Connecting Communities Through Art: Mike Berren’s Tucson Streetscapes

In this episode of Life Along the Streetcar, we explore the work of Mike Berren, a Tucson-based artist who uses his talent to connect our community through vibrant, detailed streetscapes. Mike’s art captures the heart and soul of Tucson’s urban core, highlighting the beauty of iconic landmarks while weaving in the stories of the people and places that make this city unique. Dive into this article to learn about what Mike creates, how he does it, and why his work has struck a chord with so many.

Tucson Streetscapes: Art That Tells a Story

Mike Berren’s work is a celebration of Tucson’s culture and history. His streetscape collages bring together elements of the city’s iconic locations in colorful, puzzle-like compositions. From the Fox Theatre and Rialto Theatre to Hotel Congress and the bustling Fourth Avenue, his pieces showcase the vibrant energy of Tucson’s urban landscape.

“The downtown arts and entertainment sampler features landmarks like the Rialto and Hotel Congress,” Mike shared, explaining the essence of his work. Each piece is a collection of landmarks, carefully arranged to create a narrative about the city. Beyond downtown, Mike has also tackled themes like diners, coffee shops, and historic neighborhoods, offering “samplers” of the many facets of Tucson life.

Mike’s art creates emotional connections between the people and the places he features. Mike’s works invite viewers to reminisce about their own experiences in these spaces, sparking stories and memories that weave a rich tapestry of community.

The Process: Hours of Precision and Passion

Creating these streetscapes is no small feat. Mike’s process combines photography, digital painting, and meticulous attention to detail. “Each building can take anywhere between 70 and 100 hours to complete,” Mike explained, describing how he photographs landmarks from multiple angles and then digitally paints each one on his laptop.

“I start with a photograph of a building, but then I digitally paint it, almost like building blocks,” he said. “I create simplistic lines, bold colors, and layers that give each piece its unique, vibrant look.”

What makes his work stand out is the time and care he devotes to every pixel. Mike adjusts details like shading and perspective to ensure that each element fits into the overall composition seamlessly. The final pieces are works of art that balance realism with creativity.

The Purpose: Connection, Nostalgia, and Resilience

Mike’s streetscapes took on new meaning during the COVID-19 pandemic. What began as a project to support local businesses, like the Eclectic Café, quickly grew into a community-wide phenomenon. “I started posting my work on Facebook, and people were engaging with it almost every morning,” Mike recalled. “They’d comment, suggest additions, and share stories about the places I painted.”

These interactions turned Mike’s art into a platform for storytelling. Whether it was memories of a favorite diner or a beloved neighborhood spot, his work provided a sense of connection and shared identity during an isolating time.

Through his art, Mike reminds us of the resilience of Tucson’s community and the importance of preserving its culture. “To me, it’s fascinating how just a painting can spark so many emotions and stories,” he said. His work continues to bring people together, even as the world moves forward.

See Mike’s Work in Person or Online

If Mike Berren’s work has inspired you, you can see it up close at the Tucson Gallery, located at The Proper Shops, 300 East Congress Street in Downtown Tucson. Can’t make it in person? Explore his stunning pieces online at Tucson Gallery where you’ll find his full collection of streetscapes and other works.

Support local art and discover how one artist’s passion is connecting an entire community—one streetscape at a time.

Tom Heath
Good morning. It’s a beautiful Sunday in the Old Pueblo. And you’re listening to Katy. Tucson. Thank you for spending a part of your brunch hour with us on your downtown Tucson community. Sponsored, all volunteer powered rock and roll radio station. This week we’re going to speak with Mike Barron. He’s an artist who’s carved out a unique space in the world of streetscape collages.

Tom Heath
Mike’s intricate, layered compositions capture the essence of a city in a really different way, and we’re going to delve into his meticulous process. Find out what his inspiration was for all of this, and how this creative journey is leading to his fantastic streetscapes. Artwork. Today is November 17th. My name is Tom Heath and you’re listening to Life Along the Streetcar.

