Springfield
Springfield is Jacksonville's original streetcar suburb, developed in the 1880s north of downtown with a grid of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival houses that make it the largest historic district in Florida by acreage. The neighborhood's mural program is Jacksonville's most politically engaged — work here addresses housing justice, environmental racism, and the legacy of urban renewal that demolished much of North Jacksonville in the 1960s, producing a body of community-commissioned outdoor art that treats walls as a medium for civic argument.
Featured Artists
All artists →Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
"Springfield Rising" documents eight long-term Springfield residents — a retired schoolteacher, a corner store owner, a housing activist, a muralist, a grandmother, and three children — in Fazlalizadeh's monochrome portrait style, asserting the full humanity of the community that survived decades of disinvestment and is now fighting displacement from its own revival.
RIME
"North Jacksonville" is RIME's largest Florida piece, a panoramic composition documenting the vanished neighborhoods of North Jacksonville that were demolished for Interstate construction — the churches, the businesses, the schools that anchored Black Jacksonville's commercial life — rendered in RIME's detailed photorealist style as an act of architectural memory.
Gaia
"Queen Anne Revival" maps the native plant communities of the Springfield bluff — the live oaks, Southern magnolias, and resurrection ferns that cling to the historic neighborhood's lot boundaries — in Gaia's natural history documentation style, rendered on the facade of one of Springfield's most intact Queen Anne houses as an argument for coexistence between the built and natural environments.