Kimberly Murdza is waiting for a set of keys.
They are the only keys to the Museum of Contemporary Art Flagstaff (MOCAF), an industrial art gallery located off Blackbird Roost, and for the last couple of days, they have been wayward, being passed around from person to person, artist to artist, the gallery a space that is shared not owned.
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