Layers of murals: histories of a few walls

Some walls in Tucson have had many different murals over the years.

This blog page lists a few of these walls. As time goes on, we'll add more walls. Here are the walls we've listed now:
To see photo histories of the walls, click on one of the links above or just scroll down. (And, by the way, if you have a photo of a mural that we don't have here, please let us know! We want to show all of the murals that Tucson has had, now and before.)

1240 North Stone

This empty lot just south of Und1sputed Fitness & Training Center has had ever-changing graffiti / urban art since at least 2010. For years, Tucson muralist Cyfi (Rock Martinez) organized the nationwide WintaFresh weekend here; that ended around 2016 after Cyfi moved to Minneapolis. The walls were also repainted at other times.
  1. July 19, 2006: Ahhh-nold!
  2. November 30, 2009: Arnold has company
  3. January 10, 2010: Undisputed urban art
  4. July 6, 2011: Winter Fresh in July (?!)
  5. January 25, 2013: Winta Fresh 2013 is Saturday February 2!
  6. February 12, 2013: What Winta Fresh 2013 painted over…
  7. February 16, 2013: Murals being made, part 14: WintaFresh 2013
  8. January 7, 2014: WintaFresh 2013 revisited
  9. January 14, 2014: WintaFresh 2013 revisited again
  10. June 5, 2014: More from Mark Fleming
  11. May 26, 2016: So long, WintaFresh
  12. September 21, 2016: Und1sputed Fitness, December 2013

East side of 197 East Toole

  1. May 12, 2010: Maybe a mural, part five (the last three photos)
  2. January 13, 2012: Not as new at 6th & Toole
  3. January 14, 2012: A bit newer at 6th & Toole
  4. February 29, 2012: The continuing saga at Toole & 6th (second photo)
  5. March 02, 2012: Che Guevara on 6th & Toole
  6. October 06, 2012: Skrappys and friends, May-July 2012 (see 1st of three sections)
  7. December 28, 2012: October to December at 6th & Toole (last two images)
  8. March 03, 2013: Gabriel Ruiz Villegas
  9. January 29, 2014: Two sides on Toole
  10. April 07, 2015: Rock Martinez at 6th & Toole
  11. August 10, 2015: April at 199 East Toole
  12. March 30, 2018: Pacman next to the border
  13. May 19, 2019: Rock replaces Rock
  14. October 20, 2020: 197 East Toole all repainted (Murals being made, part 56)
  15. August 3, 2021: Both sides of this mural magnet on Toole
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Northwest side of 191 East Toole

  1. May 25, 2009: Train, trolley, and a three-eyed alien
  2. May 01, 2010: Murals by moonlight (see 2nd photo)
  3. October 06, 2012: Skrappys and friends, May-July 2012 (see 3rd of three sections)
  4. May 21, 2015: Tucson scene mural (mostly) whitewashed
  5. September 18, 2015: More change (as usual) on Toole: #1 of 3
  6. May 05, 2016: Prince tributes from Tucson artists (and stencil-ists) (scroll down to bottom)
  7. June 02, 2016: A few bold underwater humans and alien fish (?)
  8. June 16, 2017: New on 191 E. Toole
  9. November 24, 2017: Much better photos of Joe Pagac's underwater mural
  10. May 21, 2018: New "augmented-reality" mural on 191 E. Toole (note: also see Jan. 11, 2019)
  11. January 04, 2019: Murals being made (but not finished!), part 48a: Rialto Theatre on Toole?
  12. January 11, 2019: #18in2018 (in 2019) (note: also see May 21, 2018)
  13. January 21, 2020: Ted DeGrazia by Danny Martin
  14. August 19, 2020: Rialto-style marquee on Toole goes all “Black Lives Matter”
  15. December 8, 2020: Jackie Daytona mural in Tucson, Arizonia
  16. August 3, 2021: Both sides of this mural magnet on Toole
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Southwest side of 191-197 East Toole

  1. April 28, 2011: Skrappys, October 2010
  2. October 05, 2011: Skrappys again reinvents its front wall (again)
  3. January 04, 2012: New at 6th & Toole, part 2
  4. January 11, 2012: Siobhan on Toole
  5. February 27, 2012: One day, six months ago…
  6. February 29, 2012: The continuing saga at Toole & 6th (first photo)
  7. October 06, 2012: Skrappys and friends, May-July 2012 (see 2nd of three sections)
  8. December 28, 2012: October to December at 6th & Toole (first two images)
  9. March 11, 2013: Along Toole, April 2012
  10. May 05, 2016: Prince tributes from Tucson artists (and stencil-ists) (scroll down to third photo)
  11. March 23, 2018: This isn't a word on Scrabble :)
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Northeast side of 191-197 East Toole

  1. May 12, 2010: Maybe a mural, part five (first photo)
  2. October 29, 2013: Outer space in a strange place
  3. December 31, 2019: Revisiting a hidden/trashed mural
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Northwest of 191 East Toole

  1. May 13, 2012: Kindness, part 2
  2. October 4, 2012: While in traffic on Toole…
  3. January 1, 2014: New on Toole in 2013 (and Happy
    4. 2014!) (scroll down past a few photos)
  4. February 26, 2014: Toole flashback
  5. April 21, 2015: Temporary on Toole
  6. August 17, 2015: More changes on Toole in April or May
  7. September 22, 2015: More change (as usual) on Toole: #2 of 3
  8. September 24, 2015: More change (as usual) on Toole: #3 of 3
  9. May 21, 2019: (Not) Mural Lovers, part 4: tagged and re-tagged
  10. November 22, 2019 (2014 photos): Mural panels on Toole five years ago
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