Art Crew Attacks!

As you've seen in previous posts, South Tucson has a lot of murals! Some of them are in out-of-the-way places. This one is. It's on the east side of Major League Painting — basically the southwest corner of 6th Avenue and 30th Street. There's a map at the end of this post that shows the exact wall.

Here's the mural in sections, left (south) to right (north):

Below is a map showing where the wall is. As always, you can click for a slideshow of larger views — this map and the photos:

I was there during my South Tucson mural marathon, around the corner of 6th Avenue and 29th Street, on September 17, 2024.

T&T Market, part 3 of 3: north wall

This is the third and last post about the former supermarket. The previous post was T&T Market, part 2 of 3: east wall. Today we'll look at the north wall.

The whole wall and a bit of the front (at left):

Three closer photos from left (east) to right (west):

I was there September 17, 2024.

T&T Market, part 2 of 3: east wall

Last time, we saw the south side of this former supermarket along 31st Street in T&T Market, part 1 of 3: south wall. Today it's the east side. Here's the whole front:

The left (south) side of the front:

The right (north) side of the front:

I was there September 17, 2024.

T&T Market, part 1 of 3: south wall

SES, also known as Monty Esposito, has done a lot of painting (with help, I'm sure!) in the couple of blocks southwest of the corner of 6th Avenue and 30th Street in South Tucson.

This week we'll look at the long-closed T&T Market, which has been brightened up with murals along three of its sides. Today, the south wall along 31st Street. Google Maps Street View shows a blank white wall along here in April, 2022. So the wall was painted sometime after that.

I couldn't catch the entire wall at once. I'll start at the west (left) end, which is near an alley, and work my way east to the corner of 6th Avenue.

El Taco Rustico

The south wall of El Taco Rustico has a mural back to front (west to east):

From left (back) to right (front):

The sign has been badly tagged 😞:

I took the photos on July 8, 2024.

Speedy SES on Sixth Avenue

Monty “SES” Esposito painted three small murals on boards with classic Tucson subjects. There's also a larger mural, the last one below, at the corner of 6th & Congress. They were attached to downtown storefronts just north of Congress along the west side of 6th Avenue (across from Ronstadt Transit Center).

I snapped these photos on April 7, 2024. Three months later, I'm not sure if the murals are still there. Check them out while you can!

XTREME Off Road & Performance

By Monty "Ses" Esposito

By Monty "Ses" Esposito

Update (March 28, 2024) by Jerry Peek: I posted more photos today in More Xtreme.

This Spot (was) Rocked

Our previous post, Ready to Rock (the Spot), gave background about the Rock the Spot parking lot painting weekend in October, 2022. Here are more photos and a video of the lot during and after painting.

Thanks to BG Boyd Photography and his Tucson Murals Database, tucsonazmurals.com, for the photo above of Rock the Spot in progress. He also has a YouTube video of the parking lot before and after:



A link to BG's video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r12dIn6iCgI.

The photos below show most of the murals finished… though a few are still being made and there's equipment scattered around the parking lot. I took these photos early on Monday, October 17, 2022. Unlike most of our posts, I haven't edited these photos very much. (There are too many photos — 34 of them! — and some of the angles I took them from make editing tough to do.)

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The photos start from Danny Martin's mural at the southwest corner, which had already been in that place for a while. I move generally clockwise. In the middle, I detour down a narrow passage that connects with Scott Avenue and two existing murals there (Tawt you taw a puddy tat? and citrus & quail). I wind up at the southeast corner — where a new mural, Three Sisters / Las Tres Hermanas, has been finished in the past couple of weeks (so it isn't in these photos from last year).

Some of the photos are wide views that cover several murals. Those are followed by individual photos of all (or most) of the murals in the wide view. Sometimes there are close-ups of a particular mural.

Here goes!

Another Rock the Spot is coming later in 2023! The date should be announced in September.