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Sedona Arts Center update for Nov. 7 — New Workshops and Classes

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New Workshops and Classes

Explore the latest workshops presented by the Sedona Arts Center in beautiful Sedona Arizona. The School of the Arts has been developing the workshop program for over 18 years and specializes in creative mixed-media approaches to painting and collage as well as landscape painting en plein air and in the studio. Faculty visit the Arts Center from all around the country as do the students – enjoying the perfect blend of art, culture and nature watching the sunset with a wonderful meal in the Shangri-la of the Southwest after a creative day of art-making.
iPhoneography Crash Course
November 10, 2018
Kelli Klymenko
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.
Ceramics Class – Advanced and All Levels
November 12–December 17, 2018 – Mondays, 4 to 7pm*
November 13–December 18, 2018 –  Tuesdays, 9am to 12 pm
November 14–December 19, 2018 – Wednesdays, 9am to 12pm
Dennis Ott
*Note that the Monday class is reserved for experienced ceramicists! (Beginners are welcome in Dennis Ott’s Tuesday or Wednesday classes.)

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.

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.
Handbuilding For All Levels
November 13–December 18, 2018 – Tuesdays, 1–4pm
Suzy AllanHand Building Ceramics – 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.

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!
Pottery Wheel For Beginners
November 17–December 22, 2018 – Saturdays, 9am–12pm
Holly Roccaforte

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.
Paper Painting
November 30–December 2, 2018 
Elizabeth St. Hilaire
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. Choose any animal, bird or creature you want! This class is focused on learning and growing creatively in a FUN environment.No prior collage experience is necessary. Some painting experience is helpful. All levels are welcome.
Sedona Dreamscapes
December 3–6, 2018 
Jean Bradbury
Taking inspiration from the natural setting of Sedona we will paint the plants, animals and geology that surrounds us, combining them into magical landscapes reminiscent of memories or dreams. We will capture the changing desert light by using copper, aluminum and ‘gold’ leaf. This course combines observation with some hippy, drippy acrylic spontaneity. No drawing experience is required. You’ll be amazed how good you already are with a little instruction and gentle encouragement. We will take a few short strolls to see what we can find.
Intuitive Expressive Painting
February 28–March 3, 2019 
Jesse Reno
Imagining the Unimaginable – with Jesse Reno

In this mixed-media painting class you will learn to create paintings that emerge from an abstract base of markings, colors, line, and shape to form expressive and organic creations. You will learn painting and mark-making techniques that will encourage imagery and connection to your work. Through a series of painting exercises, you will explore and express your ideas by imagining what could be created from abstraction rather than confining your ideas to predetermined outcomes
Emphasizing Abstraction 
April 5–7, 2019
Stuart Shils
We’ll move through a guided series of exercises to understand that abstraction – composition with color and shape – is THE foundation, the great engine behind all painting. Significant emphasis will also be placed on drawing interactively from art history excising the fundamentals of abstract composition with part of each day spent engaged in a series of exercises using crayons and graphite to complement our examination of form with paints. This is NOT a “copy” class, we will not be copying the superficial appearance of paintings, but rather, trying to get inside and see what they are made of and learning to use abstract shorthand to describe both what is there and also what we see and how we see it. Materials will be crayola crayons, acrylic paints and pencils. On the final day of the course we’ll draw outdoors from life applying the principles we’ve learned.
The Story in the Still Life
April 5–7, 2019 
Scott Conary
Every painting, even the humble still life, has a story in it. It’s told by what subject we choose to paint, how we present that subject, and how we paint it. Finding what interests us in a subject and how we connect to it drives that story, and directs how the painting is made. We’ll work on small still life paintings to explore the process – from thumbnail sketches, lighting the subject, considerations of composition, to the application of paint to build form with light, color and mark. We will walk the line between technique and intuition, using the still life as a way to explore paint and why we make art.
Intuitive Collage: Big and Little
April 19–21, 2019
Crystal Neubauer
Increasing the scale of collage work can be challenging. What we find satisfying on a 4” or 10” scale, does not necessarily translate well to 30 or 40 inches. But there are elements in those smaller designs that can be captured when creating large. “It took some time to begin to feel like I was getting it, but suddenly there were breakthroughs, and insights, and more frequent successes. This is what I want to impart to my students when they come to the table. You have everything you need to create satisfying work inside of you. I’ll guide you through the steps I took to tap in to that wellspring of creativity.” 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.
Contemporary Mixed Media
April 26–28, 2019
Joan Fullerton
Join us for inspiring demonstrations, lectures, encouragement and practice. You’ll learn how to coax hints of reality from an abstract background, how to integrate collage imagery, how to control values and colors for emotional emphasis, and how to suggest rather than delineate. You’ll explore working intuitively, responding to what shows up, working in a series, mixing and utilizing neutrals for softer, more ethereal abstracts.

We’ll touch on notions of confidence, procrastination, vulnerability, curiosity, courage, talent, play, inspiration, intuition, your mean critic, metaphor, symbolic elements, competition, marketing, your belief systems, finding balance, and more! There will be plenty of time for “playing” and creating along with individual attention and guidance
Wet & Wild!
May 3–5, 2019
Julie Gilbert Pollard
Plein air to studio – Paint in the Medium of Your Choice  – With Demos in Watercolor & Oil

Learn to paint water that looks wet, reflective and splashy! With stunning Oak Creek as your model, study the anatomy of a water cascade. Techniques will be demonstrated to address the various puzzles with which the artist is faced when painting this stunning, fascinating and challenging subject!
Looser Realism!
May 10 – 12, 2019
Derek Penix
This three-day workshop is for all skill levels from beginner to advanced. The first half of each day Penix will paint a painting from a photo to demonstrate his process from start to finish using oil paint. The second half of the day the students will paint with Penix’s guidance. Students are also welcome to bring a painting previously painted for Penix to critique. Students will use oils (acrylics are allowed as well) to paint from photos. They will have a choice of dozens of photographs consisting of boats, cityscapes, figures, and fish. Students will also have the option to paint from their own photos if they choose.
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