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5 Celebrating 60 Years of Inspiration 11 Honoring Sedona’s Legacy Artists 16 Igniting the Spark of Creativity 25 2018 Workshops & Classes / School Catalog 38 Painting from Life

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42 Sedona Summer Colony 47 A Gallery Like No Other 55 Sponsor and Donor Appreciation 56 Recognizing Our Members

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sedona arts center celebrates 60 years

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Kath Gilliam, president David Young, vice president Holli Ploog, treasurer Joan Roberts, secretary Rebecca Ellis Chris Finefrock Lewis Guthrie Charlotte Hosseini Dennis Ott

STATE OF THE ART

The Secret Life of the Sedona Arts Center This 60th Anniversary year of the Sedona Arts Center presents an opportunity to tell our story, explore our origins,

STAFF

and celebrate our present. As you will see in the pages that follow, the Sedona Arts Center has gone through many

Vince Fazio

changes over the years but has always remained faithful

executive director

to what our founders had in mind: to be a place for artists

Liz Gregg finance manager

to share ideas, techniques, and artwork.That is still true today

Kelli Klymenko

and is at the core of our educational mission.

marketing director

At the Arts Center, the idea of creativity is a way of living and

Debbie Winslow development director

appreciating life. The founding creed, that if artists share their ideas great things

Cyndi Thau

can happen, has been the guiding energy behind all that we do. We have become

gallery director

an organization that specializes in shepherding the evolution of personal expression

Jenny Reed

through special events, exhibitions, workshops, classes, Summer Colony residencies,

school & events coordinator

and the ongoing presentation of diverse artwork in our galleries.

Jimmy Nielson facilities coordinator

I am proud and excited to be offering the workshops and classes in this magazine.

Valerie Pulido

I have invited some of the most popular and talented instructors that I have ever

membership & community relations

Melanie Gold hospitality coordinator & gallery sales associate

ARTFULLY SEDONA Jane Perini design & production thunder mountain design

Elizabeth St. Hilaire cover art

worked with to join us in celebrating our anniversary. I hope they will inspire curiosity and a desire to explore the creative spirit. For beginners we offer a fun and nurturing environment, and for the advanced student, a place to explore new challenges. As a teacher and long-time director of the school I can attest that our instructors bring confidence and fun to the classroom, along with good solid techniques.

I hope that as you explore these pages you will feel that spark of inspiration that comes when we contemplate trying something new or can imagine ourselves at a higher level of accomplishment. That sense of excitement and curiosity is the secret life of the Arts Center.

Vince Fazio Executive Director 15 Art Barn Road Sedona, AZ 86336 928.282.3809 | 888.954.4442 sac@sedonaartscenter.org SedonaArtsCenter.org

Sedona Arts Center

SEDONA ARTS CENTER

CELEBRATING 60 YEARS OF INSPIRATION, TENACITY & CREATIVITY

BY DEBBIE WINSLOW

The Arts Center finds a humble home in an apple packing barn above Oak Creek

Sedona Arts Center is conceived The man with the idea, Nassan A. Gobran, a sculptor originally from Egypt, arrived in Sedona in 1950 to head the art department at Verde Valley School, a boarding school in the Village of Oak Creek founded by Hamilton and Barbara Warren. Inspired by the natural beauty of his new home and the people he met, he saw a need for a center where the arts would be nurtured and easily accessible for residents and visitors. There were 350 people living in Sedona at the time, and though he encountered naysayers, Nassan persevered and began his journey as the founder. He gathered friends and colleagues to incorporate “Canyon Kiva” in 1958, then changed the name to “Sedona Arts Center” in 1961.

Let’s find a home...

Hey, I know where there’s a barn!

The first two decades were a time of organization, seeking space to pursue the dream, develop programming, and getting the community involved.

There were parties, Artists Balls, fundraisers, exhibitions, classes, and theatrical presentations, all in support of the fledgling non-profit. The preWWII apple and peach packing barn, built and owned by George and Helen Jordan, was the largest structure in town and wasn’t being used anymore.

According to a letter to the community from the Warrens dated September 28, 1965, the Board decided to rent the barn with an option to buy, starting with only $300 in the bank.

Top: Sharing a moment in March 1962 at the north end of the art barn; left: Nassan Gobran instructs a sculpture student, many of whom came from all over the country in the summer of 1961; above: well-known landscape painter, Al Nestler, teaches a class in March 1964.

“To secure revenue, we sold memberships, offered instruction in studio arts, and charged admission for cultural performances. With this small income,

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we installed windows, heating, cooling, lights, and plumbing, and purchased studio equipment. We had great support from the community… Then, to our dismay, we learned that at the end of our year’s lease the barn … would be up for sale. This was a great blow… Our lease gave us the option to buy the property for $35,000 with a required down payment of $10,000. We took the chance, exercised the option, and made a drive to raise the amount of the down payment.”

- From the letter: “To Our Sedona Neighbors,” Hamilton and Barbara

Surrealist Roots in Sedona Max Ernst was a key founder of the Dada and Surrealism movements and his wife Dorothea Tanning was a leading American surrealist. They lived and created art in Sedona during the 1940s and 50s and their artwork is in major museum collections around the world.

Max had escaped the war in Europe after having been targeted as a modern artist by Hitler. His first visit to Arizona was on a cross country trip in 1941 while returning from California to New York by car along with his son Jimmy and Peggy Guggenheim. Max and Dorothea first came to Sedona in 1943. They rented a small studio space from local artist Lillian Wilhelm Smith in the area known today as Tlaquepaque. They both created numerous important paintings in Sedona: among others Max painted Vox Angelica and Painting for Young People, and Dorothea painted Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

Warren, 9/28/1965.

They paid off the entire mortgage in a short eight years!

Returning to New York after their 1943 stay, Max and Dorothea came back to Sedona in 1946 to build a small home and studio. They made numerous trips by car to New York during the ensuing years, towing a trailer filled with artwork destined for galleries back East. In 1947 Max began work on his monumental sculpture Capricorn in Sedona.

After Max and Dorothea left the US in 1957 and permanently moved to France, Nassan Gobran, a fellow artist and close friend, later assisted in preparing molds of Capricorn from which Max prepared the bronze version of the original cement sculpture. Nassan helped to found the art center in 1958 that became known as the Sedona Arts Center and some of Max's artwork was reportedly displayed at the very first exhibition.

Jan 19, 1969, Nassan Gobran burns the Art Barn mortgage as Cecil Lockhart Smith and Board members look on.

People make it happen Nassan gave particular credit to the success of those early years to Cecil Lockhart-Smith, president of the Arts Center for eight years, and Maud Hardman, vice president and chairman of exhibitions for ten years. They were outstanding volunteers who did whatever needed doing.

According to Nassan, “They worked harder than anyone. Without their help, I don’t think we would have made it.”

- From “Sedona Legends and Legacies,” by Kate Ruland-Thorne

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Nassan Gobran working on the molds for Capricorn.

Courtesy of the Sedona Heritage Museum.

In fashion with Fran Zimmer Fran Zimmer was a tireless volunteer from the early 1960’s into the early 2000’s. Pictured here at the sewing machine in 1973, she and Maud Hardman are making the curtains for the new stage. Fran coordinated and made costumes for the famous Artists Ball parties, costumed the Living Pictures and Living Statues productions back in the early 60’s, and became the official costumer for the community theatre at the Art Barn.

One of her favorite memories she loved to share had to do with a “living statue” that was a nude woman depicting a great work of art (she never mentioned which piece of art was being portrayed). On opening night, the model was completely covered in body make-up to give the appearance of a bronze sculpture. The next day, the volunteers at the Barn received complaints about the live naked woman on stage—shocking! Fran was called to do something to remedy the situation for that night’s performance. She quickly fashioned a bikini out of nylon stockings and helped the model to dress. Then they put the “goop all over her” and she was ready to go. That night, the line to attend the show stretched from the barn doors, up Art Barn Road and south down 89A for about a block! Apparently word got around!

Top: Finishing touches on the Art Barn addition, September 1970; above left: Gene Bollen, art teacher at Mingus Union High School, teaches a children’s art class, June 1970; above right: Artists’ Ball, “Night of Memories,” October 1970; below: first social event opens the Art Barn addition in November 1970. John and Isabel Joynt (standing) spearheaded the building project.

Fran Zimmer and Maud Hardman sew up a storm fashioning the grand drape and curtains for the new stage.

She was celebrated in 1997 with an exhibition, Fran Zimmer: 50 Years of Fashion in Theatre, and there was a life-sized, soft-sculpture Fran doll made by an Arts Center artist sitting at a sewing machine welcoming visitors to the show. She was an Arts Center member until she passed away in 2006 at the age of 91.

Historical photos in this article courtesy of the Sedona Heritage Museum.

Some of the artist instructors, presenters/lecturers and exhibitors during this time included Nassan; internationally famous surrealist Max Ernst; Arizona State College Art Department Chair, Dr. Harry Wood; nationally renowned landscape painter and second gallery owner in Sedona, Al Nestler; Eugenia Everett who taught sculpture at the Center for over 30 years; Hopi artist Charles Loloma; abstract artist Joella Jean Mahoney; and Cowboy Artists of America including Joe Beeler, Frank McCarthy, George Phippen, James Reynolds, Charlie Dye, and many, many more. Programming grew to include not only visual and performing arts, but children’s programs, Japanese floral arrangement, conversational Spanish and French, yoga, and other diverse arts and culture subjects.

Sedona Arts Center became a place to finally pursue the artistic dream that had been put on the back-burner for so long. They put their professional knowledge and expertise to work seeing the Arts Center through a recession, planning for the future in spite of it, and learning how to make art—all at the same time. Membership grew to historic levels with 2000 members by the late 80’s.

Refining the vision The early 2000’s saw a refocusing on visual arts, refining educational offerings. The theatre morphed into a classroom/multi-media/exhibition space where larger classes, summer youth camps, and various shows are easily accommodated, and a separate Special Exhibition Gallery.

A new focus on intensive workshops led to a national audience for plein air painting (painting from life in the natural landscape), studio landscape, Continued on next page

Thriving and growing A new space was added onto the barn in 1970 to accommodate the expanding curriculum. Local contractor and Sedona Arts Center member, John Joynt, supplied the design and expertise to build this exhibition/performing space with a stage at one end and the Arts Center paid for materials and supplied an army of volunteers to help with the actual building. Later, a workshop space was added to the south end to accommodate set-building for the theatrical productions. John’s wife, Isabel Joynt, was a stalwart volunteer, artist, and student taking classes regularly for the next several decades.

As the town of Sedona grew, so did the Arts Center! A good portion of the population in the 80’s and 90’s were retirees who came from other parts of the country and with them came grand, new ideas. They became an active force who saw opportunity for the development of new ideas, collaboration, and growth while maintaining the charm of the close-knit small, beautiful community that attracted them. The

The 90’s ushered in a new era and the Arts Center looked towards the future in a big way.

