Each collectible edition of Sedona ARTSource provides concierge style information regarding Sedona’s Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Culinary Arts, Design Arts, Arts Education, and Literary Arts in a beautiful semi-annual publication.
- A Deep-Seated Love for FURNITURE
The furniture we choose to live with reflects our values, our lifestyle and our culture in ways we often give little attention. Yet, out of the mind of artists, this ancient quest for practical solutions for home furnishings often blossoms into so much more … - Art Fosters a Love of Hummingbirds
Dr. H. Ross Hawkins (1939-2020), founder and executive director of the International Hummingbird Society said: “From the start, the Hummingbird Society has believed that wildlife art can be used to raise consciousness. The Hummingbird Society understands that what we learn to appreciate… - Chiara Capobianco – Strings of the Heart
As a child, Chiara Capobianco wanted to follow her older sister’s lead in playing the flute. And so she did. She played the musical stick along with Sabrina in marching bands around their native Milano, Italy. She evidently played so well that… - Christie Palmer Art – The Longer You Look The More You See
With the subtleties of airbrush and the nuances of watercolor, artist Christie Palmer plays with the edges of paint and reality. Her brilliantly hued landscapes, inherently recognizable as some longed-for horizon, capture the ever-changing elements of place and time. We visited the… - Cyndy Carstens – The Flower of Stubborn Passion
Cyndy Carstens is an exceptional artist. She was not born and nourished into a creative culture; she is an artist because the artist within started seeking expression. Consider her own words… “I was very ill as a small child. My parents bought… - Honey Culture Creates Good Buzz
“Fine art, Culinary arts, and the art of Beekeeping share a lot of similarities. Each invoke a sense of romance and involve a balance of skill, patience, and creativity. For us they’re all incredibly important, but only food inspires all of the… - Khrystyna Kozyuk – “Colors and Shapes Inspire Me…”
“Colors and shapes inspire me… Being an observer first, much of my inspiration comes from the world around us. When traveling I find myself appreciating all that the new landscapes have to offer. Recently, my time has been spent exploring different traditions… - Lewis Nash – The Heart Behind the Beat
Modern Drummer Magazine once called internationally renowned drummer, Lewis Nash “the most valuable player” in jazz. A performance center named after him, The Nash Jazz Club, located in central Phoenix is also the home of Jazz in Arizona, a nonprofit organization founded… - Lynn Alison Trombetta – On Creativity
It seems fitting to shine a light on our Editor, Lynn Alison Trombetta. She is a multi-talented artist who uses beautiful music, art and writing to creatively connect with others and encourage an exchange of energy between the giver and the receiver, each one energizing, each one being energized with a positive awakening for all. Here, Lynn shares the heart of her art and tells her engaging story. — Greg Lawson, ARTSource Publisher - Mario B. Simic – Poet of Land and Sea
“The artist transmits his sensibility and energy into his work so that each of us are touched in different ways. Simic paints with different states of heart and soul, resulting in various moods and feelings, which the collectors sense, much to their… - Nature As Art – Touchstone Gallery
The artist, Michelangelo believed his task as the sculptor was not to create, but simply to chip away the excess, to reveal the figures he made from stone. A visit to Touchstone Gallery in Sedona leads one to ponder such things … - Ofelia Zepeda – Poet with a Purpose
As Director of the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI), Regents’ Professor of Tohono O’odham language and linguistics and former Head of American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona, Ofelia Zepeda is a language- arts professional of stature. She has worked… - Reflecting on the Career of R. Carlos Nakai – Phases of the Moon
Celestial luminaries differ from each other in many different ways. Who isn’t enthralled by the apparent rise of a full moon? The softer light, reflected from the sun, is sometimes more inviting than the source. Because we can gaze on the reflected… - Star Liana York – New York Revelations
Artist sculptor Star Liana York creates bronze and silver representations of the American West, from Native American men and women to cowboys and wildlife. - Step Raptis and Lisa Chow – Bringing Balance to a Community
Looking back over decades of dance, Step Raptis and Lisa Chow have helped enlighten and balance communities with colorful stories from the past. The husband and wife met in 1988 in a dance class Step was playing for. At that point, Lisa… - The Art of Jill Amundsen
Sedona ARTSource: As an artist, you’ve been described as “an intuitive colorist who overlays brilliant hues in subtle transparencies that reveal several dimensions of energy and light.” What one notices foremost is your use of beautiful, pure colors. Are your paintings done… - The Call of Beauty – Masterworks by Nampeyo of Hopi – Book by Edwin L. Wade and Allan R. Cooke
The Call of Beauty, Masterworks by Nampeo of Hopi, is a beautifully written and sumptuously illustrated book on this remarkable artist and provides a groundbreaking view of Indigenous art forms…