Thank you to all of the customers and employees who donated to the St. Mary's Food Bank Food Drive at our Phoenix and Mesa locations during the month of July. Due to your kindness and generosity we were able to donate 702 pounds of food! That  equates to 702 meals placed on the tables of families in our community.

We wrapped up our annual Summer Kids Events with music, raffles, games, and parties this past week, and said hello to a brand new school year. Thanks to the customers of all ages who learned, created, and had fun with us this year!

Mychael started drawing at the age of three. His mother Star, a talented artist herself, was his first encouragement. She taught him light and shadow techniques and perspective at a very early age. His most vivid memory of their early drawing sessions is when she demonstrated a lighted and slightly melted candle in a dark room; the way the flame had a corona and how each drip of wax had its own elongated shadow beneath it. It was a very entrancing moment and it probably laid the foundation for his eventual “style”.