ArtFare offers space to up-and-coming artists on an ability-to-pay basis, currently works in partnership with Providence Corporation and Global Education in hosting Tucson Academy of Leadership in Arts Middle School which provides arts curriculum with the assistance of local artists, who will serve as faculty along with teachers of more traditional core classes.
Dance Studio available for classes (Artwork by William Deaver)
Students work side-by-side with working artists at the sprawling ArtFare complex across from the Ronstadt Transit Center that includes the old Sears Executive Center at 55 N. Sixth Ave., as well as in several other adjacent storefronts which form the Downtown Arts Corridor that altogether totals some 30,000 square feet.
Ballroom or Gallery Space Available to Rent
Big band, ballet, theater, culinary arts, film production and photography are among the artistic offerings.
ArtFare artists in residence double as faculty to create a facility housing real world working artists side by side with
Another View of the Ballroom
Arts programs will be integrated into the K-8 classrooms as well, adding fine arts, visual arts and music programming to the current curriculum.
Artfare artists in residence include the renowned Arizona Jazz Academy, AIA Films: James Arnett, Old Pueblo Theatre Solutions, Fine Line Industrial Arts: William Hagey, El Ojito Springs Gallery and Theater: Randy Ford, Diverse Dance, House of Dance, Carrie Rangle, Rings of Saturn Winterguard, Zydeco Folk Musician Maker, JP Thom-Gronogan, Lyric Arts: Mary Ellen Palmeri, abstract artists Felicitas and Francheskaa, Capoeira Malendragem, artist Stefan Bucher (AIGA), Pulitzer Prize nominee Ken Tesoreri (Coyote Players) and numerous other lesser known fine artists, sculptors, dance troops and bands.
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Lots of Downtown Events to Be a Part of at ArtFare
Plenty of Gallery Space Available
Currently my artwork is up at the Main Library downtown, please look at it. I am very much interestred in a studio space but do not have much money to put to it. I could offer my art teaching abilities to adults…or some such.
Katherine
I find no contact information here on who to call or email to reserve dance practice space.
Hi Paul, on the upper right hand column you’ll find our email address: space@artfare.org
We have great spaces available. Please include information about how often you would need the space, how much time you would spend in the space, if this is personal practice time or if you will be giving lessons during the time you reserve the space. We will ask for additional information as needed. Thanks for your inquiry!
Hi Doris,
Not closed permanently, just for the month of August. It is a long standing policy of ArtFare to go “dark” for August with only minimal activity to prepare for the fall. This year it meant that all of the employees of Burger City and Kelly’s were invited to help get the school, TALA, ready for it’s opening August 17.
We’ll see you again September 1!