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Tom Heath
Well, I’m glad you can hear me this week. Mr. DJ Bank, the music album. Let me know that I forgot to turn my music down when I was talking last week in the intro. So I apologize for that. Hopefully it’s a little better this week. Lots going on that’s going. I don’t know if you hit the Dusk Music Festival, last weekend, we’re coming into the holiday season in just a couple of weeks.

Tom Heath
We got Small Business Saturday, which launches the the the, the shopping season. I’m going to have a tree lighting ceremony coming up and, all kinds of fun things happening in the downtown area. And I know it starts at, Main Gate Square. They’ll have, Santino, we’ll come to Main Gate Square several times, between now and the, the holidays, but it’s not yet Thanksgiving, so it’s not quite, quite.

Tom Heath
Get there. But just keep in touch with life long streetcar on our Facebook page, we’ll link to things which you can go to the main gate square, the Mercato downtown, the historic Fourth Avenue. All of those places are going to have, information about the festivities and the holidays coming up. Well, one of the festivities that, I like to highlight are local artists.

Tom Heath
And, you know, I have a partnership in the Tucson Gallery. And as part of that project, we’re making art accessible, and we bring artists in to do events, and we record podcast with them. And today we’re talking to Mike Baron, who really, has a unique talent and a unique, art output. He, he works meticulously to turn photos and, and images of landscapes, of, streetscapes into really interesting collages and had a chance to sit down and talk with him about how this all kind of got started.

Mike Berren
And really started with a real estate agent who had sold a condo that my wife and I had owned. And, ever since it’s older, we kind of get together occasionally and, I’ll bring her paintings as I do them, which was bring in our office. And then at Thanksgiving, we’d go to her office and she would hand out food items or whatever.

Mike Berren
And one day I was there and she said, hey, there’s this tour going on the downtown. You might be interested. And I just had finished a painting downtown, gave a tour, and she said, there’s a tour guide. And I said, well, give him one to and had no idea I was the tour guide. I know, I know, and.

Tom Heath
I still have that. Yeah. So yeah, I was very excited, excited to get that. And you, your work is, is a little bit interesting. We’ve got a few different pieces in the gallery because you’ve got some more traditional, paintings, but a lot of what is very popular right now are your streetscapes, you know, which those are very uniquely done.

Tom Heath
What’s the process for that?

Mike Berren
So there is there’s I’ll tell you the process, but also tell the history, because again, it really is phenomenal history of those. So I’ve previously been doing individual buildings or even, Native American pueblos or whatever. And as Covid started, there’s a the eclectic cafe on the northeast side of town. I had paintings there for years, and like all the other restaurants in town, they were hurting staff wasn’t, you know, able to work or whatever.

Mike Berren
So I said, you know what? Why don’t we try something? I’ll do a painting of, the eclectic along with a couple of other cafes, and maybe people will buy it. We just put that into a chip tip jar, and I started posting on the various Facebook pages. You know, if you’re from Tucson, EV, Tucson community, etc. and I post, here’s what this thing might look like.

Mike Berren
And lo and behold, people started saying, oh, you know, include such and such. But Frank’s restaurant, here and there’s other one, and I do it and I post it again and partially I think people like the art of partially. Other people just like me were at home. They weren’t getting out. And so I’d spend the day painting.

Mike Berren
And the next day people were commenting and getting really excited about it. And it sold a ton of them. Oh, good. And partially for the art, but partial. I think people are just interested and wanting to help out the eclectic. I was the very first street scape I had done.

Tom Heath
So define what the streetscape is. We, I mean, you can see it on on the Tucson Galleries website. We’ll have things on our Facebook page which kind of walk.

