VIL feb 09 GRID.indd - Tubac Villager

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