Sedona Arts Center — New art classes starting this week!

Get excited to create something new and wonderful! Open the floodgates of your artistic nature with the help of instructor-led exercises and prompts designed to spark your creative juices. Expand your mind. Unwrap possibilities. This workshop is about inspiration, exploration, questions, answers, and permission to play in a supportive environment.

Would you like to work more loosely? More refined? Need how-to direction? Inspiration? Start fresh or feel free to bring a work-in-progress. With personalized instruction and deep dives into drawing, painting, and mixed media, let’s bring out what your heart wants to create.

In today’s technological world, even professional photographers and artists are recognizing the iPhone as a useful (and even practical) photographic tool. Join photographer artist, Kelli Klymenko in his one-day class for beginner and advanced students and you’ll go beyond the basics and learn to shoot professional quality photographs with your iPhone.

You will learn how to shoot, edit and share remarkable landscapes, portraits and the macro world around you using only your iPhone. 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. You will also learn basic video and video editing techniques for use with apps such as Facebook and Instagram.

• Learn how to get the highest resolution images on your iPhone and apps
• Practice creative techniques including HDR (High Dynamic Range)
• Shoot panoramas
• Learn about the latest editing, filters and stylizing apps
• Learn about iPhone equipment: remotes, tripods and more
• Learn how to use the hottest new tools on your iPhone

Materials Required For Students To Bring:  Please see Materials List tab above

This will be an In Person class, to join this class virtually, please visit:

iPhoneography ONLINE Class

Whether you choose Van Gogh or Renoir or even a Modern Day Artist, you’ll place yourself in the Master’s footsteps to copy their painting.  This is a great way to build your skills and learn technique, by finding out how your favorite Master created their painting!

Previous drawing experience is a must!

Art is for everyone, and this series will show you the incredible variety of materials and inspirations that ignite creativity. In this four-part journey, we’ll expand your artistic vision and spark your imagination like never before!

Step into the vibrant world of contemporary art and explore the what, where, when, why, and how of artmaking with today’s modern masters! Get inspired by the stories and works of legends like Gerhard Richter, Joan Mitchell, Anselm Kiefer, Mark Rothko, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Helen Frankenthaler, Judy Chicago, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yayoi Kusama, Cindy Sherman, and Joan Brown—to name a few. We’ll dive deep into the worlds of Environmental Art, Performance Art, Outsider Art, Women Artists, Native American Artists, and more.

SPECIAL PRICE: $40 for the series of 4 lectures or sign up individually for $12 each!

November 18 – What is Art – What is the difference between art from the soul and art made for the marketplace?  Who can do it? Impermanence as a theme. Click here if you want to register for this lecture individually.

December 2 – Today’s Masters Click here if you want to register for this lecture individually.

December 9 – Women Artists Click here if you want to register for this lecture individually.

December 16 – Environmental, Performance & Outsider Art Click here if you want to register for this lecture individually.

Are you drawn to the beauty and versatility of pastel but don’t know where to start?  This crash course is for you. We will have pastel demonstrations, exercises, and plenty of at-easel encouragement in Pastels:  A Crash Course.  Learn how to block in a design, underpaint using a wet wash, experiment with a variety of pastel surfaces and materials.  With an emphasis on achieving correct values, colors, and shapes you will create an exciting floral still life and leave the workshop with skills to begin your pastel journey.

I love the “Impressionists”!  They had an incredible way with color and light.  In this class, we will explore the color mixtures and brush work the Impressionists used, and work from the still life and the landscape!  Let’s plan to learn more about the light, and discuss Artists such as Monet, Sorolla and Renoir!

Learn to paint the beautiful vermilion hues of Sedona using gouache or acryla gouache. Painting from photo reference in this two-day workshop, Mike will demonstrate the unique properties and techniques of using this water based medium. Learn to achieve the velvet like qualities of color that is unique to gouache and acrylic gouache. Mike will also cover all of the other important fundamentals of landscape painting such as composition, shape design, value and lighting, color theory, grouping and simplification, texturing.

*Note that the Monday class is reserved for experienced ceramicists! (Beginners are welcome in Ben/Lolo/John’s Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday classes or in the Pottery Wheel for Beginners on Saturdays.)

The Sedona Arts Center’s ceramic department operates free from the constraints of grades and benefits from the talents of its ceramic faculty and assistants as well as nationally recognized guest instructors. This combination allows our department to offer flexible and diverse programming in both traditional and contemporary techniques.

Through demonstration and one-on-one instruction, students will learn to throw a variety of forms on the potter’s wheel or techniques to create hand-built works. Slab roller, extruder and forms are also available to create functional and decorative pieces. Tuition includes the first 25-pound bag of clay, firings and glazes, and one open studio session per week.

Pottery Tools – There are 9-piece tool kits available for purchase in the Ceramics Studio for $15 per kit. Purchase of the tool kit is not required to take the class.

This fun and creative class is for beginning and experienced ceramicists.  Tap into your creative self and experience various hand-building techniques. Make bowls, vases, mugs, serving platters, and boxes, using slabs, molds, and textures. The possibilities are endless.  Each class will include a demonstration and individual instruction that will help you achieve your goals.

