Jim White needed a place to crash. A former Las Vegas artist now based in Tucson, White returned in June to oversee a 10-day exhibit of his collages at the Available Space Art Projects (ASAP) gallery. His travel budget: sub-shoestring. His plan: couch-surfing, possibly with friends of friends of friends. Not ideal for a man in his early 50s with pressing medical concerns.
He was saved from that uncomfortable fate when he connected with Lulu. Lulu is, technically, a funky pink house in a neighborhood near the airport — but functionally it’s much more, for which the term “art house” doesn’t quite suffice. Not exactly a gallery, not really a cultural center, it’s an informal hive of creative activity: studio spaces, display area, monthly dinners, room for its growing community to connect. And a place happy to put up an itinerant…
