September 19-28, 2025

Escalante, Utah

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  • Featured Artist: Louise Fischman

    Escalante Town Park

    Stay tuned for information about our 2024 featured Artist - Louise Fischman.

  • Lonny Granston: Pastels – Crayons for Grown-ups

    Hole-in-the-Rock Escalante Heritage Center 1300 UT-12, Escalante, United States

    I will complete a pastel painting during this demonstration. I encourage attendees to ask questions and make comments - I expect a lively discussion!  At the end of the demonstration, I will auction off the completed painting to the highest bidder, donating all proceeds to the Escalante Canyons Art Festival.     A critic once […]

  • 2024 Lonny Granston: Battle of the Hemispheres

    Hole-in-the-Rock Escalante Heritage Center 1300 UT-12, Escalante, United States

    In a never-before-attempted neuroscience experiment, Lonny Granston, the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument 2024 Artist in Residence, will attempt to do a pastel painting (using the ‘right’ aka creative brain/cerebral hemisphere) and deliver a lecture on a primary care-focused medical topic (calling on the ‘left’ aka logical brain/cerebral hemisphere) simultaneously. Lonny Granston’s father had a poster of […]

  • 2024 Paint-Around

    Slot Canyons Inn

    A Paint-Around is an event where teams of 5 artists each "paint-around" to create paintings.  Teams have two hours to finish their painting, each member taking 15 minute turns.  Each artist will add to and modify the piece under development, according to their vision of the piece’s required direction, providing commentary as they think their […]

  • 2024 Melody Greenlief: Landscape Watercolor Painting from Start to Varnish

    Escalante Town Park Pavilion

    I will paint a landscape watercolor painting from start to finish and varnish it while discussing techniques and materials, including how to mount watercolor paper, varnishing watercolor paintings and supplies. I will be happy to answer any questions that attendees may have.   Melody Greenlief is a passionate artist who finds joy in the world […]

  • 2024 Wayne Geary: Natural Pigments Watercolor

    Escalante Town Park Pavilion

    Natural Pigments is a small, California-based art supply company that makes paints, mediums and other painting supplies that are of exceptional quality. The company uses naturally occurring materials for their pigments, and they are advocates for traditional painting practices going back to the Old Masters. The demonstration will show the range and strength of Natural […]

  • 2024 Hope Ricciardi: Painting Vistas

    Head of the Rocks Overlook

    Join me in painting the vista of Escalante Grand Staircase, as seen in my 2023 ECAF purchase prize winning painting, First Impression (above). I will do step by step demo of how to simplify a vast landscape and create the atmosphere and distance of this image. Attendees are welcome to set up painting gear and […]

  • Suzanne Gibson: Shapes and Shadows in the Shifting Sun

    Meet at Escalante Town Park Pavilion

    Suzanne will demonstrate oil painting with found objects and local subject matter.  Shapes and Shadows and some flowers are most likely going to need some attention!  Learn about the 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 […]

  • California Girls: All Medium Painting Demo

    Slot Canyon Inn 3680 Utah-12, Escalante, Utah

    What could be more inspiring than a landscape demo featuring a watercolorist, a pastelist, an oil painter using a brush, and an oil painter using a palette knife? Susan De'Armond, Patricia Rose Ford, Nita Harper, and Terry Chacon promise to wow you by painting the same landscape using entirely different plein air techniques. These California […]

  • Günther Haidenthaller: Watercolor Simplified

    Hole-in-the-Rock Escalante Heritage Center 1300 UT-12, Escalante, United States

    Watercolor has a reputation for being “hard” which is completely undeserved. Yes, it’s a bit unforgiving, but not difficult. We will first cover the basics of composition/design and dialing in the values. This short (1.5–2 hours) demo will show you how to create background washes with a variety of interesting colors, soft or even lost […]