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Time Is Money
Time Is Money Opening Saturday, March 7, 6-9pm Shot in the Dark Cafe 121 E. Broadway, Tucson, AZ Through March 30 I’ll have work in this show with the nimble minds of MAXED ART. Time Is Money will feature small works about the economic crises or using cheap materials (or both) priced under $25. PLAY‘s [...]
Tweets from Tucson and Beyond-yond-ond-nd
I thought of starting yet another blog with all the random images, words, music and videos that catch my attention and inspire me on a day-to-day basis. But after doing a little research, I discovered that Twitter is perfect for that sort of thing. Just search for username rachelleartdiva and follow me!
Downtown Scavenger Hunt
Pop Up Spaces’ inaugural event! Walk through the streets of downtown Tucson and you will find multiple FOR RENT signs on every block. While that may be discouraging to some Tucsonans, a group of artists sees these spaces as blank canvases. In the Downtown Scavenger Hunt on March 1, participants will be given clues to [...]
New stuff in store!
Spring’s almost here! Have you visited my Etsy store lately? Well, if you haven’t, you should!
6th Annual Möda Provŏcateūr
6th Annual Möda Provŏcateūr Sunday, March 8, 6-9pm The University of Arizona Student Union Grand Ballroom A fundraiser benefitting the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation I am super-honored to be part of the finale of this event as shoe designer for fashion artist Edgar Huerta, in my first ever fashion show! Look for some amazing art [...]
The new look of Tu Scene
I’ve spent the last 3 days migrating Tu Scene from Blogspot over to its own URL, and it’s finally done! I’m still running my Art Diva website on WordPress 2.2, so making this change has also been a good opportunity to familarize myself with version 2.7, and I have to say it’s pretty slick. Be [...]
Tu Scene Launch Party
Tu Scene Launch Party Friday, December 12, 7-9pm Dinnerware Artspace 264 E. Congress, Tucson Wow, this little project is really taking off. This is the first time I’ve done anything that’s “all me” and outside of writing posts, I’m finding it’s hard to stay on task on my own. My to-do list is THIS long. [...]
Black & White Show
Black & White Show Opening/Gallery Debut: Saturday, December 6, 6-9pm Masquerade Ball: Saturday, December 27 PLAY 276 E. Congress, Tucson PLAY, a local artists collective, is opening a new multi-purpose art venue by the same name this weekend on the Congress strip. A mixture of hip and homespun, PLAY combines creative fun and social consciousness [...]
Sky Islands
In a couple of weeks, I’ll be leaving all this behind and visiting friends and familia in Texas over the Christmas/New Year’s holidays. For those who care, I’ll be in Austin December 18-20, and at some point on the 22nd or 23rd, so don’t hesitate to holla if you wanna hang out. Although I’m looking [...]
The fun never stops!
Now every time you refresh my website here, a different Art Diva logo will show up!
“33″
“33″ Black light art show and dance party Saturday, October 25 at 8pm @ The Arts Incubator 108 E. Congress, Tucson, AZ $3 I hooked up with these catzzzes chillin’ outside their downtown gallery last Friday night on an leisurely after-dinner stroll and was embraced to be in their next show. The Arts Incubator is [...]
<< Link Love
I’ve added a ton of sites of stuff I like in the Divapproved sidebar. If you’re on there, hope you’ll link me back! My Spectacles page (artist’s resume of sorts) has also been updated.
Pump Project on KLRU’s “Docubloggers”
Filmed in May/June 2008 when we had my studiomate Matt Wester’s My Occupation up in the gallery, a series of paintings based on his Army Reserve experiences in Iraq. My lovely and talented accomplice Debra Broz talks about the pump, artists’ changing standard of living in Austin and her ceramic-restoring business. Yeah!
TFMF: Oct 9-12
Tucson. Film. Folks don’t always put these two together, but the truth is, Tucson has a long history of filmmaking going back to the Old Hollywood Westerns of the 30′s and 40′s my generation grew up watching, or perhaps turning off after cartoons, on Saturday afternoon TV movie matinees on local UHF channels (now Fox, [...]
Works in Progress Reading
Works in Progress Readings Friday, October 3 Casa Libre en la Solana 7-9pm 228 N. 4th Avenue Tucson, AZ 85705 Readings from Michael Sheehan, Lisa Cole, and……………César Díaz!!!!! (my husband) Casa Libre, a writing center (not afflilated with academia, but working writers) is really a unique and intimate place to hear readings. In an atmospheric [...]
whoever said good things come in small packages was wrong.
Good things come in big, shiny, colorful, sparkly packages! Like stuff from artdivastudio.etsy.com… Just shipped out my first order on Monday, so get yours while the gettin’s good. Men’s shirts coming, like, this weekend. I’ve been painting and sewing them all week and they’re lookin’ niiiice.
Show: Virgin Territory
Virgin Territory Pump Project Saturday, September 22 7-10pm 702 Shady Lane Austin, Texas 78702 [map] Exciting new paintings and sculptures (and maybe a performace or two) by your favorite Virgo artists from Pump Project Art Complex and beyond.
Show: Austin Art Garage Official Opening Party
Austin Art Garage Official Opening Party Anne Kelso Salon Presented by Austin Art Garage Sponsored by Rare Magazine and do512.com Thursday, September 27 7-9pm 1400 S. Congress Ave. Austin, Texas [map] It’s officially here! The Austin Art Garage will finally have their grand opening party and show on Austin’s famous SOCO strip. Experience amazing food [...]
Show: Austin Art Garage Biergarten Party
Austin Art Garage Biergarten Party Austin Art Garage Saturday, September 8 5-8pm 2200 S. Lamar, Suite J (drive past the metal fence behind Strut) Austin, Texas [map] Enjoy great local wine, beer and of course, a preview of art by yours truly and other artists featured on AustinArtGarage.com. I’m really excited to be a founding [...]
Show: Elements of Graphic Design
[Revolution No. 9] Elements of Graphic Design First in PANIQUE! a series of guerilla art exhibits Nine Eyes Studio Presented by Revolution Gallery Opening Saturday, August 25 7-11pm 130 N. Peak St., Corner of Peak and Elm Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas [map] Elements is an art exhibit in which all the artists (from Dallas, Denton, [...]
Open Studio invitation
Ink drawing on paper and design. Self-promotional.
Not one, but TWO, that’s right, TWO ways to buy my art!
I’m one of the first artists to have work available online with the newly launched Austin Art Garage, a locally-based e-commerce site for Austin artists. Now you can buy art from home at 3am in your chones. Hopefully they’ll have a launch party soon! Also check me out and support my friend Harold’s business over [...]
