Upcoming Classes, Workshops & Field Expeditions at the Sedona Arts Center

Six-week courses focus on developing, strengthening and advancing one’s skills in this down-to-earth medium. Tuition includes one 25 lb. bag of clay, and students can also attend one Open Studio session per week. Come play in the mud this summer!

Dennis Ott, Instructor:
Advanced Ceramics, 7/24 – 8/28, Mondays,

Ceramics for All Levels, 7/25 – 8/29, Tuesdays,

Ceramics for All Levels, 7/26 – 8/30, Wednesdays (FULL – WAIT LIST ONLY)

Neil Kennedy, Instructor:
Ceramics: Hand Building, 7/25 – 8/29, Tuesdays,

Pottery Wheel for Beginners, 7/29 – 9/2, Saturdays (FULL – WAIT LIST ONLY)

Lolo Aileen, Instructor:
Ceramics for All Levels, 7/27 – 8/31, Thursdays

Learn how to paint mountains, fields, trees, rocks, skies, clouds and more. Tom will demonstrate each part on separate sheets of paper, then allow you time to work under his watchful eye, practicing a variety of watercolor techniques on loose sheets of 140# watercolor paper. In the second session you will put all the parts together in a new effort and have a completed painting at the end of the day.

In three weekly sessions, experience how to let the paint sing, navigate the “beautiful mess,” and bring your abstract painting to fulfilled completion—without losing its life force and what makes it beautiful. For all levels of experience.

This workshop pushes you out of your safe zone and into a brand new, looser, abstract direction drawing and painting the contemporary nude. If you ever wanted to learn how to paint the freestyle abstract figure, this workshop is for you!

The spirit, history and colors of Guanajuato come to life as we explore and paint cafes, beautiful fountains, spanish colonial architecture and gardens. Our five-day workshop is a wonderful opportunity to gather info from your oil studies and drawings done in plein air.

iPhoneography at the Grand Canyon, South Rim – with Kelli Klymenko
Sat – Sun, Sept 30 – Oct 1

Kelli Klymenko is teaching this two-day workshop for beginner and advanced students at the magnificent South Rim of the Grand Canyon! He’ll teach you how to push yourself beyond the basics and learn to shoot professional quality photographs using only your iPhone.

Join James McGrew for a 4-day workshop at majestic Zion National Park and surrounding area located in Utah! This unique workshop will focus on learning to see and interpret Zion’s spectacular scenery and unique natural history. One of the greatest struggles of landscape painters is to convey in small scale, the grandeur of a dramatic landscape.  Learn how to interpret such scenes and create illusions of depth, three dimensionality, scale with strategic details to make a scene come to life.

Jul 21: Painting with the Palette Knife

Aug 4: Design & Composition

Aug 18: Celebrating Summer

Sept 1: Celebrating Autumn

This class welcomes beginners who have some drawing experience and want to learn how to paint with watercolor, as well as the more experienced painters who want to learn more watercolor techniques. With materials included, all barriers have been removed so that you can explore the fun of painting!

Come celebrate the beginning of the autumn season! Using a combination of reactive chemicals, heat, dyes, adhesives & metal leafing, students create on copper sheet, then mount on wood cradle boards for finished wall art pieces.

Come celebrate the beginning of the autumn season! Using a combination of reactive chemicals, heat, dyes, adhesives & metal leafing, students create on copper sheet, then mount on wood cradle boards for finished wall art pieces.

We’ll take an ordinary vintage book and turn it into something extraordinary using paint, embellishments, and reconstructive techniques. You bring the book, (BYOB!) and I’ll supply the rest! Each part of the book will be put to good and new uses as we deconstruct our books and reconstruct them into fabulous works of art.

All the joys of Mexican color and architecture can be experienced here right here in Sedona.  Join me for a Plein Air journey as we explore beautiful Tlaquepaque Arts & Shopping Village in Autumn!  I will show you how to work with oil sketches to gather information on sight and complete larger paintings in your studio!

In this workshop we engage in Zen creativity to explore the art of life and death. Using specially made Chinese brushes, ink, and paper – all provided for you to use and keep after the workshop – Alok will ask you to paint things that are impossible to paint so that you can be comfortable with not-knowing and be available to the intelligence and creativity prior to thought.

In this workshop we engage in Zen creativity to explore the art of life and death. Using specially made Chinese brushes, ink, and paper – all provided for you to use and keep after the workshop – Alok will ask you to paint things that are impossible to paint so that you can be comfortable with not-knowing and be available to the intelligence and creativity prior to thought.

For 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.

Maybe you’ve always wanted to write a song but didn’t know how to start…or maybe you have a closet full of them but haven’t found a way to share them. In this workshop we’ll talk about the structure and technique of this ethereal art form. We’ll take a bit of time to share ideas and half completed songs, as well as finished ones that need to be heard.

Bernice will have a meet & greet / concert on Friday evening, Feb 9 included for workshop students, $20 for the general public. Click here for the concert only.

This basic course is an introduction to the art of drawing for the beginner, but it is also a great refresher course for the seasoned artist. Drawing can be a useful and fun tool in our daily lives, taking us away from our stressful day, and giving us a way to express ideas or memorialize experiences. Learning to draw can give us the skill to design something we want to make, to serve as a launchpad to creating other forms of art or teaching others your learned drawing skills

This basic course is an introduction to the art of drawing for the beginner, but it is also a great refresher course for the seasoned artist. Drawing can be a useful and fun tool in our daily lives, taking us away from our stressful day, and giving us a way to express ideas or memorialize experiences. Learning to draw can give us the skill to design something we want to make, to serve as a launchpad to creating other forms of art or teaching others your learned drawing skills