2024 - 2025 Season |
Visit this page often for updates on events at the gallery and in Tubac.
January 2025 |February 2025 | March 2025 |
The gallery is open Seven days a week, Open11 AM to 4 PM. |
 |
January 2025 |
January 2025, I feel, will be a challenging year. We all have to show patience and be aware of issues that effect us the most. I would like to see more kindness and respect for others. I am not sure about the country and the leaders running it. I do want to see what comes next, and hope the government will show more compassion and willingness to include all of us in the decision making. But like they say, ”It is what it is.” and make the best of it. Blessings to you all for a new prosperous and kind 2025. You will always find happy greetings at the Feminine Mystique Art Gallery. Sincerely, Pat
|
Artists in the spotlight this month: |
 |
Linda Leon Scott |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Linda L Leon Scott
Linda is a native of Tucson and has spent a lifetime creating artwork of her beloved Arizona. She studied Fine Art at University of Arizona, but eventually changed careers to pursue medical imaging, specializing as a Medical Sonographer, the art and science of imaging with sound waves. “Truly a profound experience, working closely with people… patients and doctors, using a science that visualizes the human body. Ultrasound is not only a science but takes the eye of an artist to comprehend.”
Wanting to continue her journey in the healing arts, Linda earned a master’s degree in Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine, where she helped people for 20 years, until selling her Mesa acupuncture practice in 2022. “Retiring from a 40+ year medical career, has allowed me to fully focus on my first love, visual arts and painting.” As an experienced healer, she has learned that the human experience of creating and appreciating all types of art is a breath of life. “Creation, as well as, the experience of art inspires and uplifts, bringing peace, satisfaction, and healing. Looking back on my life, I was delighted and surprised to realize that working in my chosen fields was truly an artistic calling… imaging the many landscapes of the body; taking portraits of new life stirring within; and facilitating the movement of Qi (energy) to promote healing.”
Through her unique life experience, Linda creates vibrant and healing art of the Southwest, using pencil, acrylic, oil, pastels, and mixed media. Her subjects are everything from horses to prickly pear to dogs and children… capturing light in everyday life. She presses the boundaries of color and brushwork to evoke an earthy, rich, and bright feeling of the subject, with a true love for its Qi. “I invite you to join me in creating more joy and satisfaction in your life through creation of your own artwork!”
|
|
 |
Ann Ramsey |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Ann Ramsey
Ann loves both music and sewing, so she can sum up her work by paraphrasing a snippet of a song from “The Music Man.” “The hours I spend with a needle in my hand are golden. Help me cultivate design sense and a cool head and a keen eye…”
Although Ann’s official career was as a high school teacher, she has sewn all of her adult life and enjoys
quilting as well as garment construction and embellishment. Ann’s quilt work has been exhibited in The Johnson County, Kansas Museum, The National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky, numerous quilt exhibitions, including Road to California, and can be found in private collections in homes throughout the US.
Ann majored in Spanish at the University of Kansas and had the opportunity to study in several Spanish-speaking countries, including Spain, Costa Rica, and Mexico. She fell in love with the cultures of the countries she lived in and continues to have a deep respect for the traditions she learned about. You’ll often see evidence of her love of Mexican holidays in her art work. Ann wishes she could remember Spanish as well as she remembers the traditions she fell in love with!
Once Ann and her husband, Rick, relocated to Arizona from Kansas, the beauty of the Arizona landscape became another favorite theme in Ann’s art, in addition to her love of flowers, birds, and butterflies.
|
|
|
 |
Diane Delaney |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Diane Delaney
Transforming clay into a unique sculpture is my passion. Influenced by nature, each piece is hand-built using the coil, pinch, and/or slab method.
Originally from Florida, I grew up in an artistic household, encouraged by my mother—a watercolor, acrylic, and ceramic artist. However, the route to creating my own “Art” was rather circuitous.
I’ve had a variety of careers in the education, tourism, and sustainable development fields for both for-profit and non-profit organizations and directed our consulting firm.
However, travel has been my touchstone. I lived in Iran and Venezuela for over a decade while visiting countries throughout the world. Along the way I’ve had some amazing adventures, from riding my Arab Stallion in the desert, being among the first travelers to enter Nepal, climbing Roraima Tepui, exploring the Galapagos Islands and Amazon Basin, scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef, and taking a one-year jeep safari throughout South America.
