Raffle Tickets Now On Sale:
Enter to win beautiful artworks from this year’s artists! Funds raised benefit PVNA Streets, Parks, & Beautification projects.
Art in the Gardens, now in its third year, is a fundraising event benefiting PVNA where Palo Verde residents can show off their interesting, beautiful, unique or quirky gardens and artworks.
Enjoy artwork on display and tour the gardens of Palo Verde residents. See art and buy art from over 40 local Tucson artists (Artists keep 100% of their sales.)
The event is a self-paced walking tour of participating gardens, and at each garden you’ll find a few artists with their work on display and available for sale. Take a leisurely pace to enjoy several gardens, or make a day of it to try and visit every location.
Where to start?
You may begin at any location, but be sure to stop by for the art raffle & food trucks, at our ‘Central Booth’ located at the Catalina High School. A map will be published online the day of the event, and available at the central booth and all the gardens.
Fundraiser Raffle:
This year’s fundraiser art raffle will benefit beautification projects in the neighborhood.
Local food truck You Sly Dog will join us providing food available for sale.
Palo Verde NA is a 501c3 nonprofit organization.
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Meet Some of the Artists!
Anne Neuenschwander
Anne is on a constant quest for simple, pure forms and shapes. Most of her work is Raku fired, incorporating natural elements and a mélange of textures and colors reflecting the influence of her travels and living in different cultures.
Anne uses various raku techniques for most of her work and also enjoys mixed clay (agateware) for functional ware.
Jamelle Texeria
Hello, I am Jamelle Texeria. I am an artist well-versed in depicting fan art and paleoart using digital and traditional mediums. I currently work alongside Robert Jackson at Fine Art by Robert Jackson and collaborate with ArtworksUA. I have been a part of five art shows in Tucson, AZ, and plan to continue participating in more art shows in the future.
Explore dynamic and captivating artwork featuring an epic showdown between Godzilla and Megatron, brought to life with intense line work and explosive energy. Discover a serene prehistoric scene with intricately detailed Iguanodons in their lush natural habitat. Finally, experience the inspiring presence of Optimus Prime, holding Earth and Cybertron, embodying hope and heroism with his iconic message of freedom.
Alexandra Catalina
Alexandra Catalina uses traditional silversmithing techniques combined with hand-building in clay to make her sculpture and functional art.
As the daughter of a potter, Alexandra grew up creating in clay, assisting in the clay studio, and selling her family’s pottery at craft fairs. Later, she trained as a silversmith and enamellist and spent 10 years making and selling one-of-a-kind art jewelry.
Functional and sculptural ceramic art work and jewelry. Ceramic mirrors, wall altars, bells, and beaded garlands, and jewels handcrafted with vitreous enamel elements.
Mitzi Jane
Melissa views the world with a childlike sense of wonder, engagingly creative yet humble. Her artwork carries a special flare for color and expressiveness, infused with great power and emotion.
A selection of recent pieces studying the Sonoran Desert, alongside matted prints of previous work.
Lisa Stelling-Jokisch
My ceramic work is a “tribute” to the natural world - incorporating the textures and colors of the plants, animals, and habitat of places I have lived and explored, the Midwest and the Sonoran Desert. My work is all hand-built utilizing techniques of coiling, pinching, and some slab rolling with a rolling pin - simple tools. I use high fire red clay; carving and sgraffito techniques; clay slips, underglazes, and cone 6 glazes to create my textured surfaces.
Hand-built ceramic work including bowls, vases, pinch, pots, plates, cups, lidded containers, and larger sculptural work.
Randiesia Fletcher
Art Curator and Master Teaching Artist Randiesia Fletcher is a Los Angeles native, living in Tucson and a USMC Ret. Disabled Veteran. Her background is in Anthropology thus her artwork is rooted in Auto-Ethnographic works. She masters oils in painting and pastel marking, along with ceramic doll making, and intaglio & hectograph printmaking.
Plant Portraits started out of a need to capture the vitality and stages of the lives of my house plants. I have a Philodendron Collection with vibrant shapes and colors. I was inspired by works of art with contrasting colors and surrealist ideas.
Barry Dodge
Barry creates in digital and analog media, working in a spectrum from representational to wonderfully abstract. His works vary from fine art to surface design.
Barry will be showing pastels (original and prints on metal), digital paintings on metal, as well as cards and housewares.
Kay Ross
Kay Ross is a semi-native Arizonan. Her work has won several first place and other numerous awards, shown regularly at juried art shows, and sold around the U.S. Kay paints the essence of what she is experiencing through colors, shapes and light.
Small original framed artwork and framed prints, plus numerous art gift items, related to Arizona and the Sonoran Desert.
Renee Michele
I am deeply interested in the subject of the natural environment. It has been for me a great counselor and teacher about life. Almost all my work contains some reference to the natural environment in a symbolic, realistic or metaphorical way.
I am a painter by trade, but, have been working in mixed media collage for the last 5 years. In May of 2024 I was selected for an artist in residency, where I discovered painting on handmade paper collaged onto canvas. It has been a pivotal shift in my work.
Samantha Kolb
Born and raised in Tucson, I grew up loving the desert southwest. I've always appreciated the beauty of the plants and animals. I have explored the region from the mountain tops of the sky islands to the desert beaches of Sonora Mexico.
I use metal clay to capture the intricacies of the little lives that can easily be overlooked when admiring a landscape. I find comfort, happiness, and inspiration from my creations and I hope you will too.
Eli Rahamim
I’ve always wanted to learn how to draw but every time I sat down to try, I would get stuck trying to figure out what to draw.
Recently, I realized I don’t need to draw *objects* and that I could make abstract art. I have been very into lines and patterns.
Back in April, when visiting my dad’s family in california, I was telling my grandma this and when I told her that I liked lines, she said “you’re kidding me :0.” she used to be an art teacher and then said that my art is extremely similar to the art she used to do.
Seeing her art has given me a huge boost of inspiration, especially including more solid black that she incorporated into her style.
Marissa Johnson
CHOLLA PALACE is Marissa Johnson, a creator and curator of cards, collages, drawings, paintings, photographs and beautiful objects. Her work is inspired by the deep order of nature, feelings of nostalgia, and the quiet magic of animals, plants and materials. She dabbles in cardboard and collecting little objects that tell stories and serve as reminders / portals to other universes.
She was born and raised in central Phoenix and graduated from the University of Arizona with a BA in Drawing and Painting, and a BS in Science Education - Biology.