Sedona Arts Center Fall 2017 Catalog

2017 Fall Art Workshops & Classes

sedona arts center BOARD OF DIRECTORS Kath Gilliam, President Holli Ploog, Vice President David Young, Treasurer Lewis Guthrie, Secretary Paul Amadio Rebecca Ellis Pam Frazier John Heyer Kathy Levin Dennis Ott Joan Roberts

STAFF Eric Holowacz Executive Director

Liz Gregg Finance Manager

Vince Fazio Director of Programming & Operations

Kelli Klymenko Marketing Director

Cyndi Thau Gallery Director

Debbie Winslow Education Operations Director

Valerie Pulido Membership & Community Relations

Jimmy Nielsen Facilities Coordinator

Jenny Reed

Administrative Assistant

Melanie Gold Hospitality Coordinator & Gallery Sales Associate

The Art Barn Renaissance

Rejuvenating Your Hometown Creative Heart

Six decades ago, a Sedona Renaissance began.

There’s no better word for it. The Arts Center’s founders and visionary civic leaders set out to develop a mighty creative community, endless arts education opportunities, and diverse cultural events and experiences. They wanted to redefine our red rock town. And they did.

As we begin our 60th Anniversary year, our artists, partners, staff, and board members have a 21st century Renaissance in mind—home grown and wildly creative. Over the past several years, we’ve been adding new programs, fostering arts outreach projects, building a national reputation, and inviting more people into the fold. We’ve shaken off the dust, rejuvenated our historic Art Barn, improved the Fine Art Gallery, and enhanced our Uptown campus grounds.

With every exhibition, festival, workshop, and new annual member, Sedona Arts Center increases its capacity to do more. With each idea and partnership, our nonprofit organization works to boost the creative life of our town. We take great pride in advancing the legacy of high desert artists, performers, poets, and dreamers. Take a look at what we have coming up as 2018 approaches. Find a place and get creative with your hometown creative heart—and help us foster a new kind of Sedona Renaissance!

Harriet McInnis Gallery Sales Associate

CONTACT US 15 Art Barn Road Sedona, AZ 86336 928.282.3809 | 888.954.4442 sac@sedonaartscenter.org SedonaArtsCenter.org 2

Eric Holowacz

Vince Fazio

Executive Director

Director of Programming & Operations

registration and scholarships Find your creative spark with Sedona Arts Center! Register for any of our upcoming workshops by calling us toll-free at 888-954-4442 or locally at 282-3809. Or visit our website at www.SedonaArtsCenter.org, find your preferred workshops and classes, and register online.

Unless otherwise confirmed, all workshops meet from 10 am to 5 pm on the first day, and 9am to 4pm on subsequent days (and include a one hour lunch break). Our cancellation policies can be reviewed on our website.

To support those with financial need, the Arts Center Scholarships are available to cover some registration costs—thanks to generous support from the Kling Family Foundation, Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the City of Sedona. To apply for a workshop scholarship, please contact our office at 888-954-4442 or 928-282-3809.

become an arts center member For six decades, Sedona Arts Center has been made possible by members, supporters, and generous sponsors. If you value the role of creativity in our lives and in our community, please consider becoming a Sedona Arts Center member. Your charitable contribution will help sustain our next sixty years, and will ensure a more vibrant, interesting, and creative place. Support our artistic, educational, and cultural mission for as little as $60 year. Visit the Join Us section of www.SedonaArtsCenter.org to learn how.

visit our fine art gallery The Sedona Arts Center gallery has a long tradition as one of Northern Arizona’s most diverse and eclectic fine art destinations. View work by over 100 local artists, consult with our team about building your art collection, and meet demonstrating artists. Join us for exhibition openings and receptions this Fall and Winter: With featured artists Bill Belvin, Chikako Myers, Christie Palmer, John Stebila, and Janet Weaver on view through September 30; exciting new works by Lydia Dillon-Sutton, Mary Flaisig, Adryanna Ciera, George Averbeck, and Joan Roberts will be featured from October 6 through January 3.

