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Sedona Arts Center update for Aug. 2

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First Friday in the Gallery

Exhibition Features 5 Local Artists
First Friday Reception August 3, from 5 to 8 pm 

Join us for a spectacular First Friday, August 3 from 5 to 8pm, where you can explore mulitple shows on campus! Highlighted in the Fine Art Gallery this month and through September 4 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 jewelry by April Bower.

PLUS! In the Theatre Gallery: explore your favorite works by local artists at the Members’ Summer Co-op Exhibition and Sale, showing through August 27.

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
Theatre Gallery

First Friday In the Art Barn
Special Performance with Geo and Jill
Jill Trenholm and John Stebila

From 5 to 7pm at the Art Barn

Jill’s original style combines a bit of storytelling with a hint of jazz. Her long musical career includes being featured playing guitar and singing in a Levi’s commercial to opening for Michael McDonald at Mayhill’s Amphitheater. Jill also is the creator of a children’s music & storytelling adventure called Jirina’s Journey which teaches kids to practice kindness.

John Stebila (a.k.a. Geo) Percussionist has performed with many musical groups over the years. He is also a skilled Native American flute player.

School of the Arts
Spotlight on art workshops starting soon!

iPhoneography Crash Course
Kelli Klymenko

August 4, 2018

In this workshop you will learn how to shoot, edit and share remarkable landscapes, portraits and the macro world around you. Explore amazing new tools of the trade such as an external zoom, macro, wide-angle, and fish-eye lenses, mini-tripods, image stabilizers and so much more. You will learn to use basic photographic techniques and master photo editing tools to move beyond a snapshot and into the realm of stunning photography.

The workshop is from 9 am to 3pm on Saturday, August 4, 2018 at Sedona Arts Center 15 Art Barn Road in Uptown Sedona and costs $100 for members and $110 for everyone else.

A Free Zen Event!
Zen As Art – “Celebrating my 80th Birthday”
Alok Hsu Kwang-han
September 12, 7 – 8:30 pm

Zen Calligraphy Master Alok Hsu Kwang-han will give a presentation and demonstration, “Zen as Art, Celebrating my 80th Birthday!” on Wednesday, September 12, 7 to 8:30 pm, at the Sedona Arts Center, 15 Art Barn Rd, Sedona, AZ 86336. Admission is free.

Alok comments, “Painting Zen, as it has evolved through me in the last 40 years, proceeds with the methodless-method of “resting in presence, moving from emptiness.” As a true Zen practice, the “self” is not in the way. Celebrating the 80th birthday of my body can truly be a celebration if the “self” can also not be in the way— without identification or attachment to “my” body or to the “I” supposedly anchored to the body. The I then, present and empty, can be spacious and grateful for the miracle of our existence, including my existence, and the beauty of our impermanence. This way we can be relaxed and easy with life and death together. It’s a fierce and liberating art to have no preference for one over the other. Zen is our digested and embodied wisdom that emboldens us and supports us at each stage of our life-and-death. “God” has designed it this way but we have gone astray, choosing this rejecting that.”

Loosen Up with Aquamedia Painting
Robert Burridge

September 17–19, 2018
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.

Abstract/Figurative 3-Day Workshop
Robert Burridge

September 21–23, 2018
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.

Call to Artists
Community Plein Air Event at L’Auberge de Sedona
Wednesday, August 15, 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.

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.

SIGN UP / REGISTER HERE

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Save the Date!
14th Annual Sedona Plein Air Festival
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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