Sedona Arts Center update for July 28 — Sign up for New Summer Classes at Sedona Arts Center!

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.

This class also takes place on:
Friday, July 19, 2019
August 9, 2019
August 23, 2019

All levels of experience are welcome.

This class also takes place on:
October 5 – 6, 2019

Get to know your brushes and how they can work for you, with a bolder and looser approach to painting. If you want to loosen up and learn to build your skills of observation, this crash course is for you. Learn how simple shapes and a limited palette of color, can help build a landscape. Students will leave with small studies and a finished painting, and also with the inspiration to paint more.

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!

Wine will be available to participants 21 years and older only.

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

This class also takes place on:
Friday, August 16, 2019

Includes the first bag of clay.  Additional bags of clay may be purchased during class for $30 per bag which includes glazing & firing fees.  Enrolled students may also participate in one open studio session per week.

This class takes place on:
Mondays, July 29–September 2, 2019 (Advanced)
Tuesdays, July 30–September 3, 2019 (All Levels)
Wednesdays, July 31–September 4, 2019 (All Levels)

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.

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!

Tuition includes the first 25-pound bag of clay, firings and glazes, and one open studio session per week.  Additional bags of clay may be purchased during class for $30 per bag which includes glazing & firing fees.  Enrolled students may also participate in one open studio session per week.

This six-week course is designed exclusively for those who are new to wheel work and is open for ages 12 through adult.  Have fun while gaining confidence on the potters wheel.  Small class size ensures that each student receives personalized, one-on-one instruction and encouragement for a fascinating hands-on experience that will bring out the potter in you.

Tuition includes the first 25-pound bag of clay, firings and glazes, and one open studio session per week.  Additional bags of clay may be purchased during class for $30 per bag which includes glazing & firing fees.  Enrolled students may also participate in one open studio session per week.

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1 – 4 pm

All Materials Included!

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.

Each of the four sessions will begin with a demonstration and instruction followed by individual attention. We will discuss composition, color mixing, edges, blending and values. At the end of the fourth session each student will have a beautifully completed painting to grace your wall at home.

Open to all levels. 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!

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 or iPad. 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 certain apps such as Facebook and Instagram.

• Learn how to get the highest resolution images on your iPhone and apps
• Practice creative techniques including HDR
• 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 will receive a free mini iPhone tripod!

This class also takes place on:
Saturday, September 28, 2019
Saturday, November 9, 2019

All materials included!

This class also takes place on:
November 12 – 21, 2019

All materials are included. Participants are encouraged to bring their own photos, magazine images, receipts, pressed leaves, etc.  A small art journal will be provided and Karen will have materials and supplies on hand to fill your journals during the class.  Old day planners and books can be made into art journals!  If you have them, bring them to class.

All levels of experience are welcome.

Kumomi: Discover the Creative Spirit
Brilliant colors interacting with each other is the core of the Kumomi practice followed by mindful drawing. This fun process as an effective way to calm the mind and enhance creativity. The goal is to be present in the moment, let go of expectations and enjoy the creative process. In this 3-hour session you will experience joyful color mixing and paint on several surfaces with brilliant acrylic ink, and draw using a variety of pens.

Notan: The Art of Composition
Notan is an ancient Japanese art of composing. Notan literally means light-dark balance and is ideal for creating a foundation in every composition. In this 3-hour session you will create several dramatic studies in black and white inks and watercolors. You will learn a variety of Notan techniques to become more attuned to composing with light and dark values. This fun and creative class is perfect for beginning and practicing artists who want to create stronger compositions.

Wabi Sabi: Creating Imperfect Layers
Explore an exhilarating and fun painting process set to music that will awaken your creative spirit. Have fun with brilliant acrylic colors and unleash your creative potential. You will create hidden layers, delicious textures and patterns with unique painting and mark making tools. In this 3-hour session you will work on a rigid art panel to begin a unique expression of color and creativity.

Kokoro: The Spirit of Details
Kokoro is a the unity of the spirit, soul and creative mind. In this final session you will merge the techniques you’ve learned to bring out details in your paintings by adding or removing design elements. You will work on the panel from the previous session and use a variety of mark making tools and mediums. You will be encouraged to utilize your intuition to create a unique and colorful expression that is uniquely yours!

On the first day: We will look at rubbing, staining, and mark making on paper and cloth using drawing/painting media and stitch. Reference will be made to paper lamination, layering of paper with found materials, and fabric using techniques adapted from Japanese screen making and paper crafts. As you work you will look at the references to text and other images you have collected and consider how you may want to place them together.

On the second and third days we’ll look at ways of working with the cloth, paper, and samples we have produced, focusing on use of text/image to inform the stitch/mark. Ways of joining pieces together; patchwork, seams, gathers, tearing, building towards textured and sculptural surfaces.

The focus will be on found materials. Cas is happy to also provide a small pack of specialist conservation papers, low-tack tape, and paste for student use. Suitable for artists who enjoy taking time for experimental discovery.  Cas enjoys introducing the serendipity of found materials into the art-making process, helping each student have a unique experience and create unique art.

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.

No prior art, writing or meditation experience is necessary. Just the willingness to be more creative, more inspired and more productive. Come if you wish to learn something lasting; something beautiful…while allowing your creativity to be nurtured.

Each morning Tiffani will lead us in a one-hour meditation that combines movement, stillness, and awareness. Relaxing deeply and resting in a spacious presence that is naturally joyful, we become more available to being “present, available, playful and not-knowing”, our methodless-method of Zen creativity. Throughout the workshop she will guide us through exercises or dance to evolve our art of being embodied.

Then Alok will serve everyone very good tea from his home province in China. The subtle delight and alertness of drinking tea together softly strengthens our collective energy field that holds us aware and safe and prepares us for the adventure of painting by “resting in presence and moving from emptiness.”

We paint, from “emptiness”, mainly empty of the control and direction of the ego self and its false sense of security! Repeatedly we discover when the separate self is not holding forth, creativity happens on its own! “I” don’t have to “do” it. Instead of looking for a vision of what to paint and how to paint it, we become aware of a “readiness” in our embodied presence. When that’s there we allow the body-brush to move from emptiness.

In quick succession, so we don’t have time to think and return automatically to habitual and unconscious patterns of thinking and behavior, Alok and Tiffani may ask us to paint “My house burnt down, I can see the moon.” or “God has only four words, come dance with me!” or “When great calamity arrives, how shall we respond?” and Zhao Zhou replied, “Welcome!”, or a goofy school song that we would sing together, or a dance that dances us, or some suffering that we all share. Or something else that occurs to us arising out of our being together in this workshop, in Sedona, on this planet, in this universe. Successive paintings later we come to realize we are the art!

Through painting from emptiness, we discover new ways of thinking and approach to life. We take time to share our paintings in gentle and humorous ways as we learn from and with each other.

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.