use our facilities Our organization has galleries, workshop spaces, and function rooms available for individuals as well as organizations and community groups. Visit our offices in the Art Barn to learn about renting the facilities, planning an exhibition, holding a community event, or proposing an arts education activity at Sedona Arts Center.

leave a lasting legacy Sedona Arts Center is pleased to announce the Nassan Gobran Legacy Society and new permanent endowment. This planned giving program allows supporters to make a bequest or legacy gift in support of the Arts Center’s future. Named after our founding visionary, Egyptian sculptor Nassan Gobran, these efforts are part of our 60th Anniversary celebrations. Please consider pledging a bequest, charitable annuity, or planned gift in support of your favorite hometown cultural nonprofit—contact our office any time to talk with us about leaving your legacy in support future programs, scholarships, facilities, and operations.

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13th Annual

Sedona Plein Air Festival October 14–21, 2017

Exhibition, Paint Out, Lecture, Workshops, and More!

Our community’s iconic creative event—Sedona Plein Air Festival—is a week-long

celebration of extraordinary landscapes, world-renowned artists, unique workshops, and wonderful free events from October 14 to 21, 2017. Sedona Arts Center invites you along to get creative and experience over two dozen master painters in action— making their art on location in beautiful Sedona, Arizona. Celebrate creativity with us and enjoy receptions, exhibitions, lectures, and opportunities to collect your next masterpiece at Sedona Plein Air Festival!

October 14 Saturday, 7 pm

Opening Wine Reception

October 18,

2017 Festival Artists

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Jill Banks Richard Boyer Betty Carr Bill Cramer Martin Dimitrov Chris Finefrock Tracey Frugoli Scott Gellatly Robert Goldman Bruce Gomez Lynn Heil J. Brad Holt Qiang Huang Robert Impellizeri

Peter Jefferson Gretchen Lopez Andre Lucero James McGrew Kathie Odom Susan Pitcairn Patrick Saunders Rachel Schlueter Stock Schlueter Matt Sterbenz Gregory Stocks Williamson Tapia Melanie Thompson Jim Wodark

Wednesday, 10 am to Noon Creekside Paint Out at L’Auberge de Sedona

October 18

Wednesday, 7 pm

Keynote with Joshua Been “The Plein Air Adventure”

October 19

Thursday, 1 to 4 pm

Seven Canyons Paint Out

October 20

Friday, 5 to 8 pm

Plein Air Party and Awards

October 21

Saturday, 10 am to Noon Main Street Paint Out

field expeditions

Painting in Cuba Randall Sexton

Randall Sexton leads this people-to-people plein air workshop with demonstration, group teaching and individual instruction. Explore parks, streets, plazas, markets and architecture—all areas of interest that will help to capture the uniqueness of the Cuban scene. Students will learn to simplify complex scenes to essential compositional color and value.

Oils / All Levels $3775 November 13–18

Cuba Cultural Program Sedona Arts Center

Come explore Cuba on a cultural people-topeople program supported by the Copperbridge Foundation and the Sedona Arts Center. After decades of isolation, Cuban officials welcomed a USA embassy in Havana and USA officials welcomed a Cuba embassy in Washington D.C. And yet, Cuba still exists in a time warp - poised on the verge of change! Open to anyone.

Double Occupancy: $3950 November 13–18

Painting the Southern Desert Gretchen Lopez

Experience the history of Arizona and the beauty of the Southern desert, as we paint in and around the first European settlement in the region. Tubac is a wonderful go-to destination where we will study capturing the light and learning to paint the essence of what you see from life. Oils, Water-mixable Oils, Acrylic and Watercolor are all welcome!

