Railroad Square
Railroad Square Art Park is Tallahassee's definitive arts district, a collection of converted railyard warehouses east of downtown that house galleries, studios, the monthly Art Alley event, and the highest concentration of murals anywhere in the Florida Panhandle. The FSU and FAMU student populations give Railroad Square a consistently experimental energy, with new work appearing faster than in most college-town art districts and a willingness to engage with content — political, ecological, personal — that distinguishes it from commercial mural programs.
Featured Artists
All artists →Gaia
"Apalachicola Forest" documents the longleaf pine ecosystem of the Apalachicola National Forest — the largest national forest in Florida, just 30 miles from Railroad Square — mapping the red-cockaded woodpeckers, gopher tortoises, and native wiregrass understory of an ecosystem that covered 90 million acres before European settlement, in Gaia's natural history documentation style.
Shepard Fairey
"Capital City" engages with Tallahassee's identity as a political capital — the site of Florida legislative battles over voting rights, environmental regulation, and public education — in Fairey's layered graphic portrait style, with figures drawn from the activist communities that have organized in and around the Capitol building for decades.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
"FAMU Legacy" honors the students and faculty of Florida A&M University who participated in the Tallahassee Bus Boycott of 1956 and the subsequent sit-in movement — portraits of Patricia Stephens Due and other student leaders rendered in Fazlalizadeh's monochrome style as an assertion of FAMU's historical role in the civil rights movement that national narratives often overlook.