A $1,000,000 gift restricted to building was given by an anonymous donor in 1991. The new building that fronts State Route 89A opened in February of 1995. The Art Barn was completely renovated inside and all of the design and labor was made up of volunteers. The average age of the crew, lovingly called the Grunt Squad, was 72 years young! With this new infrastructure, the school curriculum and exhibitions grew in a big way. Community theatre was housed at the Arts Center offering a buffet of comedies, dramas, and musicals for over 30 years, as well as a performing space for touring companies and musicians.

Top: Artists at the Masters’ Show opening reception January 2, 2004—left to right are Vince Fazio, Geoffrey Worssam, Williamson Tapia; center: Dennis Ott has fun with kids teaching ceramics during the Summer Kids Camp in 2005; bottom: Sedona Arts Center’s newer building today sits in front of the Art Barn on the corner of Art Barn Road and State Route 89A. A R T F U L LY S E D O N A • 9

SEDONA ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

ALAN WOLTON Alan Wolton, Master Signature Member of OPA (Oil Painters of America), has been painting professionally for over 60 years in South Africa, Europe and the U.S. He is known for stunning, large-scale, impressionist oil paintings that are featured in galleries across the U.S. Wolton has received honors at the Royal Academy of London, was Oil Painters of America Distinguished Artist of the Year (2014), and has shown paintings at prestigious venues such as The Paris Salon and many museum collections.

“Ever since I was a boy, I didn’t think twice about choosing a study of water to put on my canvas. Water is quite unique; one can see through it to the life beneath and yet if one steps back, a water surface will always reflect what lies above it. If those objects are bathed in sunlight then a wonderful upside down scintillating reflection bounces and dances before you. Unlike the stationary object the water surface has chosen to copy, the pattern is never still. It does a ballet of every value, wiggling from left to right and following the angles of the wavelets which act like a million little mirrors. One can be entertained for hours if one chooses to watch such a projection of nature. It requires concentration of vision to follow the speed and fun of the circus of color kaleidoscoping before you. Some may consider you crazy to indulge in a game which few people even notice. “Sleepy Gondolas” painting of Venice is no exception as it depicts the delight of a 5 a.m. visit to one of God’s finest creations on this planet.” ~ Alan Wolton l alanwolton.com

History, continued from page 9 mixed media, and abstract foundations. In 2005, plein air artist William Scott Jennings joined the Board of Directors and guided the Arts Center through its first Sedona Plein Air Festival, still held every year with the 14th annual event scheduled for October 13–20, 2018. The Members’ Fine Arts Gallery inhabits the top floor of the gallery building with artwork of over 100 artists represented. Just this past year, and thanks again to another anonymous donor, large upgrades were made to the Art Barn including a beautiful Kiln Garden where raku and painting demonstrations are held, as well as special events.

We have come full circle back to our roots, partnering with our friends at Verde Valley School for the new Sedona Summer Colony.

The program connects cultural producers from around the world with our Sedona community. The Summer Colony harkens back to the original dream of the Sedona Arts Center’s founders: creating a place where the arts can thrive through learning, sharing, and experiencing the arts in this beautiful, inspirational place called Sedona.

Anything is possible when you have faith!

- Nassan Abiskhairoun Gobran Debbie Winslow has been actively involved with the Sedona Arts Center since 1990, first as a performer and volunteer, then as an employee. She just celebrated 22 years of fulltime employment in November 2017 and is the newly appointed Development Director.

Alan Wolton’s “Sleepy Gondolas,” Oil on linen, 60 x 72 in

Honoring Sedona’s

Legacy Artists S T O R I E S B Y PA M F R A Z I E R • P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y C U R T R I C H T E R *

Ken Rowe:

Wildlife Sculptor Every Saturday morning, Ken Rowe’s television was tuned to PBS for “Sculpting with Ken Payne.”

Rowe, a taxidermist at the time, aspired to be a sculptor. In fact, a Phoenix gallery was already showing some of his early bronzes. One day, Ken wandered into that gallery only to find Ken Payne in person, examining his work!

“He literally made me an offer I couldn’t refuse,” says Rowe. Payne wanted Ken’s wildlife sculptures in his Mountain Trails Gallery at Tlaquepaque. A promise of guaranteed monthly sales —”or I’ll pay you, myself”—gave Rowe the motivation he needed to sell his taxidermy business in Phoenix and move to Sedona.

The rest, as they say, is history. Ken and his wife Monica now have a gallery of their own at Tlaquepaque.

Additionally, Ken’s work is represented by high-end galleries in Santa Fe, Jackson Hole, and Sedona Arts Center, and is often seen in major exhibitions. His bronze animals exude life. For Ken, accuracy isn’t enough. His sculptures must tell a story.

Visitors to Rowe Gallery will often find Ken there, working in clay on a new piece. As visitors respond,

Ken watches and listens. He’ll make subtle changes in composition and texture to help focus viewers’ attention and convey the story he is telling. “Artists walk a fine line. While their artwork can’t be market driven, it helps if it is what people want.”

Ken Rowe is a strong supporter of the Sedona Arts Center. He sees it as an important entity in the community…an “unsung hero” that has done much for area artists and the arts. To give back to SAC and contribute to its mission, Ken has taught sculpture workshops, has served on SAC’s Board of Directors, and has generously donated his work to be used in fundraising.

Theodosia Greene:

A Woman before Her Time For more than 50 years Theodosia Greene has pursued art and writing with gusto. She’s retired now, but the walls of her studio bear witness to a diverse and colorful career.

“I’ve never been a very disciplined artist,” she says.

“Rather than setting out to achieve a particular goal, I’ve just surrounded myself with tools and supplies, then let go and see what happens.” She describes “what happens” as akin to being caught in an undertow.

Continued on next page * While at the 2017 Sedona Summer Artists’ Colony, Curt Richter photographed a number of Sedona’s legacy artists who are featured here. See his story is on page 15.

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Theo’s subject matter and mediums are as diverse as her styles: birds, people, landscapes, foliage…realism, abstract, anything in between… watercolor, pastel, crayons, steel. Yes, steel!

She once set out to make her own “silverware” out of steel, found it to be unbelievably boring, but loved working with a plasma cutter on steel. At one point she produced 500 pieces (chandeliers, sconces, sculptures) in stainless steel for a resort hotel in Kauai. Both the hotel and the artwork were destroyed years later by a hurricane. Playful steel pieces adorn her walls and garden.

To Theo, creativity is “giving life to something that hasn’t ‘been.’ It has to have life in it!”

Life in Sedona has been a good fit for Theo. “I’ve been lucky to be able to follow my heart.”

Alok Hsu Kwang-han: Zen Dude

So, I asked, “How did an over-educated Chinese cleric end up on the Sedona art scene?”

Starting from his birth country of China, Alok has travelled all over the world—sometimes as learner, sometimes as teacher, always in search of Truth. He’s spent time in Tibet, India, Sweden, Germany, France, and Jordan, with many sojourns along the way; and he is still on the move. But Sedona has become his staging area. Here he can always return to “sun and spaciousness.” The emptiness Alok experiences here is key to his creativity.

“When the self is not in the way, creativity can happen on its own.” – Alok Hsu Kwang-han “Sedona can be a place of non-interference,” he says.

“When the self is not in the way, creativity can happen on its own. It is critical that we are present, available, playful, and not-knowing. It’s helpful when we are not stuck on human intentions…but remain alert, ready and available to input.

Emptiness helps to promote this.”

Students in Alok’s workshops practice this. Using ink, brushes and paper, laughter, movement and stillness, the outcome is simple but profound—awareness expressed in calligraphy.

“I would like to pass on the Zen creativity that has been given to me and evolved through me,” he says, “to promote awakening, creativity, and healing.”

Jeff Perkins:

A Love Affair with Clay It’s unusual to find a Sedona native in a town where the vast majority of us come from somewhere else. Jeff Perkins is one of those rare natives. His parents brought him to Sedona in 1955, when he was just a year old (close enough to “native”). They came from the East to teach at a school they had read about in a magazine: Verde Valley School.

“Dad taught history and Mother taught English and drama.

They came for one year, but we never left. I grew up at Verde Valley School.”

Nassan Gobran, founder of the Sedona Arts Center, was then head of the art program at VVS and introduced Jeff to ceramics. Jeff’s love of clay started then, and he has continued to share that love with VVS students as Master teacher.

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Native cultures of the region have had major influences on Jeff’s artwork. “I’ve been taking VVS students on field trips for the past 38 years and have been influenced by trips to Mexico and the Hopi and Navajo reservations. Lately the strongest influence is the art and culture of the Hopi people.”

Jeff’s ceramics are currently represented at art galleries in Scottsdale, Taos, Torrey and Bluff, Utah, and, of course, at the Sedona Arts Center. His work is widely collected, including the Del Webb Collection, City of Phoenix (Sky Harbor Airport Collection) and Arizona State University, as well as by private collectors like Jackson Browne, David Crosby, and Bonnie Raitt.

Mary Heyborne:

Poet, Potter, Playwright When Mary Heyborne and her husband contemplated retirement after many career moves, they were looking for several things: to settle within a day’s drive from their aging parents; to live in a small town, but one large enough to provide cultural and artistic stimulation; and one that offered the experience of four seasons.

At the time of their first visit to Sedona, Mary was studying T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land,” and a line from it called to her.

The moment she stepped out of the car, a short poem sprung into her head, and she incorporated that line from Eliot: Standing in silence surrounded by sentinels of stone— stirred by their mass, stored light and heat, and centuries of secrets— I hear them breathe.

Behind a sandstone face, inscrutable cum Eliot, a murmur rises, “Come in under…this red rock.” ....

And they did. By the summer of 1984, the Heybornes lived in Sedona. Eager to become involved in her new community, Mary asked friends and neighbors how best to accomplish this.

Invariably, they said “Go to the Sedona Arts Center. They’re the heart of the community.”

“And they were—both artistically and socially,” says Mary. She immediately began volunteering at the gallery in the historic Barn. More than 30 years later, Mary could still be found volunteering in SAC’s Fine Art Gallery every other Tuesday afternoon. “As the scope of the community has grown, so has the heart that keeps it alive,” she says.

Mary’s unique ceramic works and books of poetry are still found at the SAC gallery. Wherever she has lived, she has tuned in to her surroundings to seek their influence in her art. “This has been particularly rewarding in the splendor of Sedona,” she says. “In subtle ways it has influenced my choices of texture and color in clay and glazes, and its beauty has expanded my poetic vocabulary.”

“As the scope of the community has grown, so has the heart that keeps it alive.”

Mary Heyborne

Gretchen Lopez:

Reconnecting with Her Roots As is true for so many arts-and-nature-oriented people, the vibrancy of Sedona’s artistic culture and the region’s natural beauty lured Gretchen Lopez and her husband John to move here. Not to Sedona, specifically, but to nearby Flagstaff.

“I may live in Flagstaff, but the Sedona Arts Center and the Desert Southwest have been a critical source and inspiration in my artistic Universe,” says Gretchen. “Here I have become not only a better artist, but also a better teacher.”

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into the Darkness, just as that lighted cross guided me here.”

The Southwest also has inspired her culturally. Born to Hispanic and Native American roots, she feels particularly at home in the desert and is encouraged to learn more about her heritage.