Mike Berren
Them through it. So there’s a few different types. So the, the one that we’re talking about, the downtown would be a location. Okay. So it would be all the various potential. So I can’t include everything. But I think the title of that one, I was Arts and Entertainment Downtown. And I always put parenthetically a sampler. Okay. And it would be that others might be a theme or it’s not going to be one location, but it’d be Mexican restaurants.

Tom Heath
Or diners.

Mike Berren
Or diners or whatever it happened to be. And not as much now. But at the beginning, when I was doing these, can I go on Facebook in the morning and 2 or 3 different pages and, and people will almost, they would wake up in the morning with me and they’d start commenting. And I was like the opposite, you know, Bob Ross.

Mike Berren
Yeah. Right. So I was the opposite of Bob Ross, where I put something on there and people try to make comments, oh, I don’t like that Bush or do this or change that, or make sure you include such and such restaurant.

Tom Heath
So and then so the streetscapes what it looks like then is it’s, it’s one painting that like the arts and the downtown arts and entertainment, the parenthetical sampler, it’s got like the Fox Theater, the Rialto Theater, hotel Congress, all the and the entertainment lights. And you got the images sort of aligned, like they’re all.

Mike Berren
So I basically build it like a puzzle. So I’ll start off at, let’s say, Tokyo Hotel Congress. So I’ll probably take 15 or 20 photographs. The other one got to get the same shading. If something on the north side of the street or the south side of the street, right. So I want to get and then I’ll start painting.

Tom Heath
As soon I get the same shading for each.

Mike Berren
Bill for each building.

Tom Heath
Okay. So you’ve got to have every different angle, every different times of day for each building.

Mike Berren
So I’m going to show you. And generally my favorite time is when it’s cloudy because I don’t have to worry about shout outs at all. So now I have a photograph of Hotel Congress and I’ll work on that independently. Do another photograph of, any other art place, whether it’s, I mean, the gallery or other sorts of places.

Mike Berren
And I’ll paint each one individually and I say, paint you. Everything’s digital. Right? So I’m doing it on my laptop. And, you know, people here at digital Art, you know, oh, you just push a button like I, you say, bring me downtown, right. And each one, my each building, whether it’s, the proper shops or hotel, Congress, whatever I’m doing, probably the bigger ones will probably take me anywhere between 70 and 100 hours to do one building.

Tom Heath
One building.

Mike Berren
One building, and then I’ll put them back together again in a puzzle. So you could take easily a few hundred hours.

Tom Heath
So the end result, you start with a photograph.

Mike Berren
I start with a photograph of.

Tom Heath
The building, then you digitally paint.

Mike Berren
It and I digitally paint it, and almost like building blocks where I might take a brush and paint a little bit. But part of it, if it’s a whole wall, I can just kind of take a block and I’ll put that block in there, okay. And then I’ll put a door in there.

Tom Heath
So that the end result, it’s, it’s it’s hard to explain. It’s not cartoonish, but it’s it’s not quite reality. It’s definitely how highly colorized and.

Mike Berren
Highly colorized and very simplistic lines. Yeah. Certainly have to change the shapes or size of sometimes. So Fox theaters I had on that one. It’s the sides of the building. Can’t be there. I’ve got to show everything. Once I do the 10 or 15 buildings, then it’s a matter of where do I want to put this? Almost like it’s a puzzle.

Mike Berren
Yeah. Where you want to put this one? Where do you want put this one and what is the sidewalk going to look like? What is the street going to look like. And try and balance things like.

Tom Heath
I hope if you’re listening or watching, if you head over to, the to sign galleries website, to sign gallery.com and look up mike’s page, you’ll see the street caves, the streetscapes that we’re talking about, a lot of different things. There’s Fourth Avenue, there’s downtown. You’ve got one that’s just, missions and churches, coffee shops. I think you said.

Tom Heath
Yeah.

Mike Berren
And I just finished my most recent one is, so I’ve got coffee or I have diners, and I just finished one on coffee and tea. Places that I’ve done. It’s kind of early, early in the morning. So the sun is coming up.

