This is a cool mural that is located in a park in Tampa. It has a variety of sports legends and…read moreothers in the collage. It is filled with many colors and images appealing to the eye. Here is some information from the local Tampa art website. "The mural represents many sports played at the park, such as basketball and tennis, but also highlights boxing, a sport that was popular in West Tampa years ago.  Featured in the mural are Fernando "Ferdie" Pacheco, M.D., and Joe "King" Roman.  Pacheco, was a physician and cornerman for world heavyweight boxing champion, Muhammad Ali, and numerous other boxing champions. Roman, Puerto Rico's first world heavyweight championship challenger and Tampa resident, is featured in the mural as a symbol of motivation, inspiration and determination."

This is a wonderful mural that my family and I saw while we were in Tampa. We are big fans of…read morevisiting murals and seeing the different paintings across different cities that represent their cities. Pretty cut and dry it's just a huge mirror that has the word Tampa yeah the different things they offer

This unique patchwork sculpture used to be in front of the downtown Safety Harbor Fire Department…read morebuilding. Now, it's saved in a nearby residential neighborhood for all to see! Life is good with unique art in Safety Harbor!

Had a really nice experience coming across the art on the electric box in Clearwater. It is a small…read morebut creative piece of public art that adds a lot of character to an otherwise ordinary street corner. The design is colorful, detailed, and does a great job of turning something simple and overlooked into something interesting to look at. It is one of those little touches that shows how much the city cares about public art and making everyday spaces more visually appealing. It is a quick stop, but definitely worth pausing for if you are walking or driving through the area. The only reason it is not a full destination is simply because it is a smaller piece and does not take long to see, but it still leaves a positive impression. Overall, a cool and creative addition to Clearwater's public art scene. Easy 4 stars.

Public art can be found if you keep your eyes open! The City of Clearwater has been trying to…read moresupport public art projects to create some beauty and interest in an otherwise deserted and dreadful downtown area. Everyone knows and loves Clearwater Beach! But downtown and nearby neighborhoods are slowly becoming a place to find amazing public art! This piece is by Tim Boatwright and was funded by the City of Clearwater. Life is good with public art!

The moment came! The anticipation built! The instant of 1:31pm on the summer solstice, June 21…read more.. we were here to witness it! I was first to arrive. A dozen came. Some came late... better luck next year! 93F! Extreme humidity! Partly cloudy!? The clouds had to part and let the sun shine to see the effect! Would we be lucky? Boon, Grace and I would find out! Curious people braved the heat to experience this unique spectacle... luckily for us, the clouds parted at the exact second necessary for us to experience the perfectly aligned shadows around the meteorite embedded in the concrete obelisk! I kid you not! This unique sculpture was built in 1995... the artist was Nancy Holt! There are also five key Florida dates in bronze plates embedded in the ground including the day in 1513 when Ponce De Leon from Spain first sighted Florida. Another date is in 1849 when Tampa was established. A third date is July 20, 1969 when humans landed on the moon! The date to experience this place is June 21! The time is 1:31pm. The rest is up to you! Life is good with unique artwork!

Enthusiastic day to get to know the sky and the sun changes reflecting to the ground. There certain…read moreday of the a year the sun is directly on top of you. USF has a Solar Rotary reflect the sun. The Solar Rotary is located between Zimmerman School and the Cooper hall building garden. The sun lights exactly line up with the reflection of the shadow at 1:32 pm with solar day. The circle is a pipe structure shaped like sun. The shadow reflects to the bottom circular concrete pedestal. This phenomena last only 2 minutes. When there is a cloud, the phenomena do not show.

I discovered this beautiful 17 feet high by 22 feet wide mosaic mural in historic downtown Tarpon…read moreSprings. The brightly colored mosaic is on the side of the Meres building adjacent to the parking lot that was once Mother Meres garden. The mural was a gift to the city from the Garden Fairies of Tampa Bay, a group of civic, artistic gardeners who have spent seven months creating the massive multimedia art piece. The Garden Fairies received no public funds for the $60,000 mural. It was created through their fundraising efforts and a benefit party by the Chamber of Commerce. It took 2,000 hours to complete the installation of 46 panels over Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 2010. Even the concrete walls surrounding the nearby dumpster also were decorated with 86 smaller panels. The mural commemorates Amelia Petzold Meres, a city pioneer and amateur horticulturist from the early 20th century. Mother Meres loved plants and people. She was born in Germany in 1845 and emigrated to the United States with her family when she was 5. In 1882, she moved to Tarpon Springs with her husband, Walter to run the Ferns Hotel on the corner of Tarpon and Pinellas avenues. Amelia Meres and her husband had a home east of the hotel and on their land she created a lush jungle garden that fed the hotel guests fresh fruits and vegetables and honey produced in the garden. Eventually she was bestowed the nickname of "Mother Meres." In addition to the garden she also planted the cycads that gave Tarpon Springs' Cycadia Cemetery its name later replacing them with oleander after the cycads dies off in a freeze. She held the town's first Christmas party, brought plants to the sick, and helped plant trees to beautify city. With a kapok seed giver to her by her friend botanist David Fairchild of Miami, she planted the famous kapok tree at the former Kapok Tree Inn on McMullen-Booth Road. Mother Meres died at the age of 78 on Oct. 20, 1923. After her death the garden became a city park with benches and a band shell. In the 1950's the park was turned into a parking lot. The parking lot is also the site of the Sunday Tarpon Springs Farmers Market. It is so nice to see Mother Meres love of gardening and generous spirit is still honored and thriving 100 years later.

Walking around historic downtown Tarpon Springs I couldn't help but be drawn to this vintage…read morepostcard style mural on the outside of the Chamber of Commerce Welcome Center. This is a 25-by-4 1/2-foot digitally printed mural by Eagle Photographics in Tampa. It was unveiled in 2020 and is a reproduction of a 1994 painting, called Changing Tides by North Pinellas based artist Christopher M. Still. The mural depicts Tarpon Springs sponge diving heyday around the Anclote Key Lighthouse. The original painting was donated to the Tarpon Springs Public Library by Elizabeth Coachman, an artist and former head of the medical laboratory at AdventHealth North Pinellas. Elizabeth and her husband Michael wanted to keep Changing Tides in the City of Tarpon Springs. Artist Christopher M. Still is known for his paintings of Florida's wildlife, people and landscapes. He works out of Dunedin, Florida and has a gallery in Tarpon Springs. In 2010 he was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Of the mural he has said "It's a big honor to do this, to have an entryway sign for Tarpon Springs. It's neat having it as an entryway sign out here and you can walk over and see the original indoors nearby." Today the Changing Tides mural serves as a welcome to the City of Tarpon Springs. People love to have their photos taken in front of it and it preserves the rich history of this town as a sponge diving village.

This is a lovely old hiuse in the heart of the Hyde Park residential area of Tampa across the…read moreHillsborough zriver from Tampa. One of several lovely homes, churches, buildings and businesses that should festure in any historical building tour of the area. A historical marker covers some of the bases. Here's a historical tour website as well. http://floridahistory.org/hydepark.htm