Once a month, Arizona Oddities features a Q&A with a talented Arizona artist who is influenced by our state’s people, places and history. This month, a husband-and-wife team share their inspiration for utilizing one of Arizona's greatest natural resources.

PRESCOTT -- Copper has been an important element in Arizona's history for more than a century, but it usually goes into the creation of such utilitarian items as tubing, electrical wiring and computer parts. However, it took a different form in 1923, when Sharlot Hall went to Washington, D.C., wearing a copper dress. Hall, a longtime Arizona ...