I want to thank all the visiting artists who shared their talents during our special events in the 2022-2023 season.
During September the gallery will be open 11AM - 4PM, closed Wednesday.
Thank You! to all of our Visiting Artists during the 2022 - 2023 Season
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Mari Loehrlein
Stained Glass mosaic pictures, wind chimes and mirrors
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Sharon Stringer
Beautifully stitched pillows and clothing
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Gretchen Lima
Collectable cloth figures and horses
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Madonna Lane
Endearing water colors and cards
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Donna Stover
Captures your pets in a portrait
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Diane West
Turns gourds into feathered masks and standing figures
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Brenda Peo
Animal paintings that make you smile
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Annette Lowery
Water colors, detailed tiny figures and Day of the Dead
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Joyce Chaney
Wonderfully creative and Wearable tie art
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Tina Levy
Exceptionally wrapped jewelry
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Barb Livdahl
Well done leather figures and Southwest paintings
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Susan Marvin
Must see miniature paintings with vintage frames
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Peg Wilmore
Incredible urban scenes
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October 2023 |
Fall is finally here, hopefully without any more triple digits. Tubac is a great place to go to see Art, Eat great food, and Enjoy walking and visiting our friendly businesses. We have several wonderful events throughout the season. The Feminine Mystique Art Gallery will again highlight our artists at all events and have new work in the gallery. I am very excited about the workshops in January. Ann Ramsey will guide you through a very unique class in fabric collage. Pat will have her Bead on Clay class. Please sign up early in the season to save a spot for you.
January Workshops each Saturday in January 2023 |
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| Fabric Collage with Ann Ramsey |
Bead on Clay with Pat Aguilar |
The third Friday of each month this season, several galleries in Tubac will stay open until 6:00. From 4-6:00, the participating galleries will have food or drink and helpful staff to assist you. The participating galleries so far are: Horses in Motion, Feminine Mystique, RC Gorman, Niche, Manos, Karen Newby Gallery, Big Horn Gallery, and Gallery H. Hope to see you there.
We are all looking forward to a new season with Pat, Josette and Joanie, our helpful, knowledgeable and friendly staff.
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Additionally there are village wide events scheduled this season. Please join us!
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November 4: Dia de los Muertos
November 10 - 12: Tubac Fall Art Walk
December 1&2: Luminaria Nights
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January 13: Home & Garden Tour
February 7 - 11: Tubac Festival of the Arts
March 1 - 30: Hawk Watch
March 8 - 10: Open Studio Tour
March 22 - 24: Tubac Spring Art Walk
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Starting October1st Feminine Mystique Art Gallery will be open 10 AM - 5 PM Everyday.
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October Featured Artist:
Margarethe Brummermann
Wonderful Desert Giclees |
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| Margarethe Brummermann loves to draw on her background in the life sciences in her work as a watercolor painter.
Born and raised in Dortmund, Germany, she received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Biology from the Ruhr University of Bochum and the Max-Planck Institute in Bad Nauheim, Germany. She worked as a researcher and teacher at universities and field stations in France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Norway, New Zealand, and the United States and is now associated with the Entomology Department of the University of Arizona as well as running her own consulting business for natural history resources.
Parallel to her science career she developed her artistic talents. In Europe she had access to art museums and collections at an early age. As a teenager, she studied life drawing and etching at the Academy for Photography and Design in Dortmund, illustrated articles for an equestrian magazine, and experimented with many different media: sculpture, batik, oil paintings, and photographs. Today, watercolors are her preferred medium. In Arizona she refined her skills through studies at the Scottsdale Artists School, with instructors like Jim Kosvanec, Kevin McPhearson, Raleigh Kinney, and Matt Smith. She also spent three years in Laguna Beach, where she studied the work of the California Impressionists and Plein Air Painters.
In 2002 she and her husband Randall Kaul settled with four dogs and two cats in the pristine desert of the Tucson Mountains. The plant and animal life of her little desert preserve are the best inspiration for her paintings. The models for all of her cactus flowers and agave portraits are growing right in her backyard. Cottontails and Jackrabbits and also the neighbors’ horses drop in regularly to have their portraits taken.
Most finished paintings are based on a number of life sketches and her own photographs. While Margarethe adheres to the principals of traditional transparent watercolor, she pushes the medium using strong contrast and chiaroscuro, because as an immigrant from a northern climate she experiences the stark light and shadow of the desert sun as her most interesting challenge. |
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Stop in the Gallery and sign up for our E-newsletter and be included in our monthly RAFFLE to win an original piece of art. Even if you are already on our mailing list, you are eligible to come in each month to place a new ticket in the vase. October's prize will be Opera Singer by Pat Aguilar. |
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--Opera Singer
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You could be the Raffle Prize Winner for October |
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November 2023 |
What an exciting month with lots to see and do. The Karen Newby Gallery will sponsor our Day of the Dead ceremony November 4 with a Parade. Visit lots of galleries showcasing an Altar to acknowledge the passing of friends and family.
Special Events in November
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Day of the Dead Altar Tour and Procession November 1 - 4,Day of the Dead Altar Tour and Procession will be November 4th in The Historic Village of Tubac. Get in the Spirit. Discover Magic. Experience the unforgettable spectacle of Tubac’s annual Día de los Muertos celebration.
