From painting and ceramics to photography and mixed media, Sedona Arts Center offers workshops for every skill level — both in-person and online. Join us and be part of Sedona’s creative heartbeat.
Color + Design with Mark Eanes
November 7–9, 2025
Discover the power of color and design in your art. In this dynamic, hands-on workshop, artist and educator Mark Eanes guides you through an immersive exploration of the essential principles of color, design, and abstraction. You’ll learn to create compositions that sing with balance, energy, and harmony—while developing your own unique visual voice.
Mark’s approach is both practical and inspiring. His mantra — Knowledge + Craft = Freedom — helps artists move past fear and uncertainty to embrace experimentation, expression, and personal growth. Through guided exercises, lively discussion, and individual feedback, participants will learn how to build stronger compositions and richer color relationships across all styles—figurative or abstract.
Whether you’re looking to refine your technique or reignite your creativity, this workshop will expand how you see, think, and paint.
Oil Painting with Light and Color with Lili Anne Laurin
November 10, 2025, 9am-4pm
This workshop will focus on developing dynamic three-dimensional works using subtle color and value shifts. We will work on developing the feeling of distance in the landscape and cover some basics of color theory, how to use hard and soft edges and directional brushwork to achieve the results you are looking for in your work. We will be working from photographs, supplied by the instructor or you can work from your own references. The instructor will give plenty of one-on-one guidance.
Unleashing Your Creativity with Patricia Saxton
November 11–13, 2025, Tuesday – Thursday
This workshop is an invitation to expand your imagination, to explore, and to unleash your creativity under the guidance of lifelong artist and creative powerhouse Patricia Saxton. Patricia will inspire, help you break barriers, and share techniques for elevating your artistic repertoire. Beginners as well as experienced artists are embraced. Primarily using acrylics, pastels and/or watercolors, fun is encouraged, and getting messy is welcome! Your time together will include live demonstrations, insights, prompts and exercises, questions and answers, and plenty of personal attention.
Pastel for Beginners with Nori Thorne
November 14, 2025
Are you drawn to the beauty and versatility of pastel but don’t know where to start? This crash course is for you. We will have pastel demonstrations, exercises, and plenty of at-easel encouragement. Learn how to block in a design, underpaint using a wet wash, experiment with a variety of pastel surfaces and materials. With an emphasis on achieving correct values, colors, and shapes you will create an exciting floral still life and leave the workshop with skills to begin your pastel journey.
Painting Luminous Watercolors
with Impressionistic Brushwork with Betty Carr
November 15–16, 2025, Saturday – Sunday
Learn to capture the beauty of light in this two-day workshop! Betty teaches students to accurately portray the effect of light on any subject in watercolor. Students will explore a variety of locations in beautiful Sedona.
Betty begins each day with a demonstration/ lecture covering tools, techniques, brushwork, problems and solutions. Emphasis throughout the workshop is on organization and simplification of darks and lights, value and color relationships, edges, movement and mass to create a dynamic, coherent composition.
The Joy of Painting: A Bob Ross Class with DJones
November 18, 2025, Tuesday, 1-4pm
Tap into your inner artist and experience the joy of painting — Bob Ross style! In this fun, hands-on workshop, a Certified Ross Instructor will guide you step-by-step through creating your own landscape masterpiece using traditional Bob Ross wet-on-wet oil techniques. Learn how to paint happy little trees, soft clouds, and serene mountain scenes in just three hours.
All materials are included, and all skill levels are welcome — no experience needed! Ages 12 and up can participate with an adult, making this a perfect creative outing for families or friends. Come paint, relax, and discover just how happy art can be.
iPhoneography Crash Course – In-Person AND Online with Kelli Klymenko November 20, 2025, Friday, 9am-2pm
In today’s digital age, your iPhone can be more than just a phone — it’s a camera, an editing studio, and a powerful creative tool. Join photographer and artist Kelli Klymenko for a one-day workshop designed for both beginners and advanced users.
Learn how to turn everyday moments into striking works of art with nothing more than your iPhone. This hands-on class covers breathtaking landscapes, expressive portraits, and up-close macro photography — plus the editing apps and techniques that will take your images to the next level.
Paper Paintings: Birds and Blooms with Elizabeth St Hilaire
November 21–23, 2025, Friday – Sunday
Everyone loves birds! Simple shapes and bold colors are what we focus on when learning how to collage songbirds and blooms. I will teach you how to transfer a sketch from your reference photo, create a comprehensive underpainting with shading and a background, how to gel print your own papers, and how to apply collage! At the end of this three day workshop, you will have the skills and confidence to create your own Paper Painting!
This workshop is a comprehensive class in which students are taught a unique figurative collage technique. Emphasis will be on developing form using light, shadow, and directional ripping– very similar to traditional painting techniques. No prior collage experience is necessary. Some painting experience would be helpful, but not imperative.
Watercolor Crash Course: Capturing Luminous Light with Betty Carr
December 1, 2025, Monday, 10am-3pm
This class is perfect for beginners with some drawing experience and for seasoned painters looking to expand their watercolor skills. We’ll explore brushwork, mediums, paper, and the art of painting light and shadow. Learn glazing, texture, and frisket techniques while creating luminous, impressionistic watercolors full of color and life.
Silk Scarf Dyeing Workshop with Joan Roberts
December 10–11, 2025, Wednesday – Thursday
Unleash your creativity and design beautiful, one-of-a-kind silk scarves — perfect as gifts or for yourself! In this hands-on workshop, you’ll explore three distinct dyeing techniques: rust dyeing, acid dyes, and Jacquard dyes. You’ll receive three scarves to create and experiment with, plus access to fabric paints to add your own artistic flair.
Scholarships are an important part of Sedona Arts Center. It has a long history in providing students in need of financial assistance, the ability to hone their skills and creative talents. Art classes and workshops also allow an emotional break from daily life and offer social interaction with fellow lovers of art. We are proud to offer our scholarship program, with the help of The Kling Family Foundation, The Ceramics Scholarship Fund, and the Debbie Winslow Scholarship Fund, which allow us to continue this long standing opportunity.
Our mission is to connect, enrich, educate and lead through the inspiring power of the arts and creative discovery.
Sedona Arts Center (SAC) is a cornerstone of Northern Arizona’s cultural community and serves as the creative heart of Sedona. Founded in 1958, this nonprofit organization is based in Uptown Sedona and offers year-round classes, exhibitions, festivals, and cultural events that enrich the artistic life of the Verde Valley.
NO SALES TAX – FREE PARKING – UPTOWN SEDONA
Sedona Arts Center is a 501(c)3 organization that offers all purchases without sales tax (an almost a 10% savings!)
