Blue Raven Art School
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The former Blue Raven Gallery and Gifts has become the Blue Raven Art School. The space has been renovated to provide a teaching facility for fine arts and crafts of all varieties: oil, acrylic and watercolor painting, drawing, ceramics, jewelry making, felting, pottery, gourd art, tapestry weaving, and more. It is also a space for music lessons, meetings and special events.
Blue Raven Art School is a place where you can go to learn a new skill or craft in many different mediums. It's also a place where communities are created. 
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Location
720 E. Prince Rd., Tucson, AZ Phone
(520) 623-1003 Participating Artists Blue Raven Art School Lynne East-Itkin Dotty Woody Jewelry Painted fabrics Joan Lisi Patricia Ackor Andrea Edmundson Mosaics Kay Womacks Watercolor Multi-media Maryanne Mott Paper crafts |
Lynne East-ItkinLynne East-Itkin is the visionary behind Blue Raven Art School. Art has always been a part of Lynne’s life. Her very creative parents made sure that she was exposed to different forms of art from early on. That gave her an open path to explore her creativity.
Lynne has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from California College of Arts and Crafts and is the owner of Lynne M East Graphic Design Studio and Many Hands artist Cooperative. In recent years she has been applying her design expertise to gourd art and has recently started experimenting with painting fabrics. |
Lynne East-Itkin
Mediums
Basket Weaving Gourd Art Jewelry Painted Fabric Phone
520-444-5639 |
Dotty Woody
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Dotty moved to Tucson from southeast Florida six years ago. She said she s a regular student at Blue Raven Art School.
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Dotty Woods
Mediums
Jewelry |
Patricia Ackor
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Background:
Graduated from Syracuse University in 1965 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, I spent seven years as a professional Interior Designer in the Washington, D.C. area, before opening my own weaving studio. There, for four years, I created one-of-a-kind wall hangings, tapestries, window treatments, light fixtures, yardage and other ideas/designs that could be hand-woven for interior design firms and individual clients. In 1976 I moved to Southern California with the intention of continuing my weaving career but became side-tracked by a "temporary" part-time job which became full-time and lasted 13 years, as well as other pursuits. In the late 1990s, requiring an outlet for my creative energies, I returned to my original passion, art, teaching myself watercolor and wildlife portraiture. Retiring from the full-time workforce in 2007, I moved to Tucson, Arizona. |
Medium
Water Oil Fiber |
Andrea Edmundson
Andrea creates mosaics, teaches classes, and promotes sustainability via upcycled art. You can see some of her mosaics at Desert Artisans Gallery. She also had mosaics in several shows & gallery events (visit www.AndreaEdmundson.art). As of August 2018, she is teaching mosaics classes at Blue Raven Art School. You'll be seeing more of her work in the future!
Joan Lisi
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Artist Statement - Rapt Fyre
I love fire’s metamorphosis, the cool feel of glass in my hand, the sinuous visual of the wire wrapped beads. Sharing the vision with my customers is a joy. Fire and wire have been passions for me. To connect them with glass and wrapping is just the best.
I love fire and have done since the age of 17 when I started making pottery. But then at the age of 55 my pottery business partner introduced me to the process of making glass beads. It was a brief play-time away from clay and kilns. It changed my life. Four years ago I put down roots in Tucson, Arizona, with my studio space only a delightful few steps away. My beads, lampwork (effetre), are born within the flame of a bench torch, mashed, rolled, dotted and streaked, and annealed in a kiln. Once cooled, they are woven and wrapped in metals such as aluminum, copper and silver. I produce earrings, bracelets, necklaces, but predominately pendants. Fire and wire have been passions for me. To connect them with glass and wrapping is just the best. |
Joan Lisi
Medium
Glass (lampwork) Jewelry Location
10030 E Susan Rae Pl.,Tucson, AZ 85748 Phone
520-444-5639 |
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Kay Womacks
As an artist, my life has always been filled with the joy of creating art. I have worked in many mediums over the years, but continue to enjoy exploring the challenges of watercolor and its’ many possibilities. I tend to experiment with different subject matter, styles and materials in an effort to keep my work and classes fresh and interesting. I have been teaching art in the Tucson area for the last 8 years including beginning watercolor, experimental watercolor, mixed media, acrylic collage, and watercolor batik. I am a juried member of the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild (SAWG) and have shown and sold my work at the DeGrazia Little Gallery, Plaza Palomino Art Fair, St. Phillips in the Hills Gallery , Heritage Highlands Holiday Art Fair, The Tubac Center for the Arts, The SAWG shows, and the Desert Museum. |
Medium
Watercolor Multi-media |
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