SHIFTING TOPOGRAPHIES
Extracting the Landscape
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Carol Hartman, Into The Light, mixed media, 62”x90”
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Jeff Schmuki, Extractors #1, 2024, mixed ceramics with glazes containing mine tailings and lithium oxide, 24” x 16” x 14”
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Klee Benally, The Dark Mark of Manifest Destiny, 2021, digital gif
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Exhibition Dates: October 18 – December 20, 2025
Opening Reception: October 18, 2025
CCA Members’ Preview: 5 – 6 pm
Artists’ Talk: 6 pm
Public Reception: 6 – 8 pm
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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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November 5th: Wild Arizona Film Screening & Live Music from Tha ‘Yoties. Doors 5pm, show at 6pm.
November 15th: Protecting Our Landscape with Recycled Art- Free Youth Workshop. 11am-12pm & 12:30-1:30pm registration required.
November 19th: Thin Air NAU Literary Magazine Poetry Workshop, 5:30-7pm registration required.
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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Neal Galloway
Tin Can Conversations
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Neal Galloway, Splintered Symbiosis, Tin cans, wood, brass, steel, string, 2025
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Exhibition Dates: October 18 – December 20, 2025
Opening Reception: October 18, 2025
Artist Talk: November 20, 2025 | 6PM
Concurrently in the Project Gallery, 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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