Art happens. No hovel is safe from it, no prince can depend on it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

-James McNeill Whistler

Ajo map and directions

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Ajo is 100 miles southwest of Phoenix, 120 miles west of Tucson, and 40 miles north of the Mexico-Arizona border.

The Curley School is in the very heart of the downtown historic district of Ajo, Arizona, nestled between the gracious palm-treed plaza and distant "A" Mountain (you'll know it when you see it).

Ajo is protected from pollution and urban sprawl by being surrounded by lands splendidly unavailable for development:  the Tohono O'odham Nation, Cabeza Prieta Wildlife Refuge, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and the vast tracts of untouched Sonoran Desert managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).