The well-known Greetings from Houston mural by Daniel Anguilu.
This story is a part of our “Causes to Love Houston” package deal, printed within the Spring 2025 difficulty.
The Mayor’s Workplace of Cultural Affairs is accountable for making Houston sparkle and pop with public artwork—and 2024 was a giant, well-funded 12 months. The Civic Artwork Assortment added 9 new site-specific commissioned artworks, one on the Montrose Library and eight at IAH. Lucas Fang was named the 2024–2025 Houston Youth Poet Laureate, made attainable by a $20,000 grant. MOCA partnered with Midtown and Bloomberg Philanthropies for HueMan:Shelter, an upcoming public artwork exhibition on homelessness, thanks partly to a $100,000 Metropolis Initiative grant. And 15 new Mini Murals had been added in 2024, bringing the full variety of UP Artwork Studio’s visitors management cupboard items to over 400, with a further 40 at present within the works.
All you could do to see these works is stroll (or drive) round. Listed below are a few of our favourite public artwork items in Houston, and the place to search out them.
Greetings from Houston by Daniel Anguilu
Heights
Even within the Heights, up there with downtown when it comes to wonderful public artwork, this mural stands out as notably iconic. It’s bought the whole lot: an oil rig, cowboy cacti, a mixtape, a spaceship, and the artist’s signature geometric shapes. Take a while to play vacationer in your individual metropolis and snap a selfie in entrance of this picture-perfect postcard.
3602 White Oak Dr
Victor Ash’s Girl Justice, situated downtown overlooking Remembrance Park.
Girl Justice by Victor Ash
Downtown
Road Artwork for Mankind curates and maintains the Remembrance mural collection by Copenhagen-based artist Victor Ash, essentially the most hanging of which is that this portrait of a Black girl donning a blindfold, a sword in a single hand and scales within the different. She’s surrounded by courthouses, a household legislation middle, and the jury plaza: a stark reminder of who justice is supposed for and who really receives it.
1019 Congress St
Alief Swarm by Bennie Flores Ansell on the Alief Neighborhood Middle.
Alief Swarm by Bennie Flores Ansell
Alief
Situated contained in the Alief Group Middle, this piece combines the ethereal and pure with the fabric, that includes round a thousand butterflies made from clear CNC-cut pictures of sneakers. It hangs from the ceiling, evoking the butterfly backyard simply exterior. Ansell views the flock of colourful butterflies as consultant of the Alief neighborhood itself, one of the various in Houston.
11903 Bellaire Blvd
Be sure that to stay round to observe the James Turrell Skyspace’s mild exhibits at daybreak and nightfall.
Twilight Epiphany by James Turrell
Rice College
Immersive and infinitely Instagrammable, Twilight Epiphany is without doubt one of the most beloved items of public artwork in Houston. Six days per week, the Skyspace undergoes a visible transformation, with LED lights brightening the area with an array of lovely colours. It additionally pulls double obligation as a performing arts venue, offering wonderful acoustics for dance and music showcases.
Suzanne Deal Sales space Centennial Pavilion
Jesse Lott’s The Dreamcatcher is situated on the Sunnyside Well being and Multi-Service Middle.
The Dreamcatcher by Jesse Lott
Sunnyside
The late Jesse Lott, a pivotal determine in Houston artwork historical past for his work with Undertaking Row Homes and a motion he known as “city folks artwork,” designed this eye-catching sculpture for Sunnyside Well being and Multi-Service Middle. Constructed of wire, glass, and located objects, The Dreamcatcher delights the attention with its sun-catching, colourful lights and the way in which it modifications relying on the angle from which you view it.
4410 Reed Rd
Temper.
La Rivière by Aristide Maillol
Museum District
This replica of a dramatic Maillol unique sits exterior the Kinder Constructing’s Café Leonelli on the Museum of High quality Arts, Houston. It’s exhausting to stroll previous it and never instantly assume, “Woman, identical.”
5500 Important St
