Danny Martin Mural

Danny Martin has painted a mural on the north side of the Old Pueblo Parking Garage downtown on Congress St.

The first photo was taken in Nov. of 2019 as Danny was completing the mural.

Photo by David

The next two photos were taken in January of 2020 when the mural was complete.  One was taken on a week day with many cars parked in front of the mural.  The other was taken on a Sunday when there was less congestion.

Photo by Jerry

Photo by David

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"Living"

Artist Isaac Caruso created the design for the north wall of the La Suprema community building to reflect the history of Barrio Viejo.  It was transferred to a paint-by-number mural that was completed by volunteers.

Photographed Dec. 11, 2019

Complete Mural

Left Side

Center

Right Side

Artist, Volunteers & Sponsors

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6th St. construction murals: our 1500th entry

This blog has been online since July 12, 2006. In that time, we've posted 1500 entries. Most of them had photos of murals, and some had mural news. For this 1500th entry, we've got photos of the cloth murals hung along the construction fencing that starts on 4th Avenue just south of 6th Street, continues west along 6th Street down 5th Avenue, then back to 6th Street, ending a bit west of 5th Avenue.

Some of the panels are advertising for the project being built behind the fence; others promote 4th Avenue and its businesses. I haven't included all of those. Some of the artists' panels have been stolen, and some of those replaced. These photos show the murals on November 12 and December 2, 2019. One shows a blank section of fence; after that is a photo of the mural that was originally there, before it was stolen; the photo is courtesy of the artist, Marcy Ellis.

2019 Downtown Murals Project, 4 of 4: Critters on a bike

If you're driving southbound on Stone just before 6th Street, look fast through a parking lot between the buildings:

Joe Pagac painted another bicycle-themed mural, the year before, almost across the street: the huge Epic Bikes mural. The animals there are riding bicycles, too, but probably not as fast as the roadrunner and his two passengers:

November 30, 2019, was a gray day. So I used my favorite free photo editor, GIMP, to make the mural look sunny.

2019 Downtown Murals Project, 3 of 4: Not a Little One

The scene on this block used to be boring… until last spring:

Jessica Gonzales painted this long mural on two businesses: The Little One restaurant, at the left side (its storefront is at 151 N. Stone) and Suntran Special Services. Here are those two halves:

(As always, you can click for bigger views.) The credits are on a sign in the middle of the right side:

I took the photos on November 24, 2019.

We'll wrap up this series next time with another of Joe Pagac's bicycle-themed murals.

2019 Downtown Murals Project, 2 of 4: La Madre

Racheal Rios and Carlos Valenzuela painted that dreamy scene above two benches just across the sidewalk from Alameda Street. It's not much like the original design, which you can see (unless the photos have been updated) in the pages Downtown Tucson is getting 4 new murals this spring (from the Arizona Daily Star's This is Tucson).

David Aber caught the mural painting in progress on May 4th, 2019, when the title he heard was “Families Belong Together, Water and Thorns”:

(As always, you can click on a photo for larger views of all of them.)

The two benches are surrounded by scenes with “you are my other me” in English and Spanish:

The credits are on the side of the right-hand bench:

Next time, it's down the street a block to two side-by-side murals.