Tom Heath
It’s kind of fun to see all the iconic features, all the accounting names in one, one place, like. Oh, okay, I know all those places. And just to see them on one, my one page.

Mike Berren
And what’s strange is this, again, I’m sort of labeling them that is a sampler. And then also circo whatever. Because every time I finish one, two years later.

Tom Heath
There’s a new one or it once changed.

Mike Berren
It went out of business. Or, you know, the Mexican restaurants. I think 3 or 4 of them are gone since I did it. So it was it was there.

Tom Heath
It was. It was there. And know one now, you know, there’s someone else there. So you could do a newer one.

Mike Berren
Yeah. We’re taking us again, less so now because we all have stuff to do. But during Covid we’re taking so personal. Yeah, you can imagine what I did. Sam Hughes neighborhood. And if you’re familiar with the Sam Hughes neighborhood, there’s some traditions there and long term kind of people. And at one point, yeah, I kind of sit there, I look at things and I think it’s Third Street, or the second or third thing is Third Street.

Mike Berren
That leads into the University has these large, large palm trees.

Tom Heath
Yeah. I know we’re talking about. Yeah.

Mike Berren
I was and so I, I included a palm tree and started getting comments about those are not natural to Sam Hughes neighborhood. That and the stories. Then people started sharing the stories about a gas station in the 1950s or 60s that were selling seeds. And I found it fascinating to me. It was just a piece of art.

Tom Heath
Sure.

Mike Berren
And people are getting so involved in what should or shouldn’t be involved in that.

Tom Heath
Amazing that, we can create controversy even with something as simple as a, art project regarding coffee shops or diners. We’re talking with Mike, and he is an artist who, works on really intricate streetscape collages. And his technique is, I haven’t seen anyone doing it before, so I really appreciate that he takes the time to do that.

Tom Heath
We’ll get back to more of his journey in just a moment, but I want to remind you first that you are listening to Lifelong Streetcar on Downtown Radio. We’re on 99.1 FM and we’re streaming on downtown radio.org.

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Tom Heath
To sign gallery. Where have I heard that before? Oh that’s right. That’s the, our guest today, Mike Barron, is one of the artists in the Tucson gallery. And, we are, always happy to have the artists come on and tell us a little bit about their story, how they create the art and their inspiration. It’s amazing where people get these, ideas on how to generate and create the things that they do.

Tom Heath
And a lot of times it’s, it’s it’s not a, a huge sort of lightning bolt. It’s just this they’ve eased into it with a series of decisions where Mike has been, working on his art project for some time. And, the Covid was a chance for him to really sort of unleash it in a way that was new to him and has gotten hold, it’s very popular right now, especially, you know, from the Tucson gallery sales standpoint.

Tom Heath
It’s doing really well. We’ll finish off this interview with, Mike Barron. Let’s take a step back. This is I mean, this is what you’re producing now. Have you ended did you just start becoming artistic during Covid, or is this a passion of yours? For years.

Mike Berren
I think I’ve always been pretty visual. Okay. My career was was not art. It’s always. I’ve been artistic.

Tom Heath
What was your career?

Mike Berren
I’m a research psychologist, so my PhD is in psychology. Okay. And I, worked in public mental health system, taught at the university. But even things like, I titled psychological testing or short kind of stuff and statistics at the University at Pima. And even though there are people that probably knew the content better than I did, I had an ability to somehow help people visualize statistical problems or issues.

Mike Berren
So yeah, even though it was a totally different universe, I had the ability. I did lots of presentations, and if I prepare for them, it’s supposed to this I was able to help people understand dynamic some things that they can kind of see.

Tom Heath
As opposed to this, you’re doing great as you go if you’re listening. He’s got notes written out here, he’s got photographs here. You’re like, you’ve researched this and we need, you know, we’re going to talk about it. Okay. I am so at what point then did did this artistic drive really start to take hold.

