TDS Gallery -Tucson, Arizona

The Drawing Studio Presents:

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday- Saturday: Noon to 5pm

CURRENTLY SHOWING

In the TDS Gallery

Youth on Fire Exhibit
May 1 – 24
Reception: May 3, 6 – 9 pm; slide talk, 7 pm

In May the TDS Gallery hosts an exhibit of 41 photographs by eight young street performers from one of New Delhi’s largest “slum colonies,” known as Kathputli (which means ‘puppet’ in Hindi).

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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Youth on Fire Exhibit
May 1 – 24
Reception: May 3, 6 – 9 pm; slide talk, 7 pm

The young artists come from gypsy families, whose lives are dedicated to performing traditional arts, such as puppeteering, fire-eating, dancing, music, acrobatics and magic. They were mentored by Tucson photographer Josh Schachter, who initiated and then led the project during two stays in Kathputli Colony, in January 2006 and November 2007.

With $11 cameras and in just a few days, the youths were able to explore the basics of lighting and composition, while producing images that powerfully illustrated both the hope and harshness of life in the Kathputli Colony. The intimacy and honesty in their imagery highlights the value of having these youth document and share their own world with us.

Photographs by young artists from Kathputli Colony, in New Delhi, India.

Hot Teaching
June 5 – July 26
Reception: June 7th, 6 – 9 pm
This exhibition of and by TDS teaching artists will consist of a series of ‘mini shows’ in which each curator is given 10 linear feet to reveal their own process of making art.
Visitors will have the chance to see not just finished works, but the preliminary sketches and different stages (as well as underlying thought process) that led to their realization.
The point of the show is to demonstrate how art gets made, in terms of both media (painting, printmaking, sculpture etc.) and genre (figure, landscape, abstraction etc.). If you’ve ever been curious about how a work of art comes into being, this is the show for you.

Art of Summer VII Exhibit
Aug. 2 -30
Reception: Aug. 2, 6 – 8 PM

Come enjoy an exhibition of works created by young artists between the ages of nine and eighteen, during this year’s Art of Summer program at TDS. We promise you will be inspired by the ingenuity of their image-making.

Michael Moore: Charcoal Drawings
Sept. 3 – 27
Reception: Sept. 6, 6 – 9 pm
Large-scale charcoal drawings of the Arizona landscape by a long-time Rancho Linda Vista and Tucson artist.

TDS Exhibition Program
The Exhibition Program at TDS is managed and staffed by volunteers. Anyone interested in learning about exhibition or volunteering is welcome to attend a meeting of the Program’s Council, which meets on the 4th Wednesday of every month. For more information visit: www.thedrawingstudio.org.

**Call For Entries**
FIGURES FROM LIFE Juried Figure Work Show Oct. 1 – Nov. 8, 2008 Open to Associates, Students and Open Studio Attendees Up to three entries created in the last 2 years allowed per artist. While works done with archival materials and paper are preferred, all 2-D and 3-D media will be considered. Due to limited space, size will be considered during selection. Entry fee: $10 per entry for Associates and students; $15 per entry for Non-associates. Commission: 30% Associates and students; 40% non-associates For details including deadlines click the links provided here and print the information and entry forms, or call (520) 620-0947 to request forms be mailed to you.

Past Exhibits

“Collage As a Way of Seeing: Beyond Kindergarten”
Contemporary Artists of Southern Arizona
Juried show of collage works by members of CASA., March 2008

“Identity/Desire”, Arizona Print Group, 2008