Gretchen began her art career in advertising with a specialty in fashion illustration. She studied under “the best” teachers— some from New York’s Art Students League, others from the Art Institute of Chicago, and finally attending the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. Encouraged to pursue fine art rather than advertising, Gretchen successfully took the leap. “The transition from fashion illustration to fine art portraiture was an easy one” for her.

For more than a decade Gretchen has shared her knowledge and techniques through workshops and ongoing classes at the Sedona Arts Center. Her workshops draw students from all over the country and sometimes give her an opportunity to reconnect with the region’s and her own history. (In March, 2018, Gretchen’s workshop will travel to the history-rich area of southern Arizona’s missions along the Santa Cruz River and Anza Trail.) Many of Gretchen’s local students return time and again to learn her techniques in watercolor, acrylic, water-soluble oils, and pastels.

Both Gretchen’s students and her collectors are loyal patrons.

Her signature paintings are available in SAC’s fine art gallery, as well as in the Turquoise Tortoise Rogoway Gallery in Tubac, Arizona. Her work can also be found at many local fundraising events, thanks to her generous nature and community support.

James Muir:

Allegorical Artist James Muir and his two horses left Indiana in the mid-1970s to explore the Southwest. He paused in Texas long enough to attend farrier school, then headed into Arizona, arriving in Sedona at night.

“Through the darkness, I could see the shapes of hills or mountains and I saw a cross lit up on Airport Mesa,” Muir tells us. “To me, the cross was a sign. I stopped at the closest motel and when I awoke and stepped out into the glory of the red rocks the next morning, I knew this incredibly beautiful place would be my new home.” Since that day, April 1, 1978, Sedona has been James Muir’s home.

It was here in Sedona that Muir discovered his latent talent for sculpting and came to focus on “Allegorical Art”—sculptures filled with symbolic meaning and “aimed at bringing Light

For the past 38 years, Muir has been a full-time professional artist. Here, he once owned a foundry. Here, he wrote his first book, the award-winning Lanterns Along the Path. And here, he has created more than 100 allegorical sculptures, most of which are either life-size or monumental in scale. Many of these are installed as public art throughout the United States, from New York to California, and beyond.

At least ten of his sculptures may be found in public locations around Sedona.

“It is because of Sedona that I am a sculptor.”

James Muir “Through the past 40 years, Sedona Arts Center has been an ever-present reminder to me of the continuing community support for promoting the arts, which lies at the true heart of this beautiful town in the Red Rocks.”

James Muir’s work is represented locally by Goldenstein Gallery, in Scottsdale by Mainview Gallery, and in Texas by Texas Treasures. The Muirs have supported SAC in a variety of ways over these many years and continue to do so.

End Note: One of the highlights of Pam Frazier’s years as SAC’s Executive Director (2012-2015) and Board member has been the opportunity to spend time with many of Sedona’s Legacy artists—those who have contributed to Sedona’s vibrant arts community and helped to create Sedona’s reputation as an arts destination. Celebrating SAC’s 60th Anniversary includes looking back to remember how we got here. Scores of artists were part of building our legacy, and many still are.

In acknowledgment of their many contributions, SAC created a series of exhibitions featuring “Sedona’s Legacy Artists,” the next of which will occupy SAC’s fine art gallery in January and February of 2018 and the final of which will open in midApril, 2018. Don’t’ miss them!

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my Beginning

BY CURT RICHTER It had been years since I’d been to the American Southwest when I was asked to participate in the Sedona Summer Artists’ Colony. An invitation and opportunity to be an artist in residence is better than a vacation.

I wondered what project I might pursue while there.

Several days after settling into my residency, I had the chance to explore my surroundings.

Bell Rock is a demanding climb, so it wasn’t until I reached the safety of a flat lookout that I turned to survey the valley far below.

The vastness of space was startling. Colors of the distant hills were as vivid as if they could be touched. Shadow and light changed the consequence of peaks and flats, altering the meaning of their form. Photographic opportunities were infinite. Where would my time in Sedona take me now?

Inspiration for my work first came from photographs on the front page of The New York Times and LIFE Magazine. Books also became a valuable reference source when I first started shooting, and later, galleries and museums. But it was the moment I saw an albumen print by Carleton E. Watkins at MoMA that a photograph for me became an art object and no longer merely an image.

I decided I would not follow Watkins’ footsteps with my camera. But, alas, we artists are mostly bastards of untraceable lineage, an amalgam of all we have seen, heard and been touched by, and our art reflects this.

Some work is sacred, however, and stands alone: Edward Weston’s nudes, August Saunders’ portraits, Carleton Watkins’ landscapes.

Best to be admired and revered, not emulated. Nevertheless Watkins’ vision has informed mine. His sensibilities are a part of who and what I am. He was where I began.

Jan Sitts will tell you how fortunate she feels to be a part of the vibrant community of artists and friends of the Sedona Arts Center for 31 years. Before coming to Sedona her work was realistic, essentially copies of nature, such as Colorado aspen trees, ghost towns, and historic buildings. But over many years of teaching workshops, jurying shows, and an evolutionary progress of her painting, she has arrived at a style of her very own that she continues to develop today.

Her colorful, richly textured paintings have delighted art lovers for more than 30 years here in Sedona and around the world. Her surroundings in the Red Rock country of Arizona’s high desert provide inspiration and stimulate an energetic and instinctual approach to her art. The color-drenched textural surfaces of her works are included at the Vue gallery in Sedona and the Sedona Art Center.

Sitts has served as a SAC board member and she teaches painting workshops here and throughout the country. Yearly scheduled dates can be viewed on her website. l jansitts.com

SEDONA ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

JAN SITTS

Igniting the Spark of Creativity Stories of transformation from the School of the Arts Through fulfilling our mission of arts education at the Sedona Arts Center lives are transformed.

Within our long history, there are many wonderful stories of creative growth and transformation that have unfolded over the years on our campus. We chose a few favorites from our current faculty and students to illustrate how each transformational journey is unique and how the arts naturally change and enrich lives for the better. Art is deeply related to what we might call the “active imagination,� an imagination that dreams and then manifests and then dreams more and manifests more as it launches us into a fresh and more vibrant reality.

Kliewer has created many monuments, including her “Sedona Schnebly” located in front of the Sedona Public Library.

Dennis Ott: The happy raku master I grew up and raised a family in California, working 25 years in a retail management career. Tired of the crazy Los Angeles scene, my wife Pat and I decided to take a huge leap of faith and leave. We found Sedona, and after visiting for two years, we decided it would be our new home and moved here in Continued on next page

Her depictions of Indians and cowboys and cowgirls in everyday life from the past, as well as the present, are truly heartfelt.

“My work aims to show the common thread underlying all human experience, which I hope brings us to a greater understanding between all people,” Kliewer says. “If you do what you know and love, the feeling will shine through giving your art a life of its own.”

SUSAN KLIEWER

SEDONA ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

A native of California, Susan Kliewer has made Arizona her home for 48 years. She spent five years running the Marble Canyon Trading Post in the 1970s on the remote Arizona Strip. Her Navajo friends and relatives became models for her painting and later, sculpture.

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Dennis Ott, continued 1989. Shortly after relocating, I found myself with time on my hands to explore new adventures. After enrolling in a silversmithing class at the Sedona Arts Center, my life changed forever. I was terrible at silversmithing, but soon discovered the “SAC Clay World.” Enrolling in weekly classes, experiencing amazing pottery instructors, and evolving into an emerging artist along with other potters, I embraced the world of everything clay.

BETTY CARR “What catches my eye is the effect light has on form whether striking, fleeting or subtlety changing.” Betty Carr’s book, Seeing the Light, An Artist’s Guide, discusses impressionistic techniques for capturing light in a painting and illustrates these aspects in her approaches to painting. “I strive for confident, enthusiastic brushwork, the maximizing of color’s value and intensity range, and a fresh painterly approach, the result appearing effortless.”

Betty Carr received her MFA at San Jose State University. She is a Master Artist in the American Impressionist Society and a signature member of the Arizona Plein Air Painters. She shows in numerous shows and galleries nationally and teaches workshops both nationally and internationally. l bettycarrfineart.com

Over the last 25 years I have grown from being a ceramics student, to a beginning instructor, to heading up the Arts Center’s Ceramics Department for the past 16 years. Along the way, I have organized workshops in Italy, taught clay on the Navajo Reservation in Monument Valley, built a kiln in Nicaragua, restarted the Loving Bowls project, and interacted with a multitude of clay artists organizing exhibitions and presentations. I was honored to be one of three finalists for the 2017 Arizona Governor’s Arts Award in the arts instruction category, and I received the City of Sedona Mayor’s Arts Award that same year, also for arts instruction. My life is full, rich and blessed, and I give honor and thanks to the Sedona Arts Center for opening up those pathways that have led me to where I am today.

HOWARD CARR Howard Carr is an alla prima painter, an exuberant artist who starts and finishes a canvas in the same day. He prepares for the painting very carefully, then executes it with strong, sure brushwork, laying it down in an easy, seemingly effortless swing. “If I were to dab and pat at the image to make it look like we know,” he says, “it would no longer be fresh and spontaneous. I find it better to suggest than be literal.” Nevertheless, Carr’s paintings are strikingly clear. Working in an impressionistic style with oil paint on canvas, he creates a vibrant atmosphere. Always, he captures the light and mood of quiet, unforced drama.

Howard received his MFA at CAL ARTS, Oakland, California.

He shows in numerous exhibitions and galleries in the U.S. and teaching workshops nationally. l howardcarrfineart.com

Deborah Taylor: Painting my way back In 2010, I was misdiagnosed, twice, with lung cancer and lymphoma. Two years later, I suffered four strokes that took most of my spirit, strength, and ability to fight. While I was not too affected physically, the brain injuries were debilitating. I wasn’t able to leave my bed for more than four months and the depression, paranoia, and serious deep despair was palpable. I knew life was never going to be the same again.

What I didn’t know was that it would be so much better.

place where my black world was filled with color again.

Art is more than a hobby or a profession. It is a religion that allows a soul in pain to find a way to make the world right. It allows the soul to forget and forge the moment where joy, love, and light reside.

Juan Ramon Camacho: An artist lost then found

Seven months later I started thinking about doing something creative again—I had taken a few art classes in college.

Though I had never painted before, I turned to the Sedona Arts Center for help and guidance while visiting the Sedona area. I received a scholarship to attend art classes, which I could not have done otherwise, nor without the love and emotional support I received from the instructors, administrators, and students. Everything unfolded as if I was granted a piece of tranquility in the middle of a storm.

With each instructor and class I experienced, I was building confidence I had lost, faith in a future, and the ability to dream again. The teachers were there for me, helping me reach for something I didn’t know I had inside. Gretchen Lopez’s class proved to be an incredible experience and my art is directly influenced from her expert tutelage. Before the year was complete, I sold my first painting, still wet on the easel in the Sedona Arts Center classroom. It was another gift from heaven. It gave me joy and let me dream.

Now I think of myself as a painter—I think I always was.

As a child in Sonora, Mexico, around the age of five, I would take my brothers’ and sisters’ notebooks, pencils and pens—my mother thought I was going to be a writer.

She was surprised when I began drawing, and even my teachers were impressed with my elaborate female faces and figures. I started painting and would copy the work of Mexican artists, photos, and album covers, and I would get flashes of ideas for original paintings.