Mike Berren
Just looking for hobbies to some extent. And my wife and I at the time lived in Lubbock, Texas when I started doing some art stuff and we used to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico and, and oh, gee, I really love some of the art there. And I started just modeling some of the art and just it would be just something to do on the weekend or in evenings.

Mike Berren
If I didn’t want to work, I could do, some painting and pretty much copied other people’s things. Okay. Are you familiar with local artist Chris Rubini.

Tom Heath
And definitely know the name? Yeah, yeah.

Mike Berren
Okay. Chris is, does a lot of pottery and plates and things and really well known. And I was in a gallery she had years and years ago, and she was look at my stuff. You know, I’d like a lot of your stuff, but you know what? You’re you’re not doing you right, you’re doing neat, or you’re doing this person, you’re do somebody else.

Mike Berren
Just do your stuff. And so I’ve tried to stick with that. And that’s how I started doing more of the buildings and things. That and then the street scenes that, that are just mine, occasional fall back and borrow with somebody else might do. I can try really hard, just do my.

Tom Heath
Stuff. You have some that look like they’re like acrylic. Do you do acrylic painting and things or is it all photographs?

Mike Berren
Since or actually every. I used to do acrylic. That’s probably why the things look like acrylic. Nothing on the website. Or they get that you have is acrylic. Everything is digitally painted.

Tom Heath
So like the you’ve got the main market that’s, that’s, that’s a photograph and digitally done.

Mike Berren
So it’s a photograph. And then I will go back in and because when I, you know, again, people think sometime digitally, okay, I’m going to push a button. Right, right. And what I, what I’ve done, I can blow up the, the picture a large size so I can get into the detail, that you couldn’t do if you were painting right on a canvas with a brush, but, nothing that I have currently is painted with acrylics or oil is all painted digitally.

Mike Berren
And sometimes people ask me, I see someone wrote me the other day and it has to do. I have limited editions or.

Tom Heath
The first issue.

Mike Berren
Nothing I have is is is a hard copy of an original. Everything’s digitally painted until I print it.

Tom Heath
Well, it’s interesting because you do go in like each pixel you go in.

Mike Berren
And so I can go into change. It’s 70.

Tom Heath
Hours to do a single.

Mike Berren
Building. And some are quicker, but some can take a long, long time.

Tom Heath
And I know you brought in this will be really good radio. But you brought in a photo, which I thought was fun. You’ve got the Barrio Viejo. The. It’s the market that I was talking about. And you got one version, and then you also have a more pixel sized, paint painted version.

Mike Berren
This one was, this was at the time when, again, Covid was real heavy and I was doing not street scenes but individual buildings. And what I would do is take whether was the corner market or a rundown building and redo it. So what might this look like? Not that it’s better or worse, but what might look like.

Mike Berren
So on the South Main Market, I did that and I posted when I was finally done with the whole thing. The original of what? The photographs, what I took, what does it look like? And then my painting. And it’s telling you earlier that. So I have a large version of this hanging in my office to remind me that one person writes out and says that this is awful.

Mike Berren
I’ll leave it alone. You shouldn’t be messing with, historical things. We don’t like what you’re doing, blah blah, blah that another person writes in and says that this building and store belonged to my dad’s grandfather back in the day, my dad lived in the building, grew up, I think your looks as beautiful and an old worn building, a modern look, and to see it open and used again and it’s awesome.

Mike Berren
Or whatever else. And I saw I use it. I know that some people don’t like what I do, and many people really like it and want to make comments, but to me it sounded interesting how just a page. Just a painting.

Tom Heath
Yeah, well, you get it out into the world and you just know, don’t know what’s what’s going to happen. But, Mike, I appreciate your time today. Thanks for sharing the story. If you want to learn more about Mike, you can head over to the, Tucson Gallery’s website. It’s, Tucson gallery.com on there. You’ll have, a list of, artists, and there’s podcasts and stories and a lot of photography as well as artwork available.

