Simple corner in South Tucson: 29th at 8th

South Tucson is a mural hotspot. To get an idea, open our mural map (click “Mural map” in the right column of any page or go to map.tucsonmurals.org). Then scroll to, say, the corner of 29th Street and 6th Avenue… and look at all the pins.

There are elaborate ceramic tile murals on main streets. On both main streets and side streets are some spectacular painted murals; we'll see new ones later this week. There are also intersections painted with murals you can see by looking down at the pavement, and intersections like the one below with murals on the corners. Take a tour someday: Bring the mural map and wander… you can click on a map pin to see what mural you might find there. (Note that we can't keep the map perfectly up to date because murals change constantly… though we try! If you have a correction, please email us from the contact form in the right column. For any missing mural, we'll change the red pin to a yellow scissors… you can click the scissors to find what mural used to be there.)

There are three corners with simple murals surrounding the corner of 29th Street and 8th Avenue. Google Maps Street View shows the corners without murals in January 2021, so these were painted in the past four years.

The northwest corner:

The northeast corner:

The southeast corner has little dusk desert scenes that are hard to see in the overall photo. So I also took photos of just the left and right sides:

I was there on September 17, 2024, to see a lot of murals in the neighborhood. More next time.

Agave at Twenty Two

The southwest corner of this apartment complex, on the south side along 22nd Street, has a sunny mural:

I drove by on September 3, 2024.

A lotta bulls

This mural is on the meatmarket Carniceria Los Toritos, in a strip mall that's been restored over the past few months. I stopped by on August 31, 2024:

A colorful Christmas along Dodge (at Ajo)

If you're looking for a tasty mural on Christmas, head for the Dodge Blvd. along the block north of Ajo Way — just west of Alvernon — to see a super-long series of murals painted by Sergio Lopez Noperi:

I walked its length from the left (south) to right (north), along the block of Dodge n. of Ajo, and took side-by-side closeup photos as I went. There are enough photos that I didn't do my usual careful editing: Some photos are tilted and I usually haven't cropped off the distracting background. Here we go:

I was there August 4, 2024. I haven't gone back to see if the artist has painted what looked to me like an unfinished flag and the skyline over mountains in the past three photos.

Here's a closeup of his signature from near the beginning:

Sergio's Instagram is Fire in the brush.

Hidden behind Carrillo Elementary

As I was exploring the little streets at the west side of Barrio Viejo, I looked through a fence behind Carrillo K-5 Magnet School:

I couldn't get close, so I zoomed in a lot for this photo — which made it a bit fuzzy:

I walked by on November 10, 2024.

Mural wall with nine lives

The southeast corner of Kolb and 34th — a few blocks north of Golf Links — has a wall built (I believe) by the homeowner. It has changing murals. In the past few months, someone ran a car into the wall — probably going to or from the carwash next door. The wall has been fixed; now it needs a new mural. I'll try to keep in touch and post new photos when it's finished.

David Aber posted photos in July 2020 with the mural(s) back then. See Graffiti Mural, Part I and Graffiti Mural, Part II.

For another year or two, I saw the mural shown in this Google Maps Street View from July 2023:



The photos below show the mural before the wall was smashed — August 4, 2024 — starting from the left (northwest) end, past the angled corner (southwest) to the right (east) end:

After the accident, on November 4, the middle (the fourth photo above) looked like this:

By December 13, 2024, the wall had been finished:

I'll post an update once I find a new mural there.

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.