Historic Seaport
Key West's Historic Seaport at the Harbor Walk occupies the northern shore of the island, where shrimp boats, charter fishing vessels, and tall ship reproductions still tie up alongside the restaurants and bars of the converted waterfront. The working-maritime context shapes the mural program here — artists are drawn to the sea, the Gulf Stream, and the extraordinary marine life of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
Featured Artists
All artists →Nychos
"Gulf Stream" depicts a cross-sectioned bull shark in the full current of the Gulf Stream — the water rendered as a luminous teal field and the shark's interior organs illustrated with marine biology precision. The Gulf Stream visible from Key West's harbor runs only 15 miles offshore, making it the closest point on the US coast to that river-within-the-ocean.
Wyland
"Reef Life" documents the Florida Reef — the only living coral barrier reef in the continental United States, already 85% degraded from its 1970s state — with the urgency of ecological loss, the fish and coral rendered in Wyland's luminous underwater palette against a background that shows the bleached and ghostly reef beneath the living one.
DAAS
"Shrimp Boat" on William Street captures a Key West shrimping vessel at the moment of departure in DAAS's atmospheric, watercolor-inflected technique — the boat's lights reflecting in the harbor water, the crew moving in early-morning darkness, a work that honors the shrimping industry that has sustained working-class families in the Keys for over a century.