When I was still a young teenager, I began drinking alcohol, and by the age of 38, I was drinking every day and losing myself. I came to Sedona thirteen years ago and I had hit rock bottom. I had no friends, no money, and finally I went searching for help. Through AA, I made friends with a woman who was throwing away some leftover house paint which she gave to me. Then I bought the biggest drawing pad and colored pencil kit I could find and started drawing and painting again. I surprised myself! It was like I woke up!

I bought more inexpensive acrylic paints and started painting every day, but when I approached a gallery, they turned me away which broke my heart. I was ready to give up and throw away all of my artwork, but at that

Going forward, I realized that a former abusive relationship had left me with a severe case of PTSD, but I finally found a

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SUSAN PITCAIRN Sedona painter Susan Pitcairn has the unique gift of combining inspiring poetry with a diverse array of vibrant oils, acrylics and pastels, masterfully paired in her stunning volume, “Spirit of the Earth” (2013).

“Nature often reveals inner meanings and qualities,” she explains. “A cloud-shrouded mountain may inspire endurance and strength in the face of adversity. A winding path can suggest the ever-changing mysteries of life’s unknowns.” She is equally at home, however, giving us a glimpse into the souls of animals, people, or the byways of Jerome.

very moment, Pamela Espinosa from the Sedona Public Library called, and it was like a miracle happened.

Pamela had found an art class for me at the Sedona Arts Center with a half-tuition scholarship! I have been taking classes there ever since—it’s been over three years now. I have grown as an artist and I’m proud of my work. I know there is more to come, though. My dream is to have a gallery of my own, Juanito’s Galleria, and make my living as a professional artist.

Raised in Arizona, Pitcairn majored in fine art at the University of Arizona and has studied with Marcia Burtt, Clive Pates, Tom Allen, Kevin MacPherson, John Cogan, Clark Mitchell and Kitty Wallis. She has studied, taught, produced shows, and won multiple awards at the Sedona Arts Center, what she gratefully calls “the heart of Sedona’s art community.”

A longtime environmentalist, Pitcairn is co-author and illustrator of the best seller “Natural Health for Dogs and Cats” and also blogs, speaks, and offers presentations and events encouraging people to better our world through wiser food choices, consumer habits, and everyday green living (susanpitcairn channel on Youtube). l susanpitcairn.com

Jenny Reed: Home is where the art is After high school, I fell out of art completely for the next twenty years, but eventually I found myself itching to learn how to paint and I could not afford classes. One day, I

KAREN TAYLOR Living and teaching school on a Shoshone Indian reservation nearly thirty years ago filled Karen Taylor with a reverence, fascination, and admiration for the Native American people and their culture. That fascination remains the guiding principal of Taylor’s artistic vision today. As a local artist, Taylor finds the beauty of the high desert light and the inspiring rock sculptures of Sedona combine to create the perfect environment for her work.

The photos taken by the early frontier photographers are the starting point for Taylor’s oil paintings. From there, she captures the spirit and beauty of the once flourishing culture that graced our country. Her art is created to bolster the admiration and respect due to all indigenous people who came before us and to embrace and celebrate the differences between us so that we may have a more fair and equitable world. l karentaylornativeamericanart.com

I continue to take classes with Gretchen whenever I can and love learning the ins and outs of the art industry. I am always awed at the amount of classes, workshops, sales, shows, and other events SAC puts on each year with such a small staff and budget! It’s so important to have a community arts center that makes art available to everyone. I have had the privilege of witnessing someone take his first painting class, watching as it dawned on him that his desire to create was finally being validated. I will always remember the raw emotion on his face when he said, “I never believed I could actually do this.”

World-class professional artists from all over have visited the Arts Center to give talks, teach workshops, and participate in our annual Plein Air Festival, but it is the everyday person like myself who relies on places like the Arts Center to give us the opportunity to learn how to live our creative dreams.

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expressed my desire to learn how to paint to Kelli Klymenko, SAC’s Marketing Director. He encouraged me to apply for a scholarship and I was thrilled when I found out I was eligible! I began taking classes with Gretchen Lopez, a wonderful, patient teacher and a highly-skilled artist. I fell in love with painting and was so encouraged that I enrolled in the Fine Arts program at Yavapai College. In the meantime, I began working in the administrative offices at SAC and after graduating from Yavapai, I realized I already had a great home right here in the historic Art Barn.

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Karla Kline: Grounded in courage

GALE CRAIG Sedona artist Gale Craig is known for her vibrant abstract paintings. What is truly unique about her style is that you can feel the essence of spiritual energy in everything she paints.

“In my paintings, there is a strong feeling of movement, symbolic of the dynamic creative force in all things. It is the beauty and vibrancy of this universal energy that I try to capture in my paintings.”

An intuitive artist, Craig paints primarily in acrylics and encaustics, using both these mediums and their translucent properties to express in color and flowing forms that which cannot be expressed in words.

A graduate of Rutgers University and Middlebury College, Craig came to Sedona from the Washington, DC area 17 years ago. Her professional career has been as a research analyst and writer for the Department of Defense, but painting has always been Craig’s passion. She credits her growth as an artist to her love for experimentation and to the workshops offered by the Sedona Arts Center. Her paintings have been exhibited at numerous regional and national shows and can be found in private collections nationally.

Craig is the proud recipient of a 2016 Cutting Edge Award from the International Society of Experimental Artists. l www.galecraig.com

I came to Sedona from Maryland a few years ago, newly retired from my career as a hairdresser. My motivation, beyond Sedona’s beauty and spiritual culture, was to give myself the time to pursue my interest in creating art. Once settled, I came upon the idea of using monks to represent different spiritual lessons. Looking for some artistic guidance, a friend recommended her sculpture teacher to see if he would consider mentoring me. When I showed him my not-quite-completed clay model of a laughing monk, he absolutely tore it apart with not one positive thing to say. I had taken many college classes in Maryland, and was used to being critiqued, but this was was brutal. I left totally devastated. I questioned my piece, my talent—even my decision to move here. Afterwards, I went to bed and pulled the covers over my head for twenty-four hours.

By the time I crawled out the next evening, I had made a decision to finish the piece anyway.

Something happened as a result of that horrible experience: I was no longer afraid. I think many artists are afraid to show their work, but I lived through it, and I’m sure I will never be ripped apart like that again. My friends encouraged me to enter my bronze monks in SAC’s 2017 juried show. Not only was my work accepted, but my “awful” piece took “First Place” in the Emerging Artist Sculpture category and sold along with another one as well. I am so grateful I followed my heart and for the encouragement I received from the Arts Center where my work is being shown in its Fine Art Gallery.

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The Melting Point is a premiere destination studio located in stunning Sedona Arizona. Students from across the US can participate in intensive, master level classes in the state-of-the-art lampwork studio. Guests can watch live glass demos, participate in micro classes and register for beginning hot shop, lampwork or boro classes. In between classes, the gallery offers exceptional glass art from local, national and international artists representing a vibrant and diverse glass community.

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S CHO OL OF THE A RTS CATA LO G OF CL A SSES & W OR KSHOPS

CONTENTS 26 Landscape Painting 28 Studio Arts 30 Weekly & Ongoing Classes 31 Crash Courses Kevin Macpherson

33 Filmmaking 34 Ceramics / 3D 39 Kevin Macpherson Workshop 44 Summer Colony Workshops

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landscape perspectives

COLOR/COMPOSITION INTENSIVE Aaron Schuerr

PAINTING THE SOUTHERN DESERT Gretchen Lopez

CAPTURING DEPTH AND ATMOSPHERE David Santillanes

March 28–30, 2018

March 24–26, 2018

April 9–12, 2018

Explore the possibilities of personal expression. Work on compositions in the studio and painting en plein air from the beautiful Sedona Arts Center campus.

You’ll learn how to make confident color choices and create bold compositions.

You will also examine temperature, color and light, basic compositional types, and how to take this new knowledge and make it your own.

Tubac is a wonderful go-to destination where you will study capturing the light and learning to paint the essence of what you see from life. These loose, impressionistic oil sketches can be seen as stand-alone artworks or studies for studio work later on. Oils, Water-mixable Oils, Acrylic, and Watercolor are all welcome with the plein-air equipment of your choice.

You will be painting outdoors for the first two days following up in the studio where you can distill your work into larger or more detailed compositions. Learning to quickly gather visual information needed to complete a painting in the field and how to simplify a landscape will be a primary focus of this workshop along with fundamental concepts of design as it pertains to landscape painting.

Pastel / All Levels $475.00

Oil, Acrylc, Watercolor / All Levels $495

Oil or Acrylic / All Levels $575.00

BILL CRAMER WORKSHOPS Bill Cramer’s workshops are enjoyable and intense with emphasis 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. Emphasis will be placed on the creative process to make paintings that are more than strict representations of the landscape we see.

Multiple demonstrations will be complemented by individual attention and group learning. Students of all abilities are welcome.

The Grand Canyon workshop is done in partnership with the Grand Canyon Field Institute. The Keynote workshop in October will end with a full morning demonstration of taking the plein air painting experience into the studio and working a composition onto a larger canvas.

PLEIN AIR IN SEDONA April 28–29, 2018—$325

PAINTING FROM THE RIM OF THE GRAND CANYON June 8–10, 2018—$800

KEYNOTE: SEDONA PLEIN AIR FESTIVAL SOURCE TO STUDIO WORKSHOP October 16–19, 2018—$525

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SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 13–20, 2018 SEDONA PLEIN AIR FESTIVAL

THE POWER OF LANDSCAPE DUSTY TRAILS Larisa Aukon Christine Debrosky

April 20–22, 2018

April 16–18, 2018

April 30–May 4, 2018

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.

Our focus is on creating a beautiful and powerful landscape, learning about principles of composition through an exciting process that starts with the idea and gradually unfolds into a work of art.

Using landscape photo references you will play with colors and brushstrokes to discover what helps to create a coherent painting and what makes it stand out.

Emphasis on composition with individual attention.

Join this 5-day pastel immersion workshop with Christine Debrosky, PSA, AIS, IAPS Master exploring the pure pigment of pastel, with rich, jewel like color unattainable with any other media.

This workshop is an in-depth exploration of the mesmerizing medium. Learn the ins and outs under the tutelage of an experienced painter and teacher, in an engaging, insightful, and fun workshop.

Prepare to get your hands dirty!

Acrylic / All Levels $350

Oil / All Levels $425

Pastels / All Levels $600

THE PERCEPTUAL MOMENT Stuart Shils

WET AND WILD Julie Gilbert Pollard

PLEIN AIR IN THE STUDIO Kathryn Stats

May 1–3, 2018

May 4–6, 2018

May 10–13, 2018

In this workshop, you will concentrate on deepening and cultivating your visual sensitivity by looking critically 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 and on shaking up and/or questioning what is meant by “finish.”

Learn how to make water look wet, reflective and splashy! With intimate woodsy creeks as your model, study water in motion and glassy reflection.

Painting water that looks wet requires some basic knowledge of the dynamics of how water moves and how objects are reflected in its mirror surface. Techniques will be demonstrated to address the various puzzles with which the artist is faced when painting.

