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

Call to Arizona 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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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.

Wine will be available to participants 21 years and older.

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

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. Students should take a drawing class prior to attempting painting.

In this 1-day workshop 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: lenses, remotes, tripods and more
• Learn how to use the hottest new tools on your iPhone
• Everyone who signs up for this workshop will receive a free mini iPhone tripod!

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.

March 2 – April 6, 2020 / Mondays, 4–7pm / Advanced*
March 3 – April 7 / Tuesdays, 9am – Noon
March 4 – April 8 / 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!

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.

Jodie King’s workshops are best known for being honest and fun as well as practical and informative. She openly shares her personal painting techniques and creative process; yet, her relaxed teaching style helps artists let go of fear in order to create raw, free, and honest work.

While this workshop covers such topics as composition, color, value, and mark making, the real juice comes from the teachings about the creative process and how to embrace our own intuition as an artist. Through daily demonstrations, meditation and journaling, you will leave with a better understanding of embracing freedom in art and in life.

This workshop is open to all levels. If you are a beginner, you will be given the opportunity to learn composition, color mixing, mark making and more in a welcoming environment. If you are an advanced artist, Jodie will help you create your most honest work through understanding the personal energy you bring to your art, embracing your personal mark making and how you choose the color combinations in a more intuitive way. Either way, this workshop will help you and your art advance to a new level in a judgement-free, joy-filled zone.

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.