Public Art
North 11th Street and Grand Avenue
Camille Walala transformed this vintage 1950’s car station into a colorful convergence in the middle of an intersection in downtown Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Curated by creative house Just Kids in collaboration with The Unexpected Urban Contemporary Art…
800 Garrison Avenue
Hailing from Puerto Rico, Ana Maria Ortiz (Ana Marietta) started painting on old wood pieces with tempera paint as a little girl in her dad’s wood shop in Barranquitas. Getting into the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, she studied art and graduate…
418 Towson Avenue
Alexis Diaz is a Puerto Rican painter and urban muralist, known for his chimerical and dreamlike depictions of animals in a state of metamorphosis. Díaz has been drawing from a very young age but street art always spoke to his sensibilities above oth…
700 B Street
Australian artist Guido Van Helten has created art in Australia, London, Iceland, Scotland...and now in Fort Smith, Arkansas! He paints nostalgic art – similar to watercolor paintings – using culturally authentic photographs for inspiration.
He grew…
414 Towson Avenue
Scottish-born, London-based poet, artist and sculptor, Robert Montgomery, added this poetic contribution to Downtown Fort Smith as part of The Unexpected urban and contemporary art project of 2019 in downtown Fort Smith, Arkansas.
The LED-lighted scu…
Pendergraft Park
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A 25-foot work of art honors the illustrious lawman, believed to be the first black U.S. deputy marshal west of the Mississippi. Reeves, born into slavery, served for 32 years under Federal Judge Isaac C. Parker. This larger-than-life monument is fit…
101 North 2nd Street
Faculty & Students of the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith created this stunning mural in honor of renowned local jazz musician, Alphonso Trent, who is credited as one of the most influential African American musicians of the Golden Age of Jazz d…
70 South 7th Street
Hilda Palafox (aka Poni) hails from Mexico City and gives birth to art that searches for tranquility and stoicism, curved with the consistent delicacy of femininity.
During The Unexpected project of 2019, Hilda transformed the iconic silos located at…
421 Towson Avenue
Fort Smith artist, Nate Meyers, known by the moniker Buffalo, added this unique piece to the facade of local Habitat for Humanity ReStore during The Unexpected project's 2018 urban and contemporary art festival.
Buffalo is known for his trademark geo…
1319 North G Street
Okuda San Miguel added this colorful mural to the unassuming facade of an old home in downtown Fort Smith, Arkansas, as part of The Unexpected project of 2019.
Spanish artist Okuda San Miguel graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Madri…