Art N' About

As part of its ongoing mission to create opportunities for the greater community to engage in and experience all facets of the arts, this summer the Prescott Center for the Arts (PCA) will offer the Teen Summer Stock Ensemble (TSSE), which provides people ages 15-22 the unique opportunity to experience what it’s like to work in a professional setting.

What’s coming up for Folk Sessions?

The Sean Goté Gallery in west Prescott has been open for about a year with artwork that grabs your attention and stimulates the senses filling every corner of the bright and open space.

The Phippen Museum’s 44th Annual Western Art Show & Sale will be held over Memorial weekend (May 26, 27 & 28, 2018) on the historic Yavapai County Courthouse Plaza in beautiful, downtown Prescott. This popular outdoor event attracts talented Western artists, art enthusiasts, Western devotees, local residents and visitors from far and wide. While the first Memorial Day Show & Sale was presented in 1974, this premier event still features some of the finest Western sculptors and painters from all across America. Here are just some of the other activities the Phippen Museum has scheduled on this special holiday weekend.

Catherine Miller Hahn, “Cathy,” has always had Community Theater in her blood. By the age of 9, Cathy had her own theater and performing arts school inside the garage of her family’s home back in Webster Groves, Missouri, where she charged the neighborhood children ten cents a day to attend.

Featured in The Mezzanine Gallery: “Feeling the Effects: Photo Impressionism Explored” by Susan Walshe February 15-March 13, 2017 Please join Susan during the 4th Friday Art Walk reception on February 23rd 5:00-7:00PM A few words from the artist: Nineteenth century...

On Presidents Day Weekend (February 16, 17 & 18), America’s best off-road motorcycle racers are coming to Prescott Valley to compete for the lion’s share of a $10,000 cash prize, a $4,000 Bronze Statue and claim the title “U.S. Army Rough Rider Champion.” Dozens of #1 Champions from the Western U.S. and the East Coast, recognized by the premiere sanctioning body – the American Motorcycle Association, will meet and do battle on the rocky, sandy, ravines of Lynx Creek. All talented, all equal, and all hungry for the title, “Rough Rider Champion.”

Sara and Larry Cornwell get inspired when they look at a gourd, and they have seen their share of the woody plants.

The Prescott couple are officially self-described Decorative Gourd Artists, and their work speaks for itself. Bold and beautiful leaf patterns stenciled, carved and scored into the body of gourds, and many more ornate styles, often with natural and wildlife accents.

The Yavapai Youth Choir is hosting its annual Christmas program this year on Saturday, Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. The concert will take place at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 630 Park Ave., in Prescott.

Faith Roelofs lifted her basket and removed several Central Highlands plants as she described their uses: piñon pine needles for making cough syrup, honey for dressing wounds, Mormon tea for congestion, and willow bark for pain relief and inflammation. Her salve was made of piñon pine tree resin, beeswax and lard. The moldy bread served as an antibiotic on wounds and infections.