AZmodern will have an exhibit on the work of Martha Willis Breeden. Stop by to learn more about this relatively unknown artist with a bold geometric style. AZ Modern will be open during it’s regular hours – Thursday, Friday, and Saturdays from 12-5.
read moreSigns, stories, searches, and snacks. Come hang out after hours at Ignite Sign Art Museum. Jude Cook will speak about the Museum’s history and the importance of sign preservation. There will be neon bending demonstrations, interactive sign searches and more. BUY TICKETS
read moreSOLD OUT Join Historian and Neon Sign Aficionado Carlos Lozano for a twilight and evening walking tour of some of Tucson’s most iconic glowing historic landmark signs in downtown Tucson and 4th Avenue. Carlos Lozano served for 8 years on the Tucson-Pima County Historical Commission and chaired the subcommittee which amended the sign code to […]
read moreJoin Historian Helen Erickson for a guided tour of the restored modern waters gardens of the Tucson Community Center designed by master 20th-century landscape architect Garrett Eckbo. Special Instructions: Tour is limited to 25 people – so please give yourself time to park and arrive on time. Group meets in front of the Music Hall […]
read moreSOLD OUT Join Tucson Modernism Week for our Mid Century Modern Home Tour of iconic properties by some of Tucson’s most celebrated architects and designers of the Mid-Century era. The hexagonal Ball-Paylore House, built in 1952, embraced the trends of American modernism with a south-facing wall of glass built with experimental concepts embedded into the […]
read moreArtwork from the Henry and Phyllis Koffler Estate and clothing from Tucson stylist and shop owner Ann Edwards From 1949 to 1984, Ann Edwards owned and operated the Ann Edwards Dress Shop located next to the former Rincon Market in midtown. Her highly popular apparel shop kept Tucson’s women dressed in the latest fashions. Henry […]
read moreSOLD OUT Celebrate and support Tucson Modernism Week with a special limited in-person event Saturday, November 12, 2022. This event is an opportunity to experience one of Arthur T. Brown’s great Territorial modern revival designs that was built in 1957. Brown pioneered a modern idiom in Southern Arizona with an environmentally responsive and dynamic philosophy […]
read moreSOLD OUT Join William L. Bird, Jr. as he takes us on a tour of the design of countless Mexico travel brochures directed to the attention of the motoring public. In 1928 the discovery of Mexican tourism as an economic engine led to the organization of government sponsored tourism commissions. William L. Bird, Jr. is […]
read moreSOLD OUT Join us for a tour in Ambos Nogales (“both Nogales”), as we spend a day exploring the exuberant architectural movement of the 1960s. Nogales is home to many built examples from Bennie Gonzales, Anne Rysdale, Nicholas Sakellar and William Wilde. We have an exciting line up with a number of private homes and […]
read moreJoin Tucson Modernism Week for our Mid-Century Modern Home Tour of iconic properties by some of Tucson’s most celebrated architects and designers of the Mid-Century era. The single-family residential house designed in 1975 and built in 1977 is an important example of the foundational work of master architect Judith Chafee, FAIA (1932-1998), and a residential […]
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