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Barnyard Promenade, a series of twelve large-scale kinetic weathervanes by artist Christopher Fennell, will be formally dedicated on Monday, November 11, 2024, beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the Golden Triangle Library, located at 4264 Golden Triangle Boulevard (76244). Meet the artist and learn about each unique sculpture’s distinctive artistic form of native animal, bird or reptile, which are made from locally-sourced recycled materials. The works can be found along the North Beach Corridor from Shiver Road to Timberland Boulevard.
Please join us at the next meeting of the Fort Worth Art Commission on Monday, November 18, 2024, 5:30 p.m. at the Como Community Center located at 4660 Horne Street (76107). The agenda will include a presentation of the Horne Street Preliminary Design, and a full agenda will be posted by Thursday, November 14th.
On September 16, 2024, the Fort Worth Art Commission unanimously recommended to acquire a limestone sculpture titled Natura by Fort Worth-based artist Alice Bateman for the Fort Worth Public Art Community Legacy Collection, noting that the heirloom artwork is an important part of Fort Worth’s cultural history. The artwork is one of four created during the popular 1999 public symposium at the Botanic Garden that encouraged Fort Worth City Council to approve a percent for public art ordinance in 2001.
The East Rosedale Monument Project by artist Christopher Blay recognizes the role of transit buses in the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1970s. Fort Worth Public Art recently partnered with Kinfolk House for the public unveiling and reading of “My Southside, Our Community,” a poem written by April Lynn Pelton, Tarrant County’s Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate (2023), and commissioned by artist Christopher Blay as part of the project. Pelton’s “My Southside, Our Community” poem will be displayed on an electronic sign in the monument.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHT | Right Turn Only
Mark Reigelman’s artwork for the Las Vegas Trail Roundabout entitled Right Turn Only is a spiral created from hundreds of bright blue traffic arrows that twirl in on themselves and point skyward.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHT | Vision
Gordon Huether’s artwork for the Fort Worth Police Department South Patrol Division, entitled Vision, seeks to evoke ideas of clarity, transparency, awareness, and reflection that are essential to effective police enforcement today. A dedication event will be held on Monday, July 29, 2024.
FEATURED ART
Fabled
Area C Projects’ artwork entitled Fabled draws upon the library’s role as a teller of stories and stories as creators of place. The artists suggest that what people know about a place comes from the stories it tells about itself. Area C Projects partnered with the Fort Worth Public Library to collect pictures, video and stories from residents of Fort Worth over several months.
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Karl Unnasch
Karl Unnasch was recently selected for the Ray White Road Public Art Project. Honors received for past work include two ICSC U.S. MAXI Silver awards in Las Vegas for PLAYTIME JUBILEE and an Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Year in Review nod for RUMINANT out of Washington, D.C. He has created public artworks across the country and has been featured on the Today show and Voice of America. Visit his website to learn more!