During this time, I enriched my life with art, primarily photography and oil painting. While living in Portland, I furthered my artistic pursuits at the Oregon College of Arts and Crafts. But it was our move to Arizona and months exploring the Chiricahua Mountains that uncovered my love of clay.
Today I am a resident Ceramic Artist and Instructor at Friendship Village’s Art Studios in Tempe, Arizona. I am creating my ClayNature world of Totems, Sculptures, and Bouquets to connect buyers to the natural world and hopefully inspire them to combat climate change and ecosystem degradation. Perhaps through art we can help the web of life from unraveling.
|
|
 |
Joni Olson |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Joni Olson
Originally from New England, my taste in many things artistic was more conservative and pragmatic. For 35 years I owned a fine jewelry store just outside of Boston and my clientele were traditional in their tastes. Thinking and marketing “outside the box” just didn’t pay. In my retirement, however, the shackles have come off and I am freer to exercise a new and exciting level of creativity.
With family living in Tucson, my many trips to the desert Southwest and to Mexico have drawn me into a different way of thinking about form and color. I have always loved the mystical feeling of traveling in Native American territories. The very spiritual aura of the Canyon de Chelly, and the sparse openness of Monument Valley have inspired me to seek out symbols representative of a more organic existence.
Petroglyphs, found throughout North America, carry forth “stories” of ancient cultures more profoundly tied to the earth. I have traveled throughout the dessert Southwest seeking these inspirations.
Color has taken on a new meaning through the influence of the Mayan and Spanish cultures and trips to Mexico and Guatemala cemented my desire to expand my color-consciousness. I have learned to cast off traditional combinations in favor of what used to appear wild and seemingly discordant mixtures. Colors I once viewed as too bold and “clashing” I now see as inspired and eclectic. The concept of colors “clashing” seems a poor invention!
The unusual marriage of symbolism such as ancient petroglyphs and vibrant colors makes each one of my creations a true labor of love.
These one-of-a-kind earrings and necklaces are entirely hand painted on light weight brass. Painting under magnification allows meticulous attention to detail and precise blending of colors.
|
|
February 2025 |
February is always a busy month. The weather is great and our visitors to Tubac are friendly and ready for new ideas. Feb. 5-9 is Tubac’s Festival of the Arts. The village will have booths on the streets with lots of art, food and entertainment. Stop in to the Feminine Mystique Art Gallery and see our wonderful female artist’s work. We have pottery, paintings, metal work, jewelry and much more. See what specials are new and visit with our friendly staff. Come chat and catch up. Pat
|
Artists in the spotlight this month: |
 |
Lori Johnson |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Lori Johnson
Lori's love of working with dichroic glass* started with a class in Green Valley, Arizona and continues today. The class was taught by another artist in the Feminine Mystique Art Gallery, Nancy Klapak. She studied architecture, art and cartography in Portland, Oregon and spent time as a graphic design intern before graduating and moving into the computer programming field. She is also a Reiki II practitioner. Now retired from the computer field, she has been enthusiastically embracing her art again.
Lori grew up in a military family and lived around the world. She lived on Okinawa for several years and traveled with her family to Bangkok, Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines. Later in life she traveled to France and Spain and was delighted to visit some of the works by her favorite architects: Le Corbusier's Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France and many buildings by Gaudi in Barcelona, Spain. She is inspired by their unconventional use of design and color and continues to experiment to test the limits of dichroic glass and the combining of other media with the glass.
One of her current projects is creating an adorable family of dichroic glass owls. The owls can be worn as brooches, pendants or hat pins. Each owl has its own unique personality. Loriís process involves several steps ñ choosing the glass for the eyes, wings and beak and then forming the wire for the ìhairdoî and feet. After firing in the glass kiln, the hair and feet are colored and decorated.
