Art Workshops and more at Sedona Arts Center!

Online Learning
at Sedona Arts Center

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The Inspired Abstract ONLINE!
with Julie Bernstein Engelmann
March 21–24, 2022
This workshop gives you a powerful foundation for abstract painting. You’ll be guided to enter the painting process naturally, use layers to develop a deep and luscious visual space, and weave into it brush-marks that grow from a personally meaningful inspiration. You’ll learn to see the spirit in your painting and help it shine powerfully.

A focus of the workshop is to find ease in bringing your mid-process “beautiful mess” to fulfilled completion. You’ll create two acrylic paintings that embody meaning, naturalness, and spatial depth & flow – qualities that lift an abstract painting from amateur to professional.

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Abstract Figurative Workshop ONLINE!
with Robert Burridge
May 6-8, 2022
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.
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Field Expeditions
through Sedona Arts Center
iPhoneography at the South Rim
of the Grand Canyon!

with Kelli Klymenko
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Kelli Klymenko is taking his one-day class for beginner and advanced students on the road to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon! He’ll teach you how to push yourself beyond the basics and learn to shoot professional quality photographs using only your iPhone.

You will learn how to shoot, edit and share remarkable landscapes, portraits and the macro world around you. 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. This class will begin inside then follow with a hike to the rim, where you’ll photograph and explore along the way! Then you’ll head back in to edit your photos and learn Kelli’s simple edits to create stunning photos.

9am to 2pm at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon
In partnership with the Grand Canyon Conservancy

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Grand Canyon: Painting from the South Rim
with Bill Cramer
April 26–28, 2022
Nothing really compares to painting at the edge of the Grand Canyon. This three-day intensive offers: master instruction, the support of the Grand Canyon Conservancy Field Institute (GCCFI) and coordination through the Sedona Arts Center.

Bill Cramer teaches various approaches to working on-site and how to efficiently compose and complete plein air paintings. Emphasis will be placed on how to effectively translate the often complex three dimensional landscape onto a two dimensional plane using thumbnail sketches, limited palettes and the thoughtful use of colors, values, shapes, edges and textures. Further emphasis will be placed on the creative process to make paintings that are more than strict representations of the landscape we see. Multiple demonstrations will be complemented by individual attention and group learning.

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In-Person Learning
at Sedona Arts Center

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FREE Creative Aging Teaching Artist Training
with Julie Richard
March 3, 2022
What is Creative Aging?

The arts play a powerful role in enhancing the quality of life of older adults. Designed to generate opportunities for lifelong learning, social engagement and mastery of skills, Creative Aging workshops provide life-changing experiences for adults ages 55 and older.

If you are interested in:

  • Engaging older adults in meaningful, creative activity and sequential learning, and;
  • Incorporating creative aging principles of social engagement and mastery in to your arts workshop teaching, and;
  • You recognize the contributions of older community members…

then please join me in March to learn more about Creative Aging, it’s physical and mental benefits and how you can put the Creative Aging principles in to action.

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Painting For All Levels
with Gretchen Lopez
March 4, 2022
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.
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Ink, Paper, and Intuition: Monotype Printmaking
with Phil Garrett
March
11–13, 2022
This 3-day workshop will explore the spontaneous and dynamic medium of monotype printmaking, a very user-friendly and immediate art-making process using Golden Open Acrylics, Qor Watercolor, Water-soluble inks and Water-soluble drawing materials. The monotype offers a way of working that can be spontaneous, fluid and very painterly.  Images can be developed in a relatively short space of time, and because the plate retains a thin layer of ink after being printed (the so called ghost image,) it is easy to modify the image and work sequentially.
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Painterly Portraits in Pastel
with William Schneider
March
24–27, 2022
Learn how to loosen up! Pastel can be the most expressive medium…if you understand how to use its unique properties.  Most artists admire the evocative, sensuous brushwork of oil painting masters like Nicolai Fechin, John Singer Sargent, and Anders Zorn. But creating those bravura effects in pastel is another matter.In this three day workshop you will learn:

  • A technique to create oil painting Master, Nicolai Fechin’s broken edge effects
  • How to create sparkling color
  • How to simplify
  • A sure-fire way to achieve masterful edge control
  • Power through suggestion
  • The key to color harmony
  • How to turn the form with temperature
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Altered Thrown Forms
& Whimsical Hand-built Figures

with Jeff Perkins
March
26–27, 2022
Learn how to loosen up! Pastel can be the most expressive medium…if you understand how to use its unique properties.  Most artists admire the evocative, sensuous brushwork of oil painting masters like Nicolai Fechin, John Singer Sargent, and Anders Zorn. But creating those bravura effects in pastel is another matter.
ALTERED THROWN FORMS & WHIMISCAL HAND-BUILT FIGURES
Color Clinic
with Gretchen Lopez
March
30–31, 2022
Learn how to achieve harmony and continuity in your paintings by mixing color from a limited palette.  Have fun as we explore and discover how to use simple methods of mixing paint to gain confidence and a better understanding of how color works.  Get ready to apply what we learn to a still life, abstract, and landscape! Instructor demonstrations and individual attention provided.
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Mosaic / Collage Pendants
with Michelle Sales
Saturday, April 2,
2022
This one day class will incorporate beads and/or found objects to create two beautiful and unique pendants. Participants will learn how to utilize a non-toxic epoxy clay to embed objects and beads into a metal pendant tray. Proper placement of beads, design, and composition will be explored. Several examples of finished pendants and necklaces will be provided for reference.  This is a fun and inspirational class that can be used as a spring board for the creation of many types of jewelry and collage work. The class is appropriate for all skill levels.
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Mindful Nature Journaling
with Anne Brownfield Meara
April 8–9,
2022
This workshop offers a retreat into mindfulness practices with quiet observation of the natural world, it’s beauty and wonder.  We will match our inner landscapes to nature’s slower rhythm by turning inward.  Dwelling in the present moment, participants will then turn attention outward toward nature, mindfully sensing and noticing both small details and large shifts in light, color and atmosphere.

Immersing ourselves in the beauty around and within us will facilitate a deep and abiding connection.  Experiencing this well being, we see nature unfold in new and interesting ways. With active reflection and observation through words and images, we will create descriptive passages and pages infused with both imagination and feeling.

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Painting Luminous Birds
with Michelle Held
April 11–13,
2022
This workshop offers a retreat into mindfulness practices with quiet observation of the natural world, it’s beauty and wonder.  We will match our inner landscapes to nature’s slower rhythm by turning inward.  Dwelling in the present moment, participants will then turn attention outward toward nature, mindfully sensing and noticing both small details and large shifts in light, color and atmosphere.

Immersing ourselves in the beauty around and within us will facilitate a deep and abiding connection.  Experiencing this well being, we see nature unfold in new and interesting ways. With active reflection and observation through words and images, we will create descriptive passages and pages infused with both imagination and feeling.

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Scholarships at Sedona Arts Center
Scholarship awards will pay 50% towards any Class or Workshop tuition. Scholarships are not available for international Field Expeditions or Painting in the Grand Canyon. The Sedona Arts Center awards scholarships to students only when funds are available.
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