Open Doors: Art in Action Exhibit: April 15-May 30. “The Landscape of Uranium Mining.” Paintings by Rebekah Nordstrom and Jerrel Singer; educational panels by students of NAU’s Sustainable Communities
The exhibit which combines art with advocacy runs from April 17 through May 30 and features paintings by Rebekah Nordstom and Jerrel Singer. It is accompanied by a series of documentary panels prepared by a class in the Sustainable Communities program at NAU. The panels tell the story of uranium mining and its effects through archival photography, interviews, and other documents. Peter Friederici, director of the Sustainable Communities program, coordinated their production.
Nordstom’s “Language of the Land” includes 100 plein air paintings of the Navajo Nation just south of Cameron which were painted between February and July 2017. She is a participating artist in the current show at the Museum of Northern Arizona, Voices for the Colorado Plateau: An Intimate Expanse.
Jerrel Singer is a Diné painter from Cameron whose family has been directly impacted by the toxic legacy of mining in the area. His work captures the daylight and nightscape colors and shadows of the Navajo Reservation, depicting scenes that are recognizable as desert, sky, and clouds, but are represented in abstract fashion.
Free admission
Phone: 928-774-2911
2018/04/17 - 2018/05/30
Additional time info:
Artists Reception will be Friday May 4, 5-9 pm with presentations by Davona Blackhorse.
To supplement the exhibit, on May 18, at 7 pm, the short film, Too Precious to Mine, by filmmaker Justin Clifton in association with Amber Reimondo of the Grand Canyon Trust, will be shown in the gallery. The film will be followed by a discussion led by Roger Clark, Grand Canyon Program Director. Music by Sihasin.
Church of the Epiphany
423 North Beaver Street, Flagstaff, AZ 86001
Exhibit open Tues-Fri 9-4; Sun 8-12
Enter from parking lot at rear of the church off Humphrey Ave