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Fun With Animal Art for National Endangered Species Day

By Lynn Trimble

Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 1:33 p.m.

Lynn Trimble Christopher Jagmin's take on the tortoise and the hare. 1/50

Lynn Trimble Isaac Caruso painted this big cat in Roosevelt Row. 2/50

Lynn Trimble Diego Perez adding a humorous twist. 3/50

Lynn Trimble Checking out a JoAnn Augur painting. 4/50

Lynn Trimble Betty Busby's Squid Vicious. 5/50

Lynn Trimble Koryn Woodson Wassom showed these birds at MADE Art Boutique. 6/50

Lynn Trimble Heather Freitas showing some penguin love. 7/50

Lynn Trimble One of April Howland's many animal paintings. 8/50

Lynn Trimble John and Elli Milan get in some coyote time. 9/50

Lynn Trimble One of many Anna Tran works exploring endangered animals. 10/50

Lynn Trimble Frank Gonzales has shown his work at Desert Botanical Garden. 11/50

Lynn Trimble Ellen Nemetz delivers a good dose of animal humor. 12/50

Lynn Trimble Detail of Carrie Marill's mural for Scottsdale Public Art. 13/50

Lynn Trimble Heather Freitas' take on the Mexican Wolf. 14/50

Lynn Trimble Andrea Peterson painting spotted a while back at Wilde Meyer Gallery in Scottsdale. 15/50

Lynn Trimble Detail of Jake Early's mural for Tempe Public Art. 16/50

Lynn Trimble Ulla Katz bringing the humor to cat art. 17/50

Lynn Trimble Another work by Andrea Peterson previously shown at Wilde Meyer Gallery. 18/50

Lynn Trimble Part of a Rainbow Westlund painting recently spotted at Millet House in Mesa. 19/50

Lynn Trimble Heather Freitas tackles coral bleaching. 20/50

Lynn Trimble One of Cindy Schnackel's many bird paintings. 21/50

Lynn Trimble Timothy Chapman often paints animals and birds. 22/50

Lynn Trimble Susan Olson's tribute to a gorilla named Koko. 23/50

Lynn Trimble Checking out a painting by James Angel. 24/50

Lynn Trimble One of many underwater-themed prints by Wendy Willis. 25/50

Lynn Trimble Checking out artwork by Sky Black. 26/50

Lynn Trimble Part of illustrator Rebecca Green's mural on Grand Avenue. 27/50

Lynn Trimble This Ai Kijima work is part of the ASU Art Museum collection. 28/50

Lynn Trimble Look for Maggie Keane's mural in the Willo neighborhood. 29/50

Lynn Trimble We spotted this April Howland painting a while back at Tempe Public Library. 30/50

Lynn Trimble One of Anna Tran's works exploring endangered animals. 31/50

Lynn Trimble We spotted this Corinne Geertsen piece at Gebert Contemporary in Scottsdale a while back. 32/50

Lynn Trimble One of Wendy Willis' many prints exploring undersea life. 33/50

Lynn Trimble Anna Tran showing some polar bear love. 34/50

Lynn Trimble Another piece by Cindy Schnackel. 35/50

Lynn Trimble Part of Lauren Lee's mural inside Fair Trade Cafe. 36/50

Lynn Trimble We spotted this Judith Ann Miller work at monOrchid a while back. 37/50

Lynn Trimble Meet Uno, created by Fred Tieken. 38/50

Lynn Trimble This Ron Burns painting was part of an exhibit at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum. 39/50

Lynn Trimble This Monica Aissa Martinez piece was previously exhibited at Royse Contemporary in Scottsdale. 40/50

Lynn Trimble Having a little fun with Joe Ray's work. 41/50

Lynn Trimble Phoenix General and Framed Ewe showed Kelsey Dake in their shared Shortcut Gallery. 42/50

Lynn Trimble One of Jeremy Yocum's cat prints. 43/50

Lynn Trimble Wendy Willis showing the love for undersea life. 44/50

Lynn Trimble Checking out one of Rachel Srinivasan's works. 45/50

Lynn Trimble We spotted this Connie Townsend work at Wilde Meyer Gallery in Scottsdale a while back. 46/50

Lynn Trimble Cindy Schnackel created this for a previous cat-themed exhibit. 47/50

Lynn Trimble You can see Anne Coe's work at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum now. 48/50

Lynn Trimble Look for work by Kristine Kollasch at First Studio. 49/50

Lynn Trimble Part of an international mural series by Louis Masai. 50/50

Fun With Animal Art for National Endangered Species Day

Animals lovers never need an excuse to check out a cute crop of animal pictures. But Endangered Species Day, which was on May 17, is a great time to go beyond cute, and think more about animal conservation and protection. We've encountered plenty of animal art around town, including some depicting endangered species, such as leopards, gorillas, elephants, tigers, and sea turtles. Here's a sampling we hope you'll enjoy.

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