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Ben Akers

Photography
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Ben Akers

Ben Akers is a landscape photographer from Phoenix, Arizona. He found his passion for photography while taking photography classes in high school and decided to...
Suzy Allan

Ceramics
Gallery Artist

Suzy Allan

I began playing in the clay before the age of seven. I played in the clay during high school, college, and in my career years. But it wasn't until I played in t...
George Averbeck

Glass
Gallery Artist

George Averbeck

Originally an artist working in metal and jewelry, George took several years of glass classes at Northern Arizona University, followed by study and work at the ...
Joe Beeler

Bronze Sculpture
Gallery Artist

Joe Beeler

Unlike those who received their calling late in life, Joe Beeler always knew he was an artist. “I could always draw.” He commented. “It just came naturall...
Bill Belvin

Photography
Gallery Artist

Bill Belvin

Bill is a Sedona based fine arts photographer specializing in creating richly detailed images of the American Southwest wilderness. He loves capturing the patte...
Elaine Belvin

Photography
Gallery Artist

Elaine Belvin

Elaine Belvin’s interest in photography was sparked by the beautiful landscapes she and her husband saw while hiking in the American Southwest. After a long c...
Nicholas Bernard

Ceramics
Earth & FireGallery Artist

Nicholas Bernard

Early experiences with clay as a child apparently left a mark. After school, apprenticeships and more school, making pots was, is and will continue to be a way ...
Nancy Bihler

Jewelry
Gallery Artist

Nancy Bihler

Nancy Bihler is a jeweler who specializes in Roman Chains and lapidary.
Susan Bisbee

Calligraphy
Gallery Artist

Susan Bisbee

As a kid Susan found her first yard sale at age 11 and purchased a intricate Italian wood inlayed playing card box and some minis and was captured. She was alwa...
Patricia Bohannon

Oil Painting
Gallery Artist

Patricia Bohannon

“What sustains me as I create, is my passion and desire to connect with people and share through visual expression, historical information on the unfamiliar....
April Bower

Jewelry
Gallery Artist

April Bower

April Bower has always been fascinated by all the varied processes involved in metalworking. After receiving a Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree, she taught metalsm...
Al Brown

Photography
Gallery Artist

Al Brown

For as long as I can remember I had an interest in cameras and photography. As a young boy I had the use of my father’s roll film camera, sometimes connecting...
Mary Lois Brown

Oil Painting
Gallery Artist

Mary Lois Brown

I grew up in Pennsylvania, where as a child I enjoyed drawing and painting horses. When I was very young my parents gave me a “paint by numbers” set and I r...
Ed Buonvecchio

Oil Painting
Gallery ArtistInstructorSPAF 2024Staff

Ed Buonvecchio

Ed Buonvecchio is an award-winning professional artist and avid hiker. He has taught drawing and painting at various levels for years. As a plein air painter, h...
Betty Carr

Oil Painting
Gallery ArtistInstructor

Betty Carr

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 di...
Jacqueline Chanda

Oil Painting
Gallery Artist

Jacqueline Chanda

My paintings explore my personal experiences and observations of nature and people.  I like capturing moments in time, happy, sad moments hidden in the commonp...
Casey Cheuvront

InkOil PaintingWatercolor
Gallery ArtistSPAF 2024

Casey Cheuvront

"My favorite shoes are hiking boots. For years I explored the wildernesses of the Southwest, hiking, backpacking, hang gliding and mountain biking - interacting...
Carrie Clayden

Oil Painting
Gallery Artist

Carrie Clayden

Painting is my passion. The possibilities are endless. I love to dip my hands in paint and literally put myself into the painting. Layers are everything. The ti...
M.L. Coleman

Oil Painting
Gallery Artist

M.L. Coleman

Inspired by the ever-changing light and colors found in nature, ML Coleman seeks to convey the essence of his subject utilizing a painterly form of realism that...
Emily Costello

Gallery Artist

Emily Costello

Emily Costello is a self-taught painter, printer and mixed media artist. Her art is inspired by her Mexican heritage, its cultural icons, imagery, and by the e...
Alison Crary

Pastel Artist
Gallery Artist

Alison Crary

As a child, Alison always loved spending time outdoors or doing any kind of art. As an adult, her interests remain the same but for many years pursuing educatio...
Smokey Cruz