Tom Heath
There’s also a calendar of events, because sometimes the artists are in the gallery to to say hi and meet their adoring fans or some of their, maybe angry detractors coming into, you don’t know with Mike, he’s he’s a pop star. He’s a pop star. But, Mike, I really appreciate your time today.

Mike Berren
Well, I appreciate my love coming here.

Tom Heath
That’s Mike Barron, and this interview was part of a series called Meet the Artist that’s recorded for the Tucson Gallery and is on their website, which is the Tucson gallery.com. Sometimes we share and there are many more interviews on on that site regarding Tucson artists than what we’ve shared on life along the street car. But sometimes there’s a crossover and Mike does really interesting, collages that were involved downtown Fourth Avenue.

Tom Heath
He’s got stuff in the barrio. He’s got, things from, on the Mercado fourth Avenue main gate. He’s not limited to those areas, but a lot of his work focuses on, that urban core. So I thought it was a good a good crossover guest. And if you want to hear the full interview, meet the artist on, the Tucson Gallery website, you can hear all of that.

Tom Heath
Well, I think we captured most of it today. Well, my name is Tom Heath. You’re listening to Life Along the Streetcar, Downtown Radio 99.1 FM, and we’re streaming at Downtown radio.org.

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Tom Heath
Well, don’t go anywhere yet because we want words and work to be part of your A Sunday. That’s coming up in just a few minutes. Here with, Ted Prison as he interviews members of the, labor union and the and writers as well. Always has, interesting perspectives on different topics. And then we always like to highlight the rest of Sundays morning here with Ty Logan, kicking us off in the afternoon now at, at, noon.

Tom Heath
And, his show is, the Art of easing. Sure. Ty’s been a guest on Life on Streetcar. So if you head over to our website left on the streetcar, not Oregon, put in his name. You can learn a little bit about his bio. Really interesting. Really interesting gentleman. And does really good things in our community.

Tom Heath
Nice to have them a part of the, downtown radio family. At 1:00, we, get back into music with speaker box X v Riv music throughout the day, including Animusic at 7 p.m. and right before that, the Omak Underground, with, all kinds of house music that honestly, I didn’t know that I liked, until I started listening to the Olmec underground and, there’s definitely, a different appreciation for, for music there than I had with without, without having heard that.

Tom Heath
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Tom Heath
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Tom Heath
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Tom Heath
You know, I’ve talked to in the past about, Radio Club Crawl, which plays a lot of the, the music that you’re going to be hearing live in the clubs throughout the week. Arizona for one one another one of my favorites. Roadside rest stop on Mondays. Man. They just they’re just so knowledgeable and have a tremendous amount of, of a depth and breadth to their show.

Tom Heath
But it’s all on the Down at Town radio.org website. I hope you can check it out. And then for us, you know, coming up or, next week, we’ve got a guest on, we’re I think we’re the first to interview this person. Her name is, Crystal Marsh is now the, president and CEO of the Downtown Tucson Partnership.

Tom Heath
Has only been in that role for a short time. But, we were able to score an interview with her, and I will have that next week. Talk a little bit about her passing, a little bit of her vision for what she sees in downtown and some of the upcoming events. And if there’s things you think we should be talking about or tell us, you know, what is your passion?

Tom Heath
What what should we be highlighting? And, we recommend you do that through our social media Instagram, Facebook. Tag us and, and we’ll, we’ll do a little research. Well, our, show is not done alone. We have our, James Portis, our production specialist. We have, Amanda mulattos, the assistant. And my name is Tom Heath, the host and producer.

Tom Heath
And yes, we open each week with Ryan Hood. And today we’re going to leave you with Martha and the Vandellas from 1965, based on Mike’s work with streetscapes. We thought we’d leave you a little dancing in the street. I hope you have a great week and tune in next Sunday for more life along the streetcar.