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Challenging Art Classes in Oracle
Giovanna Hesley
Oracle, AZ
March 1, 2009
Andy Rush and Pat Dolan are sharing the responsibilities of teaching Deepening Drawing Practice: Feb. 21 – March 28. Those who have completed Drawing Fundamentals, Level 1 in October, and other area artists with drawing experience were warmly welcomed to the first class held at Rancho Linda Vista OracleArt Wilson Barn. The emphasis of this class is on opening new drawing media and approaches, the role of the sketchbook in developing work habits, and introduction to landscape composition.
The first class, taught by Andy Rush, included local artist Michael Moore and visiting artist, Nan Parsons. Students used charcoal to focus on the subject as The Drawing Studio founder guided individuals. Last week's class, taught by Pat Dolan, explored landscape through gesture drawings, trees, and mountains. Experienced artists alongside just-out-of-beginning-class students pushed their limits and expanded their knowledge of drawing.
The facilities, surroundings and faculty are inspiring. Other art classes can be taken at this satellite location for The Drawing Studio. Check for a listing and availability at http://www.thedrawingstudio.org/ or call 520-620-0947.
Michael Moore and Nan Parson, along with Pat Dolan and Sharon Brady, have their work displayed locally through March 28th at Triangle L Ranch in Oracle. http://www.trianglelranch.com/gallery.htm or call 520-623-6732.

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Challenging Art Classes in Oracle
Giovanna Hesley
Oracle, AZ
March 1, 2009

Challenging  Art Classes In Oracle

The Rancho Linda Vista Ranch, ever since it was founded in 1910 by George Wilson, has always been up for a good challenge. From its time as a 19th  century homestead and stagecoach stop, to becoming a 100,000 acre cattle ranch, to when it was chosen as a location for the movie 'The Mine With the Iron Door'  in 1924, which then inspired its transformation to Arizona's first dude ranch,  Rancho Linda Vista has been making history.

Some of that history, including its time as a dude ranch, was fraught with controversy.  While the  post-war period saw the decline of the dude ranch industry, which led to the lands newest transformation, it was at the end of this period that Andy Warhol decided to make his one and only Western movie, Lonsesome Cowboys, at Rancho Linda Vista, causing something of a scandal among the local Oracle denizens.

One recent viewer of this movie, a self-styled critic, describe it as “  ..  filled with wildly comic setpieces, including a cowboy practising ballet moves at the hitching post and a peevish lecture on the misuse of mascara. These desperadoes are real trailblazers when it comes to libidinous appetites and it is here that Lonesome Cowboys distinguishes itself from the herd. Unflinchingly, Warhol shoots down the myth of the de-sexed cowhand. “ (Their spelling, not ours).

In 1967 a group of artists largely affiliated with the University of Arizona decided to create a community in the high desert where they could live with their families and pursue their creative visions. Spearheaded by artist and teacher Charles Littler, the Rancho Linda Vista arts community was born the following year. Taking over an old cattle/guest ranch in the northern foothills of the Catalinas, the first residents set about restoring the adobe houses, putting in electricity, and converting the barns to studios and a gallery.
From its inception, Rancho Linda Vista has provided a place for artists, artisans, designers, writers, thinkers and their families to live, share ideas and immerse themselves in the creative process. The Ranch has sponsored hundreds of art events – some planned, some impromptu – as well as offered month-long residencies to artists from around the world. Its own artists exhibit and perform widely, as well as teach in and contribute to the larger community.
Today Rancho Linda Vista is home to approximately 14 families, 8 dogs, 5 cats, 2 horses and a random assortment of javelinas, coyotes, owls, hawks, cactus wrens, lizards (and one too many rattler and scorpion). We also enjoy the company of a wide range of artists and friends, a number of whom return here to visit every year.

Thankfully, the newest challenge taken on by Rancho Linda Vista is unlikely to include cowboys in mascara performing any sort of ballet moves at all, but, a challenge it is, nonetheless!
. Andy Rush, Tucson artist and author of Meditations on the Sea of Cortez
a limited first edition of ten artist-made books featuring watercolors, drawings and artist-commentary selected from his recent work on the Mexican coast of the Sea of Cortez, has teamed  up  with Pat Dolan, Director of Outreach Art Tutoring for Seniors,  to teach   Deepening Drawing Practice, from February 21 – March 28.

Those  having completed Drawing Fundamentals, Level 1 were warmly welcomed,as were other area artists with prior drawing experience, to the first class held at Rancho Linda Vista OracleArt Wilson Barn. The emphasis of this class is on opening new drawing media and approaches, the role of the sketchbook in developing work habits, and introduction to landscape composition.

The first class, taught by Andy Rush, included local artist Michael Moore and visiting artist, Nan Parsons. Students used charcoal to focus on the subject as The Drawing Studio founder guided individuals.

Last week's class, taught by Pat Dolan, explored landscape through gesture drawings, trees, and mountains. Experienced artists alongside just-out-of-beginning-class students pushed their limits and expanded their knowledge of drawing.

For those who might wish to teach other art classes, this may be the very place for you. Steeped in a tradition of art, of all sorts of media and mediums, ranging from mild to wild, the facilities, surroundings, and faculty are inspiring. To check availability of this satellite location for The Drawing Studio, go to http://www.thedrawingstudio.org/ or call 520-620-0947.

For more information on the artists Micheal Moore, Nan Parson, and Pat Dolan, who,  along with Sharon Brady, have their work displayed at the Triangle L Ranch in Oracle through March 28, please visit   http://www.trianglelranch.com/gallery.htm or call 520-623-6732.

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