Public Art

Clyde Fant Parkway

River View Fountains

Clyde Fant Parkway at River View Park


Shreveport Roses

Clyde Fant Parkway at River View Park


Shreveport Police and Firefighters Memorial

Clyde Fant Parkway – Barnwell Center

Shreveport Police and Firefighters Memorial Web Site


Shreveport Area Veterans Memorial

Clyde Fant Parkway at Stoner Avenue – Veterans Park
Artist: Jerry Gorum


Fountain

Clyde Fant Parkway at River View Theatre


Captain Henry Miller Shreve

Clyde Fant Parkway at River View Center


Untitled

Barnwell Center at Riverfront Park


Indigenous Celebration – 1983

Clyde Fant Parkway – Riverfront Park
Artist: Curtis Patterson
Medium: Bronze


Commerce Street

Rolie Polie Olie

Northwest corner of Commerce at Milam
Artist: Mike Dean
Designed by: William Joyce

This mural extends eighty feet in length and is fifteen feet high. It is on the side of the original Sci-Port Building.


Common Street

Homage to Shreveport – 1986

Municipal Auditorium Plaza
Artist: Frank Hayden
Medium: Bronze
This sculpture was commissioned in February 1995 by the Downtown Development Authority and the City of Shreveport. It represents community spirit, racial unity and fellowship. It also speaks to the importance of cooperation, family and community involvement.


Crockett Street

Inside These Walls

Crockett Street side of 629 Spring Street on the side wall of the Shreveport Bossier Convention & Tourist Bureau

Designer & Lead Artist: Don Alexander
Artist Team: Shirlene Alexander, Buddy West

Goal of this project was to create a welcoming wall of the sights, sounds and/or tastes of the Shreveport/Bossier area, thereby celebrating the arts, history and attractions of Louisiana.


Let The Good Times Roll

101 Crockett Street at Festival Plaza
Artist: Don Alexander
Designer: Tama Ripps Nathan


Elvis Presley Avenue

Tribute to Elvis

Municipal Auditorium – 705 Elvis Presley Avenue
Artist: Eric Kaposta


James Burton

Municipal Auditorium – 705 Elvis Presley Avenue
Artist: Eric Kaposta


Fannin Street

Justice – 1995

300 Fannin Street
Artist: Raymond Kaskey
Medium: Bronze and Painted Steel

The sculpture combines two classical concepts: that of a blindfolded female figure to denote justice, and that of a sundial to denote time.


Lake Street

Rose

102 Lake Street – South Wall of Holiday Inn Downtown
Artist:: Don Alexander


Market Street

Architectural Details for Shreveport: Putting on the Arts – 1998

308 Market Street
Artist: Roberto Salas
Artist Team: Abby Fowler, Barry Galloway, Donna Service, Buddy West and John Rivers Bicknell

This mural is based upon a detail found on the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium, which was designed by Shreveport architect, Samuel G. Wiener.


Caddo Lake Mural

305 Market Street – Classic Reprographics Building
Artist: Don Edwards

As Don Edwards painted this mural, employees made comments on things they felt should be included, such as the bear and the alligator and the artist included their suggestions as he went along. This mural is 80 feet in length and 22 feet high.


Marshall Street

Architectural Details for Shreveport: Putting on the Arts – 1998

Marshall Street Train Overpass @ Cotton Street – West Wall
Artist: Roberto Salas
Artist Team: Abby Fowler, Barry Galloway, Donna Service, Buddy West and John Rivers Bicknell
Built in 1920 by KCS; it is one of the first street underpasses built in order to facilitate traffic flow while trains were running. The medallion is based upon the Mandala-style medallions of the Municipal Auditorium.


Architectural Details for Shreveport: Putting on the Arts

Marshall Street Train Overpass @ Cotton Street – East Wall
Artist: Roberto Salas
Artist Team: Abby Fowler, Barry Galloway, Donna Service, Buddy West and John Rivers Bicknell
Built in 1920 by KCS; it is one of the first street underpasses built in order to facilitate traffic flow while trains were running. The medallion is based upon the Mandala-style medallions of the Municipal Auditorium.


McNeil Street

Maximus

712 Milam Street – West Wall

This mural is on the west wall of the Harkey Building constructed in 1901.


Once in a Millennium Moon

725 McNeil – Rear and Side Walls of AT&T Building
Artist: Meg Saligman
Artist Team: 2,600 Community Painters


Texas Street

Louisiana Purchase – Bicentennial Plaza Project

Under Texas Street Bridge at Clyde Fant Parkway in Red River District
Artist: LaMoyne Batton, Geeta Dave, Diana Salles

Over 15 works of art located in this area!


Louisiana Purchase – Bicentennial Plaza Project

Under Texas Street Bridge at Clyde Fant Parkway in Red River District
Artist: LaMoyne Batton, Geeta Dave, Diana Salles


Red River Revel Mosiac

Under Texas Street Bridge at Clyde Fant Parkway in Red River District
Artist: Deanie Wray Galloway
Artist Team: members of the general public


Blue Scroll Mural – 1998

Architectural Details for Shreveport: Putting on the Arts

711 Texas Street
Artist: Roberto Salas
Artist Team: Abby Fowler, Barry Galloway, Donna Service, Buddy West and John Rivers Bicknell
Medium: Paint
This mural dreives its design from architectural details found above the doors on the old B’nai Zion Temple, located at 802 Cotton Street.


Untitled

605 Texas Street – East Wall
Artist: Bill Scott


Architectural Details for Shreveport: Putting on the Arts – 1998

318 Texas Street – East Wall
Artist: Roberto Salas
Artist Team: Abby Fowler, Barry Galloway, Donna Service, Buddy West and John Rivers Bicknell
The primary focus is a detail from the notable cast iron columns found on the Kahn Building at 123 Texas Street.


Quilt Kiosk – 1994

Northeast corner of Texas Street and McNeil Street
Artists: Barbara Abbott and Frances Drew
Medium: Concrete, ceramic Tile and Glass
This sculpture is 14 feet high and 9 feet wide. The mosiac objects are arranged in patterns found in African-American and Anglo-American quilt designs. Funded by SRAC, the National Endowment for the Arts, Downtown Development Authority and Shreveport StreetScape.


Second to None

516 Texas Street – East Wall
Artist: Blue Martin


Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter – 1993

Northeast corner of Texas Street and Marshall Street
Artist: Jessie Pitts, Jr.
Medium: Bronze
“Lead Belly” has one hand outstretched and pointing to the neighborhood which provided his early musical training. He is holding his legendary 12 string guitar.


Turning To The Right

Northeast corner of Texas Street and Edwards Street
Artist: Partrick Miller


Texas Street

Texas Street Bridge – 1993

Artist: Rockne Krebs

With more than 7,000 feet of neon the Texas Street Bridge Lighting Project is the Nation’s largest neon sculpture.