Sedona Arts Center — Calls to Artists! New Events, Classes and Workshops

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. Jewlery, 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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CALL TO 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.

Ceramics will be led by Dennis Ott, well-known head of the Arts Center’s Ceramics Studio, Two-Dimensional Surrealist work will be led by Vince Fazio, and Fiber Arts will be led by Isabel Simmer who makes beautiful woven garments.

In the Fiber Arts track Izzy Simmer, Joan Roberts, and Lorrie Petersen will guide students through a creative and fun afternoon of color theory, fabric dyeing, felting and hand embellishment to create your own wearable art scarf.  We will start with a plain piece of organic cotton terry cloth, use bleeding tissue paper to dye it, needle felt colored roving in creative shapes, and then embellish with embroidery and beads. All the colors, shapes, and finishing touches are your choice.  You will also make a scarf pin as a finishing touch.

The Ceramics Arts track is led by Dennis Ott, Head of  Ceramics Department. He will be assisted by Annie Murray and Betsy Lehman for a full spectrum experience revealing the potential of clay. You will engage in both hand-building with extruder and slab construction as well as an experience on the potter’s wheel. A lot of spontaneity and fun! Wear clothing you can get a little dirty!

The Surrealism Track is led by Vince Fazio, Executive Director of the Arts Center. Our main project will be a guided exercise in collage. This will be followed by creative use of our digital camera on our cell phones. Or you are welcome to bring your own digital camera. The final stage of the project will be a short written work inspired by the collage.

All materials are included with your $25 registration, children under 13 are free with a paying adult.

Ceramics For All Levels / 6 Class Sessions + 6 Open Studio Sessions

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.

January 20 – February 24, 2020 / Mondays, 4–7pm / Advanced*
January 21 – February 25 / Tuesdays, 9am – Noon
January 22 – February 26 / Wednesdays, 9am – Noon

*Note that the Monday class is reserved for experienced ceramicists!
(Beginners are welcome in Dennis Ott’s Tuesday or Wednesday classes.)

Come play in the clay! Tap into your creative self and experience various hand-building techniques. Make bowls, boxes, sculptures, tiles, using slabs, molds, and textures. The possibilities are endless. Open to all levels, beginners welcome!

Color, Light, Shadow, Translucency – These are the ingredients that we will work with to create a beautiful painting for you to take home. Our subject will be flowers and using the glazing technique we will apply thin layer upon layer of oil paint to achieve the depth and translucency associated with all things in nature.

Students will be taught how to choose a composition, transfer it to the canvas and then begin the process of laying in color. This class will be taught in four sessions to allow for critical drying time between layers. We will focus on light and shadow, paying attention to brushwork and edges as we build up the design. Paintings will be done on a gallery wrap canvas and students will be given a choice of images to work from. Attention to detail is important and even more critical is the use of light and shadow to form the shapes while laying in color to complete the design.

Wine will be available to participants 21 years and older.

Cost: $35 includes all art materials to complete your painting!

Join us to experience new and exciting finishing techniques. This workshop is great for a first time clay experience or for the experienced potter to explore a number of new finishes. We will be using non-traditional finishes such as Raku, Sager, Obvara and horse hair to create beautiful surface results.

We will meet on two consecutive Sunday’s, the first, to create our pieces and the second to fire them.

This workshop is open to all experience levels, from none to advanced. The potters wheel is available for those with experience. Hand building, available for all. Each participant will create 4-5 pieces.

Creativity is a process of allowing. It begins with an inner spark, which you feed, develop and actualize. Creativity must be nurtured into being. It can be both magical and astounding. But it arises when we relax enough to invite it in. Coaxing forth its flow, a wellspring of creative solutions bubble to the surface. Inner wisdom helps us initiate skillful, creative action.
Freeing the mind through meditation creates the ground for equanimity–that fertile state where brilliance breaks free.

We will learn how to paint a suggestion of figures in movement, by working from a live model and concentrating on shapes.  Our goal will be to learn to paint a suggestion of people in landscapes, cityscapes and interior scenes. Basic drawing skills is a must!

Pastel is a great sketching medium—its consistency of color and quick handling are valuable when working outdoors. The importance of simplifying the landscape and composing on location will be discussed and applied. Theme emphasis, values, colors, edges, emotional involvement, atmospheric and linear perspective will be discussed. All three days will be spent in the field where we can observe and study the outdoors first hand. This is the single most important method for improving landscape painting skills.