Kathryn Stats is known for her vibrant color, dramatic compositions, and subtle brushwork. In this studio workshop, students will have the opportunity to choose whether they wish to work on landscape composition from photoreference or with a still-life/floral from life, or both! Students will benefit from demonstrations, slide show and lecture, and one-on-one assistance with their paintings.

Oil / All Levels $875

Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor / All Levels $450

Oil / All Levels $525

landscape perspectives

LANDSCAPE ABSTRACTION Claudia Hartley

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studio arts THE STORY IN THE STILL LIFE Scott Conary

PAPER PAINTING: ANIMALS & PETS Elizabeth St. Hilaire

COLORED PENCIL ADVENTURE Richard Drayton

April 13–15, 2018

April 20–22, 2018 / Nov 30–Dec 2

We tell a story by what subject we choose to paint, how we present that subject, and how we paint it. Finding what interests and connects us to it drives that story and directs the painting.

You’ll work on small still life paintings to explore the process—from thumbnail sketches, lighting the subject, composition, and to the application of paint to build form with light, color and mark.

Elizabeth will guide you through working on a mixed media collage portrait of man’s best friend - not limited to dogs or cats! Plan to work on whatever “pet” makes you happy, birds, fish, ferrets included! Emphasis will be on defining form using light and shadow, and treating every torn tidbit of paper as a brush stroke. You’ll create impressionistic collages that look like paintings!

Feb 3–4, Mar 3–4, Apr 7–8, May 12–13, Jun 9–10, Jul 14–15, Aug 18–19

Oils / All Levels $475

Mixed Media / All Levels $400

Colored Pencil / All Levels $400

EGG TEMPERA PORTRAIT Koo Schadler

EMPHASIZING ABSTRACTION Stuart Shils

VIVID FLORALS IN OIL Jody Florman

Because of its luminosity and fine line work, egg tempera is an ideal medium for rendering the human face. In this workshop you will learn every step of how to develop a portrait in egg tempera, with ongoing individual instruction and critiques. Koo explains the traditional Old Master palette used to develop flesh tones. She will also work on a painting of her own, so you can see firsthand how she develops her egg tempera portraits.

April 27–29, 2018 Working in the studio from reproductions including older and 20th century masters, you’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 interpretively from images and on the final day you will apply what you learned to drawing outdoors.

Using the Old Masters’ technique of glazing layers of paint, you’ll work stepby-step creating an image of a rose on a provided gessoed board. Through creating a “Value Painting” you will have a deeper grounding in painting skills, color mixing, brush work, and evolving the painting as a whole composition.

Jody will use creative tools to help see color in a new way and provide individual guidance throughout each workshop day.

Egg Tempera / All Levels $650 + Lab Fee to Instructor $60

Mixed Media / All Levels $875

Oils / All Levels $525 + Lab Fee to Instructor $50

April 24–28, 2018

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

Artists of all levels will enjoy expanding the boundaries with this versatile medium.

May 7–11, 2018

studio arts

TEXTURE | COLOR | FEELING Jan Sitts

ABSTRACT FIGURATIVE Robert Burridge

LOOSEN UP! Tim Jaeger

May 7–9, 2018

May 14–18, 2018

July 27–29, 2018

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!

Push yourself out of your safe zone and into a brand new, looser, abstract direction: drawing, painting and collaging the contemporary nude. Two days with a life model and plenty of time to experiment with a master. If you ever wanted to learn how to paint the freestyle abstract figure, this workshop is for you.

Classes include paint sketching, gestural drawing and finger painting techniques.

“Loosening up” is a goal for many, from beginners to experienced painters. You’ll practice a loose application of paint through the use of various brushes and mixed media. Tim will work individually to guide you to defining your own style.

Because many artists seek ways of “loosening up” we will explore techniques to move beyond our comfort zones. This package includes lodging and breakfast daily at Sedona Real Inn & Suites.

Mixed Media / All Levels $425

Acrylic / All Levels $700

Acrylic / All Levels $800

STUDIO TO LANDSCAPE Vince Fazio

A BRUSH WITH EMPTINESS Alok Hsu Kwang-han

WAX, PAPER, SCISSORS Crystal Neubauer

June 5–7, 2018

September 29–30, 2018

October 1–3, 2018

Drawing is a foundation course for representational painting and composition. Learning to see in terms of edges, shapes, and values is the essential skill required to translate the threedimensional world to any two dimensional surface. Two days in the studio will prepare you for a trip into the landscape where you will put your learning to the test with vast possibilities!

Master calligrapher Alok Hsu Kwanghan will guide and inspire you to rest in the spaciousness of your being, to be comfortable and intimate with not knowing, and to allow your brush to dance from emptiness. It will become obvious to you this is a healing journey as well as a creativity workshop! No previous experience with Zen or painting is needed. Better to come with “beginner’s mind.”

Delve into the art of paper, glue and wax working through an intensive exploration of the art of abstract collage. Learn to create satisfying works of art while discovering your own authentic style.

You’ll use elements with organic torn edges, and cut edges, select the proper adhesive, determine what substrate to utilize, and alter a variety of salvaged materials for use in collage.

Materials Provided / All Levels $325

Materials Provided / All Levels $375

Mixed Media / All Levels $525

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weekly and ongoing classes WEEKLY AND ONGOING CLASSES Sedona residents and newcomers alike look to Sedona Arts Center for their introduction to and ongoing involvement in the arts.

The School of the Arts programming is designed to reach out to all aspiring artists and students - all ages and levels of learning.

Ongoing instruction is available in a variety of mediums. Taking classes on our campus in Uptown Sedona affords the opportunity not only to explore the arts, but also to meet new neighbors and immerse yourself in the Sedona arts community. These classes have a membership discount and are offered on an ongoing or year-round basis.

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PAINTING FOR ALL LEVELS Gretchen Lopez

PAINTING CRASH COURSE Gretchen Lopez

GLAZING CRASH COURSE Cyndi Thau

January 12, 26; February 9, 23; March 9, 16, 30; April 13, 27; May 11, 18; June 15, 29; July 13, 27; August 10, 24; Sept. 7, 21 Fridays 10 am–4:30 pm

February 24–25, April 14–15, June 16–17, Sept 22–23 / Sat & Sun, 10 am–4:30 pm

January 23–February 1, March 20–29, May 15–24, July 10–19, September 11–20 Tuesday & Thursday, 1–4 pm

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.

This course guides you in a painting process that will focus on using brushwork and a limited palette of color to see the shapes, tones, and edges that create the illusion of form. This is a great class for the first-time painter or a nice refresher course for the returning painter.

With materials included all barriers have been removed so that you can explore the fun of painting!

Oils, Acrylc / All Levels $95/Members $85

All Levels / All Materials Included $145/members $133

Color, Light, Shadow, Translucency...

These are the ingredients that you will work with to create a beautiful painting to take home. The subject will be flowers, and using a technique of glazing, you will apply thin layer upon layer of oil paint to achieve the depth and translucency associated with all things in nature.

All Levels / All Materials Included $145/Members $133

iPHONEOGRAPHY CRASH COURSE Kelli Klymenko

iPHONE VIDEO CRASH COURSE Kelli Klymenko

January 27, April 21, Jun 23 Saturday, 9 am–3 pm

Saturday & Sunday, May 19–20 9 am–3 pm

In this favorite abstract course, Julie gives you a powerful foundation for painting abstracts with depth and feeling. Her layering technique helps you enter the painting process naturally, develop beautiful complexity and flow, and bring out the spirit of your painting. You will come to see each painting more deeply & understand how to enhance its impact.

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, iPad, or iPad Mini. 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 rather than just taking a picture.

Learn how to shoot, edit, and broadcast video using only your iPhone in this twoday workshop. Kelli will walk you through creating unique professional quality videos for promotional, educational, entertainment, personal, or broadcasting purposes. Day 1: the basics and filming; Day 2: editing, uploading and social media.

All Levels / All Materials Included $145/Members $133

iPhone / All Levels $110/Members $100

iPhone / All Levels $220/Members $200

DRAWING CRASH COURSE Vince Fazio

FUN WITH ART & WINE Brian & Melanie Gold

ART OF KUMOMI Karen Elaine

April 3–12 Tuesdays & Thursdays 6–9 pm

January 19, Febraury 23, March 16, April 13, May 11, August 10, September 21 Fridays 6–8 pm

April 7, June 16 Saturday, 1–4 pm

January 20–21, March 10–11, April 16–17, August 6–7, September 8–9 9:30 am–4:30 pm

Whether you are interested in a refresher course or drawing for the first time this course will provide you with the foundations you need in the language of drawing. Learning to see in terms of lines, shapes, and value pattern is the essential skill required to translate the three-dimensional world to any twodimensional surface - regardless of the medium you ultimately wish to explore.

All Levels / All Materials Included $145/Members $133

This is a fun two-hour adventure for those who like wine but may know nothing about making a painting. You will be led through creating a 12x16 acrylic painting on canvas in a step-by-step process.

Local landscape subject matter and a surprisingly fool-proof process lead to fun, laughs, more wine and your painting is finished - suitable for framing!

Brilliant colors interacting with each other is the core of the Kumomi practice followed by mindful drawing. Karen developed Kumomi as an effective way to calm the body and mind in a busy world.

In this 3-hour session you will paint on several surfaces with brilliant acrylic inks then draw using a variety of pens and will construct a reusable artful container to store and carry the finished work.

All Levels / Must be 21 years old $35 / All Materials Included

All Levels / All Materials Included $45

weekly and ongoing classes

LUSCIOUS ABSTRACTION Julie B. Engelmann

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weekly and ongoing classes

A CREATIVE JOURNAL Karen Elaine

BASICS OF OIL PAINTING Stephen J. Krasemann

FIBER ART QUILTING Patricia Caldwell

March 17–18, May 12–13, August 11–12 Saturday & Sunday, 10 am–5 pm

January 13–14, March 24–25

March 7, 14, 21 Wednesdays, 1–3:30 pm

You will begin to fill pages with beautiful colors and textural backgrounds while exploring drawing, watercolor, collage and mixed media techniques. Two days of creativity will include plein air sketching, nature rubbings as well as playing with patterns and motifs using stencils, other found materials and collected ephemera. Participants are encouraged to bring found objects.

Stephen is a landscape and wildlife painter whose work is represented by Legacy Galleries in Jackson Hole. In his Crash Course, demonstrations, hands-on 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.

Mixed Media / All Levels $250 + $50 Materials Fee to Instructor

Oils / All Levels / All Materials Included $145/Members $133

All Levels $55 Per Class, Includes Free Pattern

CLASSIC OILS Linda Sosangelis

ART HISTORY: FOUR GREAT PAINTINGS Michael Cothren

YOUR PERSONAL ALCHEMY PORTRAIT Peggy Doig and Nancy Dancing Rain Lemaster

February 6–May 3 Tuesdays & Thursdays 9 am–Noon Acquaint or re-acquaint yourself with the pleasure of oil painting. Learn classical techniques and principles of creating representational art regardless of subject matter. This class is very accessible for beginners who desire simplicity, but will excite seasoned artists who desire more complex subject matter. Students may work from still life or photographic references of any subject.

