Temple Arts Collective
At Temple Arts Collective, we believe creativity is a relationship, not a performance.
Our art experiences emphasize listening to materials and trusting intuition to art-making: we honor materials, images, and process as living collaborators rather than passive tools. Clay, charcoal, paint, paper, and body are treated as expressive partners with their own rhythms, boundaries, and wisdom.
We prioritize presence over perfection. Listening over controlling. Curiosity over judgment
In our classes, students are encouraged to slow down, attune to their materials, and develop trust in their intuitive responses. Technical skills are taught as pathways to deeper dialogue with the work, not as rigid rules.
We believe art-making can be a form of remembering—of reconnecting to imagination, embodiment, meaning, and belonging. Our studio is a space for experimentation, reverence, play, and transformation.
Lali Nicole Young
“We humans are strange beings, we like strange things.” ~ Lali Nicole Young
Lali Nicole Young is a multi-faceted artist and entrepreneur with a prestigious background, born from a family of distinguished creators, educators, and innovators.
Her artistic journey began in the womb, with her earliest memories being the scent of oil paints and turpentine in her mother’s art room in their West Philadelphia townhouse. She refined her artistic skills at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, studying Fashion Design and Illustration, after earning a Bachelor’s degree in Media Arts from the University of Arizona, where she focused on critical cultural media psychology and theory.
Having lived in multi-cultural capitals such as Philadelphia, Tokyo, London, Paris, New York, and Oslo, Lali Nicole’s global experiences are reflected in her sophisticated, worldly aesthetic.
Lali’s work is a celebration of surrealism, offering an elevated perspective on universal human experiences. Each of her pieces invites the viewer to explore new ideas through the lens of art, transcending societal norms with a distinct blend of abstract and natural forms. Her paintings—often described as “perky surrealism”—bridge connections that resonate across cultural and economic boundaries, offering a thoughtful dialogue that is both timeless and avant-garde.
Now based in Tucson, Arizona, Lali operates The Ladyship’s Bazaar, an exclusive, curated vintage boutique that serves as a creative haven for discerning artists and performers. Her commitment to artistic expression extends beyond her own work; she also runs Haute Body Language, a collection of themed stretch classes tailored for adults seeking an empowering improvisational fitness experience.
In addition to her entrepreneurial ventures, Lali is a prominent figure in Tucson’s arts community. She is a dancer and supporter of Chocolate Box Burlesque, the first all-black burlesque show of the Southwest produced by Its Like Candy and UncleNik *don’t understand this*. She was also a founding member of Ritmos Latinos with Gerardo Armendariz. She serves on the Board of the Womankraft Art Center, where she shares her expertise by teaching fabric painting and social media strategies to other artists. She is a member of We Make Art Collective led by Randiesia Fletcher. Her life is a tapestry of artistic exploration, entrepreneurship, and luxury *??? Expand*—an embodiment of a creative spirit that values authenticity and innovation.
“I am fortunate to live an artist’s life, observing, listening, and creating. My work aims to evoke emotion and curiosity, encouraging reflection on our shared wild human experience. We are all complex, and I enjoy painting strange and unusual things that unite and delight us. We humans are strange beings, we like strange things.”
Gerrie Young
Gerrie is a painter whose work explores form and emotional resonance. Drawing inspiration from both internal landscapes and the natural world, her paintings invite viewers into moments of reflection, curiosity, and connection.
Leslie Hall
Leslie was born in Tucson and spent much of her life in the Sonoran Desert, where she developed a deep connection to place while teaching and practicing art. Her work is grounded in ongoing experimentation and material exploration, using clay and mixed media to articulate an evolving visual language. She considers herself a multidisciplinary artist.
Through monoprinting and other surface design techniques, Leslie bridges her passion for painting with the creation of functional and decorative three-dimensional forms. Her practice moves fluidly between surface and structure, balancing intuition with process. When not in the studio, she is often traveling, engaging with new environments as a source of research and inspiration.
Jane Kroesen
Smelling my grandma’s dirt floor basement, shaping the mud I pulled from the creek’s bank and, of course, building sand castles with the warm sun at my back, has fed my artistic being. Clay nurtures my love of shape and my earth connection. Life’s transitory nature, lessons of defeat and destruction, replicates itself in clay work. “Let go of expected outcomes,” Clay says; she gives me courage to go forward again and again with a new perspective.
My work is a reaction to internal and external turmoil and world disparities. Images arrive in dreams; I am compelled to sculpt those images until I am given release from the turmoil.
Shapes, designs and surface treatments of human’s first clay creations inspire me. My favorite shape is a bowl. I strive to create the perfect toothbrush holder. Using my functional work every day brings great pleasure.
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