​​​​​​​Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport

A Bit of the Grand 48​​​


ARTIST:   Jose Gonzales
DATE:   2000
LOCATION:  PSHIA Terminal 4
TYPE:   Art Installation
MATERIALS:   ceramic 
BUDGET:   $35,000
DISTRICT:   8​
ZIP CODE:   ​85034​


Gonzales’s ceramic tile mural features Arizona's earliest inhabitants - Apache dancers, vaqueros, prospectors, Spanish explorers, farmers and cowboys. They spring upward from the bottom of the scene in a landscape filled with symbols of the state's diverse history and growth, from agriculture to industry; stagecoach to the railroad and beyond.​