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All Levels / 13 Weekly Sessions $65/Members $59 per week

January 31, February 7, 14, 28 Wednesdays, 3–4:30 pm Michael Cothren taught Art History at Swarthmore College for 35 years. This mini art-history course exploring the visual structure and cultural meaning of four extraordinary paintings, one at a time: Giotto di Bondone’s Kiss of Judas, Sultan Muhammad’s Court of Gayumars, Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Double Portrait, & Caravaggio’s Calling of Saint Matthew.

Lecture / History $110/Members $100

These three courses: Curved Piecing, Confetti Painted Trees, Thread Painting, are designed to show you different techniques. Demonstrations and slide show presentations will give you the skills to be able to start on your way. Small class sizes will ensure that all “How To” questions will be answered, and all levels of sewing skills and artists are welcome.

Classes may be taken separately.

September 8–9 Saturday & Sunday, 9 am–4pm Take a very personal journey discovering the underlying magic of your personality and story using art and journaling to express your life essence through a unique, collaborative portrait process.

All materials are provided.

All Levels $247

filmmaking

FILMMAKING BOOTCAMP with Bryan Reinhart August 18–31, 9 am–4 pm

All Levels / All Materials Included $1800

This three-week certificate program provides students who are interested in filmmaking, or even contemplating a commitment to filmmaking as a career the opportunity to learn the basics of the craft in a short, immersive format. The course is designed as a boot-camp/hands-on approach to filmmaking. A final screening will be open to the public, creating a meaningful deadline.

YOUTUBE PRODUCTION Bryan Reinhart

SUMMER KIDS CAMP Bryan Reinhart

ABOUT Bryan Reinhart

April 14–15 9 am–4 pm

June 18–29, July 9–20 9 am–4 pm

Google is looking for better quality videos to broadcast and promote their youtube network. Instructor Bryan Reinhart will use his 30 years plus as a professional filmmaker and 15 years as a film instructor to give you hands-on training to make a more polished creative production. Lighting, cameras, sound, and editing equipment will be provided.

Filmmaking is a very collaborative process that involves all the arts.

Summer Art of Filmmaking Camps at the Sedona Arts Center provide a rich, artistic environment for youth ages 10-14.

Students begin by deconstructing scenes from contemporary favorites, examining all the aspects that make a scene work.

Students then develop their own unique storyline to bring to the big screen.

All Materials Included / All Levels $145/members $133

Ages 10 to 14 $500

Bryan Reinhart’s first Hollywood experience was producing a documentary on the feature film Hoosiers. Reinhart went on to produce the nationally televised American Highways for Public Television.

In the 1980’s, Reinhart started his own television production company and produced corporate and industrial projects for Fortune 500 companies as well as documentaries. Several of his documentaries were aired nationally on public television. Bryan has worked in the entertainment industry in a variety of positions including producer, director, and editor for both film and television.

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A Note From Ceramics Head of Department

Dennis Ott “I’m a ceramic artist who loves to push the limits of my creative work and I’m an educator who loves teaching. I love to share my passion with all the students who cross our threshold. I am proud that our department has helped mold ceramicists who have grown to become successful professional artists in Sedona and the Verde Valley.

We have a small faculty with specialists in teaching handbuilding and beginning wheel work and we augment our ongoing classes with innovative workshops, bringing artists in from around the country to share their process.

The Arts Center changed my life by putting me on a creative path and I love helping others find what works for them. For me, the ceramics department here at the Sedona Arts Center is great place for new social

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interactions, artistic opportunities, community building, and so much more. We are an open door studio. Come in anytime for a tour or orientation and to see for yourself what the possibilities are.

There are no grades, but constant learning!”

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3-D Workshops

ALTERNATIVE FIRINGS Dennis Ott 2 Sundays, February 11 & 18, 2018 This workshop is great for a first-time clay experience or for the experienced potter to explore a number of new finishes. The pottery wheel is available for those with experience, handbuilding for others, creating 4 -5 works for each student. We will be using non-traditional finishes such as Raku, Sager, Obvara, and horse hair to create beautiful surface results.

All Materials Included / All Levels $175

ROBERT BURRIDGE Robert Burridge, a noted award-winning industrial designer who, after 25 years in the corporate world, focused his life to painting everyday. Burridge attributes his success to his education from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, his stint as an adjunct professor at Cooper Union in New York City, and in 1966, his Fluxus art performances with Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Jim McWilliams, and Charlotte Moorman.

His work hangs in permanent collections of international embassies, corporate galleries, and art colleges. His solo museum exhibitions received positive attention, so he was invited to exhibit his paintings at the Smithsonian Folklife Circus Arts Festival in Washington, DC.

CERAMICS FOR ALL LEVELS Dennis Ott Feb 12–Mar 19, Feb 13–Mar 20, Feb 14– Mar 21; Mar 26–Apr 30, Mar 27–May 1, Mar 28–May 2; May 7–Jun 11, May 8–Jun 12, May 9–Jun 13 Mondays 4–7 pm, Tuesdays 9 am–12 pm Wednesdays 9 am–12 pm 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.

All Materials Included $220/Members $202

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BEYOND THE VESSEL Jerry Hendershot March 30–31, 2018 In this workshop we will use the wheel as a step in the process as we learn to utilize simple thrown forms in more complex ways, through assembly of smaller forms to build larger, more diverse forms and more uniquely designed sculptural pieces. Add to that the option of texture and earthy finishes to create art that tells a story.

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May 9–11, 2018 Working with a master artist you’ll move from first principles to nuance and exaggeration and learn to sculpt a convincing female bust. Students will be using oil base clay over a simple armature. Day 1: you will explore the basic structure of the head and features Day 2–3: work from a live model capturing character and expression.

Oil Based Clay / All Levels $400 Includes Materials and Firing Fee

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Painting fromLife O B S E R VA T I O N S & A D V I C E Painting from life, my own life, is what makes my art journey unique. I weave my passion for painting with my life; it is a match made in heaven. My concept of color relies on this conversation I am having with nature, seeking natural harmonies. Colors to express the effect of sunlight. Values to envelop atmosphere. Flat shapes to decorate the space.

New experiences naturally stimulate and inform my work. My style and subject matter continue to evolve. As a prerequisite for an enduring art career, artists must do everything possible to keep the curious spirit alive and see their surroundings fresh

with wonder and new appreciation every day. It has been said life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.

Thirty years ago, I participated in the beginnings of a resurgence of plein-air painting.

En plein air is a French term meaning “in the open air.” The Plein-Air Painters of America—as we called our small group of twenty artists—went back to the time-tested source of inspiration and stood before the greatest mentor: Nature. Since the 1980s, this method of painting outdoors has inspired thousands more painters all around the world to seek answers from direct observation.

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BY KEVIN MA C P HE R SON

Plein air painting is challenging with quickpaced decision making necessary to record the transient light. A painting done “on the spot” exhibits spontaneity and freshness. The struggles and shorthand of plein-air art add to its charm. In the process of quickly capturing the elusive conditions, plein-air artists often infuse their paintings with a “painterly” quality, meaning objects are not laboriously rendered, but they are revealed with poetically chosen spots of color. Collectors sense the joy of color and the artist’s hand.

Any subject is valid because it is not the subject you are copying, but your experience of that subject. Your way is your style.

Original does not mean it has never been done before. Being original is being true to you. Be original, be authentic.

Celebrate life, sparkling with light and awash in vivid colors. Color it with your life Continued on next page

“Temple Butte at the Confluence” by Kevin Macpherson

“CHINESE CHARACTERS” Opening Friday May 11, 2018 5-7 Artist Reception May 26, 5-8 Gallery Talk May 26, 5:30

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All Levels May 29 - 31, 2018 Tuition: $850

Kevin Macpherson will offer an exclusive 3-day plein air painting workshop while visiting Sedona during his Sedona Arts Center exhibition ”Chinese Characters.” Kevin’s class is about seeing and increasing your visual awareness. Demonstrations will break down the complexity of painting to reveal the magical process in simple-to-understand terms while exploring the problem-solving methods of past masters. Daily on-site painting and individual and group critiques.

Documenting recent years of travel in China Kevin Macpherson brings an exclusive exhibition of his portraits, all painted from life, to the Sedona Arts Center for premier exhibition. Join us for an Artist’s Reception with an intimate Gallery Talk on Saturday May 26 at 7 pm.

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SEDONA ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

Kevin Macpherson, continued experiences and emotion. Painting from life is as close to living in the present as I have experienced. The method creates a direct conversation with the subject, bringing greater vitality and a more natural, less formulaic finish to your work. The artist becomes a bridge between nature and the viewer. Every truthful color relationship gleaned from painting from life is a priceless seed of information.

ML COLEMAN “My goal as an artist is to create an awareness and reminder of the beauty that surrounds us.”

Inspired by the ever-changing light and colors found in nature, ML Coleman seeks to convey the essence of his subject utilizing a painterly form of realism that is fresh, vibrant, and energetic. He strives to make each painting come to life with a spirit of its own and, in turn, evoke an emotional response in the viewer.

Residing in Sedona, Arizona for more than 35 years, he has traveled throughout much of North America, and extensively in Europe, seeking the beauty that stirs his imagination. Painting on site while witnessing the mystery and drama of nature allows him to record his experiences. Coleman combines these impressions with memory and imagination in the more meditative studio works, which may require weeks to complete.

His work has been included in numerous museum and gallery shows and can be found in prestigious private and corporate collections worldwide including Northern Natural Gas, Web Trend Graphics, Author JA Jance, Sean Young, and Inga Tours. Numerous articles in national magazines and listings in major reference books, including Marquis’ Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who in America, reinforce the collector’s decision to own these compelling and memorable works of art! l mlcolemanart.com

Abandon your fear. Surround yourself with inspiring people you will find as both teachers and fellow students in Sedona workshops. Participating in a painting workshop is not just for beginners; professional artists can up their game under the right mentor.

The guidance of a respected teacher can bring out your best and a workshop may fill you with fresh ideas and stimulate your imagination for years to come. Sedona is an awe inspiring, magical location to practice your craft, to nurture inspiration. Painting outdoors and painting from life is the best vehicle I can recommend for feeding one’s artistic spirit. Young or old, it is never too late to add art to your life. Everyone is young at art.

Kevin Macpherson has lived a life beyond his wildest dreams because he followed his muse. Paints in hand, he has globe-trotted to more than thirty-five countries and counting. In addition to writing three popular books on landscape painting, his work has been featured in more than 75 publications, books, television series, and videos. Kevin is a Signature Member and first President of the Plein-Air Painters of America (PAPA), a California Art Club (CAC) Master Artist, an American Impressionist Society (AIS) Master Artist, and an Oil Painters of America (OPA) Master. Throughout his career he has devoted significant energy to nurturing the next generation. Today he is more energized than ever, bringing art and joy to the aspiring hearts of underprivileged children, especially in Central America and China with his foundation, “Art Ambassador for a Colorful World.” More information about this important mission can be found at artambassador.org.

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Sedona Summer Colony Creative placemaking in the red rock landscape

Sense of place is a wonderful thing. Begin with a combination of unique environments, engaged people, and community interactions and—over time—a special undeniable character emerges. Sedona’s story over the past century, its local identity, is one of creativity and the ongoing cultivation of a truly unique place.

