SEDONA ARTS CENTER - Key Persons
Andi Murphy (Diné) is the creator, host, and producer of the "Toasted Sister Podcast," a show about Indigenous food. She's the senior producer of the "Native A...
April Bower has always been fascinated by all the varied processes involved in metalworking. After receiving a Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree, she taught metalsmithing for Parks & Rec, and then she spent 18+ years doing bench work in fine jewelry stores in Arizona. Her focus has spanned from fine jewelry to copper fountain sculptures. Using those same chemicals used to color the fountain parts, she developed "Patina Painting" on thin copper sheets, originally salvaged from industry leftovers, supported by wood backings.
"Copper is an interesting metal, offering a huge range in colorations". April, who is also a watercolorist, thinks painting with chemicals on copper is a lot like watercolor; "you never know exactly how it will turn out. It's the results, and what you do with it that makes it interesting. It's a balance between you controlling it…and it controlling you"
Australian born, 1975 Barbara graduated in Interior Design, 1976-77 Zoo exhibit designer,1978-79 Europe and USA travel,1980 San Francisco,1985 moved to Kensingt...
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- Member of the Wickenburg Art Club
Barry Richardson began his creative journey as a woodworking hobbyist. After ending his career with the U.S. Navy SEAL Teams, he began pursuing his passion for creating in earnest. Using skills and equipment accumulated over the years, he mines his experiences from global travel, the beauty of marine life, and nature in general as inspiration for his work. His love for wood began as a child, growing up in the wooded landscape of rural Missouri. This canopy served as his playground, emotional sanctuary, and constant source of wonder.
Artistic furniture, sculpture, carving, and turning are his focus areas for design and creation.
Barry is a juried member of the Wickenburg Art Club, and belongs to the American Association of Woodturners.
His work has been featured in a year- long exhibit in Goodyear's City Hall, featured at the Shemer Art Center in Phoenix, and was jury selected for the 5-year anniversary Gallery Show at the Tempe Center for the Arts.
His works were awarded both first and second place, as well as ‘Directors Choice' at the 2017 Arizona State Fair Art Competition (wood art category), and has received at least one blue ribbon there every year since. His work received the ‘People's Choice Award' at the Wickenburg Desert Caballero's Museum exhibition ‘West of Center' in 2022.
Barry and his wife Laura live in Buckeye AZ .
Betty Carr was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California and developed a love of art from visiting museums. For 23 years she taught art in public schools and did sculpture in her spare time. In 1980, she married landscape painter, Howard Carr, and they devoted their lives to painting. They travelled several months of each year, from Oregon to South Carolina in a specially equipped mobile home. In numerous locations, they taught artist workshops. She advises her students to draw continually because - drawing is critical to good painting.
From the time she was a young girl, Carr has been represented by galleries. She has been featured in numerous publications including Art of the West, Southwest Art, American Artist, Art Talk, American Artist and Vitality magazines. Betty is proud of her acceptance into the exclusive Knickerbocker Association of New York City. Energetic, brightly colored landscapes and still-lifes are the signature work of this artist who is known for her skillful use of light, color and shadow. On the influence of light on her watercolors, she writes, "What catches my eye is the effect light has on form in unique situations whether fleeting, spilling over, striking, etc. I challenge myself in capturing its dramatic and/or subtle effects. 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 received her MFA from San Jose State University and has taught painting and sculpture for many years. She is a Master Artist in the American Impressionist Society; signature member of the Arizona Plein Air Painters and Northern Arizona Watercolor Society and Knickerbocker Artists. Carr is the author of the acclaimed instructional book, "Seeing the Light, An Artist's Guide," and has contributed to numerous books and periodicals. Her work is featured in the book "Sedona's Best Artists." Her paintings (acrylic, watercolor and oil) can be viewed on her website: www.bettycarrfineart.com.
Through large-scale abstract painting, Beverly interprets nature. Connects with ideas. And explores emotion. Her painting process is physical, using hardware-store brushes. Broken sticks. Rags. And hands. To move paint. To add layers. To pull back layers. To drip. To scrape and wipe. And to pull the paint across the surface.
