Tileography panels at Community Foundation

Their website cfsaz.org page “Who We Are” says “The Community Foundation for Southern Arizona connects donors to the causes they care about, serving as a vital link between philanthropy and the community’s needs.”

There's outdoor art around their buildings and changing art exhibits inside their co-working space. One art display is panels made by tileography. The website www.tilography.com describes the process and shows examples. One place you'll see tileography in Tucson is along Broadway Blvd. just east of downtown around the Rattlesnake Bridge.

There are eight tileography panels with portraits of Tucsonans. Enter at the door to the south of the tall mural shown in our June 25, 2021 post Murals being made, part 63: Connections. Then walk along the passageway:

The panels are numbered One through Eight, starting near that entrance. At the end of this post are a plaque with descriptions of each panel, then the text from it.

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The plaque after Panel Eight:

From Google Lens, with corrections by me:

FACING THE COMMUNITY 2001-
Artist/Photographer: Stephen Farley
Tilography by Richard Young and Tom Galloway

Panel One
Jannell and Marlene Davis
Community Food Bank

Panel Two
Louie Oviedo and Paul Kaye
Primavera Builders

Panel Tiuree
Yasuhiro Nakatani, M.D.
Kino Community Inspital
Early Intervention HTV Services Crinic

Panel Four
Bang Romano, Veil Fotey & Beth Marquart
Pastime Players

Panel Five
Garrick Woods, Hae Ryoung Lee & Rebeca Ortiz
Tucson Youth Symphonia

Panel Six
Selina Mendoza, Bruce Stewart &
Abran (?) and Daniel Lopez Nunez
Pueblo Gardens Neighborhood Association

Panel Seven
Richard Higginbotham and Johnny Gibson
PRONeighborhoods

Panel Eight
Ana Sarmienito (?)
Native American Education Program
Challenger Middle School

I visited on July 22, 2024.

Windows & A Gateway

There are a series of murals on Broadway Boulevard at Barraza-Aviation Parkway in downtown Tucson. Here are directions to the murals from Interstate 10.

Created by Stephen Farley, they're titled,

"Windows to the Past, Gateway to the Future."

Now this can be a VERY busy intersection so save your rubbernecking for the red light. Your car should not become part of the artwork, if you know what I mean.

By the way, Stephanie from Tucson wrote the following e-mail about this mural.

"The artwork that's titled 'Windows and a Gateway' should have the men that made the artwork right along with the artist, because the tilework is indeed art of its own. Tile Canvases hand glazed each piece of tile that you see downtown on that mural. And they continue to repair them on a regular basis whenever they get damaged. So, hats off also to Rick Young and Tom Galloway from Tile Canvases on a great piece of art!"

Update (April 1, 2007): The page Windows to The Past, Gateway to The Future has a link that shows photos of the 14 main panels.

Update (May 12, 2012): An Arizona Daily Star article, Life stories: Tucsonan immortalized on mural, tells the story of Gail Fafard and the panel showing her with two friends in the mid-1940s.

Update (June 27, 2022): KGUN9 TV broadcast a video interview 3:49 long with artist Steve Farley. The online version includes more information and photos.