Unlike the rest of the world, Sedona has always been unique—built up by hundreds of millions of geological events, imprinted with a rich Native American presence, settled by a few hundred pioneer households, and set apart from greater America in a reddened high elevation desert. More than anything else over the past century, the artists and creative people have defined Sedona’s modern-day relationship with heritage, environment, and place.

The artistic story proceeds from a fascinating lineage of creative people. It begins

with the arrival of sculptors, Bob and Mary Kittredge, in the 1930s, the establishment of the Sedona Literary Society by Vendla Sides in 1932, and the migration of Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning after World War II. It grew with the foundation of Verde Valley School and the recruitment of Egyptian sculptor, Nassan Gobran, from Boston to the still-wild West. Over several decades, Hollywood added new creative layers and traditions. Ever since, creative placemaking has been in our DNA. The National Endowment for the Arts defines it as what happens “when public, private, not-for-profit, and community sectors partner to strategically shape the physical and social character of a neighborhood, town, tribe, city, or region around arts and cultural activities.”

With that in mind, seeds for the Sedona Summer Colony were planted in the Fall of 2015 over a social dinner between the

heads of the Sedona Art Center (then me) and Verde Valley School (Paul Amadio).

The partnership that began that evening reunited two of Sedona’s longest-serving non-profit organizations. Six months later, over 125 visiting creative people were welcomed onto the VVS campus as the first residents of the Sedona Summer Colony.

Local artists and supporters interacted with residents and enhanced the guest-host relationships. Before anybody knew it, America had its next great artist residency program right in our own backyard.

The Colony’s primary objective is to support the inspiration and creation of new artistic work by providing undisturbed time, temporary living space, regular meals, and studio or work space. Another main objective, proceeding from the collective nature of a group residency, is to foster new connections and dialogue amongst participants and instill new opportunities for cross-disciplinary interaction and thinking.

A final objective of the program is to connect cultural producers from around the world with our Sedona community—and link them with the unique and diverse heritage, community, environment, and influences found only in the Verde Valley and Northern Arizona.

Now in its third year the Sedona Summer Colony continues to weave its relationship and identity with the community and history of Sedona, the Sedona Arts Center, and Verde Valley School.

This summer, 60 years after our first educational offerings, the colony expands with a diverse

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If we are bold, we might call the past 60 years “The Sedona Renaissance.” Growing from its source in a small apple packing shed along Oak Creek, Sedona has been enriched with a mighty stream of arts education, cultural events, festivals, exhibitions, and community engagement through the arts. Whether we look back at the artistic developments of the 1950s or ahead to the next Sedona Summer Colony, creative placemaking is the undeniable achievement and legacy. It is the very nature of our place.

Join us for the 2018 Sedona Summer Colony that runs from July 16 - Aug 11.

Explore the workshop residencies on the following pages or create your own residency.

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workshop series (July 16 - 19) They invite artists to study focused avenues of expression with the option of adding on an independent residency following the workshop.

Explore the Magic of Surrealism and begin afresh where so many modern art movements began, or delve into a Plein Air Painting Immersion during the dramatic monsoon season. Discover the richness of indigenous culture through the Hopi Pottery Experience, or expand your portfolio with a Contemporary Mixed Media workshop. The last week of the Colony (Aug 6 - 11) features a unique Spoken Word workshop for all levels and interests in formal or informal spoken performance. The workshops are also perfect for teachers seeking continuing education credits over the summer (available through Yavapai College School of Arts and Humanities).

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JENNIFER EPPERSON Jennifer Epperson’s work is often confrontational; the human body or selected body parts show up regularly, as do symbols. She is an avid revisionist and unhesitatingly appropriates images from art, history, and popular culture. Like the early surrealists, Epperson explores memories, imagining, and dreams. Her inner world and the inner world of others informs her philosophy.

“I can’t tell you how images come to me. Their initial birthing seems largely unconscious. They challenge me to adapt my perception and to use the naked eye.”

Primary topics of sex, death, and the human condition are a constant signature.

“Art cuts a wide swath in my life. Sometimes it guides me; sometimes I guide the art. I love the process of making art. It is a form of active meditation that challenges my physical and mental capacity. The process sustains me as an artist and a woman.

I come from a woman’s point of view and make no apologies. When my work attracts the viewers’ gaze, so much the better.” l www.thestudio61.com

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Contemporary Mixed-Media | All Levels Joan Fullerton • July 16 - 19, 2018 Tuition: $1025

Plein Air to Studio | All Levels Matt Sterbenz • July 16 - 19, 2018 Tuition $1025

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.

Students will learn how to create plein air paintings that can serve as finished pieces on their own, as well as quick “sketches” created specifically for later studio references. Matt will provide daily demonstrations and discuss the importance of composition, design, structure, harmony, light, and color theory.

Students of all skill levels are welcome, but should be familiar with their medium of choice.

The Spoken Word All Levels Thomas Eldon Anderson Aug 6 - 11, 2018 Tuition $1195 Photo: Dora Hernandez

The Magic of Surrealism | All Levels Libby Caldwell • July 16 – 19, 2018 Tuition $1025 Take an experiential journey using many ideas for image making that are inspired

by Surrealism with a focus on the work of Max Ernst, who lived in Sedona from 1946 -1953. It’s all about freeing up the imagination, moving towards the spontaneous play that adults have often forgotten. Process is the key to finding the randomness that maybe isn’t so random. We start by making a book.

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This workshop will focus on the fundamentals of performance exploring principles of clarity of thinking, melody of meaning, and expressiveness using mechanics and emotional intention in the service of “storytelling.” Appropriate for actors as well as business or professional speech. We will use selections from the greats of theatre, poetry, and famous speeches with a sharing of the work at the end of the week.

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Rachel Sahmie studied traditional pottery with her mother Priscilla Namingha Nampeyo, who only had encouragement and positive words to share with her children when it came to making pottery. Today Rachel is an accomplished potter whose works are in many fine art galleries, museums, and people’s homes. She is inspired by nature and birds in particular, as well as by old pot shards. In this workshop Rachel will

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share how she loves best to create her beautiful pottery using traditional Hopi materials, methods and tools. You’ll be making small pots made from Hopi clay, decorated with paint made from traditional plants and minerals, using brushes made from Yucca, using the hand-coiled method, and fired in sheep dung. While you’re invited to use Hopi designs, feel free to bring along your own design ideas. Additional evening presentation by Michael Cothren, retired art history professor from Swarthmore College, rounds out this cultural immersion suitable for both beginner and experienced potters.

A gallery like no other...

BY WIB MIDDLETON Sedona Arts Center Gallery Director, Cyndi Thau, is thrilled to be running the day-to-day operations of what has become a worldclass fine art gallery for local and regional artists. The eclectic array of gifted artists and artisans are all members of the Sedona Arts Center family and their creative passions are attractively displayed in its two handsome gallery spaces. What began as a humble gift shop decades ago was completely transformed in 1995—thanks to a substantial anonymous gift—into today’s highly regarded and well-visited Sedona gallery.

Cyndi, an oil painter and former gallery owner in Costa Rica, joined the Arts Center in 2008 becoming Gallery Director in 2016. She has been quietly exuberant about the benefits of buying art at the gallery ever since. “As a non-profit, our gallery customers enjoy a wonderful selection of original art with the gift of no sales tax on any purchase. Members also enjoy the benefit of a membership discount,” explains Cyndi.

Currently, most gallery artists hail from Northern Arizona with 85% living and working in the Sedona, Flagstaff, and the Cottonwood areas. Some are emerging artists and some have been in the gallery for years going back to its founding in the mid-90s. Every year it seems that the quality and diversity of the art, from paintings, bronzes, multimedia, fabric, and fiber sculpture in the North Gallery to jewelry, landscape photography, glass, and pottery in the South Gallery, just keeps getting better and better.

Gallery jury selection is highly selective. “Choosing art that inspires collectors and the casual buyer and is reasonably priced is part of the SAC mission,” explains Cyndi. Jurying takes place once a year, and once an artist is in, there is an evaluation after three months and another at six. If artists continue to sell, and so many do, their new art is displayed and often highlighted in rotation throughout the year. A little over a year ago the gallery pared things down to create an easier flow to improve the customer experience. “If visitors can view the art that is displayed in a more spacious way, it really helps them in decision making,” reports Cyndi.

One of the special aspects of the gallery is the beautiful synergy it has with SAC’s Schools of the Arts. It would be difficult to count how many gallery artists took classes, worked hard, and honed their skills to a point where they were juried into the gallery. Many of the longtime gallery favorites like Dennis Ott and Gretchen Lopez are also instructors who launched their fine art careers at Sedona Arts Center. World-class artists, like bronze sculptors Ken Rowe and Susan Kliewer teach, often doing live demonstrations, and sell in the gallery. Numerous SAC artists are retired, with the time to devote full time to their art, giving them in some cases a second career where their passions can be unleashed! Others are relatively new on the scene, but all have found a creative home at the Sedona Arts Center.

Three of SAC’s special artists are profiled on the following pages.

Their passion and rare talent enliven the gallery!

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SEDONA ARTIST SPOTLIGHTS

Traveling back in time with Ron Schneider We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the remarkable artists who transport us to the fiercely independent and heroic lives of early Western cowboy culture. Authentic, historic, and educational, the three-dimensional scenes captured in burnished bronze inspire and wow us. The world-class bronze artists engage in deep research and are precise in their life-like interpretations. So too is Ron Schneider, a self-taught SAC gallery artist and a chronicler of a different kind of Western scene—native ruins in 3D, rotating miniature dioramas that are astonishing in their originality and interpretation.

Ron, retired after a successful engineering career, began fashioning scaled-down wall art depicting old windows, doors, and barn facades in authentic and realistic detail. After moving to Sedona from Scottsdale with his wife in 1998, he took one of his small wall hangings to SAC. It was a Santa Fe window with faded shutters and cracked adobe. “It sold in two days for $58, and I thought, I have a new career!” laughs Ron.

BYRON McKEOWN “At the Kansas City Art Institute I wasn’t taught to do ‘ART.’ I was encouraged to ask questions…about everything. But more importantly, I was encouraged to find the answers for myself,” says Byron McKeown. There he learned the importance of identifying a problem before trying to solve it and experimented with a number of visual languages. In those four short years, McKeown discovered the excitement of exploring the creative process. Those explorations led him to Sedona where he and his wife Deanne established three galleries. Now, in semi-retirement, he works in wood, metal, and semi-precious stones to create collectible knives and walking sticks.

“As a proud member of the Sedona Arts Center, I commend this organization on its past achievements and know that the coming years will bring even more awareness to the value of the arts in our community.” l mckeowngalleries.com

Soon after Ron became intrigued and mystified by the abandoned kivas and indigenous dwellings scattered throughout the Southwest. He discovered in historical records of the late 1800’s that cowboys riding deep into desolate canyons to find stray cattle came upon many abandon dwellings. Digging further and curating meticulous notes—purchasing every book at protected public sites he visited for historical accuracy—Ron set out to bring to life in minute detail and through his own interpretations what these mysterious places revealed.

