STICKS & STONES: Unique art using nature's bounty
If you're able to go above and beyond to help us during this important time, please consider making an additional financial contribution. Click here to contribute. Walking in the open desert near her home in Green Valley, artist Rita Renella saw pieces of what she describes as âbeautiful desert driftwood.â New to the area two years ago, she soon learned those distinctive remains were once live skeletons of prickly, thorny cholla cactus. Without their small, wart-like, sharp spines, Renella picked up some pieces not knowing what she would do with them. Today, those dried, brown, la...