The Sedona Arts Center’s ceramic department operates free from the constraints of grades and benefits from the talents of its ceramic faculty and assistants as well as nationally recognized guest instructors. This combination allows our department to offer flexible and diverse programming in both traditional and contemporary techniques.

Pottery Tools – There are 9-piece tool kits available for purchase in the Ceramics Studio for $15 per kit. Purchase of the tool kit is not required to take the class.

This six-week course focuses on developing, strengthening and advancing one’s skills using the potters’ wheel, as well as understanding the properties of clay in order to expand one’s potential to architecturally create a version of what one envisions. Slab roller, extruder and forms are also available to create functional and decorative pieces. Have fun, gain knowledge, build skills and confidence.

Small class size ensures that each student receives personalized, one-on-one instruction and encouragement. The Sedona Arts Center’s ceramic department operates free from the constraints of grades. Tuition includes the first 25-pound bag of clay, firings, glazes, and the opportunity to attend one open studio session per week.

Pottery Tools – There are 9-piece tool kits available for purchase in the Ceramics Studio for $15 per kit. Purchase of the tool kit is not required to take the class.

The Sedona Arts Center’s ceramic department operates free from the constraints of grades and benefits from the talents of its ceramic faculty and assistants as well as nationally recognized guest instructors. This combination allows our department to offer flexible and diverse programming in both traditional and contemporary techniques.

Through demonstration and one-on-one instruction, students will learn to throw a variety of forms on the potter’s wheel or techniques to create hand-built works. Slab roller, extruder and forms are also available to create functional and decorative pieces. Tuition includes the first 25-pound bag of clay, firings and glazes, and one open studio session per week.

Pottery Tools – There are 9-piece tool kits available for purchase in the Ceramics Studio for $15 per kit. Purchase of the tool kit is not required to take the class.

**PLEASE NOTE: This class will begin on Friday, November 29, 2024, as Thanksgiving is on November 28, 2024. Classes will resume on Thursdays for the remainder of the session.

This six-week course focuses on developing, strengthening and advancing one’s skills using the potters’ wheel, as well as understanding the properties of clay in order to expand one’s potential to architecturally create a version of what one envisions. Slab roller, extruder and forms are also available to create functional and decorative pieces. Have fun, gain knowledge, build skills and confidence.

Small class size ensures that each student receives personalized, one-on-one instruction and encouragement. Open for ages 12 through adult. The Sedona Arts Center’s ceramic department operates free from the constraints of grades. Tuition includes the first 25-pound bag of clay, firings, glazes, and the opportunity to attend one open studio session per week.

Pottery Tools – There are 9-piece tool kits available for purchase in the Ceramics Studio for $15 per kit. Purchase of the tool kit is not required to take the class.

This course is designed exclusively for those who are new to wheel work and is open for ages 12 through adult. Have fun while gaining confidence on the potter’s wheel. Learn the throwing fundamentals and the skills necessary to throw cylinders, bowls, mugs and plates. Glazing will also be demonstrated.  Small class size ensures that each student receives personalized, one-on-one instruction and encouragement for a fascinating hands-on experience that will bring out the potter in you.

The Sedona Arts Center’s ceramic department operates free from the constraints of grades and benefits from the talents of its ceramic faculty and assistants as well as nationally recognized guest instructors. This combination allows our department to offer flexible and diverse programming in both traditional and contemporary techniques.

Pottery Tools – There are 9-piece tool kits available for purchase in the Ceramics Studio for $15 per kit. Purchase of the tool kit is not required to take the class.

Learn to capture the beauty of light in this three-day workshop! Betty Carr teaches students to accurately portray the effect of light on any subject in watercolor. Students will explore a variety of locations in beautiful Sedona.

During her workshop Betty begins each day with a demonstration/ lecture covering tools, techniques, brushwork, problems and solutions. Emphasis throughout the workshop is on organization and simplification of darks and lights, value and color relationships, edges, movement and mass to create a dynamic, coherent composition.

Betty Carr’s energetic style and enthusiasm for painting and teaching create an infectious atmosphere of adventure and “can do” among her students. She has traveled the country teaching workshops for many years. Her instructional book “Seeing the Light” is available through North Light Books.

Paint looser and more confidently during this 3-day workshop with Oregon artist Sarah Sedwick! Take a step-by-step approach to alla prima oil painting, from black-and-white studies to brilliant color. Build a beautiful composition with life and movement, get a new perspective on the still life, and learn tips for bringing inspiration to your home studio practice.

You’ll learn the fundamentals of good design, creating sketches and value studies to plan a composition that works. Using a split-primary palette as your color foundation – two reds, two yellows, and two blues – you’ll do quick, fun exercises to focus on loosening up your brushwork before creating a finished piece.

Sarah will demonstrate, and work with each student individually. Instruction is in oils, and acrylics are welcome – particularly Open acrylics, that stay wet longer.

Class size limited to 12 students. All levels welcome, age 15 and above.

Learn how to craft stunning miniature scenes using wood and heat! An art form dating back to the 17th century, wood burning is a medium that manifests a unique kind of raw beauty. In this course, students will explore techniques relating to line work, pattern, and most importantly, how to set a piece up for success. Students will work on raw wood disks, and will finish the class with a handful of sweet ornaments, perfect for the holidays! This all-levels course is perfect for illustrators and wood-workers alike and offers an easy going environment to those interested in experimentation.

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