in a room together was traded for the sound of song construction with an unknown amount of instruments and musicians—a quiet symphony.
Rather than steal away to a cabin or hole up in a house with friends, Craigie opted to set up shop at the OK Theater in Enterprise, OR with longtime collaborator Bart Budwig behind the board as engineer. A rotating cast of musicians shuffled in and out safely, distinguishing the process from the communal recording of previous releases. The core players included Justin Landis, Cooper Trail, and Nevada Sowle. Meanwhile, Shook Twins lent their signature vocal harmonies, Bevin Foley arranged, composed, and performed strings, and Ben Walden dropped in for guitar and violin plucking parts.“Instruments were scattered around the theater and microphones placed in various spots,” he recalls. “It’s hard to say who all played what exactly.”
As such, the spirit in the room guided everyone. On “Distance,” warm piano glows alongside a glitchy beat as he softly laments, “I could lose you to the loneliness, vast and infinite.” Then, there’s “Helena.” A jazz-y bass line snakes through head-nodding percussion as he relays an incendiary parable of a mother and son in exile. He croons, “She said fire was how we’d make ‘em pay. As I ran across the fields, she would scream, ‘Light it up son’,” uplifted in a conflagration of Shook Twins’ harmonies. Strings echo in the background as his vocals quake front-and-center on “Street Mermaid.”
Elsewhere, the guitar-laden “Microdose” beguiles and bewitches with an intoxicating refrain dedicated to a time where he “Microdosed for months and months, dissolve my ego in the acid.” Everything culminates on the glassy beat-craft and glistening guitars of “Perseids” where he sings, “There’s always a new heart after the old heart. Maybe a new heart is enough.”
During this period, he explored the environment around him “from the Oregon coasts to the waterfalls” and read books about Levon Helm, Billie Holiday, and Ani DiFranco.
“I got time to silence all the noise and chaos of touring and look inward,” he observes.
Craigie had reached a series of watershed moments in tandem with Mermaid Salt. Beyond headlining venues such as The Fillmore and gracing the stage of Red Rocks Amphitheater, his 2020 offering Asterisk The Universe earned unanimous tastemaker applause. Rolling Stone noted, “tracks like ‘Don’t Deny’ and ‘Climb Up’ bridge a Sixties and Seventies songwriter vibe with the laid-back cool of Jack Johnson, an early supporter of Craigie,” while Glide Magazine hailed it as “one of his best records.” Perhaps, No Depression put it best, “For many weary and heavy- listeners hearted, the album might be exactly what they need.” Along the way, he generated over 40 million total streams and counting, speaking to his unassuming impact.
In the end, Craigie offers a sense of peace on Mermaid Salt.

Does it Podcast? With Laurel Morales
2022-11-03 17:30 - 20:30
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Join longtime public radio reporter and 2 Lives creator Laurel Morales for a conversation about this intimate medium that 37% of Americans consume. This lecture, listening session, and discussion will explore elements of story, writing for the ear, and finding your voice. She’ll provide insight into how accessible podcasting is and a blueprint for you to decide if your idea podcasts.
About Laurel Morales: Laurel is currently producing her third podcast “2 Lives.” Prior to entering the podcast world she covered wildfires, drought, and other disasters as a public radio reporter for 20 years. She has won national awards for her reporting and writing including a national Edward R. Murrow award for her coverage of Arizona’s deadliest fire and a PRNDI award for her podcast “Earth + Bone.” She’s collaborated on several projects including the multi-award winning “Tracing the Migrant Journey” series. She can be heard on NPR, the Fronteras Desk, Code Switch, Here & Now, Science Friday, Marketplace, National Native News, and the BBC. She’s known for her inclusion of diverse voices, for crafting powerful stories, and for collaborating with a team to complete projects on time with humor, emotional intelligence, and constructive feedback.

NIGHTCAP: Art Social - Evenings at Coconino Center for the Arts
2022-10-20 04:00 - 05:00
Coconino Center for the Arts is now open for a twilight viewing experience 6-9 pm on select Thursdays.
Evening hours enable viewing of the exterior video installation Cattle Tank by Shawn Skabelund and Owen Davis at dusk, as well as an intimate exhibition experience in the gallery.
$10 suggested donation, free for CCA members.
Refreshments available for purchase.

The Chameleons
2022-10-18 19:00 - 22:30
The Chameleons are the ultimate cult band. Some might say, the stadium band that never played stadiums. Post punk’s most influential “Lost” group who’ve had genre defining impact over their lifetime but with little commercial success. To fans of their music though, the group is something almost sacred and spiritual. This quartet hailing from the north of Manchester, England released their seminal album, Script of the Bridge, in 1983. Followed by subsequent critically acclaimed records such as 1985’s What Does Anything Mean? Basically and Strange Times from 1986. The British music press often used terms such as “sonic architects” or “sonic cathedrals” when describing the band’s celebration of atmospheric sound. The Chameleons’ musical influence is woven throughout the sound of modern bands like The Killers, Interpol, The National and Flaming Lips to 90s acts like The Verve. Noel Gallagher, songwriter for Oasis, said in 2018, that he listens to the album Strange Times almost every day and that “It must have influenced my early songwriting ”because “ I can hear ME in it everywhere!”
On their way to Los Angeles to co-headline the Substance Festival with The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Chameleons will be performing at the Coconino Center for the Arts on Tuesday October 18th at 7 pm. Presented by Mudshark Recording Studios, opening the show will be local act Le Trebuchet.
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