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• Experience Level: All levels of experience are welcome. This class is also open to ages 12 and older with an adult.
• Medium: Oil
• Registration: Each student must register individually. Click the Cancellation Policy tab above for more info.
• Materials List: All materials are included in the price.
• Location: Sedona Arts Center/Theatre Studio

Learn from a Certified Ross Instructor how to paint Happy Little Trees and more in the 3 hour painting session!

This class also takes place on:
May 12, 2025 – Click here to sign up
May 24, 2025 – Click here to sign up

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the creation and modification of ceramic glazes. Students will begin by learning how to read glaze recipes and accurately prepare liquid glaze batches. Building on this foundation, the course explores techniques for developing multiple glaze variations from a limited number of initial batches.

What You’ll Learn:

• Glaze Fundamentals – Learn to read glaze recipes and accurately mix glazes.
• Blending Techniques – Explore four key methods: line blending, biaxial blending, triaxial blending, and color blending. Each technique refines surface qualities (matte, satin, gloss) and enhances color and opacity.
• Surface & Color Development – Experiment with different finishes and colorants to achieve a wide range of effects.
• Individualized Exploration – Whether you’re a beginner or advanced student, this class allows for personal experimentation with glaze formulas that interest you.

• This talk is in connection with our Element of Sport exhibit coming in April 2025.
• Free admission. Please register so we know how many to expect.
• Location: Special Exhibitions Gallery at Sedona Arts Center

Sport – and the competition, teamwork, and entertainment it invokes – may be as old as humanity’s origins. It’s a universal phenomenon that transcends time and geography, one that brings people together in the spirit of both sportsmanship and shared cultural experience. This lecture surveys a range of artworks that examine the intersection of sports, community, and identity, highlighting how athletic events have shaped and reflected societal values throughout history.

Many artists employ sketchbooks to capture journaling exercises and inspire finished pieces of art.  This expressive class will utilize collage to create uniquely personalized sketchbooks in one continuous story that unfolds over fanning pages like an accordion rather than a traditional book.  Students find this class and book form to be highly inspirational in creating momentum, flow and artistic storytelling.

In this two-day class you will be given a Seawhite of Brighton Concertina Sketchbook to create an unfolding story emerging over the pages of the book.  We will use acrylic paints, inks, markers, colored pencils, charcoal and carbon pencils, wax crayons, paper pieces, handmade papers, stencils, cloth, scraps and other materials using water-based adhesives to create colorful sketchbooks.

Have you ever felt intimidated by the stark white of a canvas on your easel all ready to receive its first brush stroke? How do I begin? Where do I start? How do I make my best painting out of the beautiful but busy scene I’ve selected to paint? How do I make sense of it all? Even experienced painters sometimes stress about these things. Ed will show you how by demonstrating and guiding you in the fundamentals of plein air painting among the magnificence of Sedona.

Join us to experience an introduction to the exciting world of alternative finishing techniques. This crash course workshop is great for a first time clay experience or for the experienced potter to explore a number of new finishes. We will be using non-traditional finishes such as Raku, Saggar, and Obvara to create beautiful surface results.

We will meet on two consecutive Sunday’s, the first, to create our pieces and the second to fire them.

This class welcomes beginners who have some drawing experience and want to learn how to paint with watercolor, as well as the more experienced painters who want to learn more watercolor techniques.

Our class will focus on the “how to’s” of brushes, mediums, paper, seeing and painting light on form, understanding temperatures of light and shadow, and working with edges in painting a variety of subjects. I’ll be demonstrating exciting ways to create effects in watercolor using impressionistic, painterly brushwork. How to paint in watercolor using glazing and textural techniques, incorporating frisket (don’t worry if you don’t know what that is – you will find out and it’s fun), and applying a value sketch will be covered. When completed, we will all have painted some exciting and beautiful watercolors.

Beads are made of so many extraordinary materials. In this beginning  jewelry making class, we will explore the basic skills to make your own beaded necklace and earrings.  Only the finest materials are provided. Supplies include beads of black onyx;  AZ Jasper;  Shells; Tiger Eye; Turquoise; Amethyst; and many more stones.  Crystal  beads in many sizes and hues are also available to add  a bit of sparkle!

You will leave class with a necklace and pair of earrings of your own chosen materials. There is a simple design , or choose  a more complex  design for those of you with some experience.  A gift and memory of your magical class at the Sedona Arts Center with a teacher who loves the art of beaded jewelry.

Would you like to paint more, draw more, or work in mixed media? Would you like the art you already make to “loosen up”? Be more refined? More bold? Need how-to instruction? Inspiration? Permission to play? Enjoy a sense of community?

Whether a beginner, a repeat student or a seasoned artist, this course is designed to spark your creative juices in an environment that’s conducive for exploring and expanding your painting chops. Using your choice of oils, acrylics, watercolor and/or pastels, you can bring your own fine art project, start fresh or follow instructor-led prompts for this 3-day workshop that’s filled with personalized guidance, inspiration, questions, answers and fun.

In this half-day camp class, kids will learn about the tie dye process and experiment with pattern techniques as they create a wearable rainbow! Tie dye supplies will be provided as well as bandanas to dye, but campers are encouraged to bring their own white t-shirts from home or anything else cotton they’d like to transform.

In this half-day camp class, kids will learn all about local bug species and paint rocks to look like their favorites! Arizona is home to so many incredible creatures; from dragonflies and butterflies to beetles and ants and many more, we’ll get into what makes these insects so cool and so important to our ecosystem. Campers will use acrylic paint to transform rocks into bugs. Weather-proof and perfect for the garden, kids can take home their new bug friends and create a lasting memory. This is the perfect activity for little artists AND little scientists!

Rocks and painting supplies provided.

Learn the fascinating art of Shibori dyeing!  In this workshop, we’ll explore three different Shibori resistance dyeing techniques; Kumo, Arashi, and Itajme. You will take home three Indigo dyed cotton pieces for your use.

The workshop will begin with a brief history of the art of Shibori, followed by a demonstration of the three simple, basic methods of folding, binding, and using twisting methods to create unique patterns on the fabric. For the class we will use traditional permanent Indigo dyed cotton. Bring long latex gloves!

In this half-day camp class, kids will hand build animals using found branches, twigs, pinecones, and rocks. Bring home a slow pinecone turtle, a speedy stick horse, or a funny little twig caterpillar! The options are endless! Found-object sculpture is a great way to get those creative gears turning; kids will learn all about artistic improvisation and problem solving as they discover new, fun ways to use what’s around them.

All supplies provided.

In this half-day camp class, kids will learn how to use embroidery thread to make braided, spiral staircase, and diagonal stripe bracelets. This camp is perfect for best buds! Bring your friends or make new ones as you discover so many fun ways to craft wearable designs!

Supplies provided

Learn to build forms, prepare sand mix concrete, sculpt and hand carve in the soft matrix in this wet-carved concrete workshop.  No power tools or hammer and chisel are required.   Students will be given a working understanding of Portland cement and the variety of possibilities the technique offers. Choose to make either a planter or sculpture of about 25 lbs. By the end of the carving day everyone will have completed their piece short of it having sit overnight to cure before handling.

HAVE FUN while learning to paint with watercolors and ink, and Experimenting too!  Kids will explore the many techniques of watercolors and ink to create their own unique paintings. Each student will leave with a fun body of work and knowledge of watercolors.

Sign up early as class is limited to 10 participants.

Our mission is to connect, enrich, educate and lead through the inspiring power of the arts and creative discovery.

Sedona Arts Center 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.

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