Mark Fleming actually sent me more photos of the WintaFresh mural site than the ones I posted a week ago in WintaFresh 2013 revisited. Here are the rest... starting with one showing the name. (CyFi is muralist Rock Martinez, the man who puts this event together every year.)
Just north of downtown, the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood keeps filling with more great art. Mark Fleming sent these photos of a stenciled mural at 5th Street and 10th Avenue... with a sculpture, in front, of two fish:
Here's more of the mural:
He sent these on October 25th as part of a huge collection (that I'm still catching up with... thanks, Mark!).
Here's the last of three posts from this art-covered school. It's the north Side of a building at the north edge of campus just south of the corner of Amigo Avenue and Menor Stravenue:
A sign said it was painted “by Patti Gonzales 3/4 class, 1999.”
I rode around the school (and its neighborhood) on December 23, 2012.
There's a gorgeous long mural on the north wall of the home at 120 E. 15th Street. It's too long to capture in one shot. (I've tried!) Here are my attempts from June 24, 2013. Mark Fleming took close-up photos; they're next.
(As always, you can click any photo for a larger version.)
Mark Fleming sent photos of eight parts of the mural on October 25, 2013:
Great work, as always, Mark!
Update (February 23, 2020): Google Street View from April, 2019, shows that the mural is gone. Its walls, and the front of the home, have been painted green:
Wintafresh is an annual event in the lot south of Und1sputed Fitness at 1240 N. Stone. You can see (and hear) last year's event in our post Murals being made, part 14: WintaFresh 2013.
Mark Fleming visited the lot and sent four photos on October 25th:
Back on May 20th, 2013, I was on one of my early-morning bicycle rides (I get up earrrllyy during that warm time of the year) and passed by the home at 2520 N. Fontana. The porch had handpainted murals...
As you drive east on 6th Street, it's hard to miss the mural on the west side of Mansfield Middle School:
(I don't bicycle on 6th: no shoulder, lots of rough pavement! I was in my car when I pulled over to take this photo on December 6, 2012. This view is actually from the 400 block of Mountain Avenue between 6th & 7th Streets.)
I'm back into my archives. This photo is more than a year old — December 12, 2012 — so I wonder if the mural is still there?
It was on the east wall of Maui Smoke Shop, 1099 E. Broadway. (For a map, click the "Location" link below.) If you spot it — or spot a different mural there instead — please leave a comment below or let me know.
I was off my bike, and very busy, for the last half of last year. That meant missing the vibrant art scene along Toole Avenue downtown. (If you don't know Toole, click the "Location" link at the end of this post.) On Christmas Day, I got on my bike for a ride up Toole — from Hotel Congress... past Mat Bevel's butterfly sculpture at the corner of 6th Avenue... slowly past the ever-changing art-covered building at 191-197 Toole... Blocks, the skateboard and accessory shop with a mural on the side... to Solar Culture, near Stone Avenue.
Here are the photos, in order, with captions before each group. (If you want the exact location of anything, just drive or ride along Toole from southeast to northwest. Or, if you're technically-inclined the photos are geotagged... you can download a photo and get the location from a geotagging program. Or, ask me!)
First, the east side of the Rialto Theatre. Joe Pagac had painted a mural there that looked permanent to me. (Here's my March 7th, 2013 post showing the mural being made.) But now Joe is back to painting. The right-hand half of that previous mural was replaced by Joe's old style: promoting Rialto events. The new mural was co-painted by Noah Garcia:
At the northern corner of 6th and Toole, this mural at the left has been finished. It went without a caption for months. This caption, el pueblo unido no será vencido, means — according to a few online translators, at least — “The people united will not be defeated.” (My rough spanish made me think of “the town” instead of “the people.”. Comments, anyone?) Anyway, here's the photo — and the next few photos I snapped:
Along the street north of Skrappys (at 191 E. Toole) — next to the parking lot — have been a couple of sets of mural panels. The panels change from time to time. Here's the southern one, overall, then close-ups of the panels in it:
The next set is missing a panel. From left (northwest) to right (southeast):
On the side of Blocks at 7th & Toole, the latest mural (you can see earlier ones by searching this blog for BLX)... I think it may be by Rock “CyFi” Martinez:
Last, near Stone, where the community-oriented gallery Solar Culture sits, with its amazing rotating sculpture out front...
Update (December 22, 2014): I didn't show the new mural next to the spinning sculpture. And I don't remember if the dragonfly near the roof had been added by then. Mark Fleming took a photo on September 1.
One of my New Year's resolutions is to have a more-balanced life. In the past year, I've been stretched too thin. I used to post murals every day. Then I added the mailbox blog, then Tucson's Pocket Parks, began ramping up TucsonArt.info... and again started volunteering as event photographer at the amazing Tucson Museum of Art. Since Randy passed away in March, I've been the only contributor. Plus, I've gotta do my job... and ride my bike (to find more art)... and sleep! ;-)
I've decided to try posting more mural photos but editing them less. (I used to spend most of my time making the color as close to perfect as I could, fixing distracting bright spots, straightening tilted edges and "barrel distortion" (which many digital cameras have these days: straight lines are curved out like a barrel), etc. I'll add less "backstory" and explanation. I hope it'll let me get back to posting a mural per day. (My pile of photos now stretches back to October of 2012!)
Jerry
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