Another wild Tucson mural and one that may vanish
Biking across the open desert on this Joe Pagac mural are a rattlesnake, a road runner and a horned lizard hanging on for dear life. …
Category: Art in Tucson
Rillito Bend mural is wildly more than it appears
Dedicated in March of 2020, the mural to mark a southern side of the Rillito Bend neighborhood was created by a now-retired certified nurse midwife, …
2 lady murals and a Dragon named Toby
Tucson has become famous nationally for the spectacular, super-size murals around the city. Commissioned by the City of Tucson, the huge ‘Forget Me Not’ mural …
Gila Monster loves ice cream on this Tucson mural
Muralist Joe Pagac is probably most famous for his whales in the Tucson sunset mural at Grant and Campbell. Although the cowboy cyclist and pals …
Watching an amazing Romeo and Juliet on YouTube in Tucson
The Independent Shakespeare Company‘s free summer performances in Griffith Park are among the top 5 things I loved about living in Los Angeles. I didn’t fully …
2020 Laughter from Tucson
Dear Diary 2020 Edition,In January, Australia caught on fire. I don’t even know if that fire was put out, because we straight up almost went …
The Tucson Festival of Books and libraries in the time of CoVid-19–what’s next?
The annual Tucson Festival of Books is the third largest book fair in America and it was cancelled a couple of weeks ago because over …
Hecho en Mexico right here in Tucson
While I was out scouting fruit trees at a local nursery for an upcoming post on my gardening site, Hot Gardens, I spent a few …
Javelina Madness at the Tubac art festival
The slogan for the tiny village (pop.1190) of Tubac, Arizona is “Where Art and History Meet”. Maybe a better slogan would be where art and …
Museum Sunday with steel drums and Oaxacan folk art figures
After hearing the Tucson High Magnet School steel drum band outside the Tucson Museum of Art I began to wish that there had been a …