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Fall Art Walk November 10 -12
Tubac’s Fall Art Walk is a celebration of art and the creative process during the holiday weekend of November 10th-12th, from 10 am to 5 pm. This long-standing tradition allows visitors to meet the artists of Tubac inside the Village’s galleries and artist studios. See art in action, witness the artists at work, and enjoy the hospitality of Tubac’s many art galleries, boutiques, specialty shops, and restaurants.
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Tubac Turkey Trot November 23
The Tubac Turkey Trot is the morning of Thanksgiving, November 23rd. Spend part of your Thanksgiving supporting the Community Food Bank in Amado.
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October Featured Artist:
Barb Livdahl
Leather Figures and Southwest Paintings
Visiting the Gallery
November 10 - 12 |
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Barb Livdahl
Growing up in a rural community in Wisconsin, Barb loved the outdoors, animals and nature. When she was not outside, she was drawing and painting. Her love of art carried her through high school, earning several prestigious awards, and then through college, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The BFA included one major in Visual Communication and one in Advertising Design.
She began her career as an Advertising and Art Director for several corporations including Graebels Shoes, JCPenney and Design and Print Corp, handling their print, radio and television advertising. Her spare time still saw her painting wildlife and the West. In 1979, she accepted a position as Advertising Director for a company in Phoenix. In 1985 Barb opened her own advertising agency, handling commercial sign work for several large companies such as AMC Theatres.
She began using an airbrush with the commercial sign work. Feeling its limitless ossibilities, Barb began to create her paintings with the airbrush. By airbrushing completely freehand, her work has an incredible softness while retaining vibrancy of color. A sense of quiet power and energy pervades all her images as she extends to the viewer the sacred spirit of all living things.
Responding to a spiritual encounter with a wolf and embracing ancient wisdoms, Barb’s work moved into a three-dimensional phase. Her “Spirit Dolls” were born. Each doll is a unique, one-of-a-kind creation reflecting the spirit, strength and culture of the Plains Indians which Barb has studied extensively.
Specific to each large standing doll, the leather clothing and moccasins are all buckstitched by hand. Beadwork, fetishes, pipes, etc are also hand done using authentic materials. Her smaller, hanging dolls reflect the same instinctual knowledge. Constantly called back to honor, nurture and share her
understanding of ancient wisdoms and the scared mysteries of all living things, Barb continues to create. She invites you to experience the energies.
Barb has exhibited in art shows either by jury or invitation in California, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. Many Best of Show awards have come her way. Barb resides in the beautiful southwest desert of Arizona.
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Brenda Peo
Animal paintings that make you smile
Visiting the Gallery November 12
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Tina Levy
Exceptionally wrapped jewelry
Visiting the Gallery November 11 - 12
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Gretchen Lima
Collectable cloth figures and horses
Visiting the Gallery November 10 - 11
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Joyce Chaney
Wonderfully creative and Wearable tie art
Visiting the Gallery November 10 - 12
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Annette Lowery
Water colors, detailed tiny figures and Day of the Dead
Visiting the Gallery November 10 - 12
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Stop in the Gallery and sign up for our E-newsletter and be included in our monthly RAFFLE to win an original piece of art. Even if you are already on our mailing list, you are eligible to come in each month to place a new ticket in the vase. November's prize will be a wonderful necklace by Tin a Levy. |
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You could be the Raffle Prize Winner for November |
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December 2023 |
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Stop in the Gallery and sign up for our E-newsletter and be included in our monthly RAFFLE to win an original piece of art. Even if you are already on our mailing list, you are eligible to come in each month to place a new ticket in the vase. December's prize will be Mother and Daughter by Gretchen LimaWood. |
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--Mother & Daughter
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You could be the Raffle Prize Winner for December |
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January 2024 |
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Stop in the Gallery and sign up for our E-newsletter and be included in our monthly RAFFLE to win an original piece of art. Even if you are already on our mailing list, you are eligible to come in each month to place a new ticket in the vase. January's prize will be Sunny by Julia Aubrey. |
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--Sunny
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You could be the Raffle Prize Winner for January |
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February 2024 |
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Stop in the Gallery and sign up for our E-newsletter and be included in our monthly RAFFLE to win an original piece of art. Even if you are already on our mailing list, you are eligible to come in each month to place a new ticket in the vase. February's prize will be TV King by Peg Wilmore. |
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--TV king
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You could be the Raffle Prize Winner for February |
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March 2024 |
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Stop in the Gallery and sign up for our E-newsletter and be included in our monthly RAFFLE to win an original piece of art. Even if you are already on our mailing list, you are eligible to come in each month to place a new ticket in the vase. March's prize will be Zebra and Garaffe by Vicki Johnson. |
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--Zebra and Garaffe
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You could be the Raffle Prize Winner for March |
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April 2024 |
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Stop in the Gallery and sign up for our E-newsletter and be included in our monthly RAFFLE to win an original piece of art. Even if you are already on our mailing list, you are eligible to come in each month to place a new ticket in the vase. April's prize will be Set of Three Journals by Pat Aguilar. |
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--Setof 3 Journals
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You could be the Raffle Prize Winner for April |
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