Gravitate Toward Huntsville’s Art Scene! While known for rocket science, our vibrant city is also home to a growing art culture, with stunning public art displays in downtown and the surrounding areas. Here’s a glimpse of the public art you'll find in the heart of the Rocket City!
#1 Galactic Mural
By: Jessie Andrews
This is a local artist who has many mural pieces around Huntsville and beyond. The Galactic Mural stands out as one of the most talked about pieces in Huntsville due to its striking appearance and theme that makes sense for the Rocket City, planets and space.
Andrews also had a popular art business in Huntsville selling her signature circular planet-marbled art pieces, and these appear as a 3-D pop-out from the flat wall mural in this art installation. You can find this mural downtown off Holmes Avenue where it covers the back wall of Fountain Parker Harbarger & Associates insurance agency.
#2 Travelers II
By: David Dahlquist, Matt Niebuhr, RDG Planning & Design
2022 Big Spring Park
This large metal structure has its striking presence at Huntsville’s iconic Big Spring Park in the heart of downtown. This structure is also known as the Whale Bones by locals and is a great meeting place in the park, with cement benches nearby as part of the structure where you can sit.
#3 Aztec Warrior
By: Glenn Zweygardt, 700 Monroe Street
Located on the grass near the side walks along the Von Braun Center downtown Huntsville. Vertical metal and stone statue. You get a sense of the heritage this is representing with the impressive fanned out half circle that sits on top of the structure drawing ties to Aztec design.
#4 Koi Mural
By Dustin Timbrook and Redbrick Strategies 2016
A must-stop just around the corner from Big Spring Park downtown. This horizontal mural stretches a block and shows one of the park's most prominent and beloved creatures, our koi fish, that inhabit the flowing water throughout the park canals.
#5 Miss Baker
By Chandler Hayes, 408 Pratt Ave (in the 5 Points area of Huntsville)
This colorful mural depicts one of the most famous primates who went to space. Miss Baker was a spider monkey, along with her monkeynaut crewmate Miss Able, who were the first American animals to successfully return from space in 1959. She is buried at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, and visitors to this day bring bananas to place on her grave. You can find her gravesite near the entrance of the building; just look for the bananas.
#6 This Girl Can
By Kim Radford, 122 Washington Street 2020
Larger than life spanning over 2 stories tall this mural is painted with vibrant colors on the side of a building and parking garage just off the square in Huntsville. This mural depicts a young child holding a watering can over flowers wearing a vote sash. Celebrating the 19th Amendment that allowed for women to vote in elections in the United States. Celebrates a time of progress and a hope to a bright future.
#7 Space is our Place
By Jahni Moore, 2610 Clinton Ave
The mural is on the side of a beloved local brewery, Straight to Ale, on the Campus 805 campus (an old middle school that has been converted into mixed-use space with shops, ping pong, a hidden speakeasy, and more).
The mural depicts a futuristic woman with a space helmet in a seemingly new land with a rocket trail shooting up a star into the atmosphere.
More art worth traveling to see
Mother Earth Troll Garden By Thomas Dambo
Larger-than-life sculpture made from nature: sticks, rocks, trees, twigs, and items from mother nature create and transport you into a legendary whimsical experience.
Huntsville Botanical Garden (admission required) 4747 Bob Wallace Ave Huntsville, AL
*Coming Spring 2025, click here to learn more!
