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Sedona Arts Center update for Sept. 5

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First Friday in the Gallery

Sedona Arts Center Features New Artists Highlighting Fall Colors
First Friday Reception September 7, from 5 to 8 pm 

Sedona Arts Center is celebrating the beginning of fall by featuring six fine artists in their Uptown, Sedona Fine Art Gallery this September. The exhibition opens with an artist reception and a live demonstration with renowned artist Gretchen Lopez on First Friday, September 7 from 5 to 8 pm and will continue through October 30, 2018. The exhibit will feature landscape paintings by Susan Pitcairn, photography by AO Tucker, copper mat and raku works by Jeff Perkins, hand-painted ceramics by Mariann Leahy, jewelry by Sue Horine and portraits and more by Gretchen Lopez.

Gretchen Lopez

Gretchen Lopez, a tenth generation Native of California, is a descendant of the first Spanish settlers and the California Rancheros, with roots stemming from Chumash and Apache. Her works are inspired by her rich ethnic heritage, which is clearly visible in the gentle beauty of the Native and Hispanic people she portrays. Gretchen is a long-time faculty member and a participating artist in the 14th Annual Sedona Plein Air Festival taking place October 13-20, 2018. She is beloved by her students, art collectors, and the Arts Center volunteers and staff. Her work is vibrant, emotive, and full of immense life.

Jeff Perkins

From thrown clay to large form, thin-walled vessels—to hand-built figures, Jeff Perkinshas been a master of ceramics for most of his life. Jeff studied under Arts Center founder and sculptor Nassan Gobran, who encouraged him to pursue art in clay form. He went on to teaching at Verde Valley School for over 30 years. Influenced by ancient and primitive art, Jeff takes ordinary clay and brilliantly produces large, thin-walled vessels in organic copper mat and his signature black and white naked raku. His style is spontaneous and intuitive, letting the thrown work develop into large cylinder forms that defy the imagination.

Mariann Leahy

Artist Mariann Leahy’s inspiration comes from ancient myths and symbols. Using clay that contains a mica-rich surface, she carefully paints stories with glazes on fired clay. Each piece is painted with multiple coats of glaze to create vivid colors during her second firing process. Mariann combines human and animal motifs in her highly-symbolic works.

A O Tucker
As a self-taught artist, AO Tucker believes that fine art photography must both be inspiring and technically excellent. Born and raised in Arizona on farm land, he learned to be self-sufficient in all things, including his art. His independence is evident within the stories he tells through his photography.

Susan Pitcairn
Local artist, Susan Pitcairn fuse inspiring poems with her vibrant landscapes in oils, acrylics, and pastels. Her poetic images hold symbolic meaning, revealing her own universal truths. Raised in Phoenix, Susan began painting the beauty of the Southwest in her teens. She majored in fine art at the University of Arizona where she trained in oils as well as pastels. Her style is described as impressionistic renditions of the beautiful landscape she is inspired by. She is particularly passionate about the spiritual purpose of art: to inspire and uplift.

Sue Horine
Sue Horine has been creating bead embroidered art jewelry since 2005. She was born in California and much of her inspiration comes from her childhood family vacations to the Southwest and Sierra Nevada Mountains. Primarily self-taught, her beaded jewelry has become easily recognizable as her style has developed from her love of nature and the scenic stone cabochons she incorporates in her work.

Special First Friday Event
Live Model Painting Demonstration with Gretchen Lopez
From 6 to 7pm in the Gallery

This month’s exhibition opens with an artist reception and a live model painting demonstration with renowned artist Gretchen Lopez on First Friday, September 7, beginning at 6pm.

Art Barn
In the Special Exhibition Gallery

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School of the Arts
Don’t miss these art workshops and events!

Luscious Abstractions
Julie Bernstein Engelmann

September 8–9, 2018

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. All experience levels welcome. Come as you are, all supplies provided.

Glazing with Oils
Cyndi Thau

September 11–20, 2018
“Glaze Your Way to a Beautiful Painting”

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1–4 pm, All Materials Included!

