Sedona News – Sedona Arts Center (SAC) concludes the 19th Annual Sedona Plein Air Festival with three special events: an Awards Night Celebration & Reception on Friday, Oct. 27; Artists’ Games on Saturday, Oct. 28; and a Community Paint Out also programmed for Oct. 28. All events are free and will be held at Sedona Arts Center, located at 15 Art Barn Road. Free event parking is located behind SAC’s Art Barn. Best of Show and final awards will be announced at the Awards Night Celebration & Reception, from 5-7 p.m., at SAC’s Special Exhibition Gallery & Theatre. Tim Newton, publisher of Western Art & Architecture magazine and Chairman Emeritus…
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It’s always a treasure hunt at Rowe Fine Art Gallery, but once a year, those treasures can fit in the palm of your hand…or at least on any table or wall in your home. It’s time for the gallery’s annual small-works show, Itty, Bitty…and Oh, So Pretty! Whether you’re shopping for holiday gifts, your space is limited or you’re just beginning to collect art, there’s something for everyone at this exhibit, which opens Friday, November 3, at 4 p.m. Itty, Bitty…and Oh, So Pretty! features tabletop-size sculptures, paintings that measure no more than nine inches by twelve inches and jewelry. Participating artists include…
… there is no question as to who rules the slopes when he is flying … the awesome and fierce Bald Eagle with a wingspan nearing eight feet, other predators clear the slopes … but then there is the Red Tail Hawk which has the fiercest voice in the sky and Hollywood frequently does a voice over using the Red Tail’s awesome sounds in place of the eagles. I got the Bald Eagle cruising a slope in Castle Hot Springs Bay at Lake Pleasant and the Red Tail further up the same bay. Two incredibly fierce predators! Check the wingtip…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present “The Man Who Knew Too Much” on Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 3:30 and 6:30 p.m. at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. “The Man Who Knew Too Much” is the sixth and final film in a month-long tribute to Alfred Hitchcock with a special “Hitchcock-tober” series in October. “The Man Who Knew Too Much” features an all-star ensemble cast including James Stewart and Doris Day. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)”. Dr. Ben McKenna (James Stewart) is…
Jazz Luminary and national recording artist Steve Oliver and his band are ready to groove Sound Bites Grill Saturday, October 28, from 7 to 9 p.m., on the state-of-the-arts Sound Bites Grill Celebrity Showroom Stage The event is a CD release party for Oliver’s latest album, The New Light, a composition of hope and passion bound to make an indelible impression IN the world of jazz. You can find no better live music venue in Northern Arizona to see and listen to some of the country’s best musical acts than this New York City-inspired night club environment. Walls adorned with…
… Enedina, Leroy and Lennox will be appearing with me live at the Mary Fisher Theater in West Sedona this coming Saturday at 4PM and I hope that you will take the time to come out and see them and the show. This will be my last public performance as I need the time to put into other projects I am fond of … only so many hours and there are other ways to share the beauty more efficiently. The photo above is of Enedina, a Saker Falcon … they are the second fasted creatures on this little planet of ours ……
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present “Timothy Leary’s Dead” on Tuesday, Oct. 24 at 4 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Timothy Leary’s Dead” is a biographical documentary from Sedona residents Paul and Hollace Davids, filmed with former Harvard psychology professor and 1960’s psychedelic “guru” Timothy Leary during the last year of his life. Shown in Sedona’s film festival over 20 years ago, this film had favorable reviews in almost every major newspaper and magazine in the US, including the New York Times and even Playboy. Looking back, it is Incredible to realize…
Sedona News – Come learn about the latest in law enforcement at the Sedona Police Department’s Community Outreach Event, formally known as National Night Out, on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Hub at Posse Grounds at 525 Posse Ground Rd. This event is a community-building opportunity to promote police-community partnerships, crime prevention, and public safety, and bring police and citizens together in a positive way. The Sedona Police Department will host public, private and non-profit organizations who are working together to keep Sedona a safe place to live, work and visit including representatives from…
Verde Valley News – Saturday, October 28th from 9:00 am-3:00 pm the Lions Club of Yavapai County will bring eye care services through their mobile doctor’s office to Camp Verde community members. The Lions Mobile Eye Care Van is a fully equipped eye doctor’s examination room used by volunteer eye doctors to give screening eye exams and write prescriptions for eyeglasses. It is the mission of Lions Clubs to use this mobile doctor’s office to bring eye care services to all of Yavapai County, with particular emphasis on residents 18 years and older who lack the means for, or access…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to join theaters around the world for a global theatrical event: “Beyond Utopia” on Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 23 and 24 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. A suspenseful, riveting portrait of the lengths people will go to gain freedom, “Beyond Utopia” follows various families as they attempt to flee North Korea, one of the most oppressive places on Earth, a land they grew up believing was a paradise. At the film’s core is a courageous pastor, a man of God on a mission to help a mother reunite with…
Award-winning bronze sculptor Kim Kori, who has called Sedona home for 45 years, recently published a book chronicling her storied career. Throughout 156 pages, Stories in Bronze features images of 60 sculptures, including Kim’s very first, Edge of the Forest, released in 1986, along with an account of the artist’s life and accomplishments. Spurred on by an encouraging collector, it took Kim more than two years to finish the coffee-table book. Kim describes her work as magical realism. Her depictions of flora and fauna are executed realistically, yet her sculptures tell stories that are in a place somewhere between possible and impossible. Kim grew up…
Sedona AZ — Sedona-based artist Christine DeSpain Schroeder will be exhibiting her new series of ethereal angel paintings Sunday, October 29, 4 to 7 p.m. at the James Ratliff Gallery in Hillside Sedona, joined by renowned violinist Marlene Rausch who will perform during the presentation a symphony of angels. Touched and guided by angels since she was a child and through her artistic career as a painter and artist, DeSpain’s new works culminate a lifetime of artistic accomplishments and endeavors as her new ethereal paintings take the viewer on a metaphysical journey through time and space, guided by the angels…
… Katie has finally decided to take control and learn to fly jets … I got this shot of her after landing her Lear Jet a little long on R3 at KSEZ and taxiing back to the main ramp at A6 … in back of her and at about 500′ AGL the V-22 Osprey is coming in for a landing on R21 … no doubt many more flights and planes for Katie to come in the future. A friend referred me to a longtime favorite book of many people called Stick and Rudder an explanation of the art of flying. It is…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival presents “The Wonders of Sedona and Northern Arizona: Through the Lens, Eyes and Mind of Ted Grussing” at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 21 at the festival’s Mary D. Fisher Theatre. The event will benefit the International Raptor and Falconry Center. Join Ted as he guides you through the wonders and beauty of Sedona, the Colorado Plateau and Northern/Central Arizona from a perspective that few have ever seen … the beauty of the red rocks as seen from above and through the clouds, volcanoes and mountains, canyons and rivers … and on…
Verde Valley News – Camp Verde Community Library’s next free Special Concert Series is Thursday, October 26th from 5:00- 6:30 pm, featuring Sue Schnitzer. Sue Schnitzer grew up dancing to AM radio rock and roll with her mom in the kitchen. She took the requisite piano lessons and when she was 12 used her own money to buy a shiny guitar for around $30. In her teens she started writing angsty songs and poems which she has in a few boxes but refuses to share. In college she got more serious about her writing and playing. After college, music took a back…