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Jim Waid: The Visceral Realist

“My paintings are enactments of the world around me...step right in!”

Adam Homan: Love Bots!

“The joy of artmaking is in the moment of creation where everything else melts away and you connect to the energy of imagination.”

Blue Lotus Gallery

Blue Lotus Artist Collective highlights Black Artists of the Southwest

Theodore Buchholz: Cellist

Theodore Buchholz explains his intimate relationship with the cello and what life lessons can be found in learning to play an instrument

Barbara Rogers

Painter of paradise, vulnerability, and beauty.

Untitled Gallery

Meet Inna Rohr and Emily Hallowell, founders of the Untitled Gallery, whose goal is to provide a platform to discover Tucson’s local talent.

Ana Maria Iordache: Classical Guitarist

The classical guitarist from Romania, currently pursuing her DMA degree at the University of Arizona’s Fred Fox School of Music, sits down for an exclusive AZPM studio performance.

Ignis Clothing

Ian Urquhart is focused on quality street wear at an affordable price, he will be heading to New York Fashion Week this September where Ignis Clothing will be hitting the runway.

“To Erasures, Erasures" by Susan Briante

Poet Susan Briante shares an original poem that addresses immigration and the US-Mexico border.

White Boots by William Pitt Root

Former Tucson Poet Laureate William Pitt Root reads "White Boots: Ghost of the San Manual Mine"

On The Crisis Of Abandonment by Raquel Gutiérrez

The acclaimed poet and writer reads On the Crisis of Abandonment, a poem about living next to Aviation Freeway.

Red Herring Puppets

Puppeteer Lisa Aimee Sturz, the founder of the Red Herring Puppets, welcomes us into her world.

TC Tolbert "This is What You Are"

Tucson’s Poet Laureate, TC Tolbert, is one of the contributing poets in Arizona Illustrated’s collaboration with the Tucson Poetry Center.

Bojan Louis - Poem V

Part of the Arizona Illustrated Poetry Series, a collaboration with the UA Poetry Center

Sierra Vista’s Germany – Angelika’s German Imports

Angelika Gloyd is the popular owner of Angelika’s German Imports in the community of Sierra Vista, Arizona.

Sierra Vista's Germany - Angry German

Angry German is one of three German restaurants in Sierra Vista, even though the city has a population of fewer than 50,000 residents.

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