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Category: Art in Tucson

No trees in the Tucson Sculpture Park
Art in Tucson

No trees in the Tucson Sculpture Park

by carollightwoodMarch 31, 2023July 30, 2025

You can see the Tucson Sculpture Park when you cruise along River Dr. at the edge of the Foothills. It is that large, gravel-and-white-rock-covered lot …

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Free Books, Free Books…Everywhere
Art in Tucson / Historical Tucson / Tucson

Free Books, Free Books…Everywhere

by carollightwoodMarch 28, 2023July 30, 2025

Little Free Libraries have been around for a while and, over time, some here in Tucson have become works of art containing free books. So …

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Is there a downtown Tucson? Not exactly…
architecture in Tucson / Art in Tucson / Historical Tucson / Tucson

Is there a downtown Tucson? Not exactly…

by carollightwoodMarch 14, 2023July 30, 2025

About a year ago I spent an hour or so on a Sunday walking around and looking at what was happening along Congress Street. There …

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Dancing in Barrio Viejo to honor an emperor
Art in Tucson / Festivals in Tucson / Tucson

Dancing in Barrio Viejo to honor an emperor

by carollightwoodMarch 3, 2023January 7, 2025

One of the best things about living in a city is coming across an utterly unexpected event or people or place. On Saturday, Febuary 25th, …

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Bigger and better museum art fair
Arizona / Art in Tucson / Festivals in Tucson / Tucson

Bigger and better museum art fair

by carollightwoodNovember 19, 2022July 30, 2025

Well, it’s not just earrings and earrings and more earrings! The Tucson Museum of Art‘s Fall Artisans Market is not only larger this year, it …

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Walking my new favorite neighborhood
architecture in Tucson / Art in Tucson

Walking my new favorite neighborhood

by carollightwoodNovember 13, 2022July 30, 2025

After watching volunteers from the Living Streets Alliance paint 6th Avenue by Armory Park in late October, I drove around the area and discovered a …

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Tears at a Day of the Dead altar
Art in Tucson / Festivals in Tucson

Tears at a Day of the Dead altar

by carollightwoodNovember 6, 2022November 8, 2023

For years I photographed the Dia de los Muertos altars in Grand Park in Los Angeles and Pasadena. You can see some of them here …

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Painting 6th Avenue brilliant colors
Art in Tucson / Tucson

Painting 6th Avenue brilliant colors

by carollightwoodOctober 23, 2022July 30, 20252

It was a Volunteer Saturday with Tucsonans out and about improving the city by doing everything from picking up trash in the Santa Cruz riverbed …

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The art of the traffic roundabout
Art in Tucson / Tucson

The art of the traffic roundabout

by carollightwoodOctober 3, 2022July 30, 20251

In quiet neighborhood intersections all across Tucson there are roundabouts with trees, shrubs and some artwork in the middle. Along with speed bumps they are …

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Artificial Intelligence art you create with words
Art in Tucson / Nature in Tucson / Tucson

Artificial Intelligence art you create with words

by carollightwoodSeptember 26, 2022July 30, 2025

No art skills? No problem! Thanks to a new A.I. program online you can “create” original artwork with a few words. That’s right — words, …

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