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The East Rosedale Monument Project by Christopher Blay was recently dedicated to the City of Fort Worth. For the artwork, Blay transformed a transit bus into a monument as a way of talking about the history of buses in the civil rights movement, and as a way of preserving that history. Engraved panels within the bus shell focus on these stories along with others who protested the policies of segregation and fought for justice and equality here in Fort Worth.
Please join us at the next meeting of the Fort Worth Art Commission on Monday, March 17, 2025, 5:30 p.m., location TBD. Information for the meeting will be posted by Thursday, March 13.
Ciquio Vasquez Park Public Artist J. Muzacz’s Final Design was approved by the Fort Worth Art Commission in December. His first hands-on workshop experience for the community recently took place at the Worth Heights Community Center. Visit the artist’s project webpage to learn more and offer your feedback.
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.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHT | East Rosedale Monument Project
Christopher Blay’s artwork for East Rosedale Avenue recognizes the role of transit buses in the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1970s and connects the struggle for equal rights and justice from a national narrative to a local one by transforming a vintage transit bus into a public artwork as a way of talking about and preserving history.
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.
FEATURED ART
Remnants of 1965
Remnants of 1965 by Riley Holloway presents Fort Worth’s rich culture and diversity by commemorating an important moment in history to inspire and remind us of what it took for us to get where we are today. Inspired by a historic Fort Worth Star-Telegram photograph of the event and moved by the simple expression of joined black and white hands, Holloway’s three painted vignettes draw a modern-day parallel to that moment.
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Trevor O’Tool
Trevor O’Tool was recently selected for the Gateway Park Public Art Project. An accomplished sculptor specializing in welding, lost wax casting and fabrication, O’Tool became a public art artist a decade ago and has commissioned works in collections in Arizona, Texas, California and Oregon. He has a degree in Expanded Media from the University of Arizona, Tuscon. Visit his website to learn more!