Have a fun Summer!!!!

General Meeting Info for the 2022-2023 Season!!!!



Next Monthly Meeting!
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September 20, 2023

2 - 4 PM
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Program - TBA




Open Studio

Click HERE for details!






The Artist of the Month


Bring your painting, ready to hang, to be entered into the Artist of the Month Contest
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for a new season starting in September, 2023.  




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Artist of the Year!!

Congratulations
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Fran Odum




Summer Dreams




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FRAN ODUM, PSA
  
As a child, Fran Odum’s passion for nature drew her to the beautiful countryside of her native France. Inspired by that beauty, she pursued an education in art. Over the course of her life as an artist, she has developed a unique style of pastel painting, which enhances the simple beauty of nature and showcases her acute sensitivity to her environment.
 
Fran is known for her award winning paintings of wildlife and she approaches her work with enthusiasm. Her lifelong fascination with the outdoors has taken her on numerous field trips, as far as Idaho. Montana, Wyoming and British Columbia, In 1994 , she was commissioned to design the poster for the Fiesta de Los Vaqueros Rodeo, in Tucson.
 
Memberships include the Pastel Society of America (signature member), the Catharine Lorrilard Wolfe Art club (full membership), the Pastel Society of New Mexico (signature member), the Pastel Society of the West Coast (signature member), and the Tucson Pastel Society.  Exhibitions include Trailside Galleries in Scottsdale Arizona and Jackson Hole Wyoming, Bosque Art Classic in Clifton. Texas, Coors Western Art show, Safari club International, Ducks Unlimited, The National Art club, New York, The Salmagundi club, New York, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., Tucson Museum of Art, The Mountain Oyster Club, in Tucson, Western Art Spirit Exhibit, Old West Museum, Cheyenne, Wyoming and many more invitational and juried exhibitions. Her work has been published in Art of the West, Southwest Art , Paint Horse Journal, International Pastel Magazine, Master Artists of the World, Western Horseman Magazine and the Wildlife Art News Magazine.
 
 



​ Artist of the Month Contest! 


Artist of the Month/Artist of the Year Blog Page 


​For AOM/AOY rules and guidelines CLICK HERE!




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Membership Directories Available


In Print at the meetings or CLICK HERE for the .pdf file




Thank you, Lynn Wilson, for volunteering for our Social Media chair.  She is keeping our TPS FaceBook page up to date.  The name of the page is "Tucson Pastel Society".  We welcome members to join. Please share your information, your websites and most importantly your art. If you are a member of TPS you can freely interact on our FB page. Non-members are vetted just to keep the site free from spam. Let’s talk, share our love of art and Pastels.

 

For Call to Artists CLICK HERE!

News

Click on the Activities Tab for the complete Tucson Pastel Society Calendar.

Check out the plein air/special events page for upcoming events.  Meeting times and car pool instructions are listed.

Click on the Shows tab to see all of our show information.

The Tucson Pastelist!

A monthly newsletter with updates on the members of Tucson Pastel Society and so much more!
Download the past & current newsletters from this year.
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Facility Page
​We are renting!!!!!

Visit our facility page for rental information, contracts and payment possibilities.

​Also visit the Facility Event page where events not sponsored by TPS will be listed.  If you would like to participate in any of the unsponsored events, contact the person listed for fees and information.

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