Beverly grew up in rural American near Union, Nebraska. Often happily lost for hours in the open prairie landscape that inspires her work. Today, she paints in her Santa Fe, New Mexico, studio and takes cues from the high desert landscape.
Wanting to give other creatives the same experience, Bev opened Santa Fe Artist Getaway in 2019 - a place for all artists to stay, play, and create. Beverly is a workshop leader and creativity coach, sharing her passion for exploration, adventure, & creativity.
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- Chairman of the Board of Directors
Camille LeFevre, B.A., M.A., is an arts journalist and writer based in Sedona. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Bridge Eight, Thin Air Magazine, Herstry, ...
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- Retired Colorado Rancher, Inventor and Author, Carl Judson Has Been a Plein Air Painter for Forty Years With a Particular Interest in the Evolution of the Plein. Instructor
Retired Colorado rancher, inventor and author, Carl Judson has been a plein air painter for forty years with a particular interest in the evolution of the plein air style over time.
Dale lives in Prescott, Arizona and is a professional photographer and digital artist. He studied photography and philosophy at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas and was granted a Photography Degree in 1982. Since 1979 he has exhibited in over three-hundred group and solo shows, his works have been published internationally and he's written for most of the leading photographic magazines and journals. He is a consummate experimenter and innovator and works with diverse subjects in a variety of styles. He has published twenty art books. Dale has been creating inventive photographs and digital art for over forty years.
Dale O'Dell's unique photo/digital artwork captures the essence of the surrealist art movement. His eye for the otherworldly lends his work an original power, reflecting his skill as an artist. Much of his photography-based work hinges on the exploration of meta-reality and focuses on creating an alternate universe beyond the recognizable patterns of ordinary life experience. With this surreal and enigmatic approach he has managed to forge an incomparable sense of depth and beauty seen only in his works, enabling viewers to unlock a new, unparalleled level of understanding.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- School Operations & Membership Manager
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- Member of the Board of Directors
I was introduced to Surrealism at the age of fifteen, when I read the book "The Poet Assassinated" by Guillaume Apollinaire. The cover was a painting by Hen...
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- Gallery Associate
- Social Media Contact
Flora combines 15 years of painting experience with an M.A. in Counseling Psychology, bodywork therapy, work as an education director, and seminar leader to inf...
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- Treasurer of the Board of Directors
Heather Mulder has over 25 years of varied experience in the fields of aging and Alzheimer's disease. She infuses strong communication skills in her educational...
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- Associate
- Gallery Associate
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- Secretary of the Board of Directors
Jaren Bates
Chef Jaren Bates is a full Blooded Native American from the Navajo Tribe. He is currently 33 years old and hails from the Navajo Reservation in Northern New Mex...
JEAN BRADBURY, a Seattle based painter, explores her love of nature with large scale acrylic and metallic leaf works that depict plants and animals in whimsical landscapes. Her use of metallic leaf allows her to capture the changing light of day so that her artworks reflect light in even the darkest spaces. Bradbury has a BFA from Queen's University and grew up on an organic farm in rural New Brunswick. She currently works with the United Nations teaching farm women in the country of Jordan about natural dyes and textile design. She is the founder of Studio Syria which brings art classes to Syrians living as refugees in Jordan.
Her large scale public art pieces are found in collections around the world including Starbucks in China and Kuwait, as well as schools and hospitals in the Western United States and Maritime Canada.
Jeanne considers herself one of the fortunate ones. She has enjoyed much success living a creative life as a full time artist. Her deep desire to help others do the same has led her to teaching and mentoring other creatives to live a fuller more authentic life. If you ask her what she attributes her career success to, she will tell you it is a combination of inner work, devotion to her craft, a keen eye on her business and a boots on the ground tenacity. Her workshops and retreats are filled with depth, warmth and wit with a sprinkle of technique. Her intuitive approach to painting and her ability in helping artists find their true voice leads her workshop participants to developing a stronger sense of self.