JewelryWatercolor
Gallery Artist

Smokey Cruz

Smokey Cruz's early childhood was shaped by the feeling of constant movement in travels between family members in northern and southern California. The memory o...
Michael Cunningham

Gallery Artist

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham is a self-taught artist currently living and working in his home studio in Goodyear Arizona. Michael was born in Meadow Brook Long Island N.Y...
Mark Edward Dawson

Photography
Gallery Artist

Mark Edward Dawson

Mark Edward Dawson is a photographer currently based near Flagstaff, Arizona. He enjoys creating photos with everything from large-format view cameras and 150-y...
Lydia Dillon-Sutton

Fiber Arts
Gallery Artist

Lydia Dillon-Sutton

For almost 40 years, Lydia Dillon-Sutton has been using the ancient process of batik, painted with hot bee’s wax and dye baths. Beginning with woven cloth, Di...
Miro FitzGerald

CeramicsOil Painting
Gallery Artist

Miro FitzGerald

Miro invites you to experience a world of two entirely separate and unique painting styles - landscape paintings and her signature abstract brush stroke paintin...
Mary Flaisig

Fiber Arts
Gallery Artist

Mary Flaisig

Fiber Artist Mary Flaisig is a fiber artist who has lived and worked in Sedona Arizona since 1995. She earned her BA from San Diego State University. Before mo...
Nancy Foo

Jewelry
Gallery Artist

Nancy Foo

My memories of nature inspire me to share my love of this wonderful world through my organic and refined jewelry designs. My jewelry reminds us of our connectio...
Christine Golden

Gallery Artist

Christine Golden

Christine attained her BFA at the University of Utah in 2005, where she was a National Research Fellow. In 2010 she received her MFA from Indiana University, wh...
Debra Goley

Fiber Arts
Gallery Artist

Debra Goley

Arist Statement I use my art to communicate an idea visually; it speaks of how I am innately wired. I enjoy playing with light, contrasting c...
Gunther Haidenthaller

Gallery Artist

Gunther Haidenthaller

Born in Wels, Austria, I grew up in sight of the Alps, playing among 2000-year-old Roman ruins and leftover WWII bomb craters, spent weekends watching sailplan...
Robin Hanna

Jewelry
Gallery Artist

Robin Hanna

Robin is owner, designer and creator of Agapé Artisan Jewelry. Exploring various forms of art has been her lifelong outlet since childhood in Pittsburgh, Penns...
Melanie Chambers Hartman

Oil Painting
Gallery Artist

Melanie Chambers Hartman

Hartman recently moved from Virginia, her home for many years, back to Arizona where her roots grow deep. Her grandparents on both sides were brave and hearty r...
Beth Kingsley Hawkins

AuthorCards
Gallery Artist

Beth Kingsley Hawkins

For me, nature photography is bringing the beauty of the soul into focus and offering the results to other people as a way of seeing into meaning together. Now ...
Lynn Heil

Printmaking Painting
Gallery Artist

Lynn Heil

Lynn grew up in a small town in Iowa. Among the beautiful fields and timber, it was here that a lifelong love of drawing and painting emerged.
Mary Helsaple

Mixed MediaWatercolor
Gallery ArtistInstructor

Mary Helsaple

I was raised on the west coast, lived and worked in Colorado for 35 years and now live full time in Sedona, AZ. I have also been involved in the regional arts i...
Paul Kaiser and Susan Herman

Jewelry
Gallery Artist

Paul Kaiser and Susan Herman

In 1991 they moved to Sedona Arizona to be closer to their parents who lived in the Phoenix area. Susan landed a job in another jewelry store and Paul started ...
Mary Heyborne

Ceramics
Gallery Artist

Mary Heyborne

Mary Heyborne, award-winning potter, poet and playwright, says: “Wherever I live I tune in to my surroundings and seek the influence of its uniqueness in my ...
Elizabeth St. Hilaire

Mixed Media
Gallery Artist

Elizabeth St. Hilaire

Elizabeth St. Hilaire is an award winning full-time artist, art workshop instructor, and published author. She is an Artist Educator for Golden Paints, a former...
Art Hiscox

