Runners up:
2. Stone Curves North Stone Avenue
3. Hippie Gypsy, 351 N. Fourth Ave., 624-0667
Vote of note: "All over South Tucson"
Best Mural
Broadway Underpass Wall (by Steve Farley)
Readers Pick
Broadway Underpass Wall (by Steve Farley)
Broadway Boulevard, just east of Congress Street
Broadway Underpass Wall (by Steve Farley)
Broadway Boulevard, just east of Congress Street
This mural scores for technology alone: Steve Farley invented a whole new art medium to create it. Featuring old photos he collected from the community, the work is as interesting for pedestrians as for the 30,000 or so automobile passengers that swoop by it daily. Up close, you can marvel at the photographic technique which, tile for tile, seems like optical magic. You can also get a better look at the faces, including that of Lalo Guerrero at the far west end, and read a list of names of those pictured. The source of the mural's abiding appeal is the way it personalizes our history. With its three companion images heading east, it's a channel of continuity with those who built our town along this byway.
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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2004
Broadway Underpass Wall
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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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