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7/11/2020 10:15:33 AM

Saguaro Cactus Garden

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We visited Tucson for my neice's wedding and discovered lovely Tucson Botanical Gardens. This studio oil painting is a view of the Cactus and Succulent Garden giving you a feeling of the plant variety in the desert surrounding Tucson. These gardens provide a tranquil and relaxing oasis in the center of the city.

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8/22/2019 8:23:54 PM

Living Canyons at MUSE Performance Space

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Artwork is on display through October 30, 2019. Guests may attend art show prior to any performance at the MUSE and on Monday evenings. Soller’s original oil paintings include new works shown for the first time at MUSE Performance Space. Soller was feature artist in the 25th Anniversary Issue of Mountain Living Magazine. Soller received Awards of Excellence for five landscape paintings from Manhattan Arts International in separate international competitions.
MUSE Performance Space is a new and unique music and art venue with a mission to build creative community and broaden appreciation, audiences and success of the arts. The gallery highlights curated exhibitions of local and regional fine artists.
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6/1/2018 11:07:03 AM

San Xavier Mission

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Mission San Xavier del Bac was one of my dream destinations to paint plein air. When my niece planned her wedding in Tucson in 2016, we scheduled our travels around the event. San Xavier Mission was founded near Tucson by Jesuit missionary Kino in 1700 and rebuilt by Franciscan missionaries between 1783 and 1797. 

 

Also called White Dove of the Desert, San Xavier features an elegant white stucco Moorish exterior with an ornate entrance of massive, carved mesquite wood doors. The oldest intact European structure in Arizona, the church interior is filled with marvelous original statues and mural paintings. 

 

 San Xavier is still actively run by Franciscans, and continues to serve the Native community by which it was built. The San Xavier Festival is held the evening of the Friday after Easter and features a torch-light parade of Tohono O'odham and Yaqui tribal members. San Xavier Mission was designated in 1966 on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

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