{"id":6451,"date":"2017-03-22T07:59:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T11:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=6451"},"modified":"2017-03-31T06:47:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T10:47:59","slug":"sedona-areas-astonishing-copper-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=6451","title":{"rendered":"Sedona Area\u2019s Astonishing Copper Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shell Casing Art, photo: Vicki Weisfeld<\/p><\/div>\n

The tiny town of Clarkdale, Arizona, midway between Cottonwood and Jerome, in the outskirts of the much-visited Sedona region, hosts the not-to-be-missed Copper Art Museum<\/a>. One of the first metals humans discovered\u2014it and gold are the only ones that have a \u201ccolor\u201d\u2014copper has been mined and worked for ten thousand years. Clarkdale was a company town for copper mining in the nearby mountains.<\/p>\n

Through imaginative displays in the town\u2019s former high school (built 1928), visitors see much more than art, they get a taste of mineralogy, astronomy, and history, plus the beautiful and varied ways copper has been put to use in architectural decoration, kitchens, winemaking, and war. Who knew?<\/p>\n

On display are 525 brass (copper + zinc) artillery shell casings that World War I soldiers scavenged and transformed into one-of-a-kind artworks, startlingly intricate molds inspiring lavish desserts, religious works and paintings on copper, a wall of beer steins.<\/p>\n

The extent of the collection suggests a seriousness of purpose, yet the curators have a light touch. They include yearbook pages from the high school, binding the current use of the building to its past. They include amusing and interesting \u201cfast facts,\u201d such as details about various copper-related crimes. They explain why copper is the desired material for certain medical uses, doorknobs, and in jewelry. And they provide a straight-faced set of definitions for carrot, caret, carat, and karat, for the confused. You make your way through the museum following copper footprints embedded in the floor.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something fascinating and beautiful for everyone here!<\/p>\n

Crime novels set in and around Arizona:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Sinister Pig<\/em> \u2013 A disused Mexican copper mine figures in this Tony Hillerman classic
\nThe Blue Hammer<\/em> \u2013 Ross MacDonald\u2019s Lew Archer and a leggy blonde in the desert
\nRage Against the Dying<\/a><\/em> \u2013 female protagonist takes on a serial killer in Becky Masterman\u2019s exciting debut<\/p>\n

Or pick your own mayhem at Scottsdale\u2019s fantastic Poisoned Pen Bookstore<\/a>, 4014 N. Goldwater Boulevard. Floor-to-ceiling mysteries, thrillers, and crime and 300 author events a year!
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The tiny town of Clarkdale, Arizona, midway between Cottonwood and Jerome, in the outskirts of the much-visited Sedona region, hosts the not-to-be-missed Copper Art Museum. One of the first metals humans discovered\u2014it and gold are the only ones that have … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Sedona Area\u2019s Astonishing Copper Museum - cooks, geologists, historians, art lovers, and makers\/drinkers of spirits - this is your place!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[682,266,104,78],"tags":[897,896,898,416,899],"class_list":["post-6451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-arts","category-history","category-the-morgue","category-travel","tag-clarkdale-arizona","tag-copper-art-museum","tag-museum","tag-real-life","tag-sedona"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-1G3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6453,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451\/revisions\/6453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}