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FROM ABOVE: Crab Apple Picinic Table by Kaitlyn Garcia; Delicate Arch by Jared Stern — among the Youth Exhibit at Coconino Center for the Arts.
from thrown pieces onto thick slabs, where the imagery is more three dimensional. I build the scenic pieces or the animals onto the slabs in small bits and pieces of clay. The idea is still evolving, as I am not yet satisfied with the effect. I am hoping this new ap- proach will lend a more organic feeling to the images and also let the plastic character of clay show through. The series has pro- gressed to smaller but even thicker square and rectangular slabs that are more tile-like, trying to create little worlds in little spaces. Weather permitting, there will be an assort- ment of these new tiles. When it’s cold and wet, things dry very slowly.”
The new pieces, featuring the familiar fe- line and canine portraiture that appears on some of his other functional pieces, come to life in their new three dimension incarna- tions. Personality shines through the eyes of his subjects and brings the viewer a sense of lightheartedness.
This new display by Mr. Wolf and Ms. Owen opens during the March First Friday ArtWalk from 6 to 9PM. FlagstaffArtistsGallery.com
A NEW GENERATION OF ARTISTS
On Friday March 8, Flagstaff Cultural Partners holds an opening for its Annual Youth Art Exhibit at Coconino Center for the Arts. During the reception from 4PM to 7PM, there will be live performances. Over 300 works of art will be on display. In the
Jewel Gallery, “Grand Inspiration,” a Native American Youth Artist Retrospective will be presented by Grand Canyon Youth.
One of Flagstaff’s teachers, Joe Cornett, who teaches photography at Flagstaff High School, was happy to share with me the pho- tos chosen for the exhibit from his students. He says of the exhibit, “I think this exhibition is essential because it gives the young cre- ative people in our community a chance to showcase their work. It also promotes the importance of art education in our schools and gives students a chance to explore new subjects on the academic level.”
“I had trouble choosing only ten pieces and thought about it for a long time,” Mr. Cornett says about the process of narrowing down submissions. “I wish I could have included an image from every student because there have been a lot of solid images made this year and every student has a handful of pictures that could be displayed. I wanted diversity in subject matter so that the con- tent was different in each. I also chose im- ages that might show certain things that we learned this semester. Each student that was chosen shows a lot of promise in the art of photography. Jared Stern’s piece is on par with some professional images that I’ve seen. The interesting thing is that we haven’t even started to learn long exposures and night photography yet, so he taught himself how to make an image like that.”
Jared Stern’s photograph is stunning, stars curve across the sky, light breaks through clouds and cast shadows and light over the rock formations in Delicate Arch.
“The arch in this image is located near Moab, Utah,” Mr. Stern tells me of his photo-
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