Midtown
Tallahassee's Midtown district runs along Thomasville Road and the surrounding streets in the central residential area between the Capitol complex and the northern suburbs — a strip of independent restaurants, coffee shops, and boutiques whose back walls and alley-facing facades have become canvases for a quieter, more intimate mural program than Railroad Square's warehouse district. Work here tends toward natural imagery drawn from the Red Hills region that begins at Tallahassee's northern edge.
Featured Artists
All artists →Gaia
"Red Hills" maps the Red Hills landscape north of Tallahassee — the quail plantations, the longleaf pine savannas, the Bradwell Bay wilderness — one of the last intact examples of the Southern Coastal Plain ecosystem that once ran from Virginia to Texas, rendered in Gaia's natural history documentation style as both a portrait of a surviving landscape and an argument for its continuation.
CASES
"Canopy Roads" celebrates Tallahassee's famous canopy roads — the five designated scenic byways where live oak branches arch over the asphalt in tunnels of Spanish moss — by rendering the specific botanical details of the oak canopy and its understory species in CASES's scientific illustration style, a work that reads differently depending on whether you know the trees personally.
Wyland
"Wakulla Spring" documents Wakulla Springs State Park — one of the world's largest and deepest freshwater springs, 15 miles south of Tallahassee — in Wyland's luminous underwater style, the spring's extraordinary visibility (in some conditions, 250 feet) rendered through the lens of the limpkin, manatee, and river cooter turtle that inhabit its constant 68-degree water.