* Todayís dichroic glass, also known as ìchameleon glassî, was invented many years ago by aerospace optical researchers for NASA to be used as special glass coatings to protect sensitive equipment. When one of the engineers saw the magnificent range of colors that could be produced through the layering of metal and chemical coatings, he started his own glass studio.
|
|
 |
Cindy Smith |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Cindy Smith
Cindy Smith was born in Denver, Colorado and still calls Colorado home for most of the year. As a young high school graduate she was prompted by her father to go to school to be either a secretary, nurse, or teacher—the accepted career choices for a young woman in the 60’s. It was suggested that she should at least get her MRS degree if she went to college. So, in the fall of 1965 she went off to Colorado State University and much to her father’s surprise, eventually earned a degree in Business, Data Processing and also met her future husband George. She and George lived in Summit County, Colorado for eight years and had an adorable baby girl. As a stay-at-home mom, Cindy dabbled in all sorts of creative endeavors from, quilting, macramé, leather work, toile painting, stained glass, crocheting and knitting and most of all throwing pots. While her daughter was in preschool she spent many hours at the pottery studio at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge. She also spent many hours at craft shows selling her work.
When Cindy and her family moved back to Denver in the early 80’s she went to work in the corporate world. Throughout the years she worked as an IT Manager and Customer Service Manager to name a few jobs and although these jobs kept her more than busy, in the back of her head there was nagging feeling that she missed the creative part of her life.
In the late 90’s during a family vacation to Santa Fe, Cindy fell in love with some beadwoven bracelets she spotted in a gallery. In usually Cindy fashion she said “I can make those.” So, fifteen years and a room of beads later, she really can make those. An early retirement has given Cindy time to pursue what she has found to be her true calling -- weaving tiny little shiny seed beads into beautiful jewelry. Each one of a kind little treasure takes many hours of work and is her passion. These days when she’s not beading she’s teaching beading classes in Colorado and in Mesa, Arizona where she and her husband now live part of the year.
|
|
 |
Linda Romero |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Linda Romero
I'm Hermelinda Romero, known to my friends and family as Linda. I specialize in Artistic Fine Art Photography.
I started my professional involvement with photography in 1989 after showing my nature photos to Terry Leet, a Parsons School of Design interior designer, and my employer at that time. He decided to send me to school to enhance what he saw … a good eye for light, space, and design. In exchange, I photographed his home interiors and his furniture design creations.
As I look back, Terry sending me to school was one of those moments that stands out in my mind and changed my course as a photographer. I went on to study photography and black and white darkroom processing at the Florida Gulf Coast Art Center.
In 1998, my film camera had a malfunction while I was visiting St Thomas (BVI). My first thought was that I might never visit this beautiful place again. My second thought was to buy a new camera. That is when I switched from film to digital. I'm currently using a Canon EOS 6D (full-frame) digital camera and all Canon L-series lens.
My travels have led me to my Paradise. I live in a place where the color blue is wet, green hops away, and orange is a perfume in the air. My desire is to create something special for my clients...take a look. I hope that you too will find something special in my Artistic Fine Art images!
|
|
 |
Christel Brumann |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Christel Brumann
I was born in Berlin and grew up in Germany. Both of my parents had studied music and my father played at the Opera house in Berlin.
They wanted me to become a musician too, but I was always more attracted to drawing, painting and crafts. I believe that my musical talent helped me to learn languages, but I never was really good playing an Instrument.
I lived in Italy for five years and consider it my second home. In Italy Art is everywhere
Living there inspired me a lot and I had a lot of artist friends.
Even though I had to work to make a living all my life, I have always been creative and tried various mediums whenever I had time.
When I moved to Tucson, I went to the Gem and Mineral Show and was overwhelmed…I bought a lot of beads and started making jewelry. After a couple of basic classes, I moved to books and the Internet to learn. I enjoy the possibilities of beadwork a lot, always trying new techniques and materials and coming up with my own ideas. Especially I’m inspired by antique jewelry of the Romans and the Greeks. I also like Art Deco, the Edwardian Style or antique Russian styles.
I was a member of the Southern Arizona Arts Guild and its gallery for a couple of years. I’ve participated in a variety of shows in Tucson, like the Tucson Museum of Art show and the show at Harlow Gardens. I was showing at the Tubac Center of the Arts and at the Hugh Tabot Gallery in Tubac.
Unfortunately the gallery closed and because of Covid. Now I have some of my jewelry in a gallery in Bisbee, Jewelry Designs by Owen.
