Last Updated: May 3, 2026
This spring 2024 stay in Tucson, Arizona brought together three of our favorite kinds of days in one stretch: an art museum, a piece of small-town history, and a long desert hike. The Tucson Museum of Art was celebrating its centennial — a milestone for any cultural institution and especially for one in a city Tucson’s size — and we paired the museum with lunch at the long-popular Cafe a La C’Art next door. A separate afternoon took us out to the historic San Pedro Chapel in the Old Fort Lowell neighborhood, and a third day put us on the Hugh Norris Trail climbing to the top of Wasson Peak in the Tucson Mountains. As a ceramicist and photographer with a long-running interest in Western and Latin American craft traditions, Michael had been looking forward to the TMA visit for the entire stay.
