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Sedona Arts Center update for Oct. 11 — Don’t miss the Fall Open Studio Tour Oct. 26-28

by Community Contributor • October 11, 2018 • Comments Off

Attend the Fall Artist Open Studios Tour In Sedona on
October 26, 27 & 28

The Sedona Visual Artists’ Coalition (SVAC) Studio Tour has experienced significant growth over the last several years, becoming one of Sedona’s “Can’t Miss” events. In fact, the Tour has been designated one of Sedona’s top cultural events by the Sedona Chamber of Commerce.

It is a wonderful opportunity to shop for unique, one of kind gifts and meet directly with the artists of the Verde Valley. The studios are located in Sedona, the Village of Oak Creek, Cornville, Cottonwood, and Clarkdale. This year there are 50 artists who will open their studios on Friday and Saturday October 26 and 27th from 10 am to 5 pm and on Sunday the 28th from 12-5 pm. The tour is self-directed and free to the public.

Past tour visitors report one of the distinct pleasures of shopping on the studio tour for their own collection or for gifts, is spending time with the wide variety of artists who offer a personal look at how and where the art is made. It also gives the artist and visitor alike the opportunity to make a personal connection.

Brochures with a complete list of participating artists, including a map, will be conveniently available at numerous locations in Sedona, Cottonwood, Cornville, Clarkdale and Camp Verde, including hotels and restaurants as well as the Sedona Arts Center and the Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center in Uptown Sedona. For complete information, including artists’ name and medium, studio locations, and a downloadable map, please go to the SVAC website: http://sedonaartistscoalition.org or contact Mike Upp at 503.789.4437, mjupp10@gmail.com.

At Sedona Arts Center

Meet The Artists

Karen Taylor

Karen Taylor was born and raised in San Francisco. Her study of Anthropology explains her fascination with indigenous peoples, their cultures and arts. After college Karen moved to Nevada, where she lived and taught school on a Shoshone Indian Reservation for two years. The elegance of the culture and the high desert light inspired her to paint and preserve the legacy of Native American artistic traditions. She is a self-taught artist inspired by the faces and lives she shared. She has educated herself by taking numerous workshops in many southwest states.

Karen will be painting in the Gallery Lobby at Sedona Arts Center

Rob Williams

Rob Williams started art classes a few years, taking lessons initially in painting and later in ceramics. Ceramics resonated with Rob and the teachers at Sedona Arts Center (SAC) provided a fundamental understanding of working with ceramics and the freedom and encouragement to be creative. Rob’s work today is inspired by his Native heritage. His Mother was a Native American (Caddo), a homemaker and a seamstress. She had numerous catalogs and collectables with Native designs, buttons, and symbols. In his youth he spent countless hours recreating the images from those catalogs.

Rob will be demonstrating in the North Studio at Sedona Arts Center

Debra Levidow

Debby Levidow is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Scottsdale, AZ. She has always been interested in the arts as a creative outlet. Through the years,= she has loved to paint, knit, sculpt and draw. She was bitten by the pottery bug five years ago after taking a class in Phoenix with some friends. Soon after, she found a home at the Sedona Arts Center and began taking classes there. She spends her free time in her studio throwing on the potter’s wheel. She enjoys the process of raku and the more organic forms of finishing her pieces such as using horsehair and Ferric Chloride and Saggar. She is inspired by the beauty of nature. When she is not on the whee,l she enjoys hiking and spending time with her Goldendoodle, Piper. She currently splits her time between Scottsdale and Sedona.

Debra Levidow will be demonstrating in the South Studio

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.