Meet the Curator:
Jim Covarrubias
Jim Covarrubias is a Kingman, Arizona native with decades-long experience in the Arts. He is a U.S. Army Captain and Vietnam Veteran, received his BFA and MFA from Arizona State University and is the founder of numerous organizations revolving around art, public service and education including MARS, an alternative art space dating back to the 1970s, and Ariztlan Studios since 1990 to the present.
As the Ariztlan Studios Director, Jim has for three decades documented and shared the cultural arts of the Southwest with emphasis on Veteran’s Arts and Native-American and Hispanic Art. He was also the original Arts and Culture Editor for National Veterans Magazine.
Jim believes in giving back to the community and is regularly booked for live-painting performances and speaking engagements on the cultural history of the Southwest and Native-American legends. As a Live Painter, he is known as the “Fastest Drawer in the West”, often donating these works to charitable causes.
As a participant in The Legislature Arts Program at the Capital, Jim has displayed more than 70 works in the Arizona Senate Building and has made select pieces available for viewing and purchase online at www.CovarrubiasCollection.com.
Jim produced a dramatic musical play, "Kokopelli the Legend", based on the ancient Hohokam culture of our valley and is now Curator for "La Flor del Pueblo", a large scale mural project which is sponsored by Arizona Public Service and will present the history of the Grant Park Neighborhood across several blocks of walls. Jim was chosen for this momentous task by the Grant Park Neighborhood Community.