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Sedona Arts Center — Calls to Artists!

by Community Contributor • January 24, 2020 • Comments Off

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CALL TO ARTISTS

40th ANNUAL JURIED MEMBERS’
Exhibition and Sale
March 6–29, 2020
Deadline to enter: January 31, 2020

Artists of all levels, working in all mediums are invited to enter into our Annual Juried Member’s Exhibition & Sale. We will feature an opening reception on the First Friday of the exhibition. Now is your chance to jury into this established and much anticipated exhibit.CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE

MAGIC & DREAMS Exhibition and Sale
May 15–31, 2020

Call to Women Artists!

Exhibition Dates: May 15 – 31, 2020
Opening Reception: May 15, 2020, 5 – 7pm
Application Deadline: March 31, 2020
Notification: April 15, 2020
Take-in: May 14, 2020, 9am – Noon

This year the Sedona Arts Center is celebrating women artists through major exhibitions and events!

Magic and Dreams is a juried exhibition that will feature the work of women artists in Arizona. The theme is completely open to interpretation. The exhibition will be juried by arts center staff on the basis of creativity, skill, expectation of sales, and available space in the Special Exhibition Gallery. Artists working in any media are welcome to apply. Jewelry, Sculpture, Photography and Digital Media, as well as Painting, Drawing, Collage, and Mixed Media will be considered. Arts Center membership is not required.

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16th Annual Sedona Plein Air Festival
October 24–31, 2020

This year the Sedona Plein Air Festival will be a first of its kind – an all woman event! Up to 31 women plein air artists will gather from around the country to celebrate our beautiful and unique landscape through an eight-day painting event. The Sedona Arts Center is celebrating The Year of the Woman as the theme for 2020, the centennial year of the 19th amendment allowing women the right to vote. We believe it is important to recognize women artists in a unique way and to empower women through the arts. Our keynote speaker this year is Lyn Boyer, an artist who has been garnering national recognition through prestigious awards over the past four years. Lyn will be working with Arts Center staff to bring a very special group of women together for this event.

CALL TO WOMEN ARTISTS – APPLY TO PARTICIPATE HERE.

The festival is flanked by workshops that provide a variety of perspectives on landscape painting by nationally recognized artists. Learn more about landscape and plein air painting workshops HERE.

Upcoming Workshop
at Sedona Arts Center

Finding the Soul of Forgotten Materials
May 11 – 15, 2020
Geoffrey Gorman

This five-day workshop encourages students to experiment with innovative and intuitive ways of creating a variety of structures and forms using organic found and recycled materials. Students are invited to think about subjects, shapes, and forms that hold particular interest and bring these ideas to the workshop for realization.

Using unusual techniques developed by Geoffrey to overcome construction challenges, each student will complete a variety of forms, something they want to create. Students will be asked to bring some of their own favorite cast off materials. This class is perfect for beginners seeking an introduction to creating curious objects as well as intermediate and advanced students wishing to reach the next level and break out of their comfort zone. Students need to be familiar with using hand and power tools such as various drills, saws, and sanders.

We will look at selecting and designing pedestals and stands for artwork. We will also learn how to making patinated and painted tin to add age and color to various forms.

Artist Statement: A broken bent tree branch, bleached from sun and rain, makes me think of weathered bones: fingers, legs, backbone, and hip bone. Old stained strips of cloth act like bandages and clothing, hiding and holding it all together. Sculpted wax covers the frame and joints of wood. Found and lost objects assembled into curious and evocative shapes is what excites me.

When I am making objects, I think of model airplanes made of balsa wood, then covered in thin transparent paper. Or I see decoys and shapes made to attract wild animals. I visited a museum in Alaska that had drawers filled with toys that had been put together, used and collected from previous cultures. I also think of a forest of tall, dark trees covered in moss and moisture, a silent, meditative place.

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Sedona Arts Center is celebrating The Year of the Woman as the theme for 2020, the centennial year of the 19th amendment allowing women the right to vote. We believe it is important to recognize women artists and to empower women through the arts.

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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