Art workshops at Sedona Arts Center

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.

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

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.

Jeff Perkins designed the workshop to improve your throwing and handbuilding skills and see things in a different way. Students will learn a series of techniques on how to throw distorted forms to make them more fluid and graceful. They will also learn how to create whimsical handbuilt figures using found textures to enhance them.

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.