Blue Raven Art School
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. |
Location
720 E. Prince Rd., Tucson, AZ Phone
(520) 623-1003 Participating Artists Blue Raven Art School Lynne East-Itkin Andrea Edmundson Shannon Haggerty Mimi Haggerty Joan Lisi Amber Pierson Kay Womacks Dotty Woody |
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. |
Mediums
Basket Weaving Gourd Art Jewelry Painted Fabric |
Dotty Woody
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
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 |
Shannon Haggerty: Shannon can help you find a way to satisfy your interest in creating jewelry with beads. Beads come in all kinds of materials, from all over this planet. They can be centuries old have been passed through many hands around the world. They all have a story to be told. They can be a feast for the eyes, with all the many colors, shapes, textures and sizes. You will be able to put something together that you will treasure for a lifetime. Amber Pierson: Amber's true aim is to make something others will enjoy. She works in various mediums but has become totally enchanted with the colored pencil. Kay Womacks: As an artist, Kay's life has always been filled with the joy of creating art. She has worked in many mediums over the years, but continues to enjoy exploring the challenges of watercolor and its’ many possibilities. |
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