Art
Jennifer Gubler: Mixed Media- Watercolor on Bisque
Escalante Town Park PavilionLearn the unique process of how Jennifer Gubler, Best in Show category winner of the 2022 Escalante Canyons Art Festival Everett, creates her art. She will demonstrate her signature layering method of etching and painting with watercolor on bisque tiles. Kits will be available for purchase if you would like to try your hand at […]
Peggy Marlatt: Explore Painting the Canyons in Pastel
Escalante Town Park PavilionPeggy Marlatt has been coming to the Escalante Canyons Art Festival for the past 10 years and would love to share with you her approach using pastels. She especially loves the arches and walls of the canyons and will share with you a demonstration painting of one of her favorite subjects. Feel free to sketch […]
Bryce Canyon: Paint with the GSENM Artist in Residence
Sunset Point, Bryce CanyonCelebrate Bryce Canyon's centennial year by joining Melody Greenlief, the 2023 Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Artist in Residence, for an inspiring morning of painting together at Sunset Point in spectacular Bryce Canyon. <!-- To RSVP, please sign up here. -->You can pick up a park entry fee waiver form at the Escalante Community Center […]
Helga Watkins: Landscape Drawing for Better Landscape Painting
Escalante Innovation Center 100 West 100 North, Escalante, UT, United StatesDo you jump right in to paint alla prima, painting in the moment to record an immediate impression? Or instead, after examining plein air potential at a roadside stop, you pull out your sketchbook to thumbnail some compositional studies or even go so far as to make a notan study? Some approaches to painting are […]
CANCELLED: Bonnie Griffith: Altered Paint Brushes – Good Brushes Gone Bad!
Escalante Town Park - Hands on Art Tent North 100 West, Escalante, UT, United StatesNOTE: $25 fee collected day of program - covers materials. Limited to 20 participants. Bring an apron/painting shirt and latex/nitrile gloves. RSVP here. Come have some fun and learn how to create a basic altered paint brush, turning it into a self-portrait or whimsical character. Using old (or new) 2-, 3- or 4-inch wide paint […]
Phoenix Bunke: Remade & Recycled Art: Cut Paper Collage
Escalante Town Park - Hands on Art Tent North 100 West, Escalante, UT, United StatesNOTE: $15 for adults and $10 for kids (15 and under) - fee collected day of program - covers materials. Limited to 20 participants. RSVP here. Collage is an art form that’s easy to get into no matter what your skill level, and it’s a way of reusing things that might otherwise end up in […]
Friends in Art Collective Open Studio
745 West 500 SouthDeLee Grant, Bonnie Griffith, Chris Haycock, Rae Ellen Lee, Sue Martin, Ruthanne Oliver, Jill Simkins
Loretta Domaszewski: Watercolor: Light, Depth, and Space with Lyrical Brushstrokes
Escalante Town Park - Hands on Art Tent North 100 West, Escalante, UT, United StatesNOTE: $25 fee collected day of program - covers materials. Limited to 20 participants (minimum of 6). RSVP here. Learn to recreate nature's elements in a lyrical expressive way with watercolor. Develop layered patterns of unique brushstrokes and mark making that emphasize light, depth, and space. Find the abstraction that comes with experimentation of color, texture, and […]
Featured Artist: Coco Kishi
Escalante Town ParkCoco Kishi grew up working with a variety of arts and crafts including jewelry, ceramics, textiles, painting, and sculpture. For over 35 years, Coco has been practicing Pysanky- a Ukrainian traditional craft in which applied wax and liquid dyes produce elaborate designs on eggs. Many of Coco’s eggs incorporate designs inspired by the native cultures of the southwest. Several years ago […]
Featured Artist: Irit Read
Escalante Town ParkBorn in Jerusalem, Israel. Immigrated to the US in the 80’s. Discovered and fell in love with the Southwest in 2006. Kept returning twice yearly to photograph the Southwest till 2010 when eyes surgeries left her legally blind, ending her independent travels. In fall 2014 moved to Escalante. Inspired by local and visiting artists, especially […]