Architectural Art
Gallery Artist

Art Hiscox

Artist Statement: “My artwork combines man-made materials with nature’s own art. My use of color, texture and resin compels viewers to actually touch the ...
Joanne Hiscox

Architectural Art
Gallery Artist

Joanne Hiscox

My goal is to create beautiful architectural art pieces that always are new and different in both design and material composition. By blending natural stone, gl...
Sue Horine

Jewelry
Gallery Artist

Sue Horine

Sue Horine has been creating bead embroidered art jewelry since 2005. She was born in California and much of her inspiration comes from her childhood family vac...
Carol Kahn

Jewelry
Gallery Artist

Carol Kahn

Carol Kahn Designs evolved out of the encouragement and support from my daughter Corinna, and my family and friends. By divine intervention, what was simply a p...
Neil Kennedy

Ceramics
Gallery ArtistInstructor

Neil Kennedy

Neil’s current clay pieces meld thrown forms, slabs, altering, incising and sculpting. Glazes on the functional pieces, fired in an electric kiln, have been d...
Susan Kliewer

Bronze Sculpture
Gallery Artist

Susan Kliewer

Susan Kliewer is one of the Southwest's most acclaimed contemporary sculptors. A painter since the age of ten, Susan turned to sculpting in 1987, after working ...
Kelli Klymenko

Photography
Gallery ArtistInstructorStaff

Kelli Klymenko

Kelli Klymenko is an artist photographer and the Marketing Director for Sedona Arts Center. Kelli filmed and photographed the 2014–2015 Sedona Chamber of Comm...
Khrystyna Kozyuk

Oil Painting
Gallery Artist

Khrystyna Kozyuk

Painter who explores vibrant colors and textures inspired by many world cultures on oversized canvases.
Jennifer Krueger

Oil Painting
Gallery Artist

Jennifer Krueger

Jennifer Krueger is a mixed media artist who specializes in wildlife paintings. She uses a multitude of mediums and techniques to create one-of-a-kind pieces of...
Lili Anne Laurin

Oil Painting
Gallery Artist

Lili Anne Laurin

Lili Laurin's western landscape paintings reflect the glow and dramatic light that are iconic of the Arizona landscape. An avid plein air artist, she is often o...
Mariann Leahy

Ceramics
Gallery ArtistSmall Works

Mariann Leahy

As a Clay artist and painter, I celebrate symbols combining human and animal motifs.  These symbols show the emergence and mystery of life’s energy. My works...
Leanne Lee

Oil Painting
Gallery Artist

Leanne Lee

Leanne was born and raised in the Midwest, in a south suburb of Chicago. She and her husband, then moved to Gunnison, Colorado and raised three boys. They lived...
Lynn Haygood Lee

Acrylic Painting
Gallery Artist

Lynn Haygood Lee

Lynn Haygood Lee is a painter in Sedona, Arizona. "I am interested in immersing directly into a work, not simply using visual perception, and experiencing in th...
Amy Light

CeramicsGlass
Earth & FireGallery Artist

Amy Light

Amy was raised on the east coast in Washington DC and settled there after graduating from Orthodontic School. She was a prominent Orthodontist and Pediatric Den...
Chris Liske

Acrylic PaintingOil PaintingWatercolor
Gallery Artist

Chris Liske

Nature inspired - then the subject matter takes on a life of its own. 
Gretchen Lopez

Oil Painting
Gallery ArtistInstructorSPAF 2024

Gretchen Lopez

Gretchen’s work is inspired, not only by her love of painting, but from her ethnic heritage, teaching and the world around her. Combining the traditional wit...
Efren Lopez

Photography
Gallery Artist

Efren Lopez

Efren Lopez started Route 66 Images to enrich the traveling experience of visitors to the Mother Road by creating fine art photography to create calendars, post...
Sandra Luehrsen

Ceramics
Gallery Artist

Sandra Luehrsen

Sandra Luehrsen was born in Chicago, Illinois. She earned BA and MA degrees from Northern Illinois University and an MFA from Arizona State University (ASU). Sh...
Justine Mantor-Waldie

Oil Painting
Gallery Artist

Justine Mantor-Waldie

Justine’s paintings are charged with ever-changing light and color, and living texture that invites one to step into that vibrantly alive land and walk its ma...
Sharon McGinnis

