Artist Melo Dominguez spent eight weeks in the hospital with chronic pancreatitis, and she made a promise, a manda, to “give her days to people and service.” Now she has a gallery in Tucson, not only for her own work but for that of artists who might not otherwise have a track to the art world. Dominguez: “You gotta wait in line to get into the museum. You gotta go to X amount of years to school to be admitted. And you know what? Some of us artists don’t got time for that. We’re trying to survive.”