All Mediums / All Levels $495 March 24–26, 2018

Painting from the Rim of the Grand Canyon with Bill Cramer Nothing really compares to painting at the edge of the Grand Canyon. This three-day intensive offers: master instruction, the support of the Grand Canyon Association Field Institute (GCAFI) and coordination through the Sedona Arts Center.

Learn how to efficiently compose and complete plein air paintings with emphasis on how to effectively translate the complex landscape.

Oils / Beginner to Intermediate $800 June 8–10, 2018

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professional development

Our Business of Art series helps artists to bridge the gap between private work in the

world of their chosen practice and the public world of galleries, exhibitions and sales.

Each of the programs aims to facilitate that crucial transition with experts in various aspects of the process. Start with an intensive 3-hour immersion with Visiting Artist Jeanne Bessette and follow up with skilled local experts in various areas of expertise.

Most of the upcoming Business of the Arts sessions are free for Sedona Arts Center members, or $10 per session for non-members. Contact our office in the historic Art Barn to sign up and reserve your place: 928-282-3809.

Art Not Business as Usual

Jeanne Bessette, Wednesday, October 4, 6 to 9 pm Free to workshop participants, $50 / members $20 Our Business of Art series begins with an artist that knows the business and has achieved a level of success that many artists only dream of. Jeanne Bessette will talk about being yourself, living your truth and following your heart as a guide to great business and strong sales.

She’ll talk about the ‘why’ behind what we do as the first step to success.

Art: Business or Hobby?

John Hake, Thursday, October 12, 6 to 7 pm John Hake is a certified SCORE consultant in the Sedona chapter working with many local small businesses and individuals. Defining your goals for your art work is an important step for understanding how to develop strategy and tactics that will lead to success.

Facebook Primer for Artists

Kelli Klymenko, Monday, October 16, 6 to 7 pm Kelli Klymenko will guide us through the web of social media using Facebook as a base for marketing for artists. Best practices and strategies for different types of goals. What is best for you? Many artists now use Facebook as their primary platform for ongoing communications with audience. Learn to use Facebook to your best advantage in this primer of essentials.

The Value and Economic Value of Art Andrea Christelle, Monday, October 23, 6 to 7 pm

We can assign an economic value to just about anything, including art. What does it mean to assign a dollar value to art, and how does this capture, or fail to capture, all the ways in which art matters to us? Dr. Andrea Christelle founded and directs Philosophy in the Public Interest at Northern Arizona University.

2-D Critique

Gretchen Lopez, Susan Pitcairn and Christie Palmer Monday, October 30, 6 to 9 pm

3-D Critique

Regan Ward, Ken Rowe, Dennis Ott Monday, November 6, 6 to 9 pm These critique sessions provide a chance to see your own work from a new vantage point.

Input and creative feedback is provided from a variety of professional artists in different mediums—in a friendly group setting at the Arts Center. Bring up to three samples of your work and gain new understanding and perspective on it.

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Jeanne Bessette

Jeanne believes that there is an artist in everyone and imagination is the key, that people love to share their stories, and paintings are a way to do that without words. Although many techniques will be demonstrated, Jeanne relies heavily on the emotional impact of her work and shows artists how to tap into their own unique message. Her intuitive approach to painting and her ability to see the strengths artists bring to their own artmaking helps workshop participants strengthen their own personal voice.

workshops with master artists

The Soul of the Artist

Mixed Media / All Levels $1500 October 1–5

Emphasizing Abstraction Stuart Shils

Working in the studio from reproductions including older and 20th century masters, you will 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 interpretively.

Mixed Media / All Levels $875 April 27–29, 2018 (Evening Presentation April 26, 7pm)

The Perceptual Moment Stuart Shils

This class is for those with mid to advanced painting experience, and will concentrate on deepening and cultivating your visual sensitivity by looking critically out at nature and painting with the loaded brush - aspiring to broad yet particular summations of form, naturalistic color and clarified visual mood. Emphasis will be placed on the perceptual processes in front of nature, the editorial response, and the way that perception translates into paint.