Fiber Arts
Gallery Artist

Sharon McGinnis

My paintings and art quilts are a balancing act between intuition and control, spontaneity and technique. My goal is to create a piece that causes you to disco...
Deanne McKeown

Bronze SculptureJewelry
Gallery Artist

Deanne McKeown

"None of us perceive the world in exactly the same way. Our oneness lies in a yearning to touch and to understand. My work is an endeavor to share my thoughts a...
Ken & Lyn Mikell

Ceramics
Gallery Artist

Ken & Lyn Mikell

In 2006, we established a ceramic studio in our home in Cottonwood, where we work in a process called “naked raku”.
Susan Moody

Glass
Gallery ArtistSmall Works

Susan Moody

Susan strives continually to explore and experiment with glass and to push the limits of this fascinating medium.
Chikako Myers

Jewelry
Gallery Artist

Chikako Myers

Chikako Myers is a jewelry artist who creates dichroic glass, cast and fabricated silver copper and bronze jewelry. Her work is shown in Sedona and Japan.
V. Norton

CalligraphyCeramics
Gallery ArtistSmall Works

V. Norton

Nature is an inspiration for my artwork. All the Native American tribes that dwell around us are also a source of creativity.
Christie Palmer

Painting
Gallery Artist

Christie Palmer

Known for organically integrating landscape and abstraction, Christie Palmer’s acrylic paintings originate from a reverence for the beauty in nature. For her,...
Jeff Perkins

Ceramics
Gallery Artist

Jeff Perkins

From thrown clay to large form, thin-walled vessels—to hand-built figures, Jeff Perkins has been a master of ceramics for most of his life. Jeff studied under...
Julie Gilbert Pollard

Oil PaintingWatercolor
Gallery Artist

Julie Gilbert Pollard

Phoenix artist, Julie Gilbert Pollard, paints in oil and watercolor in a fluid, painterly manner. Her painting style, while representational, is colored with he...
Karen Puckett

Jewelry
Gallery Artist

Karen Puckett

Jewelry Happily tucked away in my art glass studio in Sedona, Arizona, I am a visual artist, playing with light, color, heat and glass. These are the elements...
Carolyn Quan

Photography
Gallery Artist

Carolyn Quan

Born in Toronto, Canada, Carolyn Quan is a multiple award-winning internationally collected fine art photo collage artist, based in the American Southwest.
Hadley Rampton

Oil Painting
Gallery ArtistSPAF 2024

Hadley Rampton

Hadley Rampton’s paintings are an amalgamation of her love of composition, color, mark making and being present in the outdoors. “I’m energized by the cha...
Barry Richardson

Woodworking
Gallery Artist

Barry Richardson

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 ...
Joan Roberts

Jewelry
Gallery Artist

Joan Roberts

Joan Roberts’ work in jewelry design has become a passion as she continually seeks new ways to create distinctive art pieces. Joan enjoys the active and ongoi...
Marrin Robinson

Watercolor
Gallery Artist

Marrin Robinson

Marrin Robinson is an artist whose paintings are inspired by landscape.   The work is not a replication of a place but rather the expression of an experience ...
P Ron Schneider

Sculpture
Gallery Artist

P Ron Schneider

Striving to produce dimensional replicas of some of the unique architecture of the Southwest the artist uses techniques and materials individually developed ove...
Gerald Schwartz

Oil Painting
Gallery Artist

Gerald Schwartz

Creativity was something that started early with me. Born in Brooklyn, New York at 8 years of age, my family all moved to California. Sure, I played with clay, ...
Terry Shoulders

Photography
Gallery ArtistStaff

Terry Shoulders

In 1962 Terry Shoulders began his professional involvement with the photographic image, shooting for the local newspaper in Vincennes, Indiana. While attending ...
Isabel Simmer

Fiber Arts
Gallery Artist

Isabel Simmer

Board of Directors - Secretary Izzy Simmer is a knitter of gorgeous, colorful high end garments that will make you feel beautiful inside and o...
Jan Sitts

Oil Painting
Gallery Artist

Jan Sitts

In Jan's more than thirty years as an art instructor and professional painter, she continues her exploring and experimentation with many mediums. Her accomplish...
Dennis Sohocki

