Tucson Murals Project

Jerry here. Every Wednesday, Dusty's Tucson Murals blog highlights a mural between 2006-2025 from The Tucson Murals Project. It's a great way to see and read about one of the 2,000 murals in the archive. Here's this week's post (subscribe to see more!):

On the Wings of Music We Discover Salvation The mural on the Rialto’s backstage door, in Salvador Duran’s own words

The Tucson Murals Project 2.0 blog has over 80 murals now. If you aren't a fan of the default "flipcard" layout, there are six more layouts. This is "magazine". Choose in the dropdown at top left or just click here:

https://tucsonmurals2.blogspot.com/?view=magazine

This looks like an amazing venue for murals:

Mosaic Quarter to feature murals from local artists A huge complex under construction to be a showcase for sports and entertainment will be a showcase for local art too.

The Tucson Murals Project 2.0 blog is still cranking out murals photos (usually) 3 mornings a week. Here are the latest daily posts in a "magazine" format (which you can choose from the dropdown menu at top left). Unlike the flipcard view, it shows some text from the start of each post. (On my computer, FB isn't showing the bottom of the image. You might want to click/tap this screenshot for a larger, scrollable view.)
https://tucsonmurals2.blogspot.com/

The last three posts on the Tucson Murals Project 2.0 show the closed "mural gallery" near 6th Ave & 36th St and what it used to be. There's also a long wall of murals next to it.
https://tucsonmurals2.blogspot.com/

Joe Pagac's mural at Ari on Fourth made the news because it was vandalized. Just by chance, a week ago the Tucson Murals Project 2.0 blog had photos of Joe painting the mural.

Year-end post, 12 of 12: "Balloons" at sunset (Murals being made, part 90) Murals in Tucson, Arizona, USA beginning in 2025. The previous blog, The Tucson Murals Project, has murals from 2006 to 2024.

If you'd like to scroll through 500+ murals over the holiday, and you haven't seen the website tucsonAZmurals.com by BG Boyd Photo, have a look! An interesting spot is the "No Access" murals that you can't see from outside a building, fence, etc:
https://tucsonazmurals.com/murals/noaccess

Here's what Joe and Lenka are doing in South America -- and will be doing in February and March. One project is painting the interior of the new Casino del Sol on Grant Road!

What's next for artist Joe Pagac? KGUN reported yesterday about his plans to restore his vandalized mural (if you missed it, link to it is in the comments), but he's got some very cool new projects just around the corner. Don Davis reporting.

Some posts on the Tucson Murals Project blogs are titled "Murals being made". Those show a mural from near the beginning until the end. Today's post "...Tucson Rodeo mural at City Court (Murals being made, part 88)" is an example:
https://tucsonmurals2.blogspot.com/2025/12/year-end-post-9-of-12-tucson-rodeo.html

The front page of the Tucson Murals Project 2.0 blog is almost full (more or less, depending on your browser). I (Jerry) am posting three times a week during December, so there's lots new! Hint: You can try a different format from the menu at the top left.
https://tucsonmurals2.blogspot.com/