Art became his way to leave west Phoenix. Amidst the small restaurants and mom and pop shops which made the neighborhood home, there was also gun violence, Perez said. When he was 18 his cousin ...

Artist Irma Sanchez speaks out on her downtown Phoenix guerrilla street art tile tags that display positive messages on Grand Avenue and Roosevelt Row.

A car crashed into a wall in Lyons, and that’s how this mural got its ‘phoenix rising’ In Penny Burns’ mural, though, the mythical bird isn’t rising from the ashes.