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Sedona Arts Center update for July 19 — A Painting Adventure in Mexico with Gretchen Lopez

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A Painting Adventure in Mexico
with Gretchen Lopez
November 4 – 9
Gretchen Lopez  combines traditional as well as contemporary elements in her works, from the figurative to still life to plein air painting. Gretchen teaches classes and workshops at the Sedona Arts Center and leads international workshops. She has been nominated for the Viola Award for Excellence in Art Education.Her works are included in numerous private collections both nationally and internationally, and can be seen in select galleries throughout the Southwest.
Join us at the beautiful boutique hotel, La Casa de Espíritus Alegres in Guanajuato, Mexico. We will paint markets and plazas, the ruins of rock walls and arches at Mellado, and visit nearby San Miguel de Allende for a day of painting. We’ll start painting in the courtyard with outdoor still-life scenarios and the environs of the hacienda to get our painting juices flowing. The last day will feature the option of working with models in the outdoors. Gretchen Lopez will demonstrate and provide one-on-one teaching during the entire experience.
Included: 5 nights lodging (shared occupancy*) and full breakfast daily. Four day painting workshop. Welcome dinner on first night. Lunch on first and last day at the hacienda. Ground transportation to all painting locations. Guide and translator throughout.

*Rates based on shared occupancy with other student or other paying partner.  There are limited single rooms available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Not Included: Flight to Leon BJX, taxi to hacienda and return. Food other than described. Painting materials.
The hotel: This is not your cookie-cutter chain hotel!  It is full of historic charm and beauty!

From their website:  In the heart of Guanajuato, luxury hotel “Casa de Espiritus Alegres” offers exclusive accommodation for travelers looking for a peaceful haven within easy reach of the city’s delights. The beautifully restored building is set on a magic and peaceful old hacienda of picturesque colonial gardens, under the shade of ancient trees. A relaxing hideaway in pure surroundings.

The property, which includes a nine-bedroom old hacienda building, with a big kitchen, embraces both the heritage of the hacienda lifestyle and its inherent connection to the colonial Guanajuato and, while honoring rustic simplicity, growth, modesty, and transience.

The interior décor features expertly selected antiques, elegant furniture, and rustic details, making guests feel completely at home.
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Upcoming Art Workshops
at Sedona Arts Center
Sedona is surrounded by a magical landscape of red rock formations and high desert hills with beautiful Oak Creek meandering through it all. Come experience the Shangri-La of the Southwest, a beautiful learning environment with Art Colony roots going back nearly 100 years.
Alok Hsu Kwang-han & Tiffani Gyatso
A Brush with Emptiness
and the Art of Being Embodied
October 4 – 6, 2019
Alok and Tiffani will guide us to return to the natural embodiment of our creative intelligence prior to thought. They will inspire us to become intimate and comfortable with not knowing and to give space for the communion of our body-brush to dance from emptiness. No prior experience with painting or with Zen is necessary.
A BRUSH WITH EMPTINESS AND THE ART OF BEING EMBODIED
Plein Air in the Studio
October 9 – 11, 2019
Kathryn Stats
Students will benefit from demonstrations, slide show and lecture, and one-on-one assistance with their paintings. Kathryn has taught workshops in plein air painting in numerous locations in Italy, Sedona and Utah and has been a keynote presenter at the Sedona Plein Air Festival and at the National Plein Air Convention. Now take this opportunity to work with Kathryn in the more controlled studio environment where artistic creativity and inspiration come together on larger scale or more developed work than plein air painting allows. This workshop is for those painters that have some experience and wish to take their work to the next level.
PLEIN AIR IN THE STUDIO WITH KATHRYN STATS / LEARN MORE
Plein Air Painting in Sedona
October 9 – 11, 2019
Lyn Boyer
Each group and each student is unique! Lyn’s goal is to offer a roadmap that will continue to guide your creative journey long after the workshop is over. To bring more clarity to your work. To learn to paint with intent. To continue the journey from ‘painting’ to becoming a ‘painter’. And most importantly – how to develop the mindset of ‘practice’ that leads to successful ‘performance’.
PLEIN AIR PAINTING IN SEDONA WITH LYN BOYER / LEARN MORE
Paper Painting: Birds and Blooms
October 21 – 23, 2019
Elizabeth St. Hilaire
Learn to create beautiful and unique compositions of birds and flowers in mixed media as you apply  your own hand painted collage papers to colorful petals and plummage. You’ll learn to experiment with hand-painting, staining, stamping and patterning paper with a multitude of techniques. Learn to rip and glue and apply your papers in a ‘painterly’ manner over the top of an acrylic under-painting.
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Painting Sedona
October 24 – 26, 2019
Howard Carr
Howard Carr is considered a master of color and an outstanding teacher who emphasizes the simplicity of how a painting works and how you can do it. Pure, clean, luminous results in your landscapes are taught step-by-step, from beginning to end, with daily demonstrations and individual instruction. Each day will begin with a question-and -answer session followed by a one-hour full painting demonstration. Students will spend the remainder of the day painting with personalized instruction. The subject matter we will be working from will be landscape painting from life in beautiful Sedona.
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Inks & Etching on Scratchboard
November 2 – 3, 2019
Justine Mantor-Waldie
Create stunning atmospheric perspective by applying watercolor wet on wet techniques using the unique properties of ink. Capture foreground details with etching and pointillist textures to achieve multiple, layered paintings. Justine will demonstrate color mixing for transparent and opaque colors, etching techniques, and compositional considerations for these exciting paintings.

This unique workshop includes all materials allowing students to explore a new medium without investing in a studio of supplies! You only need to bring images that you would like to work from!
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Texture – Color – Feeling
November 4 – 6, 2019
Jan Sitts
Jan’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. Many techniques, materials, compositions and above all emotion, play off each other in creating the work. Part of the adventure is not knowing where you are going until you get there! You will become thrilled with possibility as you journey through this process. You will learn to let go of painting habits and gain the knowledge of layering textures, colors and feelings while executing shapes utilizing a structure of positive and negative space.
TEXTURE : COLOR : FEELING WITH JAN SITTS / LEARN MORE
Intuitive Collage : Big & Little
November 8 – 10, 2019
Crystal Neubauer
Whether you are an experienced artist or a novice, this workshop will dare you to let go of expectations and ignore the rules, beginning with a series of collage exercises designed to infuse freedom into your creativity and help you tap in to that intuitive voice as your personal guide.

Using ‘little’ works as small studies, we will turn our focus to a more intentional placement of elements, coming from that place of freedom and trusting what our eye and intuition knows is good, while learning tips, tricks, and techniques from a professional point of view, to translate what we see into a series of completed works on paper incrementally increasing the scale as we go.
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Abstracting the Landscape
November 14 – 16, 2019
Claudia Hartley
Learn to exaggerate and personalize color to create your own version of the unique modern landscape. Using photos of scenes, students will learn how to plan a good composition and how to mix beautiful clean colors. Students will learn how to take advantage of the quick drying properties of acrylics and how to create vibrancy through color combinations.
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Scholarships Available

Scholarship awards will pay 50% towards any Class or Workshop tuition. Scholarships are not available for international Field Expeditions or Painting in the Grand Canyon. The Sedona Arts Center awards scholarships to students only when funds are available.
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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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