The Drawing Studio - Artists' Cooperative providing student centered art instruction

"What We Do Here:
Work from TDS Classes"
June 8 – July 24, 2010

Informal mini-exhibits of work by students in a wide variety of classes held throughout the year at The Drawing Studio. The visual conversation will delight, surprise, and pique your curiosity. A perfect opportunity to find out what “really” goes on in classes and what you might like to join.

"The Connecting Spirit: Opening the Way Through Artistic Expression"
May 1 – June 5, 2010

Featuring the work of TDS associates, this exhibit explores how the artistic community nourished by The Drawing Studio influences an individual’s art process. Work will be juried by artist Tom Kerrigan, a renowned clay artist who has exhibited widely and taught both nationally and internationally.

“A Thousand Whispers”
March 6 – April 17, 2010

A show of abstract paintings by former and current students of The Drawing Studio’s abstract painting classes. Show is juried by the TDS teaching artists who teach abstract painting.

“Hard Gaze”
Selected Works by Bailey Doogan and Charles Littler
from the Marilyn and Arnold Nelson Collection
at Rancho Linda Vista, Oracle
February 6 - 27

Features approximately 40 rarely exhibited works of Bailey Doogan and Charles Littler from the Nelson’s 40+ years of collecting the works of Rancho Linda Vista resident and visiting artists.

“Waxing Poetic,”
October 30, 2009 - January 4, 2010
Ward Six City Council Office, 3202 East 1st Street, Tucson, Arizona 85716

A show featuring the encaustic paintings of The Drawing Studio artists who have studied encaustics with TDS Teaching Artist Pat Dolan. Exhibit takes place at the Ward Six Office, 9 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday, but please call ahead (520-791-4601), as the space is also used for meetings.

“Small Wonders”
November 14 – December 19, 2009

Features small, modestly priced original works by the Associates, faculty, students and friends of TDS that are perfect for holiday gift-giving. Proceeds benefit TDS’s scholarship programs for youth, teens, adults and seniors. Come early for best selection!

"rEvolution"
Works by TDS Teaching Artists
September 12 – October 3, 2009

Exhibit showcasing pivotal works that have pointed the way toward new media, ways of working, subject matter, or other artistic development in our teaching artists’ personal studio practice.

Work in a wide range of media by youth and teens enrolled in The Drawing Studio’s Art of Summer program, which offers studio art immersion experiences in a variety of formats throughout the summer.
Selections travel to Pima Public Library Downtown,
Sept. 2–30; Tucson Symphony Women’s Association,
Sept. 1–29; Utterback Magnet Middle School, Oct. 2009.