Flagler Village
Flagler Village — the walkable district immediately north of downtown Fort Lauderdale — has been the city's fastest-growing arts neighborhood, with a density of murals along NE 2nd Street that now rivals FATVillage for sheer wall coverage. The neighborhood's Brightline proximity has attracted a younger demographic and a more experimental mural program that supplements the interactive wing murals and accessible commissions with work that takes genuine aesthetic risks.
Featured Artists
All artists →Kelsey Montague
"New River Wings" features wings designed from native Florida botanicals: Spanish moss, live oak leaves, great egret feathers, and bromeliads — an interactive composition that draws visitors into the mural as participants rather than observers, making the photograph of themselves an extension of the artwork.
Ricardo Cavolo
"Flagler Spirit" populates the New River with Cavolo's folk-art cast — manatees outlined in bold black, ibises rendered in flat red and white, a great blue heron attended by tiny folk-masked figures — in his characteristic dense composition that rewards repeated viewing as you discover additional creatures at each scale.
Gaia
"Mangrove City" maps the mangrove ecosystems that once lined the New River and have been reduced to isolated fragments by Fort Lauderdale's development — a natural history illustration of the red, black, and white mangroves and their associated species that documents what Flagler Village's shoreline looked like before the city arrived.