Johnny Guitar Film Screening Johnny Guitar Film Screening After helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob. Directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, and...
Sedona, McCarthyism, and Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar Arizona State University Associate Professor Kevin Sandler will discuss moments in Western films that bring about the lighter side of the genre: one of the most innovative filmmakers of the post-WWII Hollywood era,...
Artist Spotlight: Lillian Wilhelm Smith – Adventures in Arizona In May of 1913, 31-year-old New York artist Lillian Wilhelm ventured west into the Navajo territory of northern Arizona in the company of novelist Zane Grey, her cousin by marriage. Grey had...
Artist Spotlight: Wild at Art – The Adventures and Art of Dyana Hesson Botanical artist Dyana Hesson loves a good adventure. “I simply can’t get enough of Arizona; its sun on my face, its dirt under my feet, its colors on my pallet. The Grand Canyon state has been...
Conversations in Clay: Daniel Begay Western Spirit in association with Charles King Galleries presents: Conversations in Clay series – Three Artist Presentations Daniel Begay learned to make pottery from his father, Harrison Begay Jr, and his mother, Marie...
