Have you found your face yet on those black/white portrait tiles under the 4th Avenue Underpass?

My husband located his on the Northeast panel and I found mine last night on Southwest panel 1, as all 4 panels are now up on the walls. We were excited to finally locate our portraits amongst the thousands of other tile portraits.

Check it out at www.tucsonportraitproject.com. The photographer was Darren Clark and the concept was created by Gary Patch.

I blogged about this project on August 21, after Tucson’s Birthday Celebration in 2009, but only one panel (the Northwest one) was up at that time. Click here to read my original blog, with details on how to locate your face.

What a great sense of community we felt by being amongst 7,000 other Tucsonans.

Note: Here’s a partial list of some faces I recognized:
NE panel – Randy Accetta, Michael Carson, Al Classen,Tim Keene, Phil Lopes, CT Revere, Ruben Reyes, Regina Romero, Ken Scoville, Chris Tanz;

NW panel – Donna Branch-Gilby, Michael Patrick Brewer, Michael Bryan, Gail Cordy, Albert Elias, Gene Einfrank, Julia Fonseca, Bud Foster, Joyce Gee, Jim Glock, Nancy Janetta, Roslyn Miller, Ron Spark, Karin Uhlich;

SW 1 panel – Laura Burge, Roger Carrillo, Pat de Vito, Carmen Dolny, Rodney Glassman, Maurice Grossman, Jim Hannley, Gary Low, Pancho Medina, Monique Martin, Jim Nintzel, Tom Prezelski;

and SW 2 panel – Katie Bolger, Raul Grijalva, Sat Bir Khalsa, Erika O’Dowd, Alan Leibensperger, Diana Rhodes, Shirley Scott, Nina Trasoff, Robert Walkup.

Seeing those tile portraits yesterday at Tucson’s Birthday celebration at the NW section of the newly opened 4th Avenue Underpass, I’m just passing on information on how to locate your photo.

Log onto www.tucsonportraitproject.com, find the link for “explore panels” and type in your first name. Voila, several portraits will appear of those with the same first name and you have to recognize yourself or loved ones. Then the website will show you what quadrant your portrait will appear, NW (already there, with some redoes necessary), or NE, SW 1, SW 2.

The fun part is that once you locate your photo, watch the website zoom to your face amongst the thousands of other tile portraits.

The website has a map showing where the other 3 panels will be located, but also has a disclaimer for misinformation due to the huge task of taking over 7,000 portraits of Tucson/Pima County residents (and some pets as well).

I got this website from Michael Carson, information officer with City of Tucson.

Looking forward to seeing myself, my husband, and friends’ tile portraits up there someday.