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Sedona Arts Center update for July 3

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First Friday in the Gallery

Exhibition Features 5 Local Artists
First Friday Reception July 6, from 5 to 8 pm 

In addition to featuring five local artists this July and August in our Uptown, Sedona Fine Art Gallery. Join us for an exciting First Friday with the Big Gay Art Show in the Special Exhibition Gallery and a preview of the PRIDE event (taking place Saturday) in the Theatre Studio with Silent Auction items and the Student Ceramics Sale! Highlighted in the Fine Art Gallery  are landscape paintings by Tom Fish, Wildlife, florals and landscapes by Cyndi Thau, colorful abstract mixed media works by local favorite Jan Sitts, functional and Raku ceramics by John Foster, and creative metal-work by April Bower.

April Bower

April Bower is a 2nd generation Arizonian who can’t help being influenced by the vast Southwest. She enjoys working with copper that is predominantly produced locally while adding native stones to create a unique contemporary style. Her jewelry has evolved over time, away from commercial fine jewelry to contemporary, wearable, one-of-a-kind limited editions. Bower works mostly in silver, bi-metals and copper using color and texture as the accents.

Tom Fish

Tom Fish has been drawing for as long as he can remember. His love for nature, wildlife and the outdoors stemmed from stories of his mother raising a red fox and raccoons when she was younger.  Tom strives to create works of art with strong fundamentals for believability combined with creativity, imagination and story to connect with the viewer. This connection and overwhelming appreciation for his artistic abilities coupled with the way his art touches people and the resulting relationships are the greatest gifts for Tom as an artist.

“I’m most inspired not just by painting a landscape, but creating an image that tells a story,” he said.

John Foster

John Foster began his career in pottery at the Sedona Arts Center’s pottery studio under the tutelage of Dennis Ott. After a long career in boat building, John discovered his true artistic love in the power of clay. Whether he is creating functional mugs, cups and bowls or decorative His work creates a counter-point between elegant form and sleek glazes with raw clay and the surprise of the Raku firing process. 

Jan Sitts
Jan Sitts is an experimental painter and mixed media artist. It is her natural inclination to express an  exploratory, intuitive approach, the tangible and intangible; the emotional and spiritual. The issues she explores along with imagery are painted in a loose contemporary style—letting the painting show her the way. Color and texture are important aspects in her work. Sitts also teaches an art workshop Texture, Color Feeling at the Arts Center from November 5 to 7.

Cyndi Thau
Cyndi Thau uses a glazing technique with oil paint to create her paintings featuring flowers as the representative of nature. The flower paintings she has become known for were born in the tranquil and beautiful country of Costa Rica. “I believe that all things in nature have many layers. As the light passes through creating highlights or falls into the shadows, the forms take shape. Most of my paintings are close up, detailed compositions rather than a more overall view. I use thin layer upon layer of oil paint to achieve the translucency that I associate with light and nature.” 

First Friday In the Art Barn
Special Exhibition Gallery
Big Gay Art Show
First Friday Reception July 6, 5 – 8pm
July 6–8, 2018

Sedona Arts Center proudly hosts the 6th Annual Big Gay Art Show in the Art Barn’s Special Exhibition Gallery July 6–8. The event was conceptualized by a small group, some connected to the Arts Center and others involved in the Sedona Pride organization in an effort to offer the LGBTQ community a voice in the local art scene.

The exhibit will showcase various different mediums of art, including oil and watercolor paintings, photography, ceramics, pottery and sculpture and more. Join us on First Friday for the opening reception!

In the Theatre Gallery and Campus-Wide
Sedona PRIDE Community Festival
JULY 7, 10am to 4pm

Sedona Pride in association with the Sedona Arts Center is pleased to announce the inaugural Sedona Pride Community Festival hosted at the Sedona Arts Center.

The Sedona Pride Community Festival is a non-profit event and hosts vendors selling arts and crafts, food and live entertainment.  All proceeds benefit Sedona Pride and the Sedona Arts Center, both are registered non-profit 501c3 organizations supporting the community.

“We are so happy to be in partnership with the Sedona Arts Center to bring an inclusive community festival together for Sedona and the Verde Valley!  We aim to create a festival that brings all aspects of our community together to celebrate art, food, drink and music,” said Danny Kim, President, Sedona Pride. “Our timing to present this festival was partly due to the presentation of the Big Gay Art Show opening on July 6th, Sedona Pride is so pleased to support our LGBTQ community and draw more attention to the great art being done by the community at SAC”

Numerous Silent Auction item will be available for bidding on Friday Evening and Saturday.

