Lauri Marks Kaye

Tumamoc Hill
This drawing of one of my favorite places was almost as hard as climbing it.

I have walked this hill a bunch lot and notice how many different people are out there every day. Some running, some barely moving, scientist, researchers, families, students, some talking, some totally in their own head.

Same road, everyone is carrying something different up it.

This artwork reflects that shared ritual—how a simple place becomes meaningful through the people who return to it again and again.

Another reason why I love Tucson.
I brought one to SAAG gallery, the other is at The Tucson Gallery on Congress.

24x36 mixed media on metal

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OUR RESISTANCE WILL OUTLIVE YOUR FEAST

This portrait was drawn from anger, and chaos, seeing those in power attempt to bleed our communities dry.

Inspired by a spray-painted wall in Denver I photographed years ago and still so relevant — the world is OURS. Not theirs.

The megaphone in this piece holds space for every voice that’s been talked over, dismissed, and ignored.

Seeing our friends and neighbors continue to speak up, protest, scream, make art, boycott, anything at all, it matters.🌍✊

Not America’s Tw***ie
Here’s to 2026:
Not sweet, spongey or shelf-stable
Not smiling though exhaustion

Yes, to supporting women


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BROKEN.
I took this photo at our neighborhood taco 🌮shop. The ice machine was broken. An employee taped up a sign that said NO ICE.

What’s happening in Minnesota.
What keeps happening in our cities.
Families ripped apart. People disappeared into a system that runs on fear.

I’m selling this artwork (createforthepeople.com) and donating 100% to the National Immigrant Justice Center, who fight in court for people ICE wants us to forget.

I changed the artwork in the soda labels not to be clever. It’s not cute. It’s grief and rage and helplessness trying to make something out of wreckage.

Making art doesn’t stop raids.
Stickers don’t bring people home.

But looking away or letting others protest feels like complicity.

Join me 😄and make your mark 🖌️on a new limited-edition series, “With Love,”. 😍I’ll bring the Sharpies, you bring your graffiti-pen flair. Let’s see how this piece of art ends up. I love not knowing the outcome and creating a piece that allows others to join in and add their spin on top of the artwork. In he margins, on top of the artwork, whatever inspires you. Layers upon layers of ideas evolving creating new stories. Art shouldn’t be too precious to touch. Tucson Gallery tomorrow afternoon. 12/20
With Love,
Lauri

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Yes, I agree! Posted at one of my favorite neighborhood Taco shops, Eat local, visit, support and protect our neighbors. 🌮

This is going to be awesome! 😀

Mission Garden 🪏invites the community to celebrate Indigenous creativity, culture, and tradition at the 2025 Native American Arts Fair on November 8 from 8am to 4pm. The event will feature Indigenous artists and makers from throughout the region, offering original works for sale including jewelry, art, and handcrafted goods.

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✨ More Amor Por Favor ✨
The world feels heavy right now, so I want to spread a little more love. 💛

Today I’m bringing my newest piece 🎨More Amor Por Favor to SAAG Gallery. To celebrate, I’m offering:

💌 A free print to anyone who visits the gallery — take one to give to someone you love.
📲 A free print to anyone who shares this post — because love multiplies when we pass it on.

Let’s fill Tucson (and beyond) with more amor, por favor. 🌵💕

Join me next Monday 6pm for Tucson Foodies incredible “Desert Magic” event.

Amazing chefs, tastings🌶️, botanical cocktails, plant ceremonies, 🌵medicinal experiences, 👍artists.


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Tickets:
Desertmagic.eventbrite.com

More Amor ❤️Por Favor! Graffitied hearts, poems, lovebirds in flight—bits and pieces of street art sprayed and plastered across cities, I was excited to return to Tucson🌵and process all that I had seen and create something new.

Before landing it was hard to ignore this pit in my stomach, what’s happening in this country. Every day feels like a challenge, deciding how to respond. —be kind, be generous, help those in need, support those who care about human rights. Share joy and beauty through art.

I’ve had a blast photographing bits and pieces from random taggers, artists both new to me, like WRDSMTH, and icons I’ve admired for years, like Banksy. Their work, now layered with others who want to add their voices through paint, stickers, and paste. Stories evolving with every passerby adding their mark. Amid all the noise and negativity I find myself uplifted by these relentless acts of creativity, joy, and love that color our cities.

I love layering my drawings on top of all this color, creating something new. In this piece the message, at its core, is the same…More Amor Por Favor.





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Years ago, I started sketching this Tucson 🌵story, A Mountain (Sentinel Peak). It’s always been such an iconic part of Tucson, and I’ve spent a lot of time hiking around it. But I never loved the early drawings, so I shelved them.

Fast forward several people told me I had to check out Mission Garden, right at the base of A Mountain. Somehow I’d never been. When I finally went, I was totally blown away. It’s a beautifully maintained garden run by volunteers, telling the story of Tucson’s agriculture going back over 4,000 years. And through these tall, vibrant pink flowers I saw A Mountain in a completely new way. Instead of the usual muted browns and greens, it was suddenly framed in color!

Time to revisit the piece.

I also really wanted to include fireworks over A Mountain—something I always look forward to on the 4th of July. I tried drawing them again and again, but they were just ok. Then, while I was traveling, I ended up at a Noah Kahan concert in Hyde Park that ended in this beautiful fireworks show, grabbed my cell phone, took a bunch of photos hoping there’d be one good enough to use in this Tucson Portrait Story.

This piece pulls from all of that—my old sketches, the garden, a concert in London, and all the bits of graffiti, photos, and details I love layering into my work. Inspiration coming from everywhere, landing in the place I love most. Another love letter to the desert.


Come visit me 👋🌺in my studio or visit…




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