Art
Deb Harwick: Group Painting Excursions
Daily, Saturday, September 20 - Monday, September 22, 2025 (7:30 am - whenever you like!) If you are new to the festival and looking to meet up with fellow artists, or you just enjoy painting with others, please join Deb Harwick on her daily excursions. You will travel as a group to each destination in your […]
Suzanne Gibson: Shapes and Shadows in the Shifting Sun
Meet at Escalante Town Park PavilionCost: $25 Minimum of 1 / Maximum of 25 / All ability levels Join Suzanne for a lesson in Shapes and Shadows as we explore the variety of challenges with the shifting sun. Learn how to spot and recognize the “Sweet Spot” of a plein air painting in this paint- along session. Bring your supplies. […]
Kevin Berend & Grace Welker: “Where I’m From” Poetry Workshop
Meet at Grand Staircase Escalante Partners Office 530 W Main Street, EscalanteCost: Free Minimum of 2 / Maximum of 20 / All ability levels Like visual art, writing offers a window onto our relationship with the land. Poetry provides a unique perspective to reflect on those relationships. In this workshop, we’ll read and analyze George Ella Lyon’s famous poem “Where I’m From”, then use it as […]
Helga Watkins: What is a Good Painting?
Escalante GSENM Partners OfficeCost: $20 Minimum of 8 / Maximum of 14 / All ability levels We will survey the work of artists, historians and theorists, and examine intriguing and unresolved debates about the nature of art and the question of what makes a given work of art good (or not). Although a vast subject, this intensive mini-seminar […]
Raymond King Shurtz: Short Fiction using Landscape Paintings
Escalante Town Park - Hands on Art TentCost: $25 Minimum of 3 / Maximum of 12 / All ability levels In this session, we will be using a plein air painting of your choice from the festival to write a short fiction story. The first hour we will talk about short fiction and choose the painting we will write from. The second […]
Carol Benally: Monsoon Clouds
Escalante Town Park - Hands on Art TentCost: $25 Minimum of 1 / Maximum of 12 / All ability levels Monsoon clouds come in many shapes and sizes. I will bring some pictures for you to look at while You paint along with me. Beginning with cloud shapes in perspective using oil paint, we will create a composition of clouds. First with […]
Tera Connor: Create a Gourd Birdhouse
Escalante Town Park - Hands on Art TentIn this engaging art class, you will create a birdhouse for your cherished feathered companions. Cost: $25 Minimum of 10 / Maximum of 15 / All ability levels Students are invited to bring an apron or a paint shirt. In this engaging art class, you will create a birdhouse for your cherished feathered companions. You'll […]
Awards Ceremony
The Art Festival Committee invites you to meet the artists who have won awards for their work. The paintings will be exhibited and the artists may take a (well deserved) bow.