Thanks to negativespace.co for this public-domain photo.
Thursday, August 03, 2023
Taking a break...
Thanks to negativespace.co for this public-domain photo.
Friday, June 30, 2023
A few of Jessica Gonzales' many Rialto murals
Jessica Gonzales paints bright, sharp and very colorful murals. You've seen her work all over the Tucson area. If you're downtown fairly often, a great place to see her murals is on the east wall of the Rialto Theatre, just off Congress Street as you enter downtown. Here's an aerial example, taken by BG Boyd, from his Tucson murals database tucsonazmurals.com, as Jessica and her husband paint, assisted by Dakin Martin, on November 16, 2022:
Below are links to pages in BG's database. The photos were taken from Jessica's Instagram account. Each link will open the mural in a new window or tab. After you close that, this page will still be here.
Below are links to pages in BG's database. The photos were taken from Jessica's Instagram account. Each link will open the mural in a new window or tab. After you close that, this page will still be here.
- Zoe / Marty Stuart
- Mon Laferte / Blue Oyster Cult
- Tito Puente Jr / Kevin Nealon
- Jenny and the Mexicats / Los Lobos
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo / Toto
- Thievery Corporation / Hombres G
- The Wailers / Marcus King Band
- The Fixx / Spoon
- Purity Ring / The Zombies
- Don Carlos / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- Killer Queen / Christopher Cross
- Bright Eyes / Action Bronson
- Underoath / Black Violin
- The Wailers / The Psychedelic Furs
- Pepper / Stryker
Friday, June 23, 2023
Morphing MSA murals
We covered some of the first murals at MSA Annex in our September 9, 2020 post BLM murals on MSA Annex (Murals being made, part 55). (BLM = Black Lives Matter.) That was too early to show the following mural by Randy L. Barton and Johanna Martinez:
Above is the fifth in a series of photos from BG Boyd's Tucson Murals database, tucsonazmurals.com. (A direct link to that photo's page is https://tucsonazmurals.com/murals/reimagine_az.)
Seeing BG's photo made me curious what else had changed on that wall since the summer of 2020. I checked my best historical resources, Google Maps Street View and Microsoft Bing Maps Streetside. Here's what I found.
Thanks for joining me on this short trip back a few years. I'll try to keep an eye on this fence for more changes. If you notice any, please let me know with the "Contact us" form at the right edge or by leaving a comment at the bottom of the page (you can remain anonymous).
Seeing BG's photo made me curious what else had changed on that wall since the summer of 2020. I checked my best historical resources, Google Maps Street View and Microsoft Bing Maps Streetside. Here's what I found.
May 2019
May 2019 on Street View, the whole area was under construction:March 2022
January 27, 2021 on Streetside can't be embedded here. But the March 2022 Street View shows that the murals hadn't changed since the January 27, 2021 Streetside. The mural BJ photographed is at the left end. The wall is lined with half a dozen murals. All of them were shown in our September 2020 post except BG's at the left (which must have been painted between 9/9/2020 and 1/27/2021). Here's the March 2022 Street View. (To zoom in on any Street View photo, click the plus (+) sign.)February 2023
February 2023 on Street View, the murals at the right end, to the right of the woman kissing a man on his forehead, have been covered with white paint:Thanks for joining me on this short trip back a few years. I'll try to keep an eye on this fence for more changes. If you notice any, please let me know with the "Contact us" form at the right edge or by leaving a comment at the bottom of the page (you can remain anonymous).
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
A walk around Old Town Artisans
We'll start on the north side, walk along the west side, then around the south side (which is now a pedestrian street, closed to traffic):
Here's an example of what you'll see in the rest of the post — the east end of the north side of the building and its label. There's more information after:
Saguaro (and explanation)
Almost every mural and door has a label to its right side. (As always, you can click on the lahel photo for a larger view.) I'll include the label after every mural photo. From top to bottom, the labels have:
- The name of the plant or the title
- The person who speaks in the corresponding video
- The artist(s) who painted it
- Who made the video
- A link to the luxxarte.com page
- A link directly to the video
OK? Let's start our walk around the building. The first doorway is to the right of the saguaro mural…
Olive
Mesquite
Prickly Pear / Nopal
Here's a close-up of the (very fun) window:
Corn / Maize
Chile / Chiletepin
Cholla
There's no label. Johanna Martinez painted the mural. She told me: “Somehow they never got an interview on the cholla.”
Tepary Beans
Agave
The south half of the west wall has three murals (Chile / Chiletepin, Cholla, and Tepary Beans), then a mural with one agave. The agave is partly hidden behind utility poles. Let's start with a photo of those, then look at the mural head-on and the agave from the right side:
Black Mission Fig
Tucson Rose
This door wasn't labeled, but Johanna Martinez painted the mural. She told me that the “mural was just for fun…not part of the Foodways project.” I didn't find a video on www.humanity360.org.
Dryland Farming
The mural's title on the label is “Ha:l Squash.” The QR code opens a video titled “Dryland Farming.”
Amaranth
Sonoran White Wheat
Pomegranate
Wrapping up...
I took almost all of the photos on November 18 and 27, 2022. I went back during May and June, 2023, for a few that I'd missed.
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