Vendors include: Twenty – Sedona Arts Center student ceramists offering functional and decorative pottery, Safari Samosas, Archuleta’s Ice Cream, Arizona Popsicles, Serbina Shaw Essential Oils, Sue Beroch Photos and Books, Tara Kaur Crystal Bowls.

Special Rainbow Cocktails, wine and beer will be available for purchase.

Call to Artists
Members’ Summer Co-op Exhibition
Sedona Arts Center hosts once again the Members’ Summer Co-Op Exhibition and Sale August 3–27, 2018. 

Open to any member of the Sedona Arts Center, $60. Entry fee. Provides space to show and sell a body of your work. Participants need to assist in staffing the exhibition.

MEMBERS APPLY HERE

Not a Member yet? Join here!

Call to Artists
Community Plein Air Event at L’Auberge de Sedona
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
9 am to Noon

Artists and the public are invited to enjoy a morning at L’Auberge!

Artists will be painting or drawing in any medium along the creek at L’Auberge de Sedona.The public is invited to attend and watch artists as they complete plein air art, working from life along the banks of Oak Creek at L’Auberge de Sedona. Any artist can register online to participate using whatever artistic medium they prefer.

Artists will set up anywhere along the L’Auberge Creekside with subject matter ranging from calm to rushing water, foliage, sky and reflections, architecture, people, and ducks! Artists can begin painting upon arrival and stop painting at 11am. Finished works may be displayed on the Creekside lawns using your own painting easel and they may be for sale. The Arts Center will present awards at 11:15am and will process any sales from 11–11:30am.

Sedona Magic Trolley will be shuttling artists and the public from the Sedona Arts Center lower parking lot to nearby L’Auberge resort back and forth from 8am to 1pm, leaving plenty of time after the event for lunch at L’Auberge restaurant, Cress on Oak Creek.

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Call to Artists
Apply For Representation in our Fine Art Gallery

The largest selection of works by Sedona Artists!

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. In addition, membership to the Sedona Arts Center provides an additional 10% off all gallery purchases as well as other benefits.

Submit your work!Artists are invited to submit a portfolio and application to be juried into the Members Fine Arts Gallery. Submissions are accepted once annually: July 1–31
Click here for our submission guidelines

Call to Artists
Sedona Summer Colony—Sign up today!
Sedona Summer Colony dates for individual residency are July 21–August 11, 2018. Participants can choose a one, two or three week residency by filling out the online application and submitting the required deposit. Residencies include living quarters, working space for development of artwork, and two meals per day.

Now in its third year, the main objective for the summer colony continues to be to support the inspiration and creation of new artistic work and cultural content by providing undisturbed time, temporary living space, regular meals, and appropriate studio or work space. Due to the collective nature of a group residency with a shared campus and meals there is ample opportunity to foster new connections and dialogue creating opportunities for cross-disciplinary interaction and thinking.

School of the Arts
Spotlight on newly scheduled art workshops

Basic Wire-Wrapping Crash Course
Naomi Martnick

June 16, 18, 20, 2018
In this class, we will learn different wire-wrapping skills and make our own jewelry using sterling silver wire and real gemstone beads!

First Day: We will make a pair of earrings by wire-wrapping beads onto headpins for a cascading look. All beads and materials are provided, but if you have special beads you would like to use, bring them along! We will also learn how to make our own ear wires and headpins in this class.

Second Day: We will work on a bracelet. We will continue to use the wire-wrapping skills we learned in the previous class and make a bracelet with beads hanging off like a charm bracelet. We will also learn to make a handmade clasp and an inner centerpiece shape for the bracelet if you desire.

Third Day: We will make a necklace. Continuing to use the skills we have learned, we will design a bracelet. We will design a centerpiece stone or metalwork and wire wrap beads onto the chain for a beautiful and elegant look!LEARN MORE

The Inspired Abstract
Julie Bernstein Engelmann

July 20–22, 2018

Discover the magic of turning moments of inspiration into beautiful abstract paintings! The treasures of inspiration can be found all around you – in a vivid experience, a dream, a desire, a photograph, and even the pattern of a napkin. In this workshop, you’ll mine such beloved treasures and transmute them into unique, fascinating abstract paintings.

