May 2023 – Travelcraft Journal

The Summer Night Market is starting up again, so I’ve updated the links and info in this post. There are now over 60 participating vendors! The Market happens from 6-10pm the last Friday of the (Tucson) summer months – May through September.

2023 dates are May 26, June 30, July 28, August 25 + Sept 29.

—S

Jordana Saletan of Little Rabbit Jewelry — Jordana of Little Rabbit Jewelry

Tonight is the monthly Summer Night Market at the Mercado San Agustin (MSA) Annex here in Tucson. (You may have seen it on the summer Happenings List.)

Dramaburger x Melrose Art collab — Emily lighting up the Melrose Macramé booth (more of Jessica’s macramé and Emily’s lights in the top/featured photo)

A few dozen vendors bring their handmade goods and set up around the shipping container shopping center – along with food trucks and a DJ. Of course, the regular shops, restaurants, and bar stay open too.

Tap and Bottle pop-up Bar — Rebecca tending the Westbound pop-up bar

I wrote about all the food and beverage options over on Tucson Foodie, so I hope you’ll go check that out!

moxie and sassafras booth — Moxie and Sassafras booth

For now, I thought I’d share a few photos from the Night Market in June.

Nicole and her friend Paola at the BYNDbooks booth

Updated May 2023.
Originally posted July 2021.

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The Crime: Tucson 1985

The University of Arizona Museum of Art (UAMA) wasn’t even open yet the morning after Thanksgiving 1985, when an employee arrived to find a man and a woman already waiting outside. The gregarious couple managed to talk their way in, following the employee into the building.

University of Arizona Museum of Art in 1982 via Gannett.

The woman, wearing a red jacket and a scarf in her hair, chatted up a security guard, while her mustachioed partner went upstairs toward one of the museum’s most important works.

Woman-Ochre had been in the museum’s collection since 1958. It was unceremoniously taken off exhibit when this Black Friday visitor hacked the canvas out of its frame, rolled it up, stuffed it under his jacket (or somewhere), and made a hasty exit with his accomplice.

Month: May 2023

An Artisan Market on Tucson Summer Nights

Stolen de Kooning Painting Restored to Tucson Museum

The Crime: Tucson 1985