The Waco Mural That Looks Unfinished (On Purpose)
Half of this wall is drawn in plain black outline, half is blazing color — and nobody ran out of paint. The Color of Health, a hidden second face, and the Waco teenagers who painted it.
The Six-Story Mural Magnolia Network Filmed Being Born
Four artists, one straw vote, one six-story wall: how Brad Settles' The Gift was painted onto the Waco Hippodrome with Magnolia Network's cameras rolling for the pilot of Public Artist.
Waco's First Residents Were Mammoths. You Can Still Meet the Family.
In 1978 two Waco men hunting arrowheads found a femur. It became a national monument — America's only Columbian mammoth nursery herd — and in 2024, a 14,000-pound bronze family joined them across town.
The Day Waco Said No to Flying Burgers (and Got a Better Mural)
In 2015 the city rejected a mural of flying hamburgers invading Waco. The spaceships became water towers, the burgers snuck back in as thought bubbles, and the compromise became a landmark.
The Waco Traffic Circle: 90 Years of Burgers, Elvis, and One Chrome Teardrop
Built in the early 1930s, Waco's Traffic Circle collected the whole town: the café where Elvis ate, a burger stand born from an Air Force canteen, a Tex-Mex landmark, and now a big chrome teardrop.
La Dignidad: The Thousand-Hour Mural on Speight Avenue
Jesús Rivera spent more than a thousand hours painting thirty faces of Hispanic Waco onto the South Waco Community Center. Its name means The Dignity, and it earns it.
Big Red Was Born in Waco — and Somebody Just Stole Its Sign
Waco invented Big Red in 1937, a golf caddie named it, and a ghost sign on La Salle Avenue still marks its old house — a house that just survived an honest-to-goodness sign heist.
Free Things to Do in Waco: A Perfect Art Day, Start to Finish
One perfect day, zero dollars: the sculpture trail at morning, murals at midday, the Silos stretch, and a golden-hour finish at the 1870 bridge. Here's the whole route.
The True Story Behind the Waco Sculpture Zoo
Twenty-eight animal artworks line the Brazos between downtown and Cameron Park Zoo. The true story is 33 families and a mostly-donated million dollars — the legend on top is ours.
Blek le Rat in Waco: Six Stencils, One Treasure Hunt
Blek le Rat — the father of stencil graffiti, the man Banksy admits beat him to everything — spray-painted six works on downtown Waco walls in 2018. Here's how it happened, and how to hunt what survives.
Heart to Heart: The Cold War Mural Hiding in Downtown Waco
In 1990 — while the Soviet Union still stood — an American artist, a Soviet painter, and a Russian cosmonaut painted a peace mural on the back of downtown Waco's Praetorian Building. Almost nobody looks up; here's why you should.
Who Paints Waco? The Muralists Behind the Walls
Waco doesn't import its mural scene — it grows it, pays it, and paints its own kids onto the walls. Meet the muralists behind the paint.
This Is Bear County: The Mural That Remembers May 11, 1953
Tony Bryant painted Waco's whole twentieth century in greyscale on one downtown wall — ball games, bicycles, and the headline from the city's worst day. Why this stop on the trail is different.