Techniques & Lenses
Tia Sunshine

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Tia Sunshine Dye is an artist studying the human experience within herself and through a variety of cultural lenses.

Ever since Tia’s first watercolor lesson, she has explored the medium and how it can be combined with other art supplies. She prefers to mount much of her completed art on paper onto cradled wood panels and recently began painting on wood panels prepared with watercolor ground. This new technique allows the use of the wood grain to support the composition. Both of these watercolor techniques are finished and protected with thin coats of cold wax. This finish provides a more robust and intimate experience, without the painting hiding behind glass.

Tia Sunshine Dye is the artist and owner of Tia Sunshine Art, and the entrepreneur behind Aligned Exhibits and the Sunshine Align Community. With a background in Theatre Design, she brings the same passion for creating atmosphere in her paintings as she did supporting theatrical stories through lighting and sets. Tia values personal connection, mindful inspiration, and intentional creation.

Recently, Tia has stepped away from exhibitions, marketing, social media, working as a studio assistant, and many events to focus on her next cycle of growth, personally and artistically. In the next few years she will have an empty nest and hopes to pursue a formal art education. Tia’s goal is for her future artwork to express her unique perspective having viewed life through a variety of cultural lenses.

She Rises, 12x18” Watercolor NFS

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Summer Rose, detail of 8x8” watercolor. Original Sold. Limited Edition Prints available.

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Sleep in + Art + oysters = Portland Maine
Calm.
Breathe.
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This morning’s ink sketch with my coffee. One of my peonies. I recently found out the name of my type of peony is Sarah Bernhardt! Wow 🤯
I was practice drawing sketches a lot at the start of the year, and then I stopped. I was reminded to start again and sketch every day. So, here are the 3 roosters who replaced my alarm clock.

A Little More about Tia Sunshine…

Tia Sunshine at the ASAP Launch Party in DC, May 2019

Tia Sunshine at the ASAP Launch Party in DC, May 2019

Tia has a BFA in Theatre Design and Technology, with most of her professional experience focused on set and lighting design as well as technical direction and stage management. This professional experience has provided Tia with an understanding of collaboration and the visual expression of ideas focused on purpose and meaning. In that spirit, she believes that people should be allowed to reinvent themselves frequently and with artistic purpose.

Memberships

  • Michigan Guild of Artists and Artisans

  • Saline Painter’s Guild

  • Artist Strong

  • Ypsi Fine Arts Club

Past Exhibits (Click HERE for exhibit news)

  • PARC Art Gallery, The Nature of Art, Plymouth MI 2024

  • Riverside Art Center Gather, Ypsilanti MI, 2024

  • Saline Painter’s Guild at Gallery 100, Chelsea MI, 2024

  • Anything Goes at Gutman Gallery 2024

  • Happy, Glen Arbor Arts Center with juror Valerie Mann 2024 - Merit Award winner

  • Earth & Sky at Matthaei Botanical Garden 2023

  • Minumental: A Celebration of Tiny Art at Stone & Spoon Gallery 2023

  • Northville Art House Small Works All-Media Juried Exhibit, Northville, MI 2022 & 2023

  • PARC Art Gallery, The Big Reveal, Plymouth MI 2023

  • Northville Art House West of Center, 2023

  • PARC Art Gallery Hot Days Cool Art, Plymouth MI 2023

  • Northville Art House Members Exhibition 2023

  • Saline Painters Guild Fall Exhibition 2022 - Whitepine Studios, Saline MI

  • Huron River Art Collective Fall Juried Exhibit, juror John Gutoskey. Ann Arbor District Library 2022

  • Huron River Art Collective, Community Exhibit at Joe & Rosie’s Coffee & Tea in Dexter MI, 2022

  • Huron River Art Collective Volunteer Exhibit, Black Box, Dearborn MI, 2022

  • Time in the Garden, Matthaei Botanical Gardens, MI 2022

  • Saline Painters Guild Spring Exhibition 2022 - Malletts Creek Library, Ann Arbor MI

  • Huron River Art Collective, Community Exhibit at Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea on Liberty St. in Ann Arbor, MI February - March 2022

  • Saline Painters Guild at Whitepine Studios, October 2021 - January 2022

  • Winter Market at Studio Studio/York, December 2021

  • Huron River Art Collective, Fall Juried Exhibit, juror Durwood Coffey October - December 2021

  • Gutman Gallery, Emerge, Juried Exhibit by Payton Cook, October - November 2021

  • Westside Art Hop, Spring & Fall 2021

  • A2 Artoberfest at Gutman Gallery, 2021

  • Tia Sunshine was awarded first place for her painting Blooming in the AAWA 2020 Spring Juried Exhibition.

  • Solo Exhibition at Elysian Atelier in Ann Arbor, January 2020-December 2020

  • Saline Painter’s Guild 2020 Winter Exhibition

  • Ann Arbor Women Artists Fall Juried Exhibition, Oct 21 - November 29 2019

  • Westside Art Hop, Fall 2019

  • Armed Services Arts Partnership Anthology Launch Party in DC, May 2019

  • Saline Painter’s Guild Spring Exhibition, April 2019

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