2020 Viola Award Finalist for Community Impact (Individual) Andres “Dapper Dre” Adauto has immersed himself in all things arts and culture in Flagstaff. In everything he does, Dapper Dre does it with a focus on cultivating Flagstaff’s unique creative community. In 2016, Dre began co-managing the Urban Flea Market with Art & Heather Babbott, a unique [...]
2020 Viola Award Finalist for Community Impact (Individual) Maria Campbell gives tirelessly to the Flagstaff community. When Maria arrived in Flagstaff from Ireland in 2013, she knew nobody but very quickly and effectively has established herself as a cultural and creative tour de force, working tirelessly for this community through her work in film and [...]
2020 Viola Award Finalist for Community Impact (Individual) Klee Benally is an activist, artist, silversmith, and filmmaker, who was born in Tuba City on the Diné (Navajo) Nation and currently lives in Flagstaff. Klee has has worked nearly all of his life at the front lines in struggles to protect Indigenous sacred lands. Klee provides [...]
2020 Viola Award Finalist for Community Impact (Individual) Al White has been a staple of the Flagstaff community since he relocated here from a hotel career at Grand Canyon in 1989. He and a partner founded New World Recycling and it was there in an industrial accident that he became a paraplegic. Since then [...]
2020 Viola Award Finalist for Community Impact (Individual) Kevin Shinder. Photo by Jake Bacon Kevin is a long-time employee of Lowell Observatory and combines his interests in science and Flagstaff history to produce journal articles, blogs, booklets and books as well as a biweekly astronomy column and an assortment of special submissions to [...]
2019 Viola Award Finalist for Excellence in Community Impact (Individual) Bonnie Dumdei is the co-owner of the Flagstaff School of Music, along with Terry Alan. Bonnie has a passion for education, and a love for music & community. With the school of music, Bonnie and Terry aim to teach music in a fun, family-like atmosphere. [...]
2019 Viola Award Finalist for Excellence in Community Impact (Individual) Owen Davis is a composer, percussionist, improvisor, noise artist, educator, and curator based in Flagstaff, AZ. He is currently the general music teacher at Sturgeon Cromer Elementary School in Flagstaff Unified School District. He also maintains a growing private percussion studio teaching the percussive arts [...]
2019 Viola Award Finalist for Excellence in Community Impact (Individual) Dr. Kris Haskins holds her PhD in Biological Sciences from Northern Arizona University (NAU), and has published her work in internationally recognized scientific journals, working alongside NAU faculty and researchers. Her work at The Arboretum at Flagstaff focuses on recovery of damaged habitats, conservation of [...]
2019 Viola Award Finalist for Excellence in Community Impact (Individual) Kevin is a long-time employee of Lowell Observatory and combines his interests in science and Flagstaff history to produce journal articles, blogs, booklets and books as well as a biweekly astronomy column and an assortment of special submissions to the Arizona Daily Sun over the [...]
Janelle Reasor has worked as the Magnet Programs Coordinator at Marshall Elementary School since 2008. She is the central driving force behind the school's extracurricular success. Over the course of the past decade, Marshall has grown exponentially in its ability to deliver a dynamic academic program of study, emphasizing the arts and sciences, to all of its students. [...]
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