Events
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Constance Lynn: Medicine At Our Feet
NOTE: Limited to 13 participants (minimum 3). Meet at the Escalante River Trailhead at the Bridge (Hwy 12). On this walk along the Escalante River we will open our awareness to the plants as our relatives and allies in healing and discover what it means to truly have medicine at our feet. HIKE DETAILS: This will […]
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Lonny Granston: Paint Together on Smokey Mountain Road
Meet at the Rodeo Grounds 500 West 300 SouthCost: none! Minimum of 2 / Maximum of 40 / All ability levels A 10 minute drive south of town on 2 wheel drive Smokey Mountain road takes us to the northern boundary of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument where we will draw the attractive butte just to the east. Littered with boulders and topped […]
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Sue Martin: Nature-inspired Abstract Painting
Escalante Town Park - Hands on Art TentCost: $150 Maximum of 8 / Minimum of 5 - All levels, but some experience helpful. In this workshop, participants will play with paint, building abstract layers of acrylic and mark-making media. During the process, participants will explore forms, colors, and patterns from the natural world to lend meaning to layers. In a push-pull with […]
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Artists’ Jam Session
Escalante Town Park - Festival StageSo many of our artists are also talented musicians! Bring your instruments (guitars, fiddles, hand pans, flutes, banjos, kazoos, or whatever) to the town park for an evening of music and celebration immediately following the Artists' Reception. All artists are welcome!
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Escalante Historic Walking Tour – Thursday
Meet at People's Exchange 100 North Center Street, Escalante, United StatesNo RSVP needed. Tour begins at the Peoples Exchange, one of Escalante's most photographed historic buildings. Come along to learn more about many of the historic structures throughout town. Escalante was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013 as a National Historic District with areas of noted significance in architecture, social history, […]
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California Girls: All Medium Painting Demo
Slot Canyons Inn 3680 Utah-12, Escalante, UTWhat 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 […]
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Bob Stevenson: Tracks Across Time
NOTE: Limited to 12 participants. Caravan from the Escalante Interagency Visitor Center. With naturalist Bob Stevenson: Through science and imagination, we’ll travel across time, where present and past converge to cross paths with a dinosaur. HIKE INFO: We will caravan/carpool from the Escalante Interagency Visitor Center to the track site. There, we will hike up short […]
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Günther Haidenthaller: Watercolor Simplified
Hole-in-the-Rock Escalante Heritage Center 1300 UT-12, Escalante, United StatesWatercolor 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 […]
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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 […]
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Quilt Exhibition
Escalante Multi-Purpose Center 89 North 100 WestEvery quilt has a story. Visit the Quilt Exhibit and enjoy the art, workmanship, and history of these beautiful quilts. Also on display are some of the Best of Show winning artwork from across the years since the festival began.