Lauri Marks Kaye

Not America’s Tw***ie
Here’s to 2026:
Not sweet, spongey or shelf-stable
Not smiling though exhaustion

Yes, to supporting women


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This is going to be awesome! 😀

Mission Garden 🪏invites the community to celebrate Indigenous creativity, culture, and tradition at the 2025 Native American Arts Fair on November 8 from 8am to 4pm. The event will feature Indigenous artists and makers from throughout the region, offering original works for sale including jewelry, art, and handcrafted goods.

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Years ago, I started sketching this Tucson 🌵story, A Mountain (Sentinel Peak). It’s always been such an iconic part of Tucson, and I’ve spent a lot of time hiking around it. But I never loved the early drawings, so I shelved them.

Fast forward several people told me I had to check out Mission Garden, right at the base of A Mountain. Somehow I’d never been. When I finally went, I was totally blown away. It’s a beautifully maintained garden run by volunteers, telling the story of Tucson’s agriculture going back over 4,000 years. And through these tall, vibrant pink flowers I saw A Mountain in a completely new way. Instead of the usual muted browns and greens, it was suddenly framed in color!

Time to revisit the piece.

I also really wanted to include fireworks over A Mountain—something I always look forward to on the 4th of July. I tried drawing them again and again, but they were just ok. Then, while I was traveling, I ended up at a Noah Kahan concert in Hyde Park that ended in this beautiful fireworks show, grabbed my cell phone, took a bunch of photos hoping there’d be one good enough to use in this Tucson Portrait Story.

This piece pulls from all of that—my old sketches, the garden, a concert in London, and all the bits of graffiti, photos, and details I love layering into my work. Inspiration coming from everywhere, landing in the place I love most. Another love letter to the desert.


Come visit me 👋🌺in my studio or visit…




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