Changed mural outside Solar Culture gallery

The last time we showed Solar Culture gallery was December 29, 2014 in Missing (Solar) Culture. Sometime since then, the mural in that post was repainted. (You can click on the previous link to see the old mural.) The new mural is:

The rest of the gallery front is about the same:

There's better detail, from 2013, in the last three photos of the following long post: New on Toole in 2013 (and Happy 2014!).

A better closeup of the dragonfly:

My 2024 visit was on July 21st.

Rock the Spot 2023: All around again

The Rock the Spot graffiti/mural event last happened November 30 to December 3, 2023. I haven't seen the dates announced for the next one. The Instagram page @rockthespotaz (you can click there to see it) mentions 2025.

In case the next one happens soon, I decided to take another walk around the parking lot and see what's changed. This is the route I walked (thanks to Google Maps for the satellite view):

As always, you can click on the map for a larger view of it and the photos.

I compared the photos to our last post, Rock the Spot's second year, 2023. It turned out that only one mural was new (the space was blank before) and another had been changed. I'll flag them below.

Before we start, a note: There are so many photos that I haven't done my usual careful editing.

The mural near the bottom of the photo below is new:

Here's a closeup of that bottom mural:

The gate below used to have two different murals, one on each door. Now it's one mural, in the style of the mural just to its right:

Tropical Smoothie Cafe, Grant at Swan

Want dessert after Thanksgiving? 😉 Although their website only mentions Tropical Smoothie Cafe, this business is also called Jeremiah's Italian Ice (or has two different stores inside). Whatever, it has a fun mural:

There are several other Tropical Smoothie Cafes around Tucson, but this is the first one I've seen. If the TUCSON mural here is on the other locations too, I'll aim to update this post and not take photos of the others. (This mural isn't signed, which is a bit suspicious.)

I forgot to take any closeups. I enlarged a piece of the mural photo above:

I was there on November 26, 2024 — but was on my way to an appointment, so I couldn't step inside.

Burn some calories around a mural-covered home

If you're having a big meal tomorrow (Thanksgiving), think about taking a mural-hunting and calorie-burning walk around the Barrio Viejo (just south of downtown) this holiday weekend. See our mural map at map.tucsonmurals.org.

Even if you don't take a walk, park somewhere around the corner of Kennedy Street and Rubio Alley (a.k.a. Rubio Avenue). Here's the home along the alley; it's lined with murals and there are more in the yard:

Our blog has posted this home twice before: On October 06, 2017 in Artistic gift to neighbors and passersby and October 13, 2017 in More of Kristin's gift. Here's the alley in the 10/13/17 post. The chimney didn't have its Danny Martin mural yet:

The back yard has also changed, as we'll see soon.

Danny Martin painted several murals around the home. He painted the chimney sometime in the seven years after our last post:

Next (south) along the wall is this mural of the Virgen de Guadalupe, painted by Raechel Running:

Artist and poet Jim Harrison, created by a great long time friend from Flagstaff, Jaybyrd Willison:

Walking a bit more toward the back the alled, just past the home's wall along the alley, look right to see this Danny Martin mural. It's one of (at least) four around the home:

Behind the house is this shed:

It was hard to snap photos through the fence. Here's the east side with a bit of fence at the lower left:

I used my photo editor to straighten the Danny Martin mural:

I don't know which came first, but that mural looks identical to the one Danny painted at the Downtown Clifton. Our June 18, 2015 post Welcome to the Downtown Clifton… shows it. (Click there to see it.)

I forgot to check the back of the shed! Our post More of Kristin's gift shows it in 2017.

Another Danny Martin mural is on the Little Free Library in front of this amazing home. You can see it in our October 28, 2024 post Jackalope wrapped in lights.