Mixed Media / All Levels $875 May 1–3, 2018 (Evening Presentation April 30, 7pm) 7

studio arts and mixed media workshops

Colored Pencil Adventure Richard Drayton

Explore the secrets of creating high performance art with Prismacolor fine art pencils through stepby-step techniques that will result in rich blended colors and powerful composition. Printed worksheets and images will be provided by the instructor.

Colored Pencil / All Levels $400 Aug 19–20, Sept 9–10, Oct 7–8, Nov 6–7, Dec 2–3, Jan 6–7, 2018, Feb 3–4, 2018

Postmodern Polyptych Painting Robert Burridge

This workshop pushes you out of your safe zone and into a brand new, looser, abstract direction drawing, painting and collaging the contemporary nude. You will learn expressive painting techniques for the modern painter. You will quickly learn to paint your own series, your own story on four panels.

Mixed Media / All Levels $700 October 23–27, 2017 / May 14–18, 2018

The Nature Journal Elaine Hultgren

In her signature “Nature Sketching and Journaling” class, Elaine, an award winning storyboard and botanical artist, will demonstrate a variety of drawing and annotation techniques.

Step-by-step instruction will guide you from the first stroke to a finished sketch. Journaling kit included in tuition provides all materials.

Mixed Media / All Levels $275 October 28–29

Texture, Color, Feeling 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.

Mixed Media / All Levels $425 November 1–3, 2017 / May 7–9, 2018

The Egg Tempera Portrait Koo Schadler

In this workshop you will learn every step of how to develop a portrait in egg tempera, with ongoing individual instruction and critiques from Schadler. Schadler explains the traditional Old Master palette used to develop flesh tones. The workshop includes a photography session in which you learn how to light and pose a model to create visually strong composition.

Watercolor / All Levels $650 November 6–10 8

Elizabeth St. Hilaire

An impressionistic painted backdrop sets the stage for exotic birds in colorful collaged plumage with a variety of media. You will learn to create collage papers exclusively with GELLI Plate mono printing techniques. Experiment with adding (and subtracting) charcoal, watercolor pencil, metallic leaf, pigment pens, and more.

Mixed Media / All Levels $400 November 11–13, 2017 / April 20–22, 2018

The Story in the Still Life 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. You will explore all aspects of the process from lighting and composition to the details of paint application.

Oil / All Levels $475 December 2–4

Contemporary Mixed Media 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.

Explore working intuitively, mixing and utilizing neutrals for softer, more ethereal abstracts.

studio arts and mixed media workshops

Paper Paintings–Birds & Blooms

Mixed Media / All Levels $500 December 1–3

Color and Composition Intensive Aaron Schuerr

Through exercises and demos you’ll learn how to make confident color choices and create bold compositions. You will relate the principals of color and composition to the landscape, and see how seemingly lofty concepts are very practical.

Color and composition are the tools to express yourself in a more personal, distinct, clear way.

Pastels / All Levels $475 March 28–30, 2018

Wet and Wild

Julie Gilbert Pollard Learn how to make water look wet, reflective and splashy! With intimate woodsy creeks as your model, study water in motion and glassy reflection. Techniques will be demonstrated to address the various puzzles with which the artist is faced when painting this stunning, fascinating - and yes, confusing - subject!

Mixed Media / All Levels $450 May 4–6, 2018 9

landscape painting workshops

Covering the Bases in Plein Air Kathie Odom

Through demonstration on-site and individual attention, Kathie delivers the techniques that she uses to produce award winning paintings at plein air festivals and events. Learn about location choices and how to identify your composition.

Choosing a unique subject matter can help you make it your own! Learn strategies for how to start an outdoor painting and when to stop.

Oil / All Levels $500 October 11–13

Sedona Plein Air Workshop J. Brad Holt

This is an intensive three-day plein air oil painting workshop. The objective is to enable students to see real progress in their field painting technique.

Students will bring at least one painting in from the field that they can be proud of. Learn composition, drawing and editing, color mixing and value control, brushwork and paint quality.

Mixed Media / All Levels $475 October 11–13

Landscape – Source to Studio Joshua Been

In this workshop, through clearly explaining concepts in the translation process from a three-dimensional environment to a twodimensional surface, Joshua will clear up the mystery, and strengthen your knowledge of the process and visual language of painting, from the source (plein air) to the studio.

Mixed Media / All Levels $525 October 17–20

Plein Air to Studio Demo Joshua Been

Joshua Been will demonstrate in the stuido, the exciting process of blowing up a plein air color sketch into a larger canvas. This demonstration will be a wonderful overview, and a great opportunity to review and take notes on effective studio practices incorporating every bit of knowledge gained through the plein air experience.

Demonstration / $50 October 20, 9am to 1pm

Sedona Plein Air Qiang Huang

Qiang’s approach to plein air painting will be demonstrated with particular focus on selecting a dramatic composition, simplifying it, observing the light distribution and using bold and loose strokes to create a powerful and accurate representation on canvas. Qiang will explain his process for creating energetic paintings by manipulating values, colors, edges & brushwork.

Oils / All Levels $475 October 22–24 10

Betty Carr

Learn to capture the beauty of light! Betty Carr teaches students to accurately portray the effect of light on any subject in watercolor or oil. The May course is Watercolor only. In the October course students can work in either medium. Both courses will allow students to explore a variety of locations in beautiful Sedona.

Watercolor or Oils / All Levels $600 October 23–27

Painting Sedona 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 to do it. Pure, clean, luminous results in your landscapes are taught step-by-step, from beginning to end, with daily demonstrations and individual instruction.

Oils / All Levels $475 October 25–27

Sedona Plein Air

landscape painting workshops

Sedona Fall Colors

Bill Cramer

This will be an enjoyable and intense weekend workshop involving painting on-site in the Sedona landscape. Learn the advantages of plein air painting, as well as the various approaches to working on-site and how to efficiently compose and complete your paintings. Learn how to effectively translate the three dimensional landscape onto a two dimensional plane.

Oils / All Levels $325 October 28–29

Abstract Foundations William Wray

Creating the comprehensive (abstract shape) foundation stage of a painting is the focus of this workshop. Students work small in oil or acrylic with limited values and simple massed forms. Class is designed for the student struggling with starting their painting confidently or the long time artist who wants to add a strong composition based abstract foundation to their work.

Oils / All Levels $500 October 28–30

Abstracting the Landscape 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.

Acrylic / All Levels $350 November 14–16 11

crash courses

Fun with Art and Wine

Melanie and Brian Gold A fun two-hour adventure for those who like wine!

Over some delicious cabernet and shiraz, students will be led through a step-by-step process to create a 12x16 acrylic painting on canvas. Local landscape subject matter and a surprising foolproof process lead to fun, laughs, more wine and a finished painting!

All Supplies Inluded Meets 6–8 pm / Must be over 21 / $35 Aug 11 or 25 / Sept 15 / Oct 13 / Nov 17 / Dec 15

The Art of Kumomi Karen Elaine

Cloud watching, day dreaming and letting it happen are the only skills needed to discover this unique art form that you can do anywhere and opens new amazing worlds. The goal is to be present in the moment, let go of expectations and to enjoy the creative process.

All supplies and snacks included / $35 Meets 1–4pm September 6 / October 4 / November 1 / December 6

Painting Crash Course Gretchen Lopez

Get to know your brushes and how they can work for you, with Gretchen Lopez’s bold and natural approach to painting. Learn to loosen up and build your skills of observation, and transform simple shapes and a limited palette of color into an amazing landscape.

