Point Supreme Cedar Breaks painting by Roland Lee

Roland Lee and Brad Holt will present plein air painting demonstrations prior to a silent auction on Friday afternoon July 15, 2016 at the Giant Steps Lodge in Brian Head, UT

Get ready for the second annual Cedar Breaks National Monument, Arts Afire Plein Air Event, a Plein Air painting invitational and art exhibition. This event is free to visitors and will take place the week of July 11-16, 2016, in Cedar Breaks National Monument and surrounding areas. Studio pieces and Plein Air artwork created for this event will be exhibited at the brand newSouthern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA) in nearby Cedar City, Utah through September 1, 2016.

Plein air artists cap­ture the spirit and essence of a land­scape by interpreting the nat­ural light, color and move­ments of their subject into their works. The exhibit theme will feature studio pieces illustrating parks found in Southern Utah in addition to Plein Air paintings created during the 2016 Cedar Breaks Plein Air Art Event. Artists are challenged to document the mood, seasons and rhythms found within southern Utah’s national parks and monuments by drawing and painting the landscapes Plein Air, or outdoors on site. The Arts Afire Exhibition will hang from July 16 to September 1.