Six Reasons Why Your Annual Fund Donation is SO Important!

1. It helps us bring the life-changing experience of drawing to every resident of Tucson!
2. It allows us to provide art scholarships to underserved youth in our community and watch their talents come to light.
3. It helps provide art classes and a renewed sense of purpose to seniors who can’t afford class tuition.
4. It supports vital TDS community programs like our expressive arts program for individuals transitioning out of poverty and homelessness developed in partnership with the Primavera Foundation.
5. It keeps class tuition prices down and makes classes more affordable for everyone.
6. It helps us make the new enhancements to TDS you’ve told us you want! We’re looking for a new central location, hiring more teachers and have exciting plans for the future. But we can’t do it without your support. Be a part of it!

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It’s tax deductible! Thank you for your donation if you have already generously given.

New Fall Class Schedule Coming Soon!
We have many interesting workshops and classes lined up for fall 2014 at TDS. Here’s a sneak peek at what we will be offering.
With Maria Arvayo: Drawing Fundamentals 1 & 2; Color Fundamentals/Pencil; Encaustic Monoprint Workshop; Open Studio/Still Life; Sherry Bryant: Watercolor Painting; Introduction to Collage. Pat Dolan: Sumi Ink Drawing; Best Friends (Drawing Animals); Travel Sketching; Expressive Drawing; Pastel and Mixed Media; Betina Fink: Color Sampler (Drawing and Painting); Introduction and Intermediate Oil Painting; Color Fundamentals in Pencil, Pastel or Oil Paint. Lynn Fleischman: Drawing Fundamentals 1,2 & 3; Breathing Life Into Your Drawing; Josh Goldberg: The Painter’s Path: Making Art in an Age of Artifice.Lisa Mishler: Abstract Painting. Paul Mohr: Drawing Fundamentals 1 & 2; Portrait Drawing; Figure Drawing. Judy Nakari: “Wet on Wet” and Exploring Watercolor; Plein Air; Open Studio/Still Life. Linda Poverman: Drawing Fundamentals 1 & 2. Tanya Rich: After School Art.  Andrew Rush: Drawing Fundamentals Review; Drawing the Figure in Relation to Gravity; Mano Sotelo: Still Life Drawing Workshop. Deb Steinberg: Drawing Fundamentals 1,2 & 3 Composition; Color Fundamentals/Pastel.

Look for the fall class schedule online at thedrawingstudio.org (and in your mailbox) sometime around the beginning of August.

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