Walking my new favorite neighborhood
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 …
Category: Art in Tucson
Tears at a Day of the Dead altar
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 …
Painting 6th Avenue brilliant colors
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 …
The art of the traffic roundabout
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 …
Artificial Intelligence art you create with words
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, …
A rare angel fountain and March Hare mural
The summer monsoon has arrived in Southern Arizona and so far the city of Tucson has had less than normal rainfall, although nearby areas like …
A year in a blacksmith’s life
The year was 2016. The award-winning blacksmith’s name is Matt Jenkins. And he felt he was in a creative rut. So for one hour a …
Elvis and Marilyn have vanished!
The somewhat bizarre mural of Elvis without hands, Marilyn Monroe, Selena and a floating Prince that ornamented a building on Ft. Lowell Rd. has been …
High Noon 2 Midnight + Horses and Hippie Art
If author Tom Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues) was going to invent a place for one of his characters to …
Is it Indian? German? Or Lower East Side?
Visual artist Brad Kalhamer credits his multi-cultural background for inspiration for his works. He was born of native American parents in Tucson at 11:59–that’s why …