• Artist Melo Dominguez explores how street murals provide insights into cross-cultural storytelling, probing issues of politics, self-expression, religion, and family all positioned within broader collective of public art, here. Dr. Maribel Alvarez brings the story about one South Tucson mostly-monochromatic mural, whose main representational element is the tattoo, even closer, here.

• Angel G. Valencia, Car Show Coordinator for the Pascua Yaqui Festival of the Arts, personalizes the archaeology of cars as expressive culture, with context from a 2010 TMY magazine writing by Dr. Celestino Fernandez, here.  

• Body painting as indelible cultural identity is a symbolically personal and multivalent vehicle for politics, spiritual exploration and social position. The Mehndi tradition of body art, demonstrated for more than two decades at Tucson Meet Yourself, was a story told in 2012 Tucson Meet Yourself magazine, and part of that story about community tradition is recounted here.  

• The printed medium and the art of newsgathering were elements of street communication for centuries - but do we face the possible extinction of newspapers as digital surpasses print? There is a place for both, as Tubac Presidio volunteer and printer James Pagels reminds of our territorial days here.  

•  Chalk artistry is an example of street-life enhancement. Its impermanence adds to its meaning, as this interview with local chalk artists suggests here.   

• News: Follow up photos from our April 5 Polkas and Bread event, and news about the upcoming Tortilla Festival at Presidio and the Loft screening of the Who is Dayani Cristal film, are here. Tidbits culled from across the active national folklife community are here. 
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