2025-2026 SAC Season of Events
Celebrate Sedona
Celebrate Sedona engages the local community while celebrating and featuring local and regional arts, food and drink! Held in the upper parking lot of Sedona Arts Center, Celebrate Sedona is a celebration of the beauty and diversity of our community’s music, food, drink, and artistry.
This year we are changing our Celebrate Sedona from Wednesday to Friday! We are also incorporating the opening of our Exhibitions in with Celebrate Sedona so we can have the Artists join the fesitivities and officially open the current Exhibition. The event takes place from 4 pm to 6 pm and features local musicians, food trucks, wineries, and live demonstrations by local artists!
The next 2025-2026 dates are:
- Friday, August 1, 2025 (Opening of Faces of Time Exhibition)
- Celebrate Sedona August 1
- Friday, September 19, 2025 (Artists Reception for Out of the Fire Student Ceramics Exhibition)
- Celebrate Sedona September 19
- Friday, December 6, 2025 (Opening of Holiday Market)
- Celebrate Sedona December 6
- Friday, February 6, 2026 (Opening of Vision & Sound)
- Celebrate Sedona February 6
- Friday, March 6, 2026 (Opening of Juried Friends Show)
- Celebrate Sedona March 6
- Friday, April 24, 2026 (FORM + FACE: Abstract Bodies and Masked Identities)
- Celebrate Sedona April 24
- Friday, June 5, 2026 (The Big Gay Art Show)
- Celebrate Sedona June 5
More information on each event at: CelebrateSedona.org
Sedona Plein Air Festival 2025
October 20 – 26, 2025
The Sedona Plein Air Festival takes place during the best weather period of the year at the height of tourist season and is supported by a group of very experienced and enthusiastic staff and volunteers. Sedona is a sublime environment with stunning beauty, and the Sedona Arts Center has roots going back 66+ years to the founding of Sedona.
As one of oldest continuously running Plein Air Festivals in the western US, we are planning special events in keeping with that longevity.
This years participants are:
Olena Babak, Krystal Brown, Ed Buonvecchio, Michael Chesley-Johnson, Casey Cheuvront, Lori Cusick, Carol Douglas, Nic Fischer, Tracey Frugoli, Robert Goldman, Bruce Gómez, Ann E Hudson, Laura Martinez-Bianco, Betsy Menand, Barbara Mulleneaux, Anton Nowels, Bill Perkins, Hadley Rampton, Tad Retz, Robin Roberts, Manon Sander, Richard Sneary, Barbara Tapp, Ellie Wilson
Check out the SPAF 2025 Schedule HERE
SAC Holiday Artist Market
December 5 – 7, 2025
Celebrate the season at Sedona Arts Center’s Holiday Artist Market! This annual event features approximately 25 artists and makers from Sedona and around Arizona, offering unique, handmade gifts and fine art just in time for the holidays. From ceramics and jewelry to paintings, textiles, and more, the market showcases a curated collection of beautiful and functional creations perfect for gift giving.
Opening Reception: Friday, December 5, 2025 from 4–6pm
Market Hours:
Saturday, December 6, 2025 | 10am – 4pm
Sunday, December 7, 2025 | 11am – 3pm
CLICK HERE TO APPLY
ARCHIVE:
Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 Luncheon February 1, 2024
The Arts Center will host a Roll Out event during FY24 in Sedona, to reveal the results of this national economic impact study of the nonprofit arts and culture industry including the local data collected throughout the course of the past year by Sedona nonprofit arts organizations.City of Sedona AEP6 Final Report AEP6 National Report