Seminole Heights
Seminole Heights' collection of 1920s Craftsman bungalows along Florida Avenue became Tampa's most gentrified neighborhood in the 2010s, but its mural tradition has maintained roots in the working-class Cuban and Black communities that originally built the neighborhood. The murals here tend toward the intimate — smaller walls, more personal subjects — though the neighborhood's craft beer corridor has attracted several significant large-format commissions.
Featured Artists
All artists →Kofie
"Guava Tree" grows a botanical subject out of Kofie's blueprint-drafting mechanical forms — the guava's tropical exuberance rendered in the precision of an engineer's elevation drawing, a comment on how carefully planned Seminole Heights' bungalow-era landscape actually was and how thoroughly its natural character has been replaced by the neighborhood's urban densification.
RONE
"Bungalow Dreams" depicts a woman in 1930s dress in a Seminole Heights bungalow interior, surrounded by the Craftsman-era details — built-in bookcases, heart-pine floors, original hardware — that have made this neighborhood the subject of preservationist attention and developer interest in equal measure.
Wyland
"Hillsborough River" documents the river corridor that runs through Seminole Heights' eastern edge — the Florida softshell turtles, alligator gars, and limpkins that inhabit the river's tannin-dark waters — in Wyland's underwater naturalist style, a reminder that one of Florida's wildest rivers flows through the middle of a major city.