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Sedona Arts Center — Winter Workshop Sale 10% off December 19, 2019 – January 6, 2020

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The School of the Arts at Sedona Arts Center

Winter Workshop Sale!

10% Discount on all Scheduled Workshops

The School of the Arts at Sedona Arts Center

Winter Workshop Sale!

10% discount on all scheduled workshops.

Workshops make a great gift to yourself…or others!

*Get 10% off your Spring or Fall Workshop taking place from March 3, 2020 through December 6, 2020 when you  pay in full at the time of registration. Use coupon code winter19 valid for registrations between December 19, 2019 and January 6, 2020. Sedona Arts Center is a 501(c)3 organization that offers all purchases without sales tax.  (Note: Only Field Expeditions to the Grand Canyon, Mexico and Italy are exempt from this discount)

Sedona is surrounded by a magical landscape of red rock formations and high desert hills with beautiful Oak Creek running 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.

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. A wide variety of disciplines and mediums are offered with a special focus on studio and plein air landscape painting and mixed media abstraction. Workshops are appropriate for all levels of students and are presented through demonstrations, individual instruction and group presentation. Instructors are experts in their field – experienced teachers with national recognition.

Explore over 40 workshops on the Sedona Arts Center’s website HERE and browse selected workshops below.
Fabulous Florals – Paper Painting with Elizabeth St. Hilaire
April 17 – 19, 2020
We will be drawing florals from a still-life setup and modifying it to create a compelling, fun composition. We’ll cover how to paint your life drawing with full range of fun, bright colors and shading. You will then learn how to hand-paint your own collage papers through a series of gel plate mono-printing techniques in the color palette inspired by your underpainting. After creating your ‘paper palette’ you will learn various techniques for tearing and applying the paper in a ‘painterly’ manner. Elizabeth will also cover how to keep your pieces perfectly flat without cockling and how to vary your paper brush marks strategically in size and shape.
Emphasizing Abstraction with Stuart Shils!
April 24 – 26, 2020

Stuart Shils reminds us through his intensive courses that – composition with color and shape, is THE foundation, the great engine behind all painting. Significant emphasis will also be placed on drawing interpretatively in the most abstract graphic language, with part of each day spent engaged in a series of exercises using crayons and graphite to complement our examination of form with paints. One day will spent working with a live model. Shils workshops are intensive immersions including evening slide shows and discussions as well as working time in the class. Note: Class will start with a digital presentation April 23, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
Sedona Plein Air/Studio with Bill Cramer
April 24 – 26, 2020

This will be an enjoyable and intense 3-day workshop painting on-site at special locations in the Sedona landscape and a few choice studio sessions for discussion critique and demonstration. We will learn the advantages of plein air painting, as well as the various approaches to working on-site and how to efficiently compose and complete plein air paintings. Emphasis will be placed on how to effectively translate the often complex three dimensional landscape onto a two dimensional plane using thumbnail sketches, limited palettes and the thoughtful use of colors, values, shapes, edges and textures.
Honest Art with Jodie King
April 5 – 8, 2020
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.
Real World Composition for Landscape painters with Mitch Albala
April 20 – 22, 2020
For many landscape painters, composition remains the most elusive area of their practice. Why? Because its energies are fundamentally abstract and often hidden beneath all of nature’s detail and complexity. The goal of this workshop is to make the invisible visible — to discover the underlying energies that drive a composition. We will take a “real world” approach to composition by learning to work with the shapes and forces we actually see. Working from photographs, with practical exercises, ongoing critiques, and analysis of master compositions, you will learn: how value differences are used to define the shapes a composition is built upon, the essential principle of intervals, the power of the “picture window” in selection and arrangement, movement and directional energy, and much more!
Permission to Play! with Jennifer Mercede
April 24 – 26, 2020
In this expressive painting & drawing class we will begin with mark making exercises to get you creating outside the box. Through various guided activities, we will practice letting go of the final outcome and find that art can be a process of discovery! You will learn to let your intuition guide your artistic choices as we create abstract and representational paintings in a safe, encouraging environment. While you may walk away with a piece of art ready to hang on your wall, you may also walk away with a few pieces started & ready to inspire many more hours of creating. I work and teach very organically, so be prepared to go with the flow! In this class you have permission to play.
Color | Texture | Feeling with Jan Sitts
May 4 – 6, 2020
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.
Creating the Abstract Landscape with Amanda Hawkins
May 29 – 31, 2020
There is a sweet spot of overlap between the traditions of abstraction and contemporary landscape painting where mark-making and the implications of planar structure combine with color and light to create a magical realm of newly discovered space. In this workshop we’ll learn to transform Sedona’s beautiful scenery into rich, energetic, abstract landscape paintings. My approach to abstraction is both structured and intuitive, meant to give students the tools and confidence to take risks and make informed decisions on the canvas, both in the workshop and long after our time together.
Finding the Soul of Forgotten Materials with Geoffrey Gorman
May 11 – 15, 2020
This five-day workshop encourages students to experiment with innovative and intuitive ways of creating a variety of structures and forms using organic, found and recycled materials. Students are invited to think about subjects, shapes and forms that hold particular interest and bring these ideas to the workshop for realization. Using unusual techniques developed by Geoffrey to overcome construction challenges, each student will complete a variety of forms, something they want to create. Students will be asked to bring some of their own favorite cast off materials. This class is perfect for beginners seeking an introduction to creating curious objects as well as intermediate and advanced students wishing to reach the next level and break out of their comfort zone.
Zen Creativity: A Brush with Emptiness
Alok Hsu Kwang-han
October 3 – 4, 2020
This is a fun workshop. We explore Zen creativity by being “present, available, playful and not knowing”. All the while, we honor and make friends with a set of 3 brushes Alok designed and had made in the best traditional brush factory in China, 250 g. of very good Yidege liquid ink, plenty of “raw” Xuan paper, and a piece of 100% black wool felt Alok had imported from India to lay beneath each painting essential for reflecting the subtle or bold ink/water patterns back into the absorbent paper. You get to keep all these ‘friends’ with you beyond the conclusion of this workshop on Zen Creativity

Whether you are a beginner, a return student, or an accomplished artist, in this workshop you will have many fresh opportunities to let go of the past– what you already know, the accomplished level you are caught in and perhaps bored with, or the fear whether you can “do” it. And to welcome in each Zen moment, an intelligence prior to thought with all its schemes and maneuvers. Alok will inspire, surprise, and guide you to be rooted and move from your energy body, to rest in the spaciousness of your being, to become comfortable and intimate with the power of not-knowing, and to allow your brush—or you—to dance from emptiness.
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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