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A new public art project in conjunction with the revitalization of Heritage and Paddock Parks is coming to downtown Fort Worth! FWPA has opened a Call for Curators who have experience telling the Native American story. Curators nationwide are invited to review the details of the call and submit their application by June 9, 2025.
Please join us at the next meeting of the Fort Worth Art Commission on Monday, June 23, 2025, 5:30 p.m., at the Ella Mae Shamblee Library, 1062 Evans Avenue, 76104. The meeting agenda and backup information will be available by June 19th.
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.
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.
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!