public art

County officials told the residents the Florida Department of Transporation had given local governments no alternatives to removal of the brightly painted crosswalks on Dempsey Mayo Road and elsewhere.

The Department of Transportation's order even seems to apply to asphalt artwork that conforms with earlier approved standards.

Rainbow-painted crosswalks and Black Lives Matter street art installations could soon be a thing of the past. New guidelines place bans on such messaging.

The effort is a joint project of COCA and the Community Redevelopment Agency

COCA - the Council of Culture and the Arts - has received 2 large grants making the project possible.

The mural, which students helped paint, was the latest in a series of public art projects under the auspices of KCCI and other community partners.

23 arts organizations in Tallahassee/Leon County are scrambling after Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed state arts grants. The cuts total close to a million dollars locally.

Project managers say the $1.1 million investment is the largest ever made in a Tallahassee/Leon County public art project.

Saturday's pilot exercise will be expanded to other locations by KCCI's incoming catalyst class.

Painter Pattie Maney says she'll bring her own knowledge of the artists and their works to the tours