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Sedona Arts Center — Upcoming Art Workshops/Classes in Sedona!

by Community Contributor • October 9, 2023 • Comments Off

UPCOMING School Offerings

Taking Classes and Workshops on our campus in Uptown Sedona affords the opportunity not only to explore the arts, but also to meet new people and immerse yourself in the Sedona arts community. We also have a variety of online workshops as well.

Besides what you see in this email, there are more offerings on our website.
Click here to see all of our classes and workshops.

WORKSHOPS:

Workshops at the Sedona Arts Center offer an intensive experience that will provide inspiration and information to distill and practice for months and even years afterwards. Instructors are experts in their fields.

Powerful Plein Air with Krystal Brown
Tues – Thurs, Oct 17 – 19If you want to paint effortlessly – Free from stress and better able to let the magic flow, this is the place to start. You will come to understand how to create more comfortably, confidently and joyfully while learning all the tips and techniques that have taken me years of cultivation. No more guessing! No more uncertainty! No more fear! Just SUCCESS.

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Paper Paintings: Fashion Plate Portraits with Elizabeth St. Hilaire
Tues – Thurs, Oct 17 – 19 (Only 2 Spots Available!)Learn to collage fashion plate portraits in a variety of mixed media. Create your own hand-painted collage papers. During this comprehensive 3-day workshop you will learn a unique figurative mixed media collage technique. Emphasis will be on defining form using light and shadow, and treating every torn tidbit of paper as a brush stroke. Students will create impressionistic collages that look like paintings.

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Plein Air/Studio Demonstration with Michele Usibelli
Saturday, Oct 28Join Michele Usibelli to watch her demonstrate the day before her 3-day workshop begins. Michele will demonstrate her process for creating work in the studio from plein air work and photo reference. This demonstration will be a wonderful overview of the painting process, a learning experience for collectors and painters alike.

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Texture-Color-Feeling with Jan Sitts
Thurs – Sat, Nov 2 – 4Jan’s experience and enthusiasm create an atmosphere of fun and spontaneity inspiring new directions and discovery through innovative combinations of design and materials. By combining aggressive textures and unusual mediums with various “raw” materials in the abstract painting we get surprising results. The layering method yields a magnetism that is particular to mixed media.

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Sense, Sensibility & Surrealism: An Ekphrastic Writing Workshop with Camille LeFevre
Tuesdays, Nov. 7 and 14Ekphrasis is broadly defined as writing about or inspired by works of art. In this two-part ekphrastic writing workshop, created for Sedona Art Center’s exhibition “Contemporary Surrealism,” the artwork is our prompt for lively, sensory adventures into the realm of ekphrastic writing. Read and discuss a range of ekphrastic poems, and write and revise your own as we bring our own psyches and experiences to bear on a surrealist poetics of word and image. Then, let’s share! Students have the option to participate during a public reading on Friday, Nov. 17 at 4:00 pm.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP

Sense, Sensibility & Surrealism Public Reading – Friday, Nov 17

Everyone is welcome to attend this free presentation! Join us for a public reading on Friday, November 17, at 4:00 p.m., in the Art Center’s Special Exhibitions Gallery surrounded by the Contemporary Surrealism Exhibition. Participants from “Sense, Sensibility & Surrealism: An Ekphrastic Writing Workshop,” will read their poems- and prose-in-progress inspired by artworks in the exhibition. Click here to reserve your spot.

Poetry of Grief and Healing with Jodie Hollander
Monday, Nov 13For centuries, creating art, and writing poetry in particular, has served as a form of healing for hurt, pain and grief. In this workshop, we’ll discuss examples of celebrated poems that tackle these difficult topics and study effective techniques for channeling our pain into poetry.

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CLASSES & CRASH COURSES:
Crash Courses give beginners the opportunity to try something new without having to make an investment in art supplies. Materials are provided for students to use during the class.

Follow the Masters with Gretchen Lopez
Friday, Nov 3Join Gretchen for this special mentoring exercise. 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. Instructor demonstrations and lots of individual attention provided.

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Painting Crash Course with Gretchen Lopez
Fri – Sat, 11/10 – 11/11Learn the basics of starting a painting from beginning to finish working in either water-soluble oil, traditional oil, or acrylics. We supply the materials, you supply your creativity! With materials included, all barriers have been removed so that you can explore the fun of painting! All you bring is yourself and clothing that you could get some paint on!

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Our mission is to connect, enrich, educate and lead through the inspiring power of the arts and creative discovery.

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 is based in Uptown Sedona and offers year-round classes, exhibitions, festivals, and cultural events that enhance the creative life of the Verde Valley.

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