Tucson public artist Ignacio Garcia is transforming a blank downtown wall on a parking garage into what he hopes will become a new city landmark.
Standing three stories tall near the the intersection of Scott Avenue and Pennington Street, artist Garcia’s newest mural, “Paula Verde,” celebrates Arizona’s state tree while paying tribute to the Sonoran Desert and Tucson’s growing identity as a city of public art.
Garcia said the idea began more than a year ago as a painting created for the Southern Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. As excitement around the artwork grew, so did the opportunity to bring it to a much larger canvas…