Debb Carl and Airen Sapp aka DEBnAIR at RE/MAX Sedona have both lived in Sedona since 1988. Airen was business partners with Peggy Lanning in the Lanning Gallery for 4 years. She helped form the first Sedona Gallery Association and the Artist Invitational at the Sedona Art Festival. Debb worked as the general manager for Time Expeditions Jeep Tours and many other jobs touting Sedona's beauty.
Debb and Airen discovered that they were very good at collaboration by designing and fabricating metal sculpture, firescreens, sumi-e paintings and a fictional novel the self published. That is where they first coined the name DEBnAIR.
They opened Gallery Forest in 1994 but found it to be the...