Performing Arts

Arizona Folklore Preserve
Located near Sierra Vista, in Ramsey Canyon, on the eastern slopes of the Huachuca Mountains. Local historians collect and preserve Arizona folklore, music, poetry, legends and tales.

Arizona Opera Company
This state-wide professional company features internationally acclaimed conductors and composers in five productions a year. The season runs Oct.-Apr. with performances in the Tucson Music Hall.

Arizona Theatre Company
Arizona's leading professional theater company. Performances Tues.-Sun., Sept.-May, at the Temple of Music & Art.

Ballet Arizona
The state's official ballet troupe. The ballet company performs traditional as well as contemporary ballets under the direction of internationally acclaimed Ib Anderson.

Borderlands Theater
A nonprofit, professional theater company whose works reflect the diverse voices and issues of the Southwest Borderlands.

The Fox Tucson Theatre has been designated as a Nationally significant building on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1930 and recently restored and reopened, it is a stunning Southwestern Art Deco movie palace.

Take your blanket to Reid Park and enjoy free Music Under the Stars. 

Tucson Symphony Orchestra
Established in 1929, the Tucson Symphony is the oldest orchestra in the Southwest. Concert series includes classics, pops, masterworks, ensemble and just-for-kids concerts.

UApresents
UApresents brings international stars of jazz, pop, classical music, plus Broadway hits, ethnic arts, dance, avant garde works to The University of Arizona's Centennial Hall.

Art Museums

Center for Creative Photography
The world-famous center houses over 50,000 prints including the largest collection of works by Ansel Adams in the world.

DeGrazia's Gallery in the Sun
Fans of Tucson artist Ted DeGrazia should definitely stop by DeGrazia's Gallery in the Sun. It houses many of DeGrazia's personal favorites. The artist designed and built the unusual gallery and adjacent chapel himself.

Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block
Blending the traditional with the inventive, the museum presents original and traveling exhibitions with a focus on Art of the American West, Latin American Art, and Modern and Contemporary Art. The historic block features five distinctive properties that provide visitors with a unique look into Tucson’s past.

University of Arizona Museum of Art
The University's expansive collection of more than 4,000 pieces includes works by Rembrandt, Picasso, Lipchitz and O'Keefe.

Galleries

Local artist, Illene Hurley welcomes you to her studio by appointment. You can watch her create beautiful and useful art. Original outdoor paintings and Chalk&Magnet boards are displayed in the studio and garden surroundings. The studio is centrally located and near great shopping and restaurants.

Conrad Wilde Gallery

Featuring contemporary paintings, sculpture, and works on paper emphasizing abstraction and innovation from local and national artists. Custom archival framing, shipping, and installation services.

Davis Dominguez Gallery

This big, beautiful gallery holds the largest exhibits of modern paintings and sculpture in southern Arizona - everything is on a big scale in this restored historic warehouse. Featuring recent works by leading Tucson artists.

DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun

DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun is a legendary landmark of Southwestern art and architecture created by Arizona artist Ted DeGrazia. A national historic district, the 10-acre Foothills retreat includes the adobe gallery, gift shop, Mission in the Sun, DeGrazia’s former home and gravesite.

Deja Vu Art Gallery & Photography Studio

Discover a versatile range of subjects in copper sculpture, wall art, fountains, and more. From representational to abstract, Sonoran Desert to historical and marine pieces, by local artist Joseph Ward. Photography by Bruce Schockett. More than 25 years experience. Conventions, weddings, family portraits, commercial, large group specialist.

Desert Artisans' Gallery

Relax and enjoy some of Tucson's finest Southwestern artwork by more than 50 local juried artists at the area's oldest artisans' cooperative gallery. Desert Artisans' Gallery showcases paintings, photography, wood, glass, and jewelry. 

Etherton Gallery

For 25 years Etherton Gallery has been a destination for photography collectors in the Southwest. The gallery's specialty lies in its vast collection of vintage, classic, and contemporary photography. Early Western American landscape photography and work by local and regional artists are also a prominent part of the gallery collection.

Gallery West

An exquisite gallery in the foothills. Antique and new American Indian art, textiles, baskets, pottery, kachinas, jewelry, and paintings. Also, Plains beadwork from the 1800s.

Madaras Gallery

Best selection of local desert and Southwest scenes by well-known Tucson artist Diana Madaras. Originals, prints and gifts in Diana’s bold and colorful style.