"I'm a realist which to me means I imagine the best, most outrageous life I can imagine, then I go about the business of achieving that life. If I were asked to describe myself in one sentence, I'd probably ask for an extension. I paint almost every day in my studio in Raleigh, North Carolina, which is literally 25 paces from my back door (less if you have longer legs). I'm not a native to the South; I'm a repaired New Englander which means I talk to strangers, smile more and grump less, but I still love going home to Rhode Island. I have an organic garden. I have a simple but full life.
My favorite color is purple…to the point of ridiculous. When I put my purple Doc Martens on, I think I have super powers. I love strawberries and caramel candy apples, not so much chocolate. I know! Can we still be friends? I'm a really good golfer. I'm a wine snob, a total foodie and I cook without recipes. In fact, recipes make me squeamish. I've been featured in several articles and magazines including landing on the cover of "Art Business News" as one of the top fifty artists to watch (I'm proud of that…so is my mom). I am now internationally collected and recognized in six countries."
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- Performance and Video Artist
Jeff Rufus Byrd is a performance and video artist who has worn weird outfits all over the world.
Jimmy Navarro is a contemporary Impressionist painter working out of Des Moines, Iowa. His paintings focus on color and light trying to capture the essence, the mood of what he sees using Golden Open acrylics.
Born and raised in the Driftless Region of Western Wisconsin he has a connection with it's unique rolling landscape and nostalgic farm life.
Julie Richard is the CEO of the Sedona Arts Center. She most recently held the position of Executive Director of the Maine Arts Commission which is a government agency that supports and promotes the arts. Prior to her work in Maine, she held the position of President & CEO of the West Valley Arts Council which operates in the West Valley of Greater Phoenix, Arizona and Executive Director of the Metropolitan Arts Council in Greenville, South Carolina. Julie earned BS degrees in Psychology and Music and a MA in Business from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previous positions include Managing Director of Tulsa Opera in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Managing Director of Syracuse Opera in Syracuse, New York; and Executive Director of the Cayuga Community College Foundation in Auburn, New York. She has held positions on numerous boards and has presented at many national conferences on topics such as board governance, strategic and cultural planning, fundraising, arts education programming, marketing the arts and more.
After graduation, she did illustrations, graphics and courtroom drawings for an ABC-TV affiliate in Pittsburgh, then worked for an in-house design firm in Ohio....
"What lies beneath" is a succinct phrase, yet one foundational to the body of my work. As a collage and assemblage artist, I practice an ever-evolving form ...
Laura Martinez-Bianco lives in the Hudson Valley and appreciates and values the beauty of its landscape. Her paintings are inspired by her surroundings, whether at home or abroad. Laura received her Masters degree in Art Education from SUNY New Paltz and continued to study painting with local artists in the Hudson Valley. After years teaching in the public school and bringing art to students of all ages, Laura continues to teach and host painting workshops in New York, Massachusetts and abroad. Workshops provide her with an opportunity to paint and teach others about the creative painting process. Laura's work spans a variety of media including pastels and encaustics. Her paintings have been juried into regional and national exhibits receiving numerous awards.
Lyn Boyer is the Judge for the 16th Annual Sedona Plein Air Festival, Oct 24 - 31, 2020. She is represented by five paintings in the Festival Online Gallery. Sh...
Carrying on the great traditions of representational oil painting and passing that torch to her students are Lyn's two great passions in life. She is an award winning plein air and studio oil painter with works that hang in private collections across the United States. After returning from studying art in Melbourne, Australia, Lyn began a 25 year career as an American illustrator and painter, garnering awards from the Oil Painters of America, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, Southwest Art, the Society of Illustrators, the Art Directors Club, the Illustrators Workshops, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
Lyn's early inspiration came from the great Illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration and their contemporaries, the American and European painters of the late 1800's and early 20th century. She was captivated by not only the power of the images but their story-telling ability. Lyn takes the focus, energy and ability to respond in the moment required of plein air painting and uses it to inform and bring life to her studio work. Lyn's devotion to painting ‘en plein air' takes her on the road for more than half the year before returning to her studio in Durango, Colorado for the winter months. Her commitment to teaching began with nearly a decade as an illustration instructor and now continues through her workshops.
