Female StoryTellers presents Make it Work!

Join Female StoryTellers and Tucson Arts Brigade Wednesday, September 10 for Make it Work!

Doors open at 6:30PM, show starts at 7.
Suggested donation is $7; cash only, please!
Flycatcher 340 E 6th St (formally Plush)
ASL interpreters will be provided. Venue is 21+.
Our beneficiary this month is Tucson Arts Brigade.

Hi-ho, hi-ho, it’s off to work FST! goes! This month, FST! Female StoryTellers presents our most professional tales—from the janitor’s closet to the espresso machine to the glass ceiling and beyond, the women of FST! will share our funniest stories about the things we’ve done—or keep on doing—to make our daily wage. Punch your humpday timecard and head on over to Flycatcher

FST! Female StoryTellers is a community of women in Tucson, AZ dedicated to expressing creativity through storytelling. FST! was founded in 2012 as a platform and showcase for the smart, talented women of Tucson. Each month FST! invites four or more women to write and perform original stories based on a common prompt.

With each story presenting a unique perspective on that month’s theme, every FST! performance combines hilarity, personality, and insight to entertain and inspire audiences. As passionate as FST! members are about telling great stories, FST! also uses its powers for good by raising funds for local arts and community organizations.

Find out more at: www.fstorytellers.com

New After School Arts & Civic Engagement Program Meets Saturdays 2-6p

Registration is now open for the youth Arts & Civic Engagement Program for youth every Saturday, 2-6pm for youth 10-18 at starting this September, 2014. The program features fine arts, movement, writing, life skills, homework help, field trips and visiting artists. 

The ACE’s program emerged from several years of funding provided by the Tucson Pima Arts Council “PLACE” initiative. This funding helped create multi-level fine arts programming, curriculum, assessment and tracking that builds on state and federal standards in the fine arts and workforce readiness. The ACE program is demonstrating that the tools, techniques and practice of making works of art is critical to an in depth civic engagement experience.

The ACE's program includes homework help, creative writing, dance, visual arts, financial literacy, workforce readiness, filed trips, know your rights and service projects. Each week includes looking at, taking about, creating and reflecting on our creative process.

 

ACE Master Program (*Registration Required)

Saturdays 2 - 6pm

Ages: 10 - 18

Location: ArtLand Studios

Dates: Sat. Sept 20 - Dec 13, 2- 6pm

Materials Fee: $185./ $20 per session

The ACE’s Master Class is a college preparatory program for young artists that meets Saturdays from 2-6pm in an intensive studio environment.  This unique atelier experience prepares gifted & talented visual artists for art school, and life as a working artist. 

Using professional art supplies students are exposed to traditional and new tools, techniques, concepts and practices in the visual arts. Each session Includes intensive painting and drawing exercises as well as individual work time. 

Students develop and lead individual and group civic engagement projects based on their shared interests and concerns. This program is limited to 10 students who submit examples of their work with their application. 

Engagement Sites:

1) Central City Assembly (CCA) 939 S. 10th Ave

2) Tucson International Alliance of Refugee Communities (TIARC) 4224 E. Grant Road

3) Maintaining inventory of more than 20 Tucson murals and public art sites.

To apply for the ACE Master Sat Program: 

Contact: Tucson Arts Brigade http://tucsonartsbrigade.org/ or call us at (520)791-9359

"TAB Traveling Art Show" On-Line Bidding has started!

On Line Art Auction

Instructions: 

1)  Look at the art works listed below, and the minimum bid. As bids come in we will update the highest bid, with initials of who made that bid.

2) Bid on a work of art please fill out this form by clicking here: CLICK

3) Bidding will continue on this first batch of artworks through July 31, 2014.

4) Winners will be notified by phone or email provided.

5) Payments can be made in person when you pick up the work of art.

Questions? Comments? Ideas?

Live Art Auction: Sneak Preview

Hi everyone, we are so honored to present to you a series of artworks by some of Tucson's most popular artists. Each of these works are up for auction to support the very important programming of the Tucson Arts Brigade.

Each series of works will be on display, here at our blog, as we invite you to bid on the works.

This first post is a viewing gallery for you to check out the works and start thinking about which ones you want to add to your collection. Each work is on a beautiful Arches archival paper.

Al-lena Mitchel "Color and Motion" Mixed Media on Paper, 2013, Minimum Bid: $50.
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Alex Verdugo, "Face" Paster on Paper, 2013
Minimum Bid: $100.
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Abder Belfatmi, "Maasai Men", Handmade African Ink, 2013
Minimum Bid: $100.
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Theresa Reynolds, "Elysian Grove Market - Historic Barrio Tucson", Acrylic on Paper, 2013
Minimum Bid: $200.
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Richard Zelens, "Frogs" Mixed Media on Paper,  2013
Minimum Bid: $200.
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Victor Navarro, "Butterflies", Mixed Media on Paper, 2013
Minimum Bid: $200.
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Mary Theresa Dietz"CowBird" Oil stick on Paper, 2013
Minimum Bid $200.
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Michelle Fealk, "Resiliency Koi", Watercolor on Paper, 2013
Minimum Bid $200.
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Diane Crenshaw, Untitled Mixed Media on Paper, 2013
Minimum Bid: $150.
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Linda Chappel, "Portal", Oil Stick on Paper, , 2013
Minimum Bid: $200.
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Barbara Kennedy "Vessel" Acrylic on Paper 2013
Minimum Bid: $100.
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Marvin Christy, Untitled, Ink on Paper, 2013
Minimum Bid: $200.
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Sandy Travers, Untitled, Mixed Media on Paper, 2013
Minimum Bid: $200.
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