Category: nature

My First-Time Show in Flagstaff at the May Artwalk

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It’s happening – my work will be on exhibit as part of a group show called Mama Terra with the Matter(s) Collective on May 6 at b.e Yoga in downtown Flagstaff. How the Matter(s) Collective came about ArtBox participants were split into two groups and tasked to create pop-up gallery events to take place in May. It […]

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Stepping Into My Artist Self

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For the last several months, I have been a participant in the Flagstaff Art Council’s ArtBox Institute. It’s been a deeply transformative time as I have been dedicating myself to thriving as an artist. I will say this – being an artist does not have to mean making an oath to loneliness or poverty. I have […]

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The Invitation to Feel More

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From the grief of this year rose gratitude. A deep gratitude for my life, for human connection (however brief), for the bond with light and plants and trees and air, with animals, for the hard work and devotion it takes to get out there into the woods, to push myself up rocks and dirt, to […]

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Having a Place

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I came across this essay while pulling a manuscript together. It was written in the spring of 2009. I’ve left Flagstaff and come back twice since then. I love this place – and since I ride my bicycle almost everywhere I go, my relationship to Flagstaff has changed from when I drove everywhere. I’ve slowed […]

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