AZPM | Beautifying the Ugliest Street in America - Tucson’s murals on Speedway Corridor @azpm | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
In the 70’s, Speedway Boulevard was tagged with the embarrassing moniker “ugliest road in America.” Well the UA Poetry Center and Alley Cat Murals put together six muralists with six poems and poets to help change that narrative and to help beautify the Speedway corridor. How does a poem translate into a mural? Let’s have a look.
Producer: Dennis W. Fitzgerald
Videographer: Danny Sax, Erica Dellenbach
Drone Videographer: BG Boyd
Editor: Nate Huffman, Danny Sax
In the 70’s, Speedway Boulevard was tagged with the embarrassing moniker “ugliest road in America.” Well the UA Poetry Center and Alley Cat Murals put together six muralists with six poems and poets to help change that narrative and to help beautify the Speedway corridor. How does a poem translate into a mural? Let’s have a look.
Producer: Dennis W. Fitzgerald
Videographer: Danny Sax, Erica Dellenbach
Drone Videographer: BG Boyd
Editor: Nate Huffman, Danny Sax