In October of 2017, the Grand Canyon Trust took 12 Flagstaff artists to the far-reaching northern rim of the Grand Canyon, to a small ex-Mormon ranch. Quiet and isolated within House Rock Valley, Kane Ranch became a weekend home for the three-day Kane Ranch Artist Retreat where the 12 artists learned about and discussed conservation issues surrounding Colorado Plateau. Issues such as uranium mining, social injustices on tribal lands and President Donald Trump’s shrinkage of two national monuments, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, both of which reside on the Colorado Plateau, prompted discussion on how to artistically give a voice to a land, although vast and overwhelming with natural beauty, that is threatened...