Sculpture
Gallery Artist

Dennis Sohocki

Sohocki is known for his classic, graceful modern forms in bronze, marble, stainless steel and hardwood.
LeAnne Sowa

Watercolor
Gallery Artist

LeAnne Sowa

LeAnne Sowa - Watercolorist / Fine Artist LeAnne (Mawby) Sowa is a watercolor artist living in Cornville, Arizona. She was born and raised in western Michigan...
Geo Stebila

Mixed MediaSculpture
Gallery Artist

Geo Stebila

Geo is a native New Yorker who was transplanted to Lake Havasu, Arizona in 1972. He and his wife Suzanne (also an artist) now live in Sedona, AZ. Geo was inspir...
Holly Stedman

Stained Glass
Gallery Artist

Holly Stedman

In addition to expressing her love of the dynamic qualities of glass through her unique style, Holly also enjoys her “adventurer” side. Inspiration from tre...
Paula Swain

Oil Painting
Gallery Artist

Paula Swain

A day of painting begins with finding a scene that fascinates me. I study shapes, shadows, patterns, light, colors and which way the sun is moving.
Karen Taylor

Oil Painting
Gallery Artist

Karen Taylor

I have always been fascinated with the ways in which cultures and peoples around the globe decorate and adorn themselves. There is that beauty that is captured ...
Nori Thorne

PaintingPastel Artist
Gallery ArtistInstructor

Nori Thorne

An award-winning pastelist, Nori was featured artist in Art of the West’s July/August 2023 issue and was juried into Pastel Society of America’s Enduring Br...
Fred Tomlin

Woodworking
Gallery Artist

Fred Tomlin

Fred Tomlin has been making burl tables since the early 1970’s.  His tables can be found from the shoreline of Fisherman’s Wharf to central Texas to Wiscon...
Mark Troksa

Ink
Gallery Artist

Mark Troksa

My name is Mark Troksa and I love Alcohol Ink as the colors are bright and vibrant and remind me of a cross between stained glass and the Aurora Borealis. When...
Mike Trulson

Oil PaintingWatercolor
Gallery Artist

Mike Trulson

Ever since I can remember, drawing and painting has held a place in my soul. Being honest with myself and the reality of pursuing fine art as a career, (I had ...
A O Tucker

Photography
Gallery Artist

A O Tucker

As a self-taught artist, A O Tucker believes that fine art photography must both be inspiring and technically excellent. Born and raised in Arizona on farm land...
John Henry Waddell

Bronze SculptureOil Painting
Gallery ArtistSmall Works

John Henry Waddell

Joh>John Henry Waddell, born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1921, began teaching art to adults when he was 16. After Army service, he achieved his MFA and MAE from the ...
Ruth Holland Waddell

Pastel Artist
Gallery Artist

Ruth Holland Waddell

Born in Chicago, Illinois November 23, 1925, Ruth Waddell began drawing and painting early in life and attended the Art Institute in Chicago before other respon...
Gwendolyn Waring

Oil Painting
Gallery Artist

Gwendolyn Waring

Gwendolyn Waring has been in the western United States for more than 50 years, after traveling the world as a child. Discovering a love for ecology shaped Gw...
Janet Weaver

Oil Painting
Gallery Artist

Janet Weaver

I enjoy viewing all kinds of art, but when it comes to creating my own, I admit striving for color, extreme detail, and high contrast.
Karl Williams

Bronze SculptureCeramicsMixed Media
Gallery Artist

Karl Williams

Williams' latest sculptures have an artistic style where he seeks to depict emotions and responses that his pieces arouse within a person rather than objective ...
Debra Williamson

Watercolor
Gallery Artist

Debra Williamson

Self-taught watercolorist specializing in botanical and wildlife art.
Ellie Wilson

Gallery Artist

Ellie Wilson

My life as an artist started at a young age and the path to my art career seemed to have happened effortlessly. I was born and raised in the Wasatch Mountains, ...
Dr Iris Yang

Photography
Gallery Artist

Dr Iris Yang

Dr. Iris Yang (Qing Yang) is an author of three historical novels, two photo books (“Enjoy Flower I” and “Enjoy Flower II” published in China), and a do...