Sedona, AZ: The Grand Canyon Association announced a historic art event at the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park - the first annual Grand Canyon Celebration of Art taking place September 14-19.
All proceeds from this event will be dedicated to the preservation of Grand Canyon art and to ensuring that future generations of park visitors will be able to experience Grand Canyon art at its best.
This major art show will provide an opportunity for visitors to see the works of some of the best master artists in the nation as they seek to capture the beauty of the timeless Grand Canyon landscape on canvas.
The celebration consists of two distinctly different events:
• The Grand Canyon Modern Masters Invitational;
• The Plein Air on the Rim.
Modern Masters Invitational is a juried art show and sale of varied and complex works developed in the studios of twenty premiere Grand Canyon artists. Works will be exhibited at Grand Canyon's Historic Kolb Studio, where artists will compete for awards.
Modern Master artists to show are Bruce Aiken, Elizabeth Black, John D. Cogan, M. L. Coleman, Nancy Denzler, Alyce Frank, David Haskell, Gregory Hull, William Scott Jennings, Merrill Mahaffey, Ed Mell, Doug Miley, P.A. Nisbet, William S. Phillips, Ryan Skidmore, Serena Supplee Karl Thomas, Curt Walters, Mark Weber, and Rick Wheeler.
The show opens on September 18, at Kolb Studio with an invitation only gala reception. The show opens to the public on September 19, and continues through November 15.
Plein Air on the Rim is a weeklong event that encompasses five days of painting outdoors around the area of the South Rim. "En plein air," French for "in the open air," is a spontaneous art form with artists creating paintings outdoors, responding to the immediacy of the moment and reflecting the excitement of the changing light, weather conditions and deepening shadows on canvas.
