El Mac, an internationally renowned artist who grew up in Phoenix, painted the mural on a west-facing wall of the Flowers building at Roosevelt and Fifth streets back in 2009 with Augustine Kofie.

After the removal of the mural “Mountain Charmers” on the building at 340 N. Palm Canyon — which formerly was home to the drinking establishment called Bar — a representative for the ...

The mural was organized and proposed to the city of Coachella by both Pete Salcido, owner of Flat Black Art Supplies in Palm Desert, and local hip-hop artist Daniel Sullivan, aka Provoked.

Marquez said of his mural, I was inspired by the flourishing wildlife native to the Chihuahuan Desert. I bring each element of the composition to life by individually drawing with graphite ...