In his otherwise pristine, neat house and studio, renowned Sedona painter Curt Walters’ spare bedroom is full of cardboard boxes. “These are all books,” he said. “I know it looks like a lot. It feels like a lot — they’re...

Betsy Menand lives in Colorado, but has been attending the Sedona Plein Air Festival for the past three years and doesn’t intend to stop.“I lived in Flagstaff for, like, 30 years,” she said. “So then we moved to Colorado,...

The city and community of Sedona lost four significant pieces of public art last month when the Sedona Arts Center tasked a group of high school students working with a SAC summer program to paint over a set of...

Curt Walters, a prolific Sedona painter of the Grand Canyon, says that he paints the air that surrounds his subjects and it reveals a deeper understanding of the moment and the emotions time-stamped in his works. “In 1986 and 1987...

The call of the canyon may just be a melancholy echo for some, but for prolific painter Curt Walters, the call of the canyon is much more. Walters is known as the “Grand Canyon Painter,” a title he has grown...