Runners up:
2. Stone Curves, North Stone Avenue3. Access Tucson, 124 E. Broadway Blvd.
Best Mural
Broadway Underpass Wall
Readers Pick
Broadway Underpass Wall
Broadway Boulevard, just east of Congress Street
Broadway Underpass Wall
Broadway Boulevard, just east of Congress Street
Call him the Frank Capra of public art. Equally well-known nowadays for his advocacy of light rail, Steve Farley won the enduring affection of Tucson with his Broadway mural, his first-ever public art commission. Fastened onto a wall in a downtown underpass, this populist mural in black-and-white tile celebrates the little guy. Farley began the project by collecting photos made by a street photographer on Congress Street from the 1930s to the 1960s. "Snapped on the street," these pictures captured ordinary Tucsonans going about their business: pretty girls grinning, young men loping along, the elderly stepping carefully ahead. Farley translated their forgotten faces into ceramic tile, and gave their unsung owners a permanent place of honor downtown.
Previous Winners
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2013
Joe Pagac's Rialto Theatre Mural
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2012
Joe Pagac's Rialto Theatre Murals
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2011
Joe Pagac's Rialto Theatre Murals
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2010
Joe Pagac's Rialto Theatre and Bookmans murals
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2009
"Windows to the Past, Gateway to the Future" (by Steve Farley)
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2008
"Windows to the Past, Gateway to the Future" (by Steve Farley)
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2007
Windows to the Past, Gateway to the Future
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2006
Broadway Underpass Wall (by Steve Farley)
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2005
Broadway Underpass Wall (by Steve Farley)
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2003
Broadway Underpass Wall
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2002
Stone Curves
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2001
"The Wall"
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2000
Broadway/Aviation Underpass
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1999
Aviation/Broadway Underpass
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