6th and Pennington
Luis Gustavo Mena, 2016 · Replaced Gerald Dawavendewa's mural from 2008
The corner of N. 6th Ave and E. Pennington has had two lives in the archive. The first mural there — by Gerald Dawavendewa, documented in 2008 — gradually got buried under tagging over the years. By 2016 it was gone, and Luis Gustavo Mena, who has been painting murals in Tucson since the 1970s, painted a new one in its place as part of a series of eight new downtown murals.
Both are now in the database. The predecessor is also in there — check it out — because walls have histories.
📍 N. 6th Ave & E. Pennington St · Downtown · 2016
🔗 Database entry → · Original Tucson Murals Project post →
Do you remember the Dawavendewa mural, or have you walked past the Mena one recently? We’d love to know what’s on that wall today.
Great example of a wall getting several murals over the years! I was there a few months ago and Mena's mural was there... I didn't take a close look for any damage, though. One interesting story about Mena's mural: One day I walked by and noticed that someone had tagged the mural... with chalk! How courteous. :-/ I wrote to Mena and he came right over to dust it off. :)