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Please join us at the next meeting of the Fort Worth Art Commission on Monday, January 27, 2025, 5:30 p.m. at the Meacham Airport Conference Center, 201 American Concourse (76106). The agenda will be available on Thursday, January 23rd.
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.
In memorium: Albert Shigeki Komatsu (1926 – 2024). Founder of the Komatsu architecture firm in 1959, which continues in its 65th year today, Mr. Komatsu completed numerous projects in North Texas and across the globe. He worked on special projects locally including the Japanese Garden in the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens. FWPA staff is honored to have worked with Mr. Komatsu, who served on the inaugural Fort Worth Art Commission from 2002-2008.
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
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!