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Online and In-Person Learning at Sedona Arts Center

by Community Contributor • March 30, 2021 • Comments Off

Sedona Arts Center’s Online Learning

Online learning opportunities are perfect for students who are interested in taking one of our educational opportunities, but prefer to work at home. These learning opportunities provide a well-rounded experience in various visual art mediums.

Our workshops are live online learning experiences with one-on-one interaction between student and instructor. Click here to see all our online learning opportunities

Painting For All Levels
An Online Workshop with Gretchen Lopez
April 2, 2021

In this workshop, learn to paint portraits and people from photography, and maintain a fresh, loose and impressionistic feeling throughout your painting. Paint right along from the comfort of your home studio. We will discuss editing and learn to simplify our reference using a “Less is More” approach!! Throughout the class session, Gretchen will be demonstrating and discussing proportions, color mixing and loose brush techniques. Photo reference will be provided for the class in a download. The workshop ends with a critique!

This class also takes place on:
APRIL 9, 2021 | APRIL 30, 2021 | MAY 7, 2021 | MAY 21, 2021

PAINTING FOR ALL LEVELS : SIGN UP / LEARN MORE

Online Color Clinic
An Online Workshop with Gretchen Lopez
April 10 – 11, 2021

Join Gretchen for an online painting adventure focusing on COLOR! Learn how to achieve harmony and continuity in your paintings by mixing color from a limited palette. Have fun as you explore and discover how to use simple methods of mixing paint to gain confidence and a better understanding of how color works. Get ready to apply what we learn to a still life, abstract, and landscape! Instructor demonstrations and individual attention provided. Prior to class, enrolled students will receive an email invitation with a link to join the Zoom meeting platform. Notes will be available through a download.

This class also takes place on June 12–13, 2021 : click here to learn more

ONLINE COLOR CLINIC : SIGN UP / LEARN MORE

The Inspired Abstract – Online Workshop
An Online Workshop with Julie Bernstein Engelmann
April 12 – 15, 2021

This four-day workshop gives you a powerful foundation for abstract painting. Using layers, you’ll be guided to enter the painting process naturally, develop a deep and luscious visual space, and weave into it exquisite brush-marks that grow from a personally meaningful inspiration. You’ll learn to see the spirit in your painting and gently enhance it, so it can shine powerfully.
A focus of this workshop is to find ease in bringing your mid-process “beautiful abstract mess” to completion. You’ll create two acrylic paintings that embody meaning, naturalness, and spatial depth and flow – qualities that lift an abstract painting from amateur to professional. The schedule allows for those who wish to work outside of the class more time to do so.

THE INSPIRED ABSTRACT — ONLINE! : SIGN UP / LEARN MORE

Paper Paintings: Fabulous Florals
An Online Workshop with Elizabeth St Hilaire
April 26 – 28, 2021

Students will draw florals from their own still-life setup or photograph; modifying it to create a compelling, fun composition. We’ll cover how to paint your life drawing with full range of fun, bright colors and shading. You will then learn how to hand-paint your own collage papers through a series of gel plate mono-printing techniques in the color palette inspired by your underpainting. After creating your ‘paper palette’ you will learn various techniques for tearing and applying the paper in a ‘painterly’ manner. Elizabeth will also cover how to keep your pieces perfectly flat without cockling and how to vary your paper brush marks strategically in size and shape.

During this comprehensive three-day workshop you will learn a unique figurative mixed media collage technique. Emphasis will be on defining form using light and shadow, and treating every torn tidbit of paper as a brush stroke. Students will create impressionistic collages that look like paintings.

PAPER PAINTINGS: FABULOUS FLORALS : SIGN UP / LEARN MORE

Imagined Places
A Writing Workshop Online with Brian Evans-Jones
April 30, 2021

During Covid, so many of us were denied the chance to visit places we wanted to see. This workshop is a chance to recover your lost travels! You will write pieces that take you to your lost places, places you wish you could go, and even impossible places. Along the way, you’ll learn how to write powerfully about place, and how to use it to convey wide-ranging ideas.

Suitable for writers of all levels of experience and all genres, including poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

IMAGINED PLACES WRITING WORKSHOP : SIGN UP / LEARN MORE

iPhoneography
An Online Workshop with Kelli Klymenko
May 15, 2021

In today’s technological world, even professional photographers and artists are recognizing the iPhone as a useful (and even practical) photographic tool. Join photographer artist, Kelli Klymenko in his one-day class for beginner and advanced students and you’ll go beyond the basics and learn to shoot professional quality photographs with your iPhone.

You will learn how to shoot, edit and share remarkable landscapes, portraits and the macro world around you using only your iPhone. Kelli will guide you through simple tips and tricks that will take your photography to the next level. Discover how to capture the essence of a place and your subjects rather than just taking a picture.

IPHONEOGRAPHY ONLINE WORKSHOP : SIGN UP /LEARN MORE

Watercolor For All Levels
An Online Workshop with Betty Carr
May 29 – 30, 2021

Capturing the beauty of light in a Sedona landscape in Watercolor

Betty will focus on the “how to’s” of seeing light on the beautiful forms in and around Sedona, Arizona in this Online Workshop. Learn about temperatures of light and shadow (cool and warm) and working with hard and soft edges in creating depth for your watercolor landscape. Luminosity in your painting is a goal!

Betty will be demonstrating tricks and techniques for rendering the limited and glowing light that envelopes the Sedona landscape. You will be learning various ways to create textural effects in watercolor using impressionistic and painterly brushwork. How to paint using glazing techniques as well as incorporating frisket in your work will be covered.