Mahlia Collection

The flagship showroom, located in the Historic Train Depot, features custom-crafted heirloom furniture, luxury gold and silver jewelry, couture clothing and antiques. Come down and experience the attention to detail, beauty and elegance imbued into every element of every design. Mahlia, a name that is a lifestyle.

Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery

Medicine Man Gallery specializes in the lifework of famed Tucson painter and illustrator Maynard Dixon and famed San Ildefonso potter Maria Poveka Martinez and family. The gallery also features Native American antiquities to include baskets, old pawn jewelry, beadwork, Navajo and Hispanic textiles, pueblo pottery and kachinas. The gallery also represents nationally acclaimed southwestern painters and sculptors including the Cowboy Artists of America.

Old Town Artisans/La Cocina Restaurant & Catering

1860s historic adobe. Largest collection of local/regional art, fine craft, with jewelry and Native American.

Pamela Laurence Collection

A store embracing uniquely curated, high-end art and world-renowned decorative glass, crystal, porcelain, silver, and jewelry. Steuben, Lalique, Baccarat, Versace, Cristofle, Daum, Herend Porcelain, Moser, Bagues Masriera jewelry. Pamela Laurence has monthly openings showing a mix of emerging and established museum quality artists. Bridal, anniversary, birthday registry.

Philabaum Glass Studio & Gallery

Featuring a wide collection of contemporary glass art for the home or office, and a glass blowing studio where visitors may watch the process.

The Gallery at 6th & 6th

The only Tucson gallery featuring mid-century American Modernists as well as contemporary artists continuing that tradition. Artists include: Ralph Rosenborg, Bohdan Osyczka, Sal Sirugo, Ralph Iwamoto, Ludvic, and the estates of Ulfert Wilke and Michio Takayama.

Tubac Center of the Arts

At the heart of the arts and culture of Tubac Village since the 1960s, this non-profit organization offers changing regional/national art exhibitions and sales, a permanent Tubac history exhibit, distinctive gift shop, Holiday Art Market, performing arts, cultural lecture series and events, art classes for adults and youth.

Concerts

Tucson Convention Center
The Tucson Convention Center is the place for intimate jazz concerts, major headliners, full-blown Broadway productions and more.

Desert Diamond Casino
Desert Diamond brings in music headliners and other events.

Casino Del Sol
The AVA Ampitheater at Casino del Sol hosts top entertainers in a beautiful open-air venue.

The Rialto Theater
The historic Rialto hosts a broad array of performers and talent, including rock bands, jam bands, comedians, heavy metal, hip hop, film, jazz, flamenco, country, skiffle - you name it, we've hosted it. Except chamber music. That belongs in chambers only.

Tucson Jazz Society
Your source for Tucson's jazz scene. In our 28th season of promoting, presenting and preserving America's music through concerts and educational activities.

Public Art

Tucson/Pima Arts Council

There are literally hundreds of works of public art in every part of Tucson. 

El Presidio Park. 255 W. Alameda
This sculpture commemorates the first raising of the American Flag in Tucson in 1846 by the Mormon Battalion. It depicts the peaceful entry of the battalion into the small settlement and the exchange of goods with settlers at the Presidio.

Father Kino, by Julian Martinez, 1988
Northwest corner of Kino Blvd. & Winsett St.
This equestrian sculpture commemorates the role of the Jesuit priest, Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, in the European colonization of Northern Mexico and Southern Arizona. Additional castings of this sculpture are on display in Kino's birthplace, Trento, Italy and Magdalena, Mexico, where he is buried.

Murals at El Rio Neighborhood Center, by Antonio Pazos, David Tineo & Others
There are more murals at the El Rio Neighborhood Center than at any other location in Tucson. Rich in Mexican and Mexican-American images, several of the early murals celebrate the success of the community in getting the center built.

Pioneer Memorial, by Benjamino Bufano & Bernard Maybeck
This sculpture is the oldest work of public art in Tucson. The large marble bench was designed by a pioneer of modern architecture, Bernard Maybeck. Beniamino Bufano executed the relief in Classic Revival style.

Sonora, by David Bleck
The large abstract red sculpture was commissioned in conjunction with the construction of the Main Library downtown. The painted steel structure was funded by the "percent for the art" program, which sets aside one percent of all city and county capital improvement projects for public art.

Diamondback Bridge, by Simon Donovan 
Also known as "The Snake Bridge," this controversial work is a functioning pedestrian bridge in the shape of a diamondback rattlesnake.

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