Showing posts with label Dunbar/Spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dunbar/Spring. Show all posts

Friday, July 21, 2017

Maybe a mural, part 77

Another Dunbar/Springs Roundabout.  This one is at the intersection of W. University Blvd. and N. 11th Ave. The artists are Zach Lihatsh and Troy Neiman.  The north and south sides of the column are devoted to the history of the neighborhood.  The east and west sides depict some of the people who made that history.
North Side
South Side
East Side
West Side
All of the photos had to be taken at an angle.  The black and yellow traffic warnings block a direct view.

I encourage you to click on any photo for a slide show of larger and sharper images.

Monday, July 17, 2017

Maybe a mural, part 76

Roundabout at N. 9th Ave. & W. 5th St.

Mary Lucking was commissioned by the Tucson/Pima Arts Council in 2003 to create artwork for three Roundabouts in the Dunbar/Springs Neighborhood.  This is the third of the three.

Mary has used her art to tell the story of the neighborhood.  Mary also filled the center with desert plants.   Here are the results:
North Side
South Side
East Side
West Side
Note - The photo of the west side had to be taken at an angle due to lens flare from the morning sun.

Some of the panels are starting to show the effects of age and weathering.  It also looks like there was some vandalism that had to be painted over.

Click on any photo for a slide show of larger and sharper images.

Friday, July 14, 2017

Maybe a mural, part 75

Dunbar/Spring Roundabout at N. 9th Ave. & W. 1st St.

Mary Lucking was commissioned by the Tucson/Pima Arts Council in 2003 to create artwork for three Roundabouts in the Dunbar/Springs Neighborhood.  This is the second of the three.

Mary has used her art to tell the story of the neighborhood.  Mary also filled the center with desert plants.   Here are the results:
North Side
South Side
West Side
East Side.
Note - The bottom panel of the East Side photo is probably a reference to the old Court St. Cemetery.  See Neighborhood atop cemetery

Some of the panels are starting to show the effects of age and weathering.

Click on any photo for a slideshow of larger and sharper images.

Monday, July 10, 2017

Maybe a mural, part 74

Roundabout at N. 11th Ave. & W. 1st St.  What is a Roundabout you might ask.  It's a circle of concrete curbing placed in the middle of an intersection.  If you work for Tucson's Dept. of Transportation it's a Traffic Circle.  To the rest of us it's a Roundabout and a pain in the posterior.

Mary Lucking was commissioned by the Tucson/Pima Arts Council in 2003 to create artwork for three Roundabouts in the Dunbar/Springs Neighborhood.  I suspect the motive was to give drivers something to look at while they figured out how to make a left turn.

Mary has used her art to tell the story of the neighborhood.  This is her story of the old Court Street Cemetery.  The cemetery closed in 1908 but only about half the bodies were moved. The remaining 4,000+ still lie beneath the streets and homes of the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood.  May they rest in peace.
Hallowed Ground
East Side
North Side
West Side
South Side
Some of the panels are starting to show the effects of old age and weathering.

Click on any photo for a slide show of larger and sharper images.

Here's an article you might like: Neighborhood atop cemetery