I’m also selling my Jewelry on my Etsy page www.Etsy.com/shop/ChristelsArt and I attend some online auctions during times of Covid 19.
|
|
 |
Dayna Richman |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Dayna Richman
I was raised in Minneapolis in a creative family. As a kindergartener and of course thereafter, there could be found many a colorful picture on my mother's refrigerator. As a young woman I decided to attend The Jewelry Manufacturing, Design and Repair school. This is where I learned Gold and Silversmithing of fine jewelry. However it turned out my heart continued calling me to the creative arts. I began commuting to Sahuarita from Las Vegas to show my works at local art fairs. As I became more familiar with art galleries I realized this would be my goal. I am now able to spend many hours doing what I love the most. What inspires me the most is when I can turn on the music in my creative space and let my creativity flow.
As I accompany my precious cats through our lives watching these graceful creatures gives me inspiration which I love incorporating in my sculptures of playful cats.
I really enjoy sharing my works with others and being in company with so many talented artists. I am truly fascinated with all that imagination has to offer.
|
|
March 2025 |
March 2025 is bitter sweet. This is our last month open, The Feminine Mystique Art Gallery is closing. With a heavy heart, Pat will retire after almost 30 years open. The village and visitors have given Pat an immense joy. If you have questions about j favorite artists, you can always call Pat at 520-988-0131. She will do her best to guide you in finding the artists. Hope to see you in March. We will have lots of bargains and specials.
Studio Tours March 14 - 16
It’s a great experience! Tour Santa Cruz Valley from Green Valley to Rio Rico and meet the artists in their studios. Event catalogs will be available at Tubac Center of the Arts a week before to show the artists participating.
Spring Art Walk March 21 - 23
Tubac Art Walk is a celebration of art and the creative process! This long-standing tradition allows visitors to meet the artists of Tubac inside the Village’s galleries and artist studios. See art in action, and enjoy the hospitality of Tubac’s many art galleries, specialty shops, and restaurants. Enjoy live music, free parking, and free admission!
Pat will be doing her Bead on Clay classes at her home in Rio Rico. The first class is in May. If interested let Pat know a month before the class.
|
Artists in the spotlight this month: |
 |
Andrea Frost |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Andrea Frost
Andrea Frost's background draws on both the culture and vibrancy of the city, having been born in New York, and also very profoundly on the spirit and beauty of the Arizona desert, where she was raised from the age of 12. She has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Arizona in Tucson and pursued her graduate studies at Pratt Institute in New York. While using her talents and training to teach art to young adults, Andrea pursued various forms of artistic expression, bringing her sense of elegance and beauty to every endeavor.
Andrea focused much of her early artistic efforts on watercolor painting, finding inspiration in its beautiful play of light and color. This same love drew her to dichroic glass with its similar display of brilliance and beauty. She uses etching, layering and fusing techniques to create beautifully colored and patterned glass, and then with sterling silver wire wrap, silver fabrication techniques, and mixed gemstones and beads, she fashions the glass into distinctive jewelry and decorative art.
Some of Andrea's signature pieces include glass pendants and decorative tiles which depict beautiful desert landscapes against a monsoon sky or a starry night. Also, with her deep appreciation and love of wildlife and animals of all sorts, she is known for her very colorful and fun assortment of animal brooches, representing horses, rabbits, cats, dogs and bumblebees. All for you to wear and enjoy!
|
|
 |
Debbie Cope |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Debbie Cope
For over thirty years, Debbie Cope has been exploring and mastering the concepts of color, design, and – above all – the patterns that flow through her collages. Her childhood was enriched by her mother who practiced the ancient art of trans-forming love, craftsmanship and worn-out clothing “one stitch at a time” and the result is Debbie’s celebration of quilting.
Debbie Cope’s formal education spanned the years of 1968 through 1981, and included the University of Colorado, Colorado State University, Community College, and Emily Griffith School, Mesa College. Her accomplishments and awards in the art world are too numerous to mention here, but some are: Instructor at Children and Adult Art Classes at Western Colorado Center for the Arts; Lecturer at the Brush & Palette Club; Designer of Postage Stamp “Dinosaur Valley” in 1988; Representative of the Art Community at the Governor’s Mansion in Denver in 1990; Designer of Interior Art for the Omni of Aspen, Colorado.
