6th Avenue Block-Painting Party to be Saturday Oct 22 6Th Avenue HEAD TOPICS
6th Avenue Block-Painting Party to be Saturday Oct 22
10/22/2022 12:27:00 PM
The block of South 6th Avenue between Armory Park and Children' s Museum Tucson will soon be transformed into a large on-the ground mural
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The block of South 6th Avenue between Armory Park and Children's Museum Tucson will soon be transformed into a large on-the ground mural. The block of South 6th Avenue between Armory Park and Children's Museum Tucson will soon be transformed into a large on-the ground mural. It's a project that gets the community involved in an artistic activity, and will help to improve roadway safety.Everyone is invited to to join the"6th Avenue Block-Painting Party Saturday, Oct. 22 starting at 9 a.m. and running through 5 p.m. "Kids wanna join in, adults, elderly—it's open to the whole public," said Tucson artist Yu Yu Shiratori, who designed the mural."And we're gonna have it set up kind of like paint by numbers, so we'll have a bunch of volunteers assigning people like you know what color paint to paint." Read more:
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