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Quan Yin by Lyn Matthew is among the artist’s newest creations, debuting at her intimate basement studio in downtown Flagstaff.
gether a total of 24 featured artists, creating a web of local talent with only a few degrees of separation. Photographer Tom Alexander invited painters Duane Koyawena, Nicolas Lawrence and Linda Whiting. Fabric artist Darcy Falk invited painters Sam Jones and Audria Smith; and assemblage artist Rene Westbrook. Ceramicist Jen Holt invited fel- low ceramicists Tristyn Bustamante and Ben Jordan; and painter Nicole Langille. Assemblage artist Greg Mason brought in fellow found object artists Mike Frankel and John Stebila, and painter Molly Holland. Painter Bahe Whitethorne, Jr., invited paint- ers Landis Bahe, Randall Wilson, and Baje Whitethorne, Sr. And finally, printmaker Ju- lie Williams invited printmaker David Wil- liams, and painters Eugene Brousseau and David Christiana.
In the Jewel Gallery is the exhibit “Hues From the Flying Carpet,” featuring the aerial photography of Greg Brown. Mr. Brown cap- tures startling hues, patterns, textures, and vi- sual anomalies from his tiny personal aircraft, The Flying Carpet. His fine art aerial photogra- phy has been exhibited at NAU, the Phoenix Art Museum, and Sharlot Hall Museum.
Open 11AM-5PM Tuesday-Saturday through May 31 at Coconino Center for the Arts, 2300 N. Fort Valley Road. For more in- formation visit FlagArtsCouncil.org.
Also this month at CCA is “Dance In the Air! Dance On the Screen!” the fifth annual Flagstaff Performance Arts & Film Festi- val. Long-time collaborators Gina Darling- ton and Jayne Lee present two evenings of innovative music and performance featur- ing six local and regional dance companies including Canyon Movement Company, Hu- man Nature Dance Theatre, Canyon Dance Academy’s Velocity Dance Company, Co- conino Community College’s Dance Class, film-maker Amanda Kapp, and Joanie Grant of Flagstaff Aerial Arts. 7:30PM Fri- day, May 2 and Saturday May 3 at Coconino
Center for the Arts. Suggested donation $15 general, $8 child/student at the door. Visit Fl- agArtsCouncil.org.
LYN MATTHEW RETURNS!
Lyn Matthew re-opens her studio for Spring to show the new body of work she created throughout the winter.
Ms. Matthew’s newest painting, Rising in the Mist, depicts a figure in pilgrimage, med- itating on the shore of a body of water con- taining stepping stones and lotus flowers in bloom. Quan Yin, the goddess of compas- sion, arises from the water in a cloud of mist, not yet seen by the person on shore.
Ms. Matthew will also unveil new rendi- tions of her popular aspen paintings and one of Red Rock Crossing. Open from 6-9PM during First Friday ArtWalk on May 2 at Lyn Matthew Studio, 13 N. San Francisco St. #3. LynMatthew.com.
THE MISTRESS OF GLASS INFUSED
Arizona Handmade Gallery/Fire on the Mountain features the “joyful glass art” of Judi Hartman through the month of May. A self-taught glass artist of 30 years and Flag- staff resident since 1984, Ms. Hartman’s glass designs are inspired by the environment and culture of the Southwest and often include canyons, people, animals and flowers.
“Glass is such a joyful medium, and I never tire of the beauty of light streaming through glass,” she says. Most of her pieces are made with crushed glass but she uses a variety of techniques and materials including fused glass, copper foil, and lead, all of which cre- ate a very distinct end result, from more tra- ditional stained glass with lead partitions to single panels of more abstract works.
“Creating stained glass is very different from fused (kiln-fired) glass,” explains the art- ist. In stained glass, pieces are cut out from a pattern, wrapped on the edges with cop- per foil and soldered together. Pieces can
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