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About this month’s cover<br />
Paintings of Tumacacori Mission<br />
National Park by Michael Gibbons<br />
will be the featured subject of his work<br />
at the <strong>Tubac</strong> Art Exchange, 2243 East<br />
Frontage Road, <strong>Tubac</strong>, Arizona (next<br />
building located south of the Gas<br />
Station near the Clinic).<br />
Michael has often worked on the<br />
grounds of the Mission with resulting<br />
paintings in oil portraying the very<br />
essence of the old Southwest settlers<br />
area. His painting entitled “VIEW<br />
BEHIND THE MISSION”, oil, 15”x<br />
21”, (pictured below right) was chosen<br />
by a nationally recognized jury panel to<br />
be included in the 2007 Paint the Parks<br />
Top 100 and that painting has just<br />
returned from a year tour around the<br />
USA. Along with the original, Michael<br />
will have Giclee reproductions of this<br />
image on White Archival Enhanced<br />
Matte Stock available. Michael and his<br />
wife Judith maintained a winter studio/gallery and residence<br />
in <strong>Tubac</strong> from 1997 until mid-2006 when they returned to<br />
Oregon’s familial and creative roots. He has returned each<br />
year since, to the <strong>Tubac</strong> area to paint and is delighted<br />
to participate in the<br />
50th Anniversary of<br />
the <strong>Tubac</strong> Festival<br />
of the Arts at the<br />
<strong>Tubac</strong> Art Exchange.<br />
Michael will check<br />
in each day of the<br />
Festival at the gallery<br />
and he plans on<br />
spending all day<br />
Saturday greeting<br />
friends and showing<br />
his work. For more<br />
information please<br />
call the <strong>Tubac</strong><br />
Art Exchange,<br />
(520) 398-9156 or<br />
(520)398-9156.<br />
A native Oregonian, born and raised<br />
in Portland, Gibbons demonstrated<br />
an extraordinary gift for perception<br />
and visual expression from the time<br />
he could grasp a crayon. Winning<br />
top awards in competitions as varied<br />
as county fairs to the regional and<br />
national Scholastic Art Awards<br />
helped solidify a future in the realm<br />
of visual expression.<br />
At age twenty fi ve he left his<br />
position as designer of specialty<br />
automotive accessories for a small<br />
manufacturing fi rm in Portland to<br />
pursue painting full time. Fifteen<br />
years later and after a decade of<br />
acceptance into juried exhibitions<br />
at the Portland Art Museum, the<br />
American Artists Professional<br />
League; Allied Artists of America;<br />
and the Salmagundi Club, he was<br />
invited to full membership in Allied<br />
Artists of America. Twenty years later he is still a member<br />
plus he holds Signature Membership in Oil Painters of<br />
America and Past member of the Copely Society.<br />
“VIEW BEHIND THE MISSION”, oil, 15”x 21”<br />
WHERE ART AND HISTORY MEET - plan time to visit the <strong>Tubac</strong> Presidio State Historical Park and the Tumacácori Mission.<br />
Tumacácori Mission 1896 E Frontage Rd, Tumacácori I-19 Exit 29 520-398-9038 <strong>Tubac</strong> Presidio 1 Burruel Street, <strong>Tubac</strong> 520-398-2252<br />
Pg 5 <strong>Tubac</strong> Event Calendar<br />
Pg 6 New Places - TJ’s Tortuga Books & Coff ee<br />
by Maggie Milinovitch<br />
Pg 8 New Places - Grumpy Gringo<br />
by Alfred Griffin<br />
Pg 11 Didier Masson & El Biplano Sonora<br />
by Mary Bingham<br />
Pg 12 Gallery Feature - Graham Bell Gallery<br />
by Joseph Birkett<br />
Pg 14 Santa Cruz County Update<br />
by Kathleen Vandervoet<br />
Pg 16 Art, History & the Foods of Colonial <strong>Tubac</strong><br />
by Shaw Kinsley<br />
Pg 16 A Very Rare Book<br />
by Shaw Kinsley<br />
Pg 20 <strong>Tubac</strong> Map<br />
Pg 23 The Borderlands Photographer<br />
by Murray Bolesta<br />
Pg 24 Festival Was “Quaint” in Its Early Years<br />
by Kathleen Vandervoet<br />
Pg 26 Letters<br />
Pg 30 Italy - Land of Wine Values<br />
by Bernard Berlin<br />
Pg 32 Tibetan Monks Make Special Visit to <strong>Tubac</strong><br />
by Ginger Applegarth<br />
Pg 36 <strong>Tubac</strong> Experience - <strong>Tubac</strong> Olive Oil Co.<br />
by Ellen Sussman<br />
Pg 37 Remnants from Ruth - recipes<br />
Pg 38 Try Try Again<br />
by Carol St. John<br />
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