Mark has degrees in art & art history from Rice University, and has helped organize several exhibitions on the history of Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning in Sedona at Sedona city hall, Sedona Arts Center, and Capricorn Hill.
Marie is an historian with a degree from Mercer University who has been director of the Levy foundation for several decades. She facilitated the auctions of the vast Levy art collection at Tajan in Paris in 2004 and 2006. Marie also cataloged the Levy archival papers before being donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2008. She has co-authored a 2200-page, four volume book series on the history of Julien Levy, fifteen years in the making, set to be released on December 26th, 2023.
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- Vice Chair of the Board of Directors
Miro invites you to experience a world of two entirely separate and unique painting styles - landscape paintings and her signature abstract brush stroke paintings. Art is an intrinsic part of Miro's life having come from a family of artists. Both her parents were prominent Northwest artists. Her father, James FitzGerald was an accomplished sculptor who created bronze sculptures and monumental fountains throughout the United States and her mother, Margaret Tomkins, was an influential abstract painter in the Northwest.
Miro's background includes a MFA from University of Washington, three full fellowships (the San Francisco Art Institute, Skowhegan School in Maine, the Yale School of Art), a one year Max Beckman Grant to the Brooklyn Museum School in New York and an Invitational Artist in Residence to the prestigious MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She studied under renowned artists Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Jim Dine and Jacob Lawrence (painters) as well as Gabor Petredi (Printmaker) and Walker Evans (WPA photographer).
Playing and designing fiber art pieces by using different techniques and materials has turned into a passion for Patricia I Caldwell. She learned to quilt 35 years ago as a foundation. Adding to that foundation with classes and learning new methods transformed her quilting into a direction fiber wall art.
Patricia has been published in magazines such as Quilt Arts, McCalls Quilting Magazine, Quick Quilt Magazine and Art Quilting Studio's. She is an award winning fabric artist and has been excepted into many prestigious shows She has taught here in the U.S. as well as overseas.
Born and raised in New England, Patricia has traveled to a lot of European countries with her retired Military husband. She has a BA degree in Family Studies and Child Psychology. Her true calling is working with textures, paints, and fabrics.
Rick Kinateder, a native of Prescott, Arizona, has lived in Provo, Utah since graduating from Brigham Young University in Art and Design. He initially wanted to become an architect, but his drawing and design skills led to his founding a successful design, architectural rendering, and model building business in the intermountain west for over 40 years. Rick has taught design, rendering and watercolor classes at Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University. For several years now he has been devoting his artistic talents to his pursuit of fine art and plein air painting. His participation in plein air events has produced many award-winning watercolor and oil paintings.
With his love of travel and nature, his art focuses on landscape painting where he loves to capture the dramatic light and color of the west's famous vistas. Rick's love of architecture is often the focal point in his paintings as he features buildings from his travels. He is excited to be invited back to one of his favorite places to paint and to participate in the Sedona Plein Air event.
Rick's art has been exhibited at the Sears Invitational Art Show, the Springville Museum of Art Invitational Show, and other western venues. He is currently represented by Brushworks Gallery in Salt Lake City.
In 1985 Robert Burridge turned his passion into his second career. He retired from industrial design and became a full time, contemporary fine art painter, moved to California's Central Coast and prepared to paint the rest of his life. Today, besides painting, he is an invited juror for international art shows, a college and national painting workshop instructor, and teachs a fine art mentor program in central France. Recently selected as the Honorary President of the International Society of Acrylic Painters, he holds a signature membership with them and with the Philadelphia Watercolor Society.
His original paintings can be seen in six international galleries, on Starbucks Coffee mugs, Pearl Vodka bottles, eight tapestries and on fine art edition prints in upscale retail stores and cruise ships.
His work has received lifetime honors, including The Franklin Mint Award and recently the Philadelphia Watercolor Society's prestigious Crest Medal Award for achievement in the arts previously awarded to Pablo Picasso, John Singer Sargent and Georgia O'Keeffe.
Rosana Antonelli is among the most appreciated ceramic artists in Italy who practice the ancient Mediterranean technique of terra sigillata in a contemporary in...
