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BY SARAH GIANELLI
work is an extension of myself, both light and dark.”
Mrs. Williams, also a professor at NAU, works in relief color reduction woodcut prints. Also known as suicide printmaking, it is a process in which you create an image by printing off the surface of a wood-block and removing the areas you do not wish to print. Color reduction printing is a method of relief printing where you print light to dark colors in progression, removing the areas of wood in which you want to keep a certain color, in order to create the image out of multiple layers of color.
Meet the artists during Friday Friday Art- Walk from 6-9PM at AZ handmade/Fire on the Mountain gailery, 13 N. San Francisco St. #100. 928-779-3790 azhandmade.com
THE ARTISTS’ GALLERY features the land- scape and wildlife photography of don hill and Joe Coyle, and the fused glass cre- ations of sonja London-hall.
“I have a strong feel for color and layout,” says Ms. London-Hall. “I enjoy the addition of the three dimension to glass work, working with organic elements, and the infusion of technology with the creative process. I often use a mixed media approach to design using my own digital photographs of art, ideas or concepts, and then rework these images on the computer using image editing and/or special effects software.”
Meet the artists during First Friday from 6-9PM at 17 N. San Francisco Street.
flagstaffartistsgallery.com
OVER 100 NAVAJO ARTISTS, musicians, dancers and cultural experts will travel to the Museum of northern Arizona from all corners of the Navajo Nation to share their traditions through the arts for the 65th An- nual Festival of navajo Arts & Culture. Sil- versmiths, jewelers, painters, weavers, folk carvers and multi-generations of families gather to discuss the customs that inspire their work; and display and demonstrate their innovative expressions of traditional art forms. There will be hoop and social dances, and traditional and modern Na- tive music by the Pollen trail dancers and blackfire. Cultural experts will be on hand
to talk about customs and prac- tices to keep traditions strong, in- cluding a Navajo linguist and eth- nobotanist. Saturday and Sunday August 2-3, Museum of northern Arizona 3101 N. Fort Valley Rd. musnaz.org 928-774-5213.
FLAGTAFF’S Z HOUSE GALLERY
hosts a full day of artist demonstra- tions and workshops in an event called “Enjoy the Season of Art in Full Bloom.” One of the day long classes will include a presentation and workshop on Ikebana, the tra- ditional Japanese art of floral ar- rangement, led by photographer and Ikebana artist Mai Wakisaka from 11AM-7PM saturday, Au- gust 9 at Z house gallery, 2320 E. Santa Fe Avenue. The workshop is $45 to attend, for complete event information and to purchase in ad- vance, visit zhousegallery.com
PAINTER KELLY JANECEK is the featured artist at West of the Moon gallery this month, pre- senting a show entitled “Under a Big Sky” which will focus on her landscapes.
Working in oils, Ms. Janecek reduc- es common, everyday sights and objects into their simplest forms to capture the colorful sweetness of their essence — from rolling hillsides and dotted skies, birds perched on an armchair, to cow- girl boots bursting with flowers. “I paint what catches my eye or my sense of humor,” says the artist. “I like simple compositions and ob- jects slightly abstracted. Living where I do I can’t help but be in- spired by the high and wide spac- es of the Colorado Plateau. The clouds in particular influence my sense of space whether I’m paint- ing a mesa, a chair or an abstract. At the heart of it, I paint what makes me grin.”
West of the Moon gallery
hosts an opening reception dur- ing First Friday, 6-9PM August 1 at 14 N. San Francisco St. Westofthe-
MoonGallery.com
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