Wild, pink and fuzzy at the HD motorcycle show
Shiny black and chrome motorcycles were lined up side by side for more than a block at the Harley Davidson showroom in Marana. And those …
Category: Art in Tucson
Let’s have a picnic with ants
You’ve seen the dragon Toby in Tucson. And The Messenger. Now meet the Ants crawling atop a ramada with picnic tables at the Brandi Fenton …
Art, books and a “wait-a-minute” women artists controversy
The Tucson Museum of Art Fair in November, 2019 was jam packed with artisans and crafts people, including some astonishing art works inspired by robots …
Ancient Mayan and new Mexican sculptural warriors
In keeping with the idea from my last post that old and the new-imitating-the-old exist in Tucson… Last Saturday I visited the Tucson Museum of …
Macrame and custom socks at St. Phillip’s weekend market
On weekends St. Phillip’s Plaza at River and Campbell holds a market that is sorta like a crafts fair. Lots of jewelry makers and –you …
Yellow VW Bug loves succulents
Well, if you have an old rusted out VW Bug lying around somewhere, you, too, can transform it into a gigantic yellow planter for succulents …
A WWI Vet sculpts Garden of Gethsemane in Tucson
As he lay gravely wounded in a trench in France during World War I, Felix Lucero, a native of Trinidad, CO had a vision of …
Let’s have a big hand for Elvis!
Or maybe two. I had driven by this mural, above, on Fort Lowell Road dozens of times, but it wasn’t until I stopped to take …
The Messenger sculpture in east Tucson
Taking a drive out to the Eastside of Tucson finally came up near the top of my To-Do list. So on one relentlessly sunny day …
Where to make a New Year’s wish in Tucson
In Spanish it’s El Tiradito. In English, it’s The Castaway. And for decades it has been a place Tucsonans bring a candle and make a …