In addition to the aforementioned accomplishments, Debbie Cope was commissioned to create many original pieces for private collections nationally and internationally.
There is nothing less than magic in Debbie’s wonderful and whimsical work. As the viewer beholds the images, they “morph” from quilt to reality or intrigue us with collaged characters found in the depths of our imaginations. Her scenes of women shopping, lunching, dancing, hanging laundry, or just laughing are depicted in her screaming-color collages. They are inspired by just plain fun and they bring smiles and a feeling of lightheartedness to the viewer.
|
|
 |
Melissa Branzell |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Melissa Branzell
Glass has always captured my heart and soul ever since childhood. I’ve finally reached a point in my life to be able to do this as a hobby starting with stained glass. Needless to say, the hobby has become a passion especially when I got into the hot glass portion of glass art. Glass to me is an art medium that can do so many designs, cold or hot.
When the light hits glass, it takes on a dimension. I have been very lucky to learn from some of the best in glass fusing.
I owe the following for inspiration and guidance: Vicki Day (my glass mentor), Don McKenny, Jane Persico, Shirley Webster, Newy Fagan, Gill Renolds, Dan Fenton, Kathleen Sheard, Roger Thomas.
|
|
 |
Annette Lowery |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Annette Lowery
After moving to Arizona in 2018, Anette now lives in Marana with her husband and 2 cats
describing herself as an artist who is in love with the ‘endless blue skies of the desert’. Her
life experiences have included 25 years of traveling with her Navy husband, two children
and numerous pets. This artist, with a few lessons here and there is primarily self-taught,
has been involved with the creative process since childhood and felt that she never had
enough paper, tape, crayons or paint. Currently her interests are in watercolors and soft
sculpture characters she calls her Little Friends. The beauty and colors of the desert world
around her as well as the architecture of the Sonoran Desert and customs of its people are
a source of constant stimulation. Her desire is to continue to grow as an artist as she
immerses herself in the creation of new and exciting pieces.
Acting as an artist model in college and taking art classes here and there along the way
paved the way to developing the love of watercolors as her medium of choice. However,
watercolors have not been her sole media; ceramics, needlework, crochet, soft sculpture as
well as upholstering furniture have also captured her interest. The creative process has
always been an active part of her life regardless of where it leads. Recently she was asked to
submit work for a Southwest cookbook. Another passion is designing, planting and
maintaining a butterfly/pollinator garden in her backyard. Her first pollinator garden in
California earned a nationwide certificate as a Monarch Way Station. The first season for
her current ever expanding garden has attracted over 15 different identifiable species and
three she has yet to identify.
|
|
 |
Joyce Chaney |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Joyce Chaney
Tucson based artist using mixed media to create exciting works based on the beauty of the Sonoran Desert. Over her lifetime the artist has been honing her craft, never knowing a time without a paint brush or pencil in her hand. Her preferred 'tools of the trade' are many and varied to include colored pencil, pen, acrylic, ink, fabric art and assemblage with found objects. As part of a growing art community in Arizona she has served on the Ajo Council for the Fine Arts, has been instrumental in the creation and maintenance of the Art Under the Arches Gallery located in Ajo, Arizona. Joyce taught art through the Gila Bend School K-12 in Gila Bend, Arizona for 28 years. The artist has also shared her love of art while teaching for Arizona Western College, Summer Arts Program Director for the town of Gila Bend, a children's book illustrator as well as serving on the Committee for Park Sculpture "Art in Public Places" and a member of the Desert Artist Guild of Ajo. Joyce was invited to participated in the October 2019 opening of "Superheroes, Capes of Strength and Beauty" exhibit fundraiser for Breast Cancer Awareness month co-sponsored by Oro Valley Roche Tissue Diagnostics (RTD) and Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance (SAACA). Her hope is that you the viewer will receive as much enjoyment in viewing her work as she has in creating it.
In 2020 she contributed Her art work and time to the Fountains at LaCholla Independent Living Facility for their Holiday Fund, a fundraiser for the employees during the pandemic.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|