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1st Annual Tiny Sketchbook Time: State Fair Special! with Tara Tieso
August 24, 2024 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
ON LOCATION at the Minnesota State Fair! Saturday, August 24, 3-6pm
This Is How Traditions Begin! We’ll meet at the Leinie Lodge Bandshell (between Cooper and Cosgrove, just south of the main gates and not far from the Space Needle and Sky Ride), and gather for a bit on the benches to receive some take-along prompts and navigation ideas – Then head out to sketch.
At 5:30 we’ll re-gather at the Leinie Lodge for some fantastic Fair sharing on a stick!
(Guarantee: You will not go to the Fair with anyone who loves the Fair as much as Tara!!! 🎡🥨🐎🥞🎠🍗🐇🌮 🐖🎢🫔🥫🥟🍡🐑 🍧 🍦🌹🍿🐄🍪🥛🦙🍞🍻🌽🥤🍎🥒🍯🍔🐝
Materials
•Bring a curated, travel version of your fave Tiny Sketchbook supplies – The Fair is the ULTIMATE Tiny Sketchbook locale, but there’s walking, so think lightweight!
•Sunscreen, a hat (or both)
•Water bottle to refill
Helpful Fair Info!:
•You can pre-purchase discounted tickets to the Fair ($3 OFF before 8/21) HERE
•And don’t forget Uber & Lyft, they drop off just inside the Fairgrounds. You can also park in the neighborhood and look for a bike cab to chauffeur you to the gate and back again when you leave!
Ticket Instruction: You must choose a quantity to activate “get tickets”. To pay for a class registration with a Wet Paint gift card, please call 651-698-6431
About the artist:
Tara L Tieso is an abstract artist who lives and paints in the historic arts Lowertown neighborhood of Saint Paul, on the mighty Mississippi. She works in encaustic, an ancient beeswax and resin medium fused to its substrate with a torch. Tara also works in pen and ink, and loves water soluble colors of any type.
Tara is Past Board President of nationally celebrated WARM, Women’s Art Resources Minnesota – where she worked with other women in the arts to steward the rich 40-year feminist legacy of Minnesota’s brilliant women artists. She currently serves on the Board of The Show Non-Profit, which brings artists of all abilities together in creative community.
As teaching artist, Tara facilitates Eagan Artist Connect, Wet Paint’s Book Club, and Creative Circles from her loft studio.
A grateful recipient of the McKnight Foundation-funded Metropolitan Regional Arts Council’s Next Step Grant, and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant; she is one of 30 ArtSage Minnesota Artists, and a winner of North Hennepin Community College Award of Excellence in Memory of Lance Kiland from the Minnesota State Fair Foundation. Her work hangs in private collections in the Twin Cities, greater Minnesota, and Philadelphia.
