Category: Gates and Architectual Metalwork

Fence for Tully Elementary School Garden

Bicycle Art, Gates and Architectual Metalwork, Public Art, Recycled/Found Material

Tully Elementary School has turned an old unused asphalt pad into an awesome garden complete with many fruit trees, native plants, water harvesting basins, a cistern that holds water runoff from the roof and feeds it to the plants with an irrigation system.  Only problem is that the Javelina’s keep coming in at night and chowing down on all the new plantings ( these things will eat cactus, spines and all).
They need a fence!IMG_3006Tully Elementary School Fence

he School was able to complete this project with a grant from CPPW (Community’s Putting Prevention to Work).  They had a fairly small budget for this project but we were able to keep the costs down by collecting old boards, scrap metal, and bicycle wheels to use in the fence.  Much of the steel tubing was purchased second-hand at a scrap yard.

Iron Horse Community Garden

Bicycle Art, Gates and Architectual Metalwork, Public Art, Recycled/Found Material
Tenth Street Sign
Here are just a hand full of the 80 some flowers that were made for the fence. Each one is unique and personalized. Now they will be glazed and eventually bolted to the fence in Iron Horse Community Garden.
We made flowers out of stoneware at the Romero House Potters studio at the Tucson Museum of Art. I invited folks from the neighborhood to come make ceramic flowers that will be glazed and bolted to the fence.
The fence is ready for install! My folks Erik !!!, and Mike were a huge help in making all this happen. It took two long days to install with the 3 of us.
This is the Beautiful Sign that was painted by Gavin Troy. Gavin is a Prolific Tucson Artist. I am really happy to have him help with this project. As you can see in the background some gardens are getting started by Iron Horse Gardener Ester. She was around a lot during install and even brought us lunch.