Over the years through lots of experimentation Ron has developed a systematic approach to his captivating and beautiful pieces. He’ll tell you he is not a radical environmentalist, but he does use as much discarded or found wood to create the all-important cliff-like backdrops. Manzanita, pinion pine, and cedar are favorites. The more they look like stone the better.

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Placing them on a swivel base allows for maximum efficiency in his sculpting and viewing. Next he fashions his stones with a powdered cement that he finds works perfectly after years of experimentation. “I developed a pattern for the stonework.

Then I mold it, let it air dry, strip it, snip it, and cut and shape it into the dwellings. Finding that product made a huge difference,” Ron exclaims. Tacky glue lets him work quickly as he builds his kivas and ruins.

“As I build a new piece, I have to tell myself when to stop, remembering that these representations were found in disrepair… fallen walls where rock and stone piled up as they would after a wall collapsed,” he explains. Today the mystery remains as to what happened to the indigenous tribes that abandoned their dwellings in the late 1300’s. “From an interest point of view the ruins are just fascinating to me—how they ever built them without tools and fasteners and how they’ve lasted all these years.” Maybe we will never know. Thankfully Ron gives us a glimpse into a window of time in a collectible piece of art.

When Ron volunteers Monday afternoons at the SAC gallery, visitors tell him he should charge thousands for his stunning dioramas. That’s not likely to happen and his pieces are extremely reasonable. For Ron, he will tell you humbly, that to have a piece of his art in a person’s home is his greatest joy.

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DEANNE McKEOWN

DEANNE McKEOWN Deanne McKeown finds inspiration for her sculpture in wildlife and the varied cultures of the West, frequently utilizing her work as an opportunity to make humorous or social commentary. She is drawn to interesting associations. The animal characters in her work are frequently metaphors for human thought and behavior. She often incorporates found objects—sometimes they are the beginning of an idea, and sometimes they find their way into a work during the process.

“I am proud to have been a member of the Sedona Arts Center for thirty of their sixty years and trust this fine organization will continue to bring even more cultural enrichment to our community.” l mckeowngalleries.com

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Elaine Belvin’s interest in photography was sparked by the beautiful landscapes she saw while hiking in the American Southwest. After a long career in Information Technology, photography is now her focus and hiking gives her access to remarkable sites.

ELAINE BELVIN

Elaine brings a combination of artistic and technological skills to her images. She uses the camera as a tool to create works of art that capture an expression, a mood, a natural geometry, an exceptional quality of light, or a striking color palette. Her portfolio includes nature, wildlife, and vintage images from the American Southwest, Africa, and other travel destinations. l www.elainebelvin.com

Elevating the fine art of batik with Lydia Dillon-Sutton

BILL BELVIN Bill Belvin specializes in creating richly detailed images of the American Southwest wilderness.

He loves capturing the patterns and symmetries present in sandstone and sharing the results with others.

Bill is the creator/author of a website which has had over one million visits from 207 countries.

The website contains more than 1,000 images of The Wave and surrounding region, as well as travel directions, maps, ephemeris data, and shooting tips. You will also find depth-of-field tools and articles on shooting at night as well as photographing hot air balloons. l www.thewave.info

Batik is a centuries-old art form using hot beeswax and special dyes to paint on fabric. Their mostly free-form, expressive colorful designs are enjoyed on fabrics and clothing around the world.

Batik as figurative fine art, however, is quite another thing.This multi-step, complex form of artistic expression is only practiced by a few intrepid artists in the Southwest these days and Lydia Dillon-Sutton is one of them. After forty-plus years she has taken the batik form to a high octave of beauty, skill, and accomplishment.

Native Southwestern culture, galloping horses and other animals are authentically represented in Lydia’s stunning work. Known especially for her depictions of young Indian women in traditional dress, often performing tribal dances, her pieces are remarkably detailed. Lydia’s use of line creates dynamic movement and complements textured earthen hues that contrast with rich turquoises, greens and gold.

Lydia’s creative process often begins as an adventure with her professional photographer husband. Off they will go to spend time in Montana, for example, at the annual gathering—sometimes up to 1000 teepees—of the Crow tribe. “The Crow are gorgeous people physically and very welcoming. They love to share their culture,” she reflects. Photos are taken of the dancers and their sacred movements. Working from photographs, Lydia decides what she wants to glean from that experience that will end

Lydia will also tell you depicting motion is challenging in a somewhat unpredictable art form and it has particular significance for her. When she was seven she found herself bedridden in the hospital with rheumatic fever and had to learn to walk again. “Now the older I get the more my figures move. I still draw a new nude figure first and then I drape the clothes accordingly. So if you look at my paintings you're able to see a knee under a skirt and you’ll you know a hip is there, or a wrist, or an elbow under a shawl, even if you can't see it; it’s implied and you can understand it.” If her dancers have fringed garments they swish in the paintings, their dancing mid-steps perfectly articulated.

To get to a finished piece is arduous to say the least, sometimes comprising thirty steps or more. Unlike stretched canvas, the fabric is loose. “Every color has to be thought through because of all the steps. I work from light to dark, starting with what I want to keep white. I put it into the lightest color dye and so everything, with the exception of what has the wax on it, will take that dye.” Between each colored dye application is the bleach process that is used to take out the unwanted color areas, bringing the piece back to a neutral palette where the next color application starts over again!

Joan Roberts creates beautiful, one-of-a-kind, handcrafted fine art jewelry. Her work reflects thoughtful passion inspired by nature’s glorious red rock country of Sedona.

Each piece is completely individual, made with a variety of jewelry media and techniques incorporating fine silver, gold, bronze, and the ancient practice of Kuem Boo. A graduate of San Jose State University majoring in art education, Roberts has 38 years of teaching art to students and teachers, as classroom teacher, site administrator, and beginning teacher trainer.

She continues to teach, introducing her methods and techniques of working with metal clay.

Joan is an active member of the Sedona Arts Center as an artist, volunteer, and member of the Board of Directors.

Red Rock Art Jewelry can be found in the Sedona Arts Center Gallery and online at RedRockArtJewelry.com

JOAN ROBERTS Finally there is the crackle effect, the fine lines formed from the fabric folds that give batik its unique signature. “The crackle happens because the fabric moves with the beeswax on it.”

She intentionally controls where the lines appear. “And I work too hard to get these details into the piece to allow anything to interfere with the painting.” Working hard, indeed, and collectors and visitors alike are grateful that her beautiful art graces the walls of the Sedona Arts Center’s gallery where all can marvel at what she has so masterfully produced.

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up in her work. “I may take a robe or a shawl from one dancer, or boots with different color combinations from another,” she explains. So her paintings convey the essence of her subjects as a composite of her experience with them.

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CHRISTIE PALMER Neither truly realistic, surreal or abstract, Christie Palmer’s acrylic landscapes are anomalies in the world of landscape painting.

Graced with enigmatic shapes, a fusion of drama and serenity, and an intuitively expert use of color, her work reflects her singular observation of the world.

Palmer’s atypical use of acrylic on paper stems from studying water media at the University of New Hampshire where she was encouraged to reject the “ultra-real and the mundane” in favor of expressing what is distinctly original. Using acrylics much like watercolor and layering infinite variegated washes, her methods achieve a richness of color that can’t be created with just one stroke. Palmer paints from the heart, her daily studio hours becoming a meditation as she creates images that exist in her mind’s eye.

Palmer’s paintings have been awarded in juried shows in the Chicago area, Southern California and Sedona, including multiple “Best of Show” awards. In private collections throughout the U.S. and abroad, her paintings are recognized by their clean lines, flawless technique, and the peacefulness they radiate. l cpalmerart.com

Merging the elements of nature with Karl Williams Drizzling red-hot liquid copper onto a cold marble slab is really cool. That it sets up fast, turns grey and is seemingly flash frozen in lacy patterns with holes and drips and blobs intact and still delicately fused together is astonishing. And then, weeks later, to see the copper in its brilliance fashioned to the base of a sensuaous pottery vase with elegant rattan handles bent and held in place through perfectly positioned holes in the vase is just plain amazing. Welcome to the world of metalworker and potter, Karl Williams, artist and gallery regular!

It took a lot of years for Karl to be comfortable enough to call himself an artist. Being self conscious about that word seems to be a rite of passage for all artists. And in Karl’s case, the SAC school was just the catalyst that took him there.

Karl’s life is a journey of the hands. First and foremost he builds things, has for decades, fabricating just about anything without hesitation. Welding, fitting plumbing, metalsmithing, long haul truck driving, and even a stint as a teacher (he has a BA in religious studies) is the story of a zigzag life of scrappy, bootstrapping entrepreneurship, and always working with his hands.

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Running through his childhood was his art, even if hidden and deeply personal. As a teenager and before retreating to drawing, art was a refuge protecting him from a sometimes-crazy world. If there is a theme in Karl’s life, he sums it up like this: “Any time I’m in a place and don’t know what to do next… I do my art.” With deep appreciation and emotion he attributes the core of any success as an artist to his wife, who on a number of occasions when things got rough, would say in her steadfast certainty: “return to your art.”

When Karl found himself living in Rimrock, then Cornville, having built a full-on computerized metal fabricating shop working with 20 huge sheets of steel a week for a local Sedona art enterprise and starting to loose his eyesight, he decided he needed a change. Two cataract surgeries later it was time to get back to the art.

That’s when Karl decided to venture into ceramics. He had seen splashed copper at an art fair and had a notion to combine splashed copper with tall ceramic vases. Can’t be that hard, he mused, and being an action kind of guy, he thought he’d be well on his way making vases in short order. He laughs about this now and tells some great stories about the infinite patience of his teacher, Dennis Ott. “After a few weeks I was so proud of myself I made something that stood 8 inches tall. I didn’t know what it was but there it was!”

After unsuccessfully wranging a five pound chunk of clay that flew off his wheel destroying a neighbor’s pot, Karl humbly slowed down and learned to throw differently. Karl in quiet gratitude for his teacher says, “I really appreciated his patience. Dennis doesn’t tell you he’s teaching you...he just does!”

CHERYL WAALE

Next move? “One day I’m going to be in that gallery he exclaimed, as he stood in the SAC parking lot looking to the upper gallery space. Six months later he was juried in and has been showing in the gallery ever since. That was seven years ago. Karl is quick to give credit to others who have helped him on his artistic unfolding. And in his humility and caring he has succeeded quite well in the art of living too.

Paintings with a fresh perspective are Cheryl Waale’s niche. As she was transitioning from the corporate world, Waale returned to her lifelong love of paint, and she hasn’t looked back.

“I knew from the start I wanted to create paintings that caused you to stop and look," reflects Waale. Through independent study with artists she admires, fearless experimentation, and a lot of brush mileage, she has developed a recognizable style—turning ordinary subjects into extraordinary works comprised of many layers of color and texture.

"I've been told my paintings appear to have layers of stories embedded in them." The results take the 2D medium to a whole new level.

Waale teaches her techniques in her Sedona, AZ and Edmonds, WA studios. Her works are in private collections throughout North America and Europe, and along with being a gallery artist at the Sedona Art Center Gallery since 2012, she is represented by galleries in Oregon and Washington states. l cherylwaale.com

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