Students will be taught how to choose a composition, transfer it to the canvas and then begin the process of laying in color. This class will be taught in four sessions to allow for critical drying time between layers. We will focus on light and shadow, paying attention to brushwork and edges as we build up the design. Paintings will be done on a gallery wrap canvas and students will be given a choice of images to work from. Attention to detail is important and even more critical is the use of light and shadow to form the shapes while laying in color to complete the design.

Curved Piecing with Fabric
Patricia Caldwell
September 12, 2018
This course is designed to show you an easy way to piece a pattern that has curves using fabrics. Hands on demonstration and slide show presentation will give you the skills to be able to start you on your way. All levels of sewers and artist are welcome to attend. Small class will ensure all How To questions are answered. Come along and learn something new. No supplies needed for this class. 

Cost: $55 – You will receive free pattern with a supply list of what you will need when you get home to practice.

Confetti Painted Tree
Patricia Caldwell
September 19, 2018
This hands on demonstration and slide show presentation you will learn the art of confetti painted trees with batik fabrics. By cutting batik fabrics into hundreds of little pieces or strips to form trees to add to your fiber art. Once you learn this method you can apply it to any shape. All sewers and artists are welcome to attend. Small class will ensure all How To questions are answered. Come along and learn something new. No supplies needed for this class.

Cost: $55 – You will receive free pattern with a supply list of what you will need when you get home to practice.

Thread Painting
Patricia Caldwell
September 26, 2018
A great way to enhance your textile art is by Thread Painting. Thread painting is a process of adding color to art using decorative thread with your sewing machine. There are different layers to thread painting that we will be discussing in this hands on demonstration and slide show presentation class. All sewers and artist are welcome to attend. Small class will ensure all How To questions are answered. No supplies needed for this class.

Cost: $55 – You will receive free pattern with a supply list of what you will need when you get home to practice.

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.”

A Brush with Emptiness: Zen Creativity and the Art of Life 
Alok Hsu Kwang-han
September 29–30, 2018

This is the workshop Alok gives on his 80th birthday! He welcomes you!

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!

You will come to hold your brushes as friends and move with them in harmony. Being playful with not-knowing, we become available to the intelligence, creativity, and good humor outside the boundaries of what we know. As we rest in presence and put aside all schemes of ‘how’ to do it, a readiness arises and we allow creative action to come forth from ’emptiness’ the space of full intelligence prior to thought. You may be asked to paint your heart’s longing, the sound of silence, the Zen Koan, ‘My house burnt down, I can see the moon!’ or Rumi’s poem, ‘God has only four words: come dance with me!’ As your brush dances from emptiness, you realize the same dance may be dancing you.

Successive paintings later, you begin to gain a confidence in the methodless-method of ‘creating through non-doing.’ With gratefulness you come to realize ‘I am the art!’ And the Little Me that has taken up so much space in your life is not necessary.

iPhoneography Crash Course
Kelli Klymenko

September 22, 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.

Wax, Paper, Scissors
Crystal Neubauer

October 1–3, 2018
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.

The Magic of Paperclay Sculpture
Michele Collier

October 5–7, 2018
Learn to explore the expressive beauty of the human form through a unique paperclay process working from slab to sculptural form. For sculptors with experience this is a game changer, for those with no experience it is a wonderful place to begin. No knowledge of anatomy, sculpture or ceramics is needed to fully engage with this workshop.

In slab form, the clay can be twisted, folded, squeezed and torn to mimic the human form. Because of the wicking properties that come from the paper additives, it will easily adhere to itself – no scoring or slipping needed.

Responding to Nature
Suzie Baker

October 10–12, 2018
The workshop will kick off with a lecture and demo. Students receive instruction on principles of painting ranging from drawing, color, value, composition, color theory and so much more. Every day, you will apply what is being taught by getting outside to paint, observing and recording nature as it changes. Suzie will demo on location and offer one-on-one instruction in the field at every student’s easel.

Suzie’s goal is to help each student with strategies for personal progression through group instruction, example, and individual interaction. Her humorous, informative manner makes tackling this multi-faceted challenge a fun and rewarding experience.

Landscape: Source to Studio
Joshua Been

October 25–28, 2018
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.

Call to Artists
Community Plein Air Event at L’Auberge de Sedona
Wednesday, September 19, 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.

Artists please register in advance for the event 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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