Innovation

2018 Viola Award Finalist for Innovation Jim Cheff is the creator, writer and producer of ‘Mary Farfisa’s Outer Space Radio Theater’ – Arizona’s only locally-produced radio adventure for kids. It’s heard every Saturday morning on Radio Sunnyside, 101.5 FM. Jim has written and recorded 35 half-hour ‘Mary Farfisa’ radio plays since its debut in January [...]

2018 Viola Award Finalist for Innovation Hope and Trauma in a Poisoned Land explored the impact of uranium mining on Navajo lands and people. The art exhibition featured work by twenty local and regional artists, including Navajo and non-Native artists. The exhibition was open August 15 – October 28, 2017, at the Coconino Center for [...]

2018 Viola Award Finalist for Excellence in Performing Arts Dark Sky Aerial, fresh off their Viola Award winning production of Opia, presented TILT in downtown Flagstaff last summer. In the ambitious and powerful ambulatory, theatre experience, aerial dancers soared off the walls of downtown buildings, were hoisted-on-high by a construction crane, and wove a tale of [...]