The warm and cool glow that surrounds nature’s forms in a landscape will be conveyed in your work. Watercolor lends itself perfectly for capturing the unique lighting conditions which makes the Sedona landscape such a special subject to paint.

As a Master in the American Impressionist Society, Betty Carr will be emphasizing how to achieve impressionistic and dynamic paintings using loose painterly brushwork while capturing light.

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Loosen Up with Aquamedia Painting Online
An Online Workshop with Robert Burridge
June 4 – 6, 2021

Burridge’s popular “Loosen Up!” workshop nurtures individual success and personal enrichment with a big emphasis on daily painting projects at your own pace. It is stress-free, but be warned; you could end up with too much enthusiasm for painting. This Burridge flagship workshop offers a variety of painting subjects for everyone. Designed for the professional painter who is stuck in a style as well as for the novice who wants to conquer their fear of painting.

Bob’s positive approach towards the act of painting will inspire you to loosen up, have fun again and paint more! Unique color combination techniques will also be demonstrated. Expect an intense, concentrated and lively workshop where you will create many works of art using spontaneity for maximum effect. This workshop has become a must for artists who want the confidence and permission to paint the way they have always wanted to paint. A positive attitude is a must!

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Abstract/Figurative 3-Day Online Workshop
An Online Workshop with Robert Burridge
June 8 – 10, 2021

This workshop pushes you out of your safe zone and into a brand new, looser, abstract direction drawing, painting and collaging the contemporary nude. You will learn expressive painting techniques for the modern painter. If you ever wanted to learn how to paint the freestyle abstract figure, this workshop is for you. Color is explained and explored. You will learn the 12 Design Compositions for a successful painting. Your “drawing the nude” skills are not a prerequisite.Classes will include a variety of poses with the nude, draped and partially draped model, lots of paint sketching, gestural drawing and finger painting techniques. Be prepared to paint looser, bolder, freer, lighter and more intuitively. Plenty of time for action-filled painting exercises, demos and personalized attention. All water soluble paints are welcomed. Materials list and Handouts provided.

ABSTRACT/FIGURATIVE 3-DAY ONLINE WORKSHOP : LEARN MORE

In-Person Learning at Sedona Arts Center
The Ceramics Department

The Sedona Arts Center’s ceramic department operates free from the constraints of grades and benefits from the talents of its ceramic faculty and assistants as well as nationally recognized guest instructors. This combination allows our department to offer flexible and diverse programming in both traditional and contemporary techniques.

Our classes are limited in size at this time. We require that face masks, covering mouth and nose, be worn in our classrooms and galleries until further notice.
Click here to see all our current ceramics opportunities

Ceramics For All Levels
with Dennis Ott
New 6-Week Courses Beginning April 5, 2021

Through demonstration and one-on-one instruction, students will learn to throw a variety of forms on the potter’s wheel or techniques to create hand-built works. Slab roller, extruder and forms are also available to create functional and decorative pieces.
Tuition includes the first 25-pound bag of clay, firings and glazes, and one open studio session per week. Additional bags of clay may be purchased during class for $30 per bag which includes glazing & firing fees. Enrolled students may also participate in one open studio session per week.

April 5 – May 10, 2021 — Advanced
April 6 – May 11, 2021 — All Levels
April 7 – May 12, 2021 — All Levels

*Note that the Monday, April 5 class is reserved for experienced ceramicists! (Beginners are welcome in Dennis Ott’s Tuesday or Wednesday classes.)

CERAMICS FOR ALL LEVELS : SIGN UP / LEARN MORE

Hand Building Ceramics
April 6 – May 11, 2021 – FULL
May 18 – June 22, 2021 – Available

Tuesdays | 1-4pm | 6 Instructor-Led Class Sessions + 6 Open Studio Practice Sessions
Come play in the clay! Tap into your creative self and experience various hand-building techniques. Make bowls, boxes, sculptures, and tiles, using slabs, molds, and textures. The possibilities are endless. Open to all levels, beginners welcome!

Multiple dates, follow the link below to see all available dates.

HANDBUILDING WITH NEIL KENNEDY : SIGN UP / LEARN MORE

Pottery Wheel for Beginners
with Neil Kennedy
New Courses Begin April 10, 2021

Pottery Wheel for Beginners – 6 Class Sessions + 6 Open Studio Sessions

This six-week course is designed exclusively for those who are new to wheel work and is open for ages 12 through adult. Have fun while gaining confidence on the potters wheel. Small class size ensures that each student receives personalized, one-on-one instruction and encouragement for a fascinating hands-on experience that will bring out the potter in you. Tuition includes the first 25-pound bag of clay, firings and glazes, and one open studio session per week. Additional bags of clay may be purchased during class for $30 per bag which includes glazing & firing fees. Enrolled students may also participate in one open studio session per week.

New courses begin April 10, click the link below to see all available dates.

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Scholarships at Sedona Arts Center
Scholarship awards will pay 50% towards any Class or Workshop tuition. Scholarships are not available for international Field Expeditions or Painting in the Grand Canyon. The Sedona Arts Center awards scholarships to students only when funds are available.

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE : CLICK HERE TO APPLY

Fine Art Gallery Online

The Center’s Fine Art Gallery showcases the largest selection in Sedona of artwork by local artists. If you are seeking a rare piece of fine art, a gift of exquisite jewelry, appreciate stunning photography, or looking for a lovely keepsake from your visit to Sedona, the Arts Center has it all and more. The Arts Center is a 501(c)3 organization that offers all purchases without sales tax – almost a 10% savings. Curbside pick-up is available by appointment. The Gallery is open Wednesday – Sunday, 10am – 5pm in Uptown Sedona.

SEDONA ARTS CENTER FINE ART GALLERY ONLINE : CLICK HERE