Community Connection

Post date: Nov 10, 2014 7:55:20 PM

Fourth Quarter Update: October 1 - December 31, 2014

SCC is dedicated to giving back to the community. We are honored to be hosting the work of Suzanne Vetek our walls this quarter and to be collecting gently used winter clothing and coats for Primavera.

Suzanne is an artist who works primarily in chalk and oil pastel, using very bright and vivid colors. This exhibit includes both older and more recent works. She has included woodcut prints, older and newer pastel paintings, examples of pet portraits commissions, and hand-dyed/hand-printed/hand=painted silk scarves. She says that all of her artwork is inspired by the beauty of nature and the elusive, subconscious imagery of dreams. She often abstracts and simplifies her imagery in hopes of bringing the viewer's attention to a unique feature of her subject matter - be it shape, texture, or color - whatever speaks to her the loudest as she interprets a particular image. her hope is that through her art, you (the viewer) will look at the world around you a little closer, and see all the unique subtle beauty that you encounter in your everyday experiences, both in your waking hours and in the landscape of your dreams. This is Suzanne's first exhibit here in Tucson since moving form Pensacola, Florida eight years ago. She moved here because she fell in love with the unique beauty of the Sonoran Desert, and wanted to escape Gulf Coast hurricanes and get closer to her West Coast roots. Suzanne has lived all over the country over the past 50+ years. Her early career was spent as a Residential Architect in a small coastal community in Connecticut. She later returned to school and earned a degree in Fine Art, with a major in Fiber Arts & Surface Design. While living in Pensacola she created and taught The young Artist/Art on Wheels Art Workshops, an after-school art program for children ages 3 - 16. She taught her after-school art workshop classes 5 days a week for over 10 years. She was also an art teacher for the Montessori Schools of Pensacola and two other private schools in the Pensacola Area. She taught adult, children's, and educator workshops at the Pensacola Museum of Art. Over the past couple of years her focus has been on fulfilling pet portraits commissions, and producing hand-dyed/hand-painted silk and cotton scarves and shawls, which she sells in local boutiques. She soon will have an ETSY shop from which to purchase her original designs. She is excited to be showing her work again and feels this exhibit has nudged her back towards her artistic roots as a pastel and acrylic painter. She is looking forward to exploring the unique colors, shapes, and textures of our beautiful desert environment through new works on paper and canvas! Suzanne hopes that when you come in and view her artwork that you will leave seeing the world a bit brighter and more interesting.

For more artwork by Suzanne please visit:

ETSY: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DancingDoveStudioAZ

Facebook: Dancing Dove Studio AZ

Email: dancingdovestudio@yahoo.com

This quarter we are doing a gently used winter clothing drive for Primavera Foundation here in Tucson. They are needing new to gently used coats, sweaters, scarves, caps and gloves for all sizes for men, women and children.In Decemeber, they are hosting an event where they will be handing out winter gear for local families in need. A donations box is located inside the SCC lobby and will be delivered to Primavera regularly throughout the winter season. The Primavera Foundation provides pathways out of poverty through safe, affordable housing, workforce development and neighborhood revitalization.Primavera promotes economic and social justice while working to build a future in which all people are assured basic human rights, a livable income, and safe, affordable housing.Primavera is dedicated to addressing poverty and homelessness by acknowledging the intrinsic worth of every individual.

The Primavera Foundation began in the early 1980’s as a response to the growing numbers of homeless individuals on the streets of Tucson. In 1983, Gordon Packard and Nancy Bissell organized a large group of volunteers to begin the St. Martin’s Soup Kitchen. Their guiding principle was that every individual has intrinsic worth and deserves to be treated with respect and compassion. Shortly thereafter, the neighborhood where the Kitchen was located filed a lawsuit to shut down the Kitchen. The court challenge went all the way to the Arizona Supreme Court and St. Martin’s was ultimately ordered to close. From that experience Nancy and Gordon moved on to renovate Pueblo Court into supportive

housing for the seriously mentally ill, and they raised money to build the Primavera Men’s Shelter, which still provides shelter to up to 100 men each night, 365 days per year.Primavera has expanded its services and advocacy work over the past 30 years to include: drop-in centers to provide respite and assistance to homeless or impoverished community members; emergency shelter housing for families; workforce development programs that help people develop job skills, search for, and find/return to work; day labor opportunities for work through our own temp agency, Primavera Works; supportive services for military veterans and their families; rental housing that provides stable, temporary and/or long-term, affordable solutions to the community’s lack of affordable, safe housing; financial education programs, home ownership and mortgage foreclosure prevention workshops that help families work toward financial security; neighborhood revitalization programs that help neighborhoods become communities of choice; and proactive community engagement that provides communities with sustainable solutions to issues.

For more information about Primavera and their programs, please visit: www.Primavera.org.