Al and Barbara Garvey

Al and Barbara Garvey are an American artiste and tango dancing couple known for catalyzing warm tub culture in California in 1966. While breathing in Fairfax in Marin County, California, the Garveys built their own warm tub in which they could soak taking into consideration friends. The practice press forward into a cultural phenomenon throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

The Garveys are both artists, with Al known as a painter, screen printer and woodworker. In 1972, Al was a founding advocate of the Baulines Craft Guild, a society of master artists suitable to tutor apprentices. His artistic doors and doorways have brought him praise. Barbara collaborated similar to Al upon a screen printing commission titled We Are the Wall Itself in 1974. Barbara co-founded Folkwear Patterns similar to two supplementary women in 1976, which continued as a pattern-making company below new ownership.

In the 1990s, the Garveys began to tutor tango dancing in the San Francisco Bay Area, after leading a resurgence of combination in tango dancing inspired by the musical Tango Argentino. In 2004, the Garveys moved to Puerto Vallarta in Mexico and continued to build a tango community and Make art.