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August 2021
August 13th Opening Reception
Join us and meet the artists in the 2021-2022 exhibitions opening reception, Friday, August 13, 2021. The "2021 Members' Open Exhibit" includes the work of 85 TCA member artists. "Life in the Mountain West" presents the quilt/fiber art of mother-daughter artists, Vicki and Shannon Conley in the Master Gallery. Lauren Steinert's explorations into traces we leave behind created with glass and printmaking are presented in her exhibit, "Imprint" in the Studio Gallery. Our Master Artists Collection will be presented in…
Find out more »Members’ Open Exhibit 2021
TCA’s annual non-juried member’s exhibit opens the new 2021-2022 season with a reception open to the public on Friday, August 13th. The exhibit opens with a reception for the public on Friday, August 13th. Preregistration for the reception is required. Click here for more information and to register. The exhibit presents the artwork of 85 TCA member artists. Image: detail of “Sifting,” by Karol Honeycutt, 2020 Members’ Open Best of Show
Find out more »Life in the Mountain West
Vicki and Shannon Conley are a mother-daughter pair of art quilters from the mountains of southern New Mexico. Their work has a strong sense of place; it is inspired by the outdoors and highlights the vast natural beauty of the mountain west. The exhibit opens with a reception for the public on Friday, August 13th. Preregistration for the reception is required. Click here for more information and to register.
Find out more »IMPRINT – Lauren Steinert
Imprint is an exhibition of artwork by Lauren Steinert in which printmaking presents the marks and history from the communal printmaking lab at the University of Arizona. "I attempt to visually translate the stories people have left behind by laboriously tracing the overlapping, historic marks built up on the surface of work tables, stools, and tools. The translated marks are presented in order to question notions of what is ephemeral or ever- lasting." Lauren Steinert The exhibit opens with a reception…
Find out more »Master Artist’s Collection
Selections from TCA's Master Artist permanent collection are presented in the front gallery. The exhibit opens along with three other exhibits with a reception for the public on Friday, August 13th, 5-7pm.
Find out more »October 2021
Metamorphosis
“Metamorphosis” is a national juried exhibit of artworks created with encaustic, hot, or cold wax paints. Tubac Center of the Arts is pleased to partner with the International Encaustic Artists organization to present this exhibition. Jurors, Susan and Lisa will present the awards during the opening reception, Friday, October 1, 2021. Jurors: Susan Stover & Lisa Pressman.
Find out more »Visual Conversations
Susan Stover & Lisa Pressman. want to explore the idea of visual conversations for this show. Even though they work very differently and live on opposite sides of the U.S., they want to respond to each other’s work with an answer in their own work, a call, and response, or a pairing of couples and groupings of works that seem to belong together to tell an abstract narrative. Susan and Lisa will also jury the "Metamorphosis" exhibit and present the awards during…
Find out more »Harwood Steiger Textiles
In partnership with the Tubac Historical Society, TCA will present the textile art by Harwood Steiger. The art of textile design radically transformed after World War II as America’s economy boomed and optimism bloomed into a consumer society. In Southern Arizona, artists Harwood and Sophie Steiger were pivotal in this artistic revolution. Incorporating bold dramatic colors and graphic motifs inspired by the plants and animals of the Sonoran desert, mesoamerican graphics, and iconography of the American Southwest.
Find out more »Dolan Ellis
Dolan Ellis: October 22, 2021 Dolan Ellis has been the AZ State Balladeer since 1966. Member of the Grammy-winning New Christy Minstrels, Dolan has been balladeering ever since. Born in Kansas, but wandering to Phoenix in 1959, Dolan has made a career of singing and playing music. As a balladeer, he tells the stories of western culture and has written over 300 songs to share. Come hear the pleasant sounds and wisdom of Dolan Ellis as he plays his passion…
Find out more »4th Annual Plein Air on the Santa Cruz Exhibit
Artworks created at the 2021 Plein Air Retreat held at the Rancho Santa Cruz in Tumacacori, AZ will be presented in the front gallery with an artist's opening reception held on Friday, October 29th, at 5pm..
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