All Levels / $130 / Members $118 Sept 9–10 / Nov 11–12 / Feb 24–25, 2018 Saturday & Sunday 10 am to 4:30 pm

Glazing Crash Course Cyndi Thau

Color, Light, Shadow, Translucency—these are the ingredients that every good oil painter needs to know. In this course, students will incorporate them to create a beautiful painting to take home.

Flowers are the subject, and the glazing technique will be used to apply thin layer upon layer of oil paint to achieve depth and translucency.

All Levels / $145 / Members $133 Sept 12–21 / Oct 31–Nov 9 / Dec 12–21 Jan 23–Feb 21, Tuesday & Thursday, 1–4 pm

Acrylics Crash Course Claudia Hartley

Using photos or still life, students will learn how to create an exciting and successful painting in acrylics. All barriers are removed, allowing participants to explore the fun and colorful side of painting!

All Levels / $145 / Members $133 Sept 29–30, Friday & Saturday, 10 am–5 pm Dec 16–17, Saturday & Sunday, 10 am–5 pm

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Julie Bernstein Engelmann In this favorite abstract course, Julie teaches her layering technique that gives a powerful foundation for abstract painting and fosters an ease and freedom with paint. Through intuitive mark-making, luscious “happy accident,” and strong composition, students will create exciting & vibrant new paintings. Meets 9:30am–4:30pm

All Levels / $130 / Members $118 September 18–19 / Mon & Tue November 11–12 / January 20–21 / Sat & Sun

crash courses

Luscious Abstraction

iPhoneography Kelli Klymenko

In this 1-day workshop, students learn how to shoot, edit, and share remarkable landscapes, intimate portraits, and the macro world around us. Using only your iPhone or iPad, Kelli will reveal simple tips and tricks that will take your photography to a new level. Capture the essence of a place with Arts Center iPhoneography.

All Levels / $110 / Members $100 August 12 / September 16 / November 4 Jan 27–Saturdays, 9 am–3 pm

Drawing Crash Course Vince Fazio

Whether interested in a refresher course or drawing for the first time, this course will provide the foundations of drawing - line, shape, and value. Vince Fazio teaches the most essential things: how to really see a subject and begin to depict it.

All Levels / $130 / Members $118 September 13–22 / December 6–15 Wednesday & Friday, 1–4 pm

YouTube Production Bryan Reinhart

How can you become a YouTube star if you don’t make great videos? Instructor and professional film-maker Bryan Reinhart will give hands-on training, technical knowledge, and digital tools to make a more polished creative production.

Lighting, cameras, sound, and editing equipment will be provided.

All Levels / $130 / Members $118 November 18–19, 9 am–4 pm

Basics of Oil Painting Stephen J. Krasemann

For this Crash Course, demonstrations, handson painting and individualized attention will be applied to teaching both fundamental and specialized techniques. Landscape compositions, animals and outdoor elements will be the focus in terms of subject matter from photos supplied by the students and the instructor.

All Levels / $130 / Members $118 January 13–14 / March 24–25, 2018 9 am–4 pm 13

ongoing weekly classes

Ceramics For All Levels Dennis Ott

Our ceramics studio is bustling. Join the creative fun with an ongoing weekly class.

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. Tuition includes the first 25-pound bag of clay, firings and glazes, and one open studio session per week.

$220 / Members $202 / 6 sessions: Starting: October 2, 3, 4 / November 13, 14, 15 January 1, 2, 3 / February 12, 13, 14 Monday 4–7 pm (experience required) Tuesday 9 am–12 pm / Wednesday 9 am–12 pm

Handbuilding For All Levels Suzy Allan

Let your creative self play in the clay and experience various handbuilding techniques.

Make bowls, boxes, sculptures, tiles, using slabs, molds, and textures—the possibilities are endless.

Tuition includes the first 25-pound bag of clay, firings and glazes, and one open studio session per week.

