About Eliphante Limited, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization since 1987, and Eliphante Village, the 3+ acre sculptural art commons.
Eliphante is a private residence and not open to the public. It is looked after by the non-profit 501(c)(3) organization Eliphante, Ltd, established in 1987 to preserve and restore the art and works of Michael Kahn and Leda Livant-Kahn. The artist Michael Kahn spent 30 years of his life creating, while painting and residing at, […]
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In the late 1970’s, Michael Kahn and Leda Livant, while living in Sedona, met a couple in Cornville who owned acreage along Oak Creek and invited Michael and Leda to live as caretakers on a uniquely isolated riparian section of property. Being an artist, Michael immediately began invoking some of his painting aesthetics into a […]
The Artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live. A house called Eliphante is featured in a fascinating survey of idiosyncratic, intriguing dwellings, strewn across the U.S., all designed and built by […]