ARTS TO ZION WESTERN CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS AT SILVER REEF
We invite you to be immersed in the rich history and beauty of Southern Utah. A group of fascinating communities filled with amazing cultural experiences and award-winning talents. A place that will draw you into to a world that defies your imagination and that you will not want to leave. Find yourself surrounded by a western ghost town nestled in the picturesque cliffs of the town of Leeds. A once bustling mining community known as “Silver Reef” of the 1800s that has been transformed to give you a glimpse of the wild west. And what better way to experience the beauty of the area then by also enjoying beautiful works of award-winning artists.
This event will merge the two with cowboy gunfights, performances, storytelling, lectures, demonstrations, live music and world-class paintings for sale. Dates are Thursday, September 20th through Saturday, September 22nd with different events daily. Visit www.ArtstoZion.org for more information.
This event is an Arts to Zion collaboration with Silver Reef Museum & Ghost Town, Downtown St George Galleries: Illume Gallery of Fine Art, Authentique Gallery of Art & Design, The Mission Gallery, and Washington County Tourism.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Kimbal Warren
Steve McGinty
Kimball Geisler
themissiongallery.com
authentiquegallery.com
illumegalleryoffineart.com
Clive Romney – Utah Pioneer Heritage Arts
www.upharts.org/clive-romney.html
Reuben Wadsworth – St. George News Historical Reporter
www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/author/rwadsworth/
SILVER REEF MUSEUM AND GHOST TOWN:
Silver Reef “Old West”– town folk
SilverReefUtah.org
The Lawmen & Muddy River Gang – reenactors
www.facebook.com/oldWesternshootout/
Jerry Anderson and his private sculpture studio
www.jerryandersongallery.com
Fine Art for Sale ALL THREE DAYS!
Thursday: Artists Reception September 20, 6-8pm
Friday: Demos and storytelling, folk music
September 21, 10am-5pm
Saturday: Demos and storytelling, folk music, Wild West shootouts and more.
Simplify Simplify Simplify
A workshop by Ron Rencher
September 27th – 29th 2018
Call to register – 801-210-2853 * Cost $475
The goal of any painting is a successful finish. Finishing right happens only when we start right, and it begins with breaking the landscape down into a few simple shapes and a few values. Three to five shapes and three values are a good place to start; and a palette of three colors, a warm and cool of each, simplifies an otherwise complicated process.
Our goal in finishing right is unity. Unity, Richard Schmid said, is the ultimate goal of any painting. Learning how to achieve harmony and balance by the application of dominance to arrive at our goal will be the nuts and bolts of the simplification process. Value and color relationships (dominance, repetition, alternation, and gradation) are integral to achieving this success.
We will be working outdoors, consulting nature, the best teacher!
Hosted by the Illume Gallery of Fine Art, 29 W 200 N, St. George, Utah
Go to ronrencher.com/workshops for more info.
“The Value of Color”
A Workshop By Kathryn Stats
October 17th – 19th 2018
Call to register – 801-210-2853 * Cost $595
Plein Air/Studio Workshop
Kathryn Stats will be teaching a part plein air/part studio workshop in St. George this fall! This workshop addresses problems encountered in designing a painting on location through the following concepts and techniques:
- Rearranging masses to form a more pleasing pattern.
- Changing spacial relationships.
- Emphasizing or minimizing elements to produce a strong design that will carry the piece from an average, “okay” work to a provocative piece that draws the viewer to stay focused for longer and not just pass over the picture.
- The number of values and percentage of each of those values in relationship to total mass.
- Applying color within defined value boundaries.
We will be working both indoors and outdoors in the beautiful environs of the St. George and Zion areas, this workshop will introduce principles and ideas that are as important to studio work as they are to plein air work. This class is open to anyone at the Advanced Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced levels, who regularly work direct from nature, but are also practiced studio painters. It’s designed for committed artists who practice their craft regularly but want to take their work and their thought process to the next level.
29 West 200 North
St. George, Utah