$220 / Members $202 / 6 sessions Tuesdays, 1–4 pm October 3–November 7 , 2017 November 14–December 19, 2017 January 2–February 6, 2018 February 13–March 20, 2018

Beginning Wheel Work Richard Bayles

This course is designed for those who are new to wheel work, and is open to ages 12 and older. Small class size ensures that each student receives personalized instruction and encouragement. Tuition includes the first 25-pound bag of clay, firings, use of tools and glazes, and one open studio session per week.

$220 / Members $202 / 6 sessions: Saturdays 9 am–12 pm October 7–November 11, 2017 January 6–February 10, 2018

Painting For All Levels Gretchen Lopez

Perfect for the beginning or experienced student, this one-day class in oil or acrylic will guide and teach students how to approach the painting process with confidence. Explore the basics of value-pattern, composition and color and work from life and/or photos. Instructor demonstrations and lots of individual attention provided.

$95 / Members $85 Fridays, 10 am–4:30 pm September 8, 22 / October 6 November 10, 17 / December 1, 15, 29, 2017 January 12, 26 / February 9, 23 / March 9, 16 14

Debra Baker

Over three days we will explore the world of “felting”. In this wet felting experience we will make a hat over a resist and we will also make a “Nuno” (Japanese word for “cloth”) felted scarf.

We will use the third day for fine finishing and embellishments. The texture of fine merino wool and the vibrant colors make our hat project a fun and exciting multimedia adventure into Fiber Art. We will make a beautiful felted scarf by learning to laminate together colored roving and dyed silk fabric.

Felt / All Levels $300 November 3–5

ceramics and 3-d

Making a Felted Hat and Scarf

Alternative Firing Dennis Ott

This workshop is great for a first time clay experience or for the experienced potter to explore a number of new finishes. We will be using non-traditional finishes such as Raku, Sager, Obvara and horse hair to create beautiful surface results. We will meet on two consecutive Sunday’s, the first, to create our pieces and the second to fire them. The potters wheel is available for those with experience. Hand building, available for all. Each participant will create 4-5 pieces. All materials included.

Ceramics / All Levels $175 February 11 & 18, 2018, 10 am to 4 pm

Contemporary Mata Ortiz Ceramics

Diego Valles & Hector Gallegos Martinez October 27–29 Two contemporary master potters who have evolved in the Mata Ortiz tradition will present a hands-on, three-day workshop where students can go through the complete process of making contemporary Mata Ortiz influenced work. All the authentic materials including clay tools and molds and bases will be provided. Students will complete at least two works or more.

Ceramics / All Levels $250

Hands in Clay After School Art Program Rayna Griffin

Our hands are our most important tools! Hand-building is both fun and presents endless possibilities. 30,000 years ago, before the potters wheel, people were making small travel-sized figurines of human and animal forms. Pinch pots were developed for cooking and coil forms that led to larger vessels. Together you will discover and explore ‘ancient’ handbuilding methods that are still used today. Each student will produce 3 to 4 complete one-of-a-kind projects. Classes are limited to 8 students each.

Ceramics / No Experience Needed / Four Sessions $125 October 4–25, 2017 / January 10–31, 2018 Ages 8–12, Wednesdays, 4–6 pm in our Ceramics Studio

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Kling Family Foundation Arizona Commission on the Arts City of Sedona Walker Family Foundation Jay and Sheri Young David and Isabel Simmer The Collective Sedona Mike Loven L’Auberge de Sedona Holli Ploog and Bert Campbell Barbra Barker Patsy Reed Dennis and Pat Ott John and Gail Heyer Kathleen Yeates Pam and John Frazier Dr Julia Williams Kathy Wege Rebecca and John Ellis Evelyn Gholson Debra and Jeff Fleeger Byron and Deanna McKeown Neil and Mary Pope Wayne and Joan Roberts William and Kath Gilliam

Thanks to all of our members for supporting a more creative Sedona.

Special thanks to our sponsors and major donors as we approach our 60th Anniversary Year.

15 Art Barn Road, Sedona, AZ 86336 www.SedonaArtsCenter.org

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