Born in Argentina, Rosana graduated in "Ceramic Art "from the Art Institute in Rome, the following year she attended a ceramic course at the Art Institute in Faenza.
In 1984 she opened the studio "Artemisia " in Rome, taking part in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
Rosana collaborated with many studies of art and from 1989 to 2004 and worked in Rome in ceramics Sarti studio.
In 2009 she was recognized by the French organization "Art and Metiers" she was also invited to exhibit at the Paris International Salon "Maison & Objet".
In 2010 she was invited by the Cyprus Pottery Association, as a teacher for the technique of italian terra sig.
She joined in the birth of Keramos Ass. Cult. in Rome, where she exhibits and conducts teaching and is among the founders of the Project CiE "Ceramica in Espansione".
She is teacher at the "Meridiana International Ceramic school" to Certaldo.
Her works can be visited at:
Suzie Baker is an award-winning artist whose paintings have been featured in Fine Art Connoisseur, Plein Air, and Southwest Art Magazines. She has been named "Three to Watch" by both Southwest Art and Fine Art Connoisseur. She serves on the board of directors and is a signature member of Oil Painters of America and regularly exhibits in prestigious national shows and invitationals. In addition to being a still life and portrait artist, Suzie has been painting en plein air since she was a teenager.
"I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in Advertising and Fine Arts from Louisiana Tech University. Following my degree program, I worked as an ad agency Art Director before trading my Pantone swatches for a brush and palette. I paint in oils and am motivated by color, immediacy of stroke, composition, the camaraderie of other artists, and ultimately the desire to evolve as an artist. I strive to create paintings that communicate confidence in execution and that exhibit a fresh, intuitive, and spontaneous vitality. I will paint till I can paint no more. When I'm not painting, I'm thinking about what I want to paint next. I can't not paint."
Suzy Allan is a ceramic artist whose creatively constructed works of clay mirror the world around her. They vary in design as well as function, reflecting the natural beauty and sense of serenity that surrounds her in Sedona. As a young girl, Suzy was encouraged by her mother to take a variety of art classes. She won several awards and a scholarship. While attending college she studied art, design, photography, and earned her degree in Interior Design. She works as an professional Interior Designer and Space Planner.
Suzy began her work at Sedona Arts Center in 2007. She has worked as an assistant to Dennis Ott in the Ceramics Department, helping to keep the studio running smoothly, and teaching workshops in hand building techniques. She enjoys the shared connections of working alongside other ceramic artists and participating in their collective art shows. She is inspired by their generosity of spirit and finds them all a joy to work with. Many times, especially during the sculpting process, she has felt divinely guided as if someone else's hands were molding the clay. Suzy feels working in clay requires a Zen state of mind. She says you never know how a piece will ultimately turn out, if at all. It is a constant lesson in letting go and not being attached.
Tessa Windt has worked for over two decades at both the community and individual levels on such issues as aging, Alzheimer's Disease, family caregiving, veter...
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Tony will be judging the Arizona Pastel Association's national juried exhibition while he is visiting the Sedona Arts Center. The exhibition will be held in the Sedona Arts Center's Special Exhibition Gallery adjacent to the workshop studio space.
Award winning painter, instructor and author Tony Allain has been painting for over 40 years. A self-taught painter of colour, light and movement with a complete understanding of his surroundings. Born and raised in the Channel Islands he moved to paint and live in Cornwall to capture the unique clarity of light living on the peninsular of the West Country. Tony has exhibited extensively over the years, his work can be found in many leading galleries as well as private and corporate collections worldwide, including the Maritime Museum, Guernsey and Queen Mary 2, Cunard Liner. He has exhibited with The Pastel Society of America in New York, the Royal Society of Marine Artists, London, The International Pastel Exhibition, Suzhou, China and the Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London. A move to New Zealand in 2006 proved to be a turning point in his career with the acceptance as a Master of the Pastel Artists of New Zealand.
His work is regularly featured in The Artist Magazine, the Pastel Journal and the Practique des Arts.
Tony has returned to live and work from his studio in the ancient market seaside town of Marazion in West Cornwall.