NEWS
- 04/03/08
- Audubon Art Classes for Bird Lovers
- 04/18/08
- GREAT ARTISTS IN GREAT PLACES: 2008 On-location Workshops
- 04/21/08
- ON TELEVISION AND RADIO….Scottsdale Artists’ School is in the news!
- 04/30/08
- SCOTTSDALE ARTISTS LEAGUE SPRING 2008 FINE ART SHOW & SALE May 15-31
- 05/16/08
- REGISTER NOW FOR SUMMER CLASSES
- 05/16/08
- SCOTTSDALE ARTISTS’ SCHOOL WEEKEND WORKSHOPS at PHOENIX ART MUSEUM
- 05/16/08
- YOUTH ACADEMY SUMMER CAMPS START JUNE 2, 2008
- 10/16/08
- THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST JURIED FINE ART SHOW AND SALE Artists' Reception Thursday October 16, 2008 5-7 pm
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Schedule at a Glance
Schedule at a Glance
THE
SCHOOL
Scottsdale Artists’ School has been a leader in classical traditional art training for 25 years.
Founded in 1983, Scottsdale Artists' School is a 501(c)(3) non-profit art institution located in the Arts District of Scottsdale, Arizona. Dedicated to artistic enrichment, SAS teaches the fundamentals of representational art to artists and aspiring artists who attend the School from throughout the international art community.
With a visiting faculty of about 140 of the nation's best teaching artists, SAS offers over 200 workshops and classes a year to about 3,000 students with all levels of competency in oil painting, watercolor, pastel, sculpture, and drawing.
The School's workshop season is from October through May, with up to five workshops a week; most workshops are for 5 days; some are for 3 days; all are from 9am to 4pm. Weekly fine art classes are also offered year-round. Classes in technical approaches, professional development seminars, and special topics round out the School's schedule.
Looking beyond SAS' 25th Anniversary
‘It’s deja vu all over again.’
Ask Maxine Johnston what Scottsdale Artists’ School is planning as it prepares for its 25th Anniversary Celebration and she is likely to say, “It’s deja vu all over again.” Johnson is a professional artist-instructor at SAS, it's longest-serving Board member and last of the School's original founders.
“What began as an idea in a one-studio school twenty five years ago has evolved into one of America’s foremost schools of traditional fine art. Now the School is pursuing some new ideas that are about to steer SAS in some new directions.” Larry Charles, newly-elected President of the School’s Board, couldn’t agree more. “What’s ahead for the School is every inch as new, exciting and daunting as what was on the horizon for SAS in 1983."
According to Charles, "Scottsdale Artists’ School has become what is arguably the art Mecca of the Southwest.” What's more, he says, the School is in the process of expanding internally and externally. "For one thing, we are adding more nationally-prominent artists to SAS' visiting faculty and expanding the School's curriculum to accommodate other important genres of traditional art, such as western art and wildlife painting."
Expanding youth programs and outreach activities.
“We are also expanding SAS’ youth programs and broadening the School’s outreach activities to introduce the wonderful world of art to those in and around the Valley, including those who are disadvantaged and physically challenged. In fact, we have an important pilot program underway, where one of the School’s top sculptors has begun teaching blind students to sculpt three-dimensional figures using their ‘mind’s eye.’ We hope to train other sculptors in this technique and to join forces with the Phoenix Art Museum and other museums throughout the country to add an important art education element to the School's Sculpture for the Blind program.”
More "on-location" workshops planned
In addition to outreach programs, the School also will be reaching out more aggressively with some of SAS' top artist-instructors conducting SAS-sponsored workshops at a variety of scenic and other in-demand art venues throughout the country, even abroad. "Among the on-location workshops already programmed for the coming year," Charles said, "are classes at Oatlands Historic House and Gardens near Leesburg, Virginia, with Robert Johnson as guest artist-instructor; in breathtaking Robertson, Wyoming, with cowboy artist Jim Norton; in lush Vancouver Island, British Columbia, with holistic artist Nancy Chaboun; and in the Finger Lakes region of New York, with Thomas Buechner."
All of which reminds Maxine Johnston of what it was like in the beginning when SAS was just a glimmer in the eyes of a few local artists and community leaders. "That's what I mean by deja vu all over again."
Scottsdale Artists’ School has been a leader in classical traditional art training for 25 years.
Founded in 1983, Scottsdale Artists' School is a 501(c)(3) non-profit art institution located in the Arts District of Scottsdale, Arizona. Dedicated to artistic enrichment, SAS teaches the fundamentals of representational art to artists and aspiring artists who attend the School from throughout the international art community.
With a visiting faculty of about 140 of the nation's best teaching artists, SAS offers over 200 workshops and classes a year to about 3,000 students with all levels of competency in oil painting, watercolor, pastel, sculpture, and drawing.
The School's workshop season is from October through May, with up to five workshops a week; most workshops are for 5 days; some are for 3 days; all are from 9am to 4pm. Weekly fine art classes are also offered year-round. Classes in technical approaches, professional development seminars, and special topics round out the School's schedule.
Looking beyond SAS' 25th Anniversary
‘It’s deja vu all over again.’
Ask Maxine Johnston what Scottsdale Artists’ School is planning as it prepares for its 25th Anniversary Celebration and she is likely to say, “It’s deja vu all over again.” Johnson is a professional artist-instructor at SAS, it's longest-serving Board member and last of the School's original founders.
“What began as an idea in a one-studio school twenty five years ago has evolved into one of America’s foremost schools of traditional fine art. Now the School is pursuing some new ideas that are about to steer SAS in some new directions.” Larry Charles, newly-elected President of the School’s Board, couldn’t agree more. “What’s ahead for the School is every inch as new, exciting and daunting as what was on the horizon for SAS in 1983."
According to Charles, "Scottsdale Artists’ School has become what is arguably the art Mecca of the Southwest.” What's more, he says, the School is in the process of expanding internally and externally. "For one thing, we are adding more nationally-prominent artists to SAS' visiting faculty and expanding the School's curriculum to accommodate other important genres of traditional art, such as western art and wildlife painting."
Expanding youth programs and outreach activities.
“We are also expanding SAS’ youth programs and broadening the School’s outreach activities to introduce the wonderful world of art to those in and around the Valley, including those who are disadvantaged and physically challenged. In fact, we have an important pilot program underway, where one of the School’s top sculptors has begun teaching blind students to sculpt three-dimensional figures using their ‘mind’s eye.’ We hope to train other sculptors in this technique and to join forces with the Phoenix Art Museum and other museums throughout the country to add an important art education element to the School's Sculpture for the Blind program.”
More "on-location" workshops planned
In addition to outreach programs, the School also will be reaching out more aggressively with some of SAS' top artist-instructors conducting SAS-sponsored workshops at a variety of scenic and other in-demand art venues throughout the country, even abroad. "Among the on-location workshops already programmed for the coming year," Charles said, "are classes at Oatlands Historic House and Gardens near Leesburg, Virginia, with Robert Johnson as guest artist-instructor; in breathtaking Robertson, Wyoming, with cowboy artist Jim Norton; in lush Vancouver Island, British Columbia, with holistic artist Nancy Chaboun; and in the Finger Lakes region of New York, with Thomas Buechner."
All of which reminds Maxine Johnston of what it was like in the beginning when SAS was just a glimmer in the eyes of a few local artists and community leaders. "That's what I mean by deja vu all over again."
