Cattle Track Arts Compound

The Cattle Track Arts Compound is one of the most historically significant creative communities in the American Southwest, a cluster of studios and living spaces that has housed working artists since the 1930s - long before Scottsdale's gallery district emerged around it. The compound's buildings have sheltered generations of painters, sculptors, printmakers, and ceramicists who valued affordable studio space, community, and proximity to the Sonoran Desert landscape. Today Cattle Track continues to operate as a working artists' community, with residents whose practices range from traditional Western painting to contemporary sculpture. Occasional open studio events give visitors a rare look behind the walls of one of Arizona's most storied creative compounds.