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Sedona Arts Center update for Aug. 31

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Call to Artists! Labor Day Weekend Sale! New Website!
Labor Day Weekend Sale!

10% gallery-wide discount 
Sedona Arts Center Members receive an additional 5% off!

This weekend we are extending our member’s discount to all customers in the gallery, offering 10% off for any combination of purchases that are over $100 total! Folks that are already members of the Sedona Arts Center will receive an additional 5% off their purchases! As a non-profit organization there is no sales tax on Gallery purchases! Our gallery offers an ongoing constantly changing exhibition of over 100 local artists! Come explore and enjoy…sale ends Monday at 5pm.

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Upcoming First Friday Exhibition in the Fine Art Gallery
September 7, 5 – 8 pm

Celebrate First Friday at the Arts Center with an artists reception and a live demonstration by renowned artist Gretchen Lopez on First Friday, September 7th at 6 pm. Joining Gretchen as featured artists for the reception will be Susan Pitcairn with landscape paintings, photographer AO Tucker, Jeff Perkins with copper mat and raku works, Mariann Leahy with hand painted ceramics and jewelry by Sue Horine.

Upcoming First Friday in the Special Exhibition Gallery
Karen Taylor and Victoria Z. Rivers

This special exhibition includes both wearable and wall art created to celebrate the diversity and beauty of cultures from around the globe. Karen Taylor was inspired to paint Native Americans from her memories of her adventures teaching school on a Shoshone Indian Reservation.
Victoria Z. Rivers creates one-of-a-kind jewelry with antique elements featuring amulets, talismans, beads, coral and coins. Victoria was a professor, artist and scholar in traditional and vanishing textile traditions from Central, South and Southeast Asia. Their work will be exhibited Friday Sept. 7th- 9th. Reception is September First Friday from 5pm-8pm.
Want to meet a spectacular person? 
Host an Artist!

Our biggest event of the year, the 14th Annual Sedona Plein Air Festival, is right around the corner and we are seeking housing for our visiting artists in October. Thirty professional artists migrate from around the country to participate and we rely on volunteers from the community to host our artists for the event – this year the dates are October 13-20th. If you have a spare room, guest house, casita, or studio please consider opening it up to a visiting artist – many lifelong friendships are borne out of hosting!  Please contact Jenny Reed at sac@sedonaartscenter.org to ask for more information and express interest. In the meantime, check out the event HERE.
Call to Artists! September 19, 9 am – Noon
Community Plein Air Event at L’Auberge de Sedona

Artists and the public are invited to visit a beautiful creekside art event!

Art Curator at L’Auberge de Sedona and owner of Goldenstein Gallery, Linda Goldenstein, invites the community to participate in completing plein air paintings or drawings in any medium, along the banks of Oak Creek at L’Auberge de Sedona. Artists will set up along the L’Auberge creekside and paint still water reflections, cascading waters in the creek, trees, ducks, and views of diners at the creekside cafe. Artists can begin working upon arrival and stop at 11am. Finished works may be displayed on the creekside lawns using artist’s own easel and they may be for sale. The Arts Center will present an award at 11:15am and will process any sales from 11-11:30am.

As parking is very limited at the resort, Red Rock 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 Cress on Oak Creek, the lovely creekside restaurant at L’Auberge.

Artists please register in advance for the event HERE.
Our new Business of Art Series
Nine different courses – Free to Members
$10 each for non-members

This Fall there are many opportunities to expand your understanding of the business side of being an artist. We have partnered with the Small Business Development Center at Yavapai College for strategic sessions in highly specialized aspects of being an artist and running your own business. Sessions include: photography of artwork for portfolios and for social media, using facebook as a business, insurance for artists, accountiing, organizational software and more. Start with a meaningful look at the value of art, for the community and for individuals with Certified Art Therapist Cheri Epstein on September 14th, 6 – 7 pm in the Theatre Studio at the Sedona Arts Center. Note: Some of the programming for the series is held at Yavapai College Sedona Center.
After months of work…
We have launched our new website!

We are still tweaking, learning and playing with it, but our new website is a powerful tool that will help us profile our gallery artists, our classes,  workshops and all that we do. Please visit the homepage and start exploring! The site has a lot of dynamic capacity for relating one kind of event or artwork to another. Phase one of the release has all the school’s programming in place…Phase two will profile all the gallery artists!
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.
October 25 – 28 
Source to Studio Workshop
Joshua Been

In this workshop, through clearly explaining concepts in the translation process from a three dimensional environment to a two dimensional surface, I will clear up the mystery, and strengthen your knowledge of the process and visual language of painting, from the source (plein air) to the studio. I teach a 4 pronged visual language approach (Value, Shapes, Edges, and Texture) that is both easy to remember and an effective way of breaking down difficult subject matter into manageable information.

This workshop meets for 3.5 days. The final day is a complete demonstration of taking a plein air painting done from life and building a larger and more detailed composition in the studio setting.

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