Sedona Arts Center update for July 12

Call to Artists
Sedona Summer Colony—Sign up today!

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.

Call to Artists
Community Plein Air Event at L’Auberge de Sedona

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

SIGN UP / REGISTER HERE

Member’s Summer Co-op Exhibition

Looking for that perfect gift? Member artists of the Sedona Arts Center are gathering together to show and sell their work in the Members’ Summer Co-Op Exhibition and Sale. Ceramics, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and jewelry will be available! Open 10-5 daily in the Sedona Art Center’s Theatre Gallery, located in the bottom of the Art Barn.

Not a Member yet? Join here!

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

School of the Arts
Weekly Classes, Crash Courses and More

Gain the confidence to be a painter!

From the beginning to the experienced student, this one-day class in oil or acrylic will guide and teach students how to approach the painting process with confidence, while exploring the basics of value-pattern, composition and color. Students may work from life and/or photos. Instructor demonstrations and lots of individual attention provided. Students should take a drawing class prior to attempting painting. The materials list is available below.

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 workshops for beginner and advanced students and you’ll go beyond the basics and learn to shoot professional quality photographs with your iPhone.

In this 1-day workshop 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.

In this favorite abstract course, Julie gives you a powerful foundation for painting abstracts with depth and feeling. Her layering technique helps you enter the painting process naturally, develop beautiful complexity and flow, and bring out the spirit of your painting. You’ll gain discernment and valuable composition and color skills while creating two vibrant and intriguing acrylic paintings: a painted paper collage and an 18×24 canvas panel.

Through demonstration, practice, and discussion, participants will come to see each painting more deeply and understand how to enhance its impact.

You will begin to fill pages with beautiful colors and textural backgrounds while exploring drawing, watercolor, collage and mixed media techniques. Two days of creativity will include plein air sketching, nature rubbings as well as playing with patterns and motifs using stencils, other found materials and collected ephemera.

Participants are encouraged to bring found objects, photos, receipts, pressed leaves, etc.

You will receive a basic travel journaling kit for the $50 fee that includes brilliant watercolors, sketching supplies and a portable journal. Karen will also have additional materials and supplies on hand for you to use during the class. Optional upgrades to the basic kit will be available for purchase as well so you can continue your creative journaling at home or on the road.

Explore the the secrets of creating high performance art with Prismacolor fine art pencils. Award winning artist and illustrator Richard Drayton will guide students through step-by-step techniques that will result in rich blended colors and powerful composition. Printed worksheets and images will be provided by the instructor. Artists of all levels will enjoy expanding the boundaries of creative expression with this remarkably versatile medium.

September 17–19
Loosen Up with Aquamedia Painting
Robert Burridge
Burridge’s popular “Loosen Up” workshops nurture 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.

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September 21–23
Abstract / Figurative 3-Day Workshop
Robert Burridge

Master calligrapher Alok Hsu Kwang-han will guide and inspire you to rest in the spaciousness of your being, to be comfortable and intimate with not knowing, and to allow your brush to dance from emptiness. It will become obvious to you this is a healing journey as well as a creativity workshop!

Delve into the art of paper and glue, working through an intensive exploration of the art of abstract collage, intended to help you connect to the design knowledge you already carry within you to create satisfying works of art while discovering your own authentic style.

Create compositions utilizing both, elements with organic torn edges, and those deliberately cut with scissors. Learn to select the proper adhesive, determine what substrate to utilize, and alter a variety of salvaged materials for use in collage.

The class will include a hands on comparison of the unique nature and differences found between hot encaustic wax and cold wax medium when applied to the paper elements and incorporated into the design. We will also examine the qualities unique to each of three protective finishes, hot encaustic wax, cold wax medium, and spray varnish and leave the class with a new found confidence in your ability to determine which to use.