One Blood at the Precipice Reception

CCA & SOSTA present Frederica Hall: One Blood at the Precipice Reception

Date/Time: Friday, November 14, 4-6pm; artist performance at 4:45pm

Location: Sosta Restaurant, 413 N. San Francisco St, Flagstaff

In One Blood at the Precipice, Flagstaff artist Frederica Hall engages a multi-disciplinary approach informed by reflections on challenging matters of present times. The exhibition presents painted portraits of species that have become endangered in recent years. The artist has rendered the animals monochromatically in red, in reference to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN)Red List of threatened species, inviting the audience to consider their own role in nature’s trajectory. OneBlood at the Precipice premiered at Coconino Center for the Arts (CCA) in 2024 and was a finalist for the 2025 Viola Awards for Excellence in Visual Arts.

The exhibition is currently on display at Sosta Restaurant, CCA’s Satellite Exhibition Partner. Please join us at Sosta for an artist reception on Friday, November 14, 4-6 pm with a performance by the artist at 4:45 pm.

Youth Arts Workshop: Protecting our Landscape with Recycled Art

Date/Time: Saturday, November 15, 11-12pm or 12:30-1:30pm

Location: Coconino Center for the Arts

This is a FREE one-hour workshop for kids ages 7-14 and no experience is necessary! All supplies provided.

Shifting Topographies: Extracting the Landscape, explores how mining is harming the earth and those who inhabit it. In this workshop, youth will explore ways we can help care for the earth, such as recycling. Using items that are NOT recyclable, such as berry containers, coffee cups, and other single-use plastics, we will put our creativity to use and transform them into beautiful and useful objects or sculptures, keeping them out of the landfill!

Free event, registration required.

Thin Air: NAU Literary Magazine Poetry Workshop

Date/Time: Thursday, November 19, 5:30pm

Location: Coconino Center for the Arts Main Gallery

Thin Air Magazine proudly cultivates a Flagstaff-based, MFA student-led literary community with global reach to publish emerging authors with intriguing ideas. On November 19, Thin Air will host a poetry workshop led by poet and writer, Sherwin Bitsui. Participants will explore poetic forms that are in conversation with the works displayed in the “Shifting Topographies: Extracting the Landscape” exhibition.

Sherwin Bitsui is the author of three collections of poetry, Dissolve, Flood Song, and Shapeshift. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award, an American Book Award, and the PEN Book Award. His poems have appeared in Narrative, Black Renaissance Noir, American Poet, The Iowa Review, LIT, and elsewhere. He is Diné of the Todích’ii’nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tlizílaaní (Many Goats Clan), and has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the Native Arts & Culture Foundation.

Free event, registration required.

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Neal Galloway:

Tin Can Conversations

Artist Talk

Neal Galloway, Splintered Symbiosis, Tin cans, wood, brass, steel, string, 2025

Date/Time: Thursday, November 20, 6pm

Location: Coconino Center for the Arts Project Gallery

Neal Galloway’s Tin Can Conversations uses the core motif of a tin can telephone to explore the fragility, complexity, and profound value of interpersonal communication. A series of sculptures and time-based artworks explore physical and psychological distance, miscommunication, disagreement, sensitivity, power dynamics, love, and connection. Inspired by a difficult cross-country displacement, and by the challenge of maintaining healthy relationships during the COVID pandemic, Galloway uses unconventional materials in his artworks to connect with audiences, while pushing those materials to overcome their humble origins.

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SHIFTING TOPOGRAPHIES

Extracting the Landscape

Carol Hartman, Into The Light, mixed media, 62”x90”

Jeff Schmuki, Extractors #1, 2024, mixed ceramics with glazes containing mine tailings and lithium oxide, 24” x 16” x 14”

Klee Benally, The Dark Mark of Manifest Destiny, 2021, digital gif

Exhibition Dates: October 18 – December 20, 2025

SHIFTING TOPOGRAPHIES: Extracting the Landscape features projects by Carol Hartman (Red Lodge, MT), Jeff Schmuki (Stateboro, GA), and Klee Benally in memoriam (Diné, Black Mesa, Navajo Nation; Flagstaff, AZ). In a rapidly changing climate, we are witness to and complicit in irreversible scarring of the land. There are eight National Parks and Monuments within a 2-hour drive of Flagstaff that face potential threats to their preservation, due to the proposed federal reopening of protected sacred lands to mining. This timely and relevant exhibition theme—extraction—takes on a markedly different approach depending on the geographical and cultural perspectives of the represented artists.

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Upcoming Exhibition Programming

December 11th: Stop the Mines! A Conversation with Berta Benally 6pm, Sihasin concert 7:30pm.

December 20th: Shifting Topographies: Extracting the Landscape closing reception & discussion with Tonizhoniani, 6-7pm.

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Exhibition Sponsors

Sponsor a Theater Seat

There’s still time to be part of the Coconino Center for the Arts’ Theater Seating Fundraiser! Each seat sponsorship includes a personalized plaque on the seat of your choice — a meaningful way to honor a loved one, celebrate a milestone, or show your love for the arts in Flagstaff.

Your gift goes further right now: thanks to a generous matching donation from a former Creative Flagstaff board member and their spouse, every contribution is doubled to help us reach our goal!

Special thank you to All Awards, Flagstaff’s local awards shop, for generously donating the plaques in-kind.

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