12th Annual
Sedona Plein Air Festival
October 15–22, 2016
Our community’s iconic creative event—Sedona Plein Air Festival—returns for a week-long celebration of extraordinary landscapes, world-renowned artists, unique workshops, and wonderful free events from October 15 to 22. Sedona Arts Center invites you along to get creative and experience over two dozen master painters in action—making their art on location from L’Auberge to Uptown to Seven Canyons. Celebrate creativity with us and enjoy receptions, exhibitions, lectures, and opportunities to collect your next masterpiece at Sedona Plein Air Festival!
This year, we have invited special guest artist, Jove Wang, to teach a five-day workshop Painting the Figure and Portrait from October 10 to 14 at our historic Art Barn. After the workshop, Jove will lead a small group of painters in creative figurative painting with live models on location. Jove Wang is a nationally recognized artist who recently demonstrated and spoke at the National Plein Air Convention in Tucson.
The Sedona Plein Air Festival opening reception—free and open to all—is on Saturday, October 15 at 7pm at the Art Center. The invited Festival artists bring and show paintings created in their own landscapes across the country. This year, our Main Street Paint Out will take place on the last day of the festival, Saturday October 22 from 10 am to Noon. Most events are free, so come along, meet some of America’s great artists, and celebrate their diversity, style, and new Sedona inspirations. Sedona Plein Air Festival is presented by Sedona Arts Center, and is made possible by generous support from City of Sedona, Kling Family Foundation, Arizona Commission on the Arts, and all our members and volunteers.
Lori Putnam
Keynote Speaker, Awards Judge
Keynote 7:00pm Wednesday Oct 19, 2016
In the midst of the week-long event Keynote Speaker, Lori Putnam will be presenting her talk and digital presentation Wednesday Oct 19 at 7:00 p.m., this is also the first day of her three-day plein air painting workshop in Sedona, “Expression and Response”. See more about the workshop HERE.
To kick-start her plein air painting career in 2008 Lori and her husband sold all of their belongings and traveled to the Italian countryside to live for more than seven months with the sole purpose of the painter's self-study and artistic growth. A catalyst for Putnam's artistic career, the concentrated work accomplished during that period culminated in a breakthrough and she has not looked back since.
As an Artist Faculty Demonstrator for the Annual Plein Air Convention, she shares her philosophy and painting methods with its 700 + attendees annually. Lori teaches workshops across the country and she creates larger works at her studio in Tennessee. www.loriputnam.com
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Jove Wang
Special Guest Artist
Special guest artist Jove Wang will teach a five-day workshop prior to the festival (Oct 10 - 14, 2016) and then will lead a small group of painters focused on creative figurative painting from life as part of the festival. This group of artists will work with models in the studio at the arts center for the first four days of the festival and then pursue outdoor scenarios. Jove presented a talk and figurative painting demonstration at the National Plein Air Convention in Tucson in April and his demonstration then sold for a record price for a demonstration peice at that event. Jove’s theme of “Instinct and Feeling” as the most important part of the painting process is discussed in his book of that title, in his workshops and is clearly present in his paintings. See more about Jove at his website www.jovewang.com
Explore Jove Wang's Workshop: Painting the Portrait and Figure
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