Monday Mural : Greetings from Tucson
Victor Ving and Lisa Beggs go around the country painting the “Greetings from” mural series. Lisa explained on their website, “The beginning is when we really tried to do a KickStarter and get sponsors, but we failed at both of those things. We didn’t want to wait around to get someone else’s approval so we took a huge risk purchasing an RV and packing life into it. Leaving a few items in storage at Victor’s Queens apartment, we drove away from New York City in April of 2015. The original goal was to last one year on the road, but now painting and traveling the USA is our life indefinitely.”
Ving and Beggs often ask a local muralist to paint one of the letters. Rock Martinez painted the letter C for the Tucson mural.
For Tucson, they used the following icons
Letter Guide:
T — University of Arizona
U — Saguaro cacti
C — Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) by local Tucson artist, Cyfi
S — Hotel Congress, John Dillinger
O — San Xavier del Bac, Man in the Maze
N — Sonoran hot dog
Below they created a video of making the mural on Miller’s Surplus. The music is a local band called “Los Nawdy Dawgs”, with one of the band members being George Landa of Miller’s Surplus.
Many times cities, local groups or businesses will commission them for a mural. In the case of Tucson, they put up a Go Fund Me page which raised about $200. While they painted, passerbys also left money. A mural costs about two thousand dollars usually.
Other cities where they have painted a Greetings from mural (Some cities have more than one)
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They also post travel photos on their website. You can catch them on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and You-Tube.
References:
Greetings
The Tucson Murals Project
GreetingsTours.com Tucson mural
Muralists paint a Tucson postcard
photos By A.e. Araiza, Arizona Daily Star, February 17, 2017
‘Greetings Tour’ makes stop in Tucson to paint new mural
KOLD 13, February 19, 2017
Greetings from Tucson: New mural going up downtown
by Irene McKisson, Tucson.com, February 16, 2017
Traveling art duo leaves vintage mark on Tucson
By Alyx Dote, KVOA Channel 4, February 27, 2017
Blog Hops
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13 Replies to “Monday Mural : Greetings from Tucson”
You find the coolest art, Mary!
Something to share with you – https://ofmiceandramen.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-legend-of-chang-e.html
Thank you, Veronica! I’m pretty lucky that muralists come from all over to paint in Tucson.
I have seen this mural but could not recall where. It’s fun to learn about how it was created and who the artists were. I love how they live in their RV and travel around painting. I am researching RV living myself and it sounds amazing. Thanks for a fun post. There is a geocache at that mural, by the way, in the phone pole nearby.
lol, I’ll go back and get it
For a minute I thought it was a real postcard!
Doesn’t it look just like one? I thought that was pretty cool
retro too!
You sure find some cool art!
Thank you! Yeah, I’m pretty lucky that Tucson is becoming an “in place” to do murals
Way cool. I love this and yes it’s an Aw.
Have a fabulous Awww Monday. ♥
Thank you! I’m happy you enjoyed it and that it fit in with Awww Mondays.
Hope you’re having a great weekend!