Friday, October 21, 2022
Family Bargain Thrift Shop
I took the photos June 22, 2022.
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Arts Foundation seeking Public Art Coordinator
The Arts Foundation seeks a full time Public Art Coordinator to effectively implement various aspects of the Arts Foundation’s Public Art Program in accordance with the Percent for Art Ordinances for the City of Tucson and Pima County.https://artsfoundtucson.org/new-full-time-job-opening-at-the-arts-foundation/
The Coordinator will work closely with the Public Art Manager to administer all public art program functions and activities, including new and active percent for art projects, relocations, deaccessions, donations and private sector projects.
To learn more click the link below.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
6th Avenue Asphalt Art Block-Painting Party 10/22
https://www.tucsonaz.gov/tdot/news/sixth-avenue-asphalt-art-block-painting-party
Monday, October 17, 2022
In 12 years, this garden mural has grown
Next, closeups from left (north) to right (south), ending with the cute mailbox:
There are closeups of the mailbox in today's post Flashback to this garden box: 103 South Calle de Jardin on the Tucson Mailbox Art blog. Manny Garcia painted the original mural. I'm not sure if he made the updated version.
Friday, October 14, 2022
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Hidden Appliances
By Erica Cantua |
Click for a larger image. You'll see appliances like these: Thanks to BG Boyd Photography for that close-up.
Monday, October 10, 2022
Rock the Spot: Graffiti art festival October 14-16
Tucson, Arizona this is it. We are 1 week away. The super bowl of graffiti art in Tucson. Next weekend October 14th, 15th and 16th. Rock the spot graffiti art festival. This art event will feature some of the best graffiti art in the south west. Please come out and enjoy all of the beautiful graffiti art murals. Thank you to the city of Tucson and all of the sponsors and everyone involved. Now let's rock the spot.It'll be at 63 E. Congress (downtown behind the Cobra Bar on Congress Street… it's in a big parking lot).
Who remembers the WintaFresh weekends that Cyfi organized at Und1sputed Fitness on Stone? Here are photos and video from almost ten years ago: Murals being made, part 14: WintaFresh 2013.
Update (May 12, 2023): Our post on May 9th, Ready to Rock (the Spot), shows preparation for painting the lot and the signatures of artists who did the work. Today's post This Spot (was) Rocked has closeups of most of the 30+ murals after they were finished or (for a few) almost done.
Friday, October 07, 2022
Mysterious Business
I was unable to find the name or nature of the business at this location. However, there may be a clue as to its nature on one of the paintings displayed in the window. It has been signed by "Chronic The Hemp Hog".
Click for a larger image.
Tuesday, October 04, 2022
Friday, September 30, 2022
Tawt you taw a puddy tat?
(A link to the video in a separate window or tab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ifwADpFSyA)
Tweety's muwal is just acwoss fwom Isaac Cawuso's juicy citwus muwal: BG Boyd Photography sent this spectacular version of the photo above: Nina Palomba painted the mural. Here's her signature at the lower right corner: I didn't recognize her style in other Tucson murals. It turns out that she's painting Tweety murals around the US. I found that from the QR code, which is at the lower left of the mural: (Geek note: Look closely — you can click on the image for a larger view. Some of the dots and lines aren't perfect. Did she paint the QR code by hand?!)
That code leads to the web address https://www.looneytunes.com/tweety80/ — where you'll find the bios of Nina and other artists, and photos of other Tweety muwals.
That's all Folks!
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Randy Garsee's 2008 Tucson mural tour video
The video is low-resolution (TV in 2008!) so opening it in another page may not help you much… but here's a link: https://youtu.be/pKxczQbXomY.
Gone but not forgotten, Randy.
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
You're being watched on Congress Street...
BG Boyd Photography, who specializes in drone photography, sent this aerial photo (thanks!): Drivers passing by should be nervous. :)
Friday, September 23, 2022
Denver's neighborhood murals: a vision for Tucson?
This blog has over 1,000 Tucson murals over the past 15 years. The number of murals in just these four Denver blocks is close to 2% of 15 years' worth of murals all over Tucson! That's a lot of murals in a small area — something like Fourth Avenue in Tucson. (Denver also has at least one neighborhood packed with even more murals called RiNo — which, by the way, has nothing to do with Donald Trump and Republicans.) This got me thinking that Tucson neighborhoods wanting more visitors could pack lots of murals in a few blocks.
All of these murals gave the area a (literally) artsy feel when I walked through it. Here are unedited quick snapshots of the murals I saw:
I snapped these on July 24th and 25th.
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Lucky Wishbone
Friday, September 16, 2022
Yoeme Unidos
"The Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area is proud to commission another heritage mural that focuses on empowering indigenous youth to take the expressive traditions passed down from their communities and their own artistic style to paint their understanding of traditional stories, cultural figures and epic histories in a collaborative mural."
Two professional muralists worked with seven Pascua Yaqui youth to paint this mural. The names of the seven are: Jennay, Erik, Juliette, Raul, Santi, Johnny and Elijah.
The professional muralists are Ignacio Garcia and Anitra "Yukue" Molina |
Click for a larger image.
The mural is on the west wall of the Sonoran Stitch Factory located on W. Rillito St. The mural is seen from N. 15th Ave. A previous mural appeared on this wall on 10/19/2015 as Near Richey Elementary.
To further explain; the Yoeme are originally from Sonora Mexico around the Yaqui River. They are more commonly known in the U.S. as the Pascua Yaqui. The Yoeme are the only Native American tribe that has never officially surrendered to either the Spanish colonial forces, the Mexican government, or the United States.
Several updates from Jerry Peek: I made a note about a post and video I saw on Facebook July 1st showing the mural in progress and finished. (The unveiling was June 26th.)
Here's a clickable link to open the Facebook video page in a separate window: https://www.facebook.com/100010592835349/videos/791951158630194/
The original video is by BG Boyd Photography. You don't need Facebook to see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUdP5uApIAc
There's more information about the mural and the two professional muralists on this page, Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Murals: https://santacruzheritage.org/yoeme-unidos/
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Scenes of Tucson
Friday, September 09, 2022
Talented Toad
Tuesday, September 06, 2022
Tucson's Desert Scenery
Friday, September 02, 2022
Mural disappears, comes back even better
On May 17, 2012, I posted a photo of the mural under construction in Murals being made, part 8 (Kindness, part 3) along with more info; you can click there to see it all. Here's that photo, complete with buckets of materials and a NO ACCESS sign: