Local artist transforms school bus into mobile art shop

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The pandemic forced many small business owners to close up shop for good, but for one determined artist, she wasn’t ready to let her dreams die. Today, Erica Cantua’s business, Erixaart, is thriving thanks to her investment in a school bus. “There was that thought in the back of my mind where this could just not work out,” she said when asked about her thought process when the idea came about. Originally selling her pieces through her website, the COVID-19 pandemic forced her to change the way she did business. That’s when she got the idea…