"Landscape (Un)Tamed:
Order and Chaos in the Natural World "
Drawings and Paintings by
Betina Fink and Meredith Milstead
October 1 – November 5

See the works from their exhibit here.

This exhibition features paintings and drawings by two TDS faculty: Betina Fink and Meredith Milstead. Each artist uses the landscape theme as an inspirational and direct source of subject matter, and then takes the ideas back into the studio and interprets the work further.

Both artists take liberties with the initial subject matter and let the working process inherent in the act of painting and drawing, inspire and direct the work. Please notice the sketches placed near some of the completed works and find visual references and relationships between the two.

Fink and Milstead have been working artists and instructors at TDS for many years. This year, Fink is teaching Drawing With Color, a portion of the Painting Samplers, Introduction to Oil Painting, and Oil Painting Studio. She is also the Youth Programs Director (including Art of Summer), and coordinates youth outreach programs at TDS (including the Gang Outreach program, and The Boys and Girls Club art program).

Milstead, a new member to the TDS Board of Directors, is instructing courses in Drawing Fundamentals, Drawing With Color, Composition in Drawing, and manages the Painting Sampler program. She is a core faculty during the Art of Summer program, and taught last year at the BASIS Tucson School, representing TDS art program.

Multiple studies of the human figure, in both two- and three-dimensional form as seen, crafted, and created by associates of TDS.

Figurative work created by Associates of The Drawing Studio that celebrates Life Drawing—the direct study of the human figure and the art that comes of it. From quick gestural scribbles to longer studies, paintings, or sculptural work, the exhibit will showcase a wide range of vision, approach, and level of experience.

"Art of Summer 2011"
July 30 – August 20, 2011

Our annual exhibition and celebration of artwork created by youth and teens participating in the Art of Summer immersion program.

"InSight: Drawing, Color & Design"
June 14 – July 16, 2011

Featuring work from our Drawing Fundamentals and Fundamentals Level 3 students and their teachers, this informal exhibit illustrates foundational visual skills taught at TDS: shape/edge, light/value, measurement, space/perspective, color, composition/design. This informal showing of student and teacher work will encompass a variety of media.

An Exhibit of the many forms of printmaking taught at The Drawing Studio featuring works by participants in classes and open print labs

The Master Printmakers’ exhibit at The Drawing Studio “wowed” art lovers, especially those who appreciate the conversation between the tool and the block, the ink and the paper. On the heels of one fantastic show about printmaking comes another, this time comprising work by contemporary artists studying and working at The Drawing Studio.

Tool, Metal, Ink, Wood, Paper features work using relief, intaglio, and monotype processes and tools, primarily made in the TDS printroom in the company of other printmakers. Founded by and nurtured by master printmaker Andrew Rush, The Drawing Studio is a place to learn, develop and to grow, as an artist and as a vibrant member of the community. Discover the art of printmaking at The Drawing Studio at the Tool, Metal, Ink, Wood, Paper exhibit.

"Roz Eppstein: A Life in Art"
April 9 – May 7, 2011

An eclectic solo retrospective exhibit highlighting the artist’s work in painting, drawing, and collage.

“When I started making art at twelve, what I didn’t realize is that the excitement would never leave,” says long-time Tucson artist Roz Eppstein. The retrospective exhibit of Eppstein’s early drawings, her watercolor paintings, her later abstract works, and her most recent collages offers proof of more than sixty years of excitement making art. Walking through the exhibit is like exploring art with Eppstein, who continues to take a playful, enthusiastic, and experimental approach to her art. The progression of Eppstein’s growth is also testament to the mission of The Drawing Studio, which views the practice of art as a life-long exploration that includes continuous learning from each other. Even after a full life of creating art, Eppstein took classes and claims to have come “full circle,” from questioning abstract art to producing it. “How can I stop producing art?” Eppstein asks. “I’m in love with the doing.”

Traditionally, being an artist has been accompanied by a mystique about how art gets made (fate, a gift of the muses, luck, a complete mystery…?) that fascinates many of us. So it is with great expectancy we might ask, “How does art actually “‘happen’?” Where better to find answers than at The Drawing Studio, which is dedicated to cultivating the skills of visual intelligence in people of all ages through a developed curriculum, opportunities for fellowship and professional support, and interpretive exhibitions.

Five artists associated with The Drawing Studio have teamed to provide a visual journey of how art happens, from scheduling time in the studio to developing an idea from a sketch to the finished piece. "Art Parts" also includes the development of all the "parts" necessary to accompany art into the public eye, such as artist’s statements, websites, blogs, how artists talk about their art and more. The art in this show covers a representational cross-section of artistic approaches, work styles, and a variety of studio spaces.

Whether you are an artist, student, collector, or art enthusiast, this show will give you a chance to see some wonderfully diverse art, and also give you a fascinating look behind the scenes of being an artist.

A groundbreaking show of etchings, engravings, lithographs, woodcuts and mixed print techniques by master printmaker-teachers, many of whom, from 1950–1980, helped establish printmaking as a fine art nurtured by a community of practitioners working in numerous regional art centers throughout the country.

Our annual holiday fundraiser featuring a wide variety of small works priced for holiday giving.

An art quilt exhibition juried by Maria Groat and Peggy Hazard. Ms. Groat’s work has been credited with maintaining artistic integrity, technical innovation, and visual excitement in the field of art quilts; Ms. Hazard spent many years as Assistant Exhibit Curator at Tohono Chul Park's art gallery.

"Faculty Show: Living on the Edge of the Pimería Alta"
September 4 – October 2, 2010
Supported by TPAC, ACA, NEA, and Zuckerman Foundation

Our annual exhibition featuring work from TDS faculty member reflects how living in the Pimería Alta region impacts their work.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

"Art of Summer 2009"
August 2 – August 29, 2009

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.