Using Julie’s layering technique, you will enter the painting process naturally, ease into your own personal marks and forms reflecting your inspiration, and weave exquisite depth and beauty. Then, Julie will help you see the spirit of your painting and gently enhance its drama and spatial flow so it can shine powerfully. Along the way, you’ll refine your understanding of composition and color mixing. You’ll gain the hands-on experience of creating an intriguing and successful abstract painting – one with the key components: meaning, naturalness, and spatial depth and flow. Julie will give demonstrations, group critique, and plenty of one-on-one time.

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Filmmaking Bootcamp Certificate Program
Bryan Reinhart

August 18–31, 2018

This three-week certificate program provides students who are interested in filmmaking or even contemplating a commitment to filmmaking as a career the opportunity to learn the basics of the craft in a short immersive format. The course is designed as a boot-camp/hands-on approach to filmmaking.

The program is structured around the production of short films of increasing complexity that students work on together. Students will be introduced to the traditional concepts of shooting a motion picture film and will apply this foundation of knowledge to contemporary practices of shooting with digital technology. All projects will be shot on high definition digital video cameras.

Classes and hands-on workshops are held throughout the week and some weekends are reserved for additional classes or shooting. Time will be required outside of class for writing, location scouting, casting, and editing. The third week is devoted to editing the productions, culminating in the final screening for fellow students and the public.

Students write, direct, shoot and edit using high-def digital video, film lighting packages, and digital editing software. Classes in directing, writing, editing, cinematography, and production cover the creative and technical demands of telling a story with moving images. A final screening will be open to the public, creating a meaningful deadline for production and editing.

Chasing the Light
Tony Allain

April 10–12, 2019
The quest for ‘perfection’ can bring with it fear of making mistakes and can result in an inhibited style. I will share some of my working methods concentrating on painting landscapes, water, figures, sky, sunset and still life subjects that have a bit of punch!

Using direct strokes on a textured surface to emphasize “brushwork we will learn how to simplify our approach to achieve exciting impressionistic paintings that are flooded with light.

We will add elements of abstraction but still keep some association with reality. This workshop is for those willing to go through the door marked ‘leaving your comfort zone’ and enter a world of exciting and expressive pastel application. We will also experiment with ways exciting ways to introduce more color and light into our work. Each day will start with a demonstration with heaps of challenges and loads of individual help at the easel.

Painting From the Rim of the Grand Canyon
Bill Cramer

May 3–5, 2019
Nothing really compares to painting at the edge of the Grand Canyon. This three-day intensive offers: master instruction, the support of the Grand Canyon Association Field Institute (GCAFI) and coordination through the Sedona Arts Center. We will car pool to various locations on the south rim over the course of the workshop, coordinating our locations to create optimal lighting for the painting experience.

Bill Cramer teaches various approaches to working on-site and how to efficiently compose and complete plein air paintings. Emphasis will be placed on how to effectively translate the often complex three dimensional landscape onto a two dimensional plane using thumbnail sketches, limited palettes and the thoughtful use of colors, values, shapes, edges and textures. Further emphasis will be placed on the creative process to make paintings that are more than strict representations of the landscape we see. Multiple demonstrations will be complemented by individual attention and group learning.

The Egg Tempera Portrait
Koo Schadler

November 11–15, 2019

Old as the Egyptians and most famous during the Renaissance, egg tempera painting is becoming increasingly popular with artists today. Tempera has unsurpassed luminosity. Dozens of glazes and scumbles can be applied in a day, and yet the medium also allows for meticulous linear detailing.

Because of its luminosity and fine line work, egg tempera is an ideal medium for rendering the human face. In this workshop you will learn every step of how to develop a portrait in egg tempera, with ongoing individual instruction and critiques from Schadler. Schadler explains the traditional Old Master palette used to develop flesh tones. She will also work on a painting of her own, so you can see firsthand how she develops her egg tempera portraits. The workshop includes a photography session in which you learn how to light and pose a model to create visually strong photographs that already look like beautifully designed paintings.
Sedona Arts Center is one of Northern Arizona’s most well-established cultural organizations and serves as the creative heart of Sedona. Founded in 1958, the nonprofit organization is based at the Art Barn in Uptown and offers year-round classes, exhibitions, festivals, and cultural events that enhance the creative life of the Verde Valley. The Center’s Fine Art Gallery, open daily from 10am to 5pm, promotes the original works of over 100 local artists and regularly offers special assistance for collectors and art buyers, offers private studio visits, and fosters hundreds of arts education opportunities each year. For more information, call the Gallery at 928-282-3865, the Administrative offices at 928-282-3809 or visit us online at SedonaArtsCenter.org.
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