Where Aspiration + Inspiration = Memorable Places
ABOUT
Inspired by the endless forms and patterns of high altitude cirrus clouds, our collaborative approach with clients, stakeholders, artists, and design professionals brings aspirational art into the public realm, creating meaningful experiences and memorable places.
We specialize in developing public art plans and projects for cities, airports, transit systems, corporations, developers, and non-profits.
SERVICES:
- Strategic Art Program Planning
- Meticulous Art Project Planning
- Innovative Stakeholder Engagement
- Customized Artist Selection
- Effective Project Management
- Thoughtful Curatorial Services
- Practical Collection Management Advice
PRINCIPAL
Martha Peters, Founder & Principal Consultant
Martha Peters has over 30 years of experience leading award-winning, nationally-recognized public art programs in Austin and Fort Worth, Texas, that collectively resulted in over 200 artworks in a wide array of locations and media by local, national, and international artists.
She strategically planned and expertly managed complex, site-specific public art projects for the Austin Convention Center, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, the Fort Worth Convention Center, Chisholm Trail Parkway (State Highway 121), and Pioneer Tower at Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth’s Cultural District.
Her curatorial and consulting clients have included Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Trinity Metro, and the AC Hotel Downtown Fort Worth.
Elected by her peers to serve three consecutive terms on Americans for the Arts’ Public Art Network Council, Peters advised on policy and best practices in the field, as well as educational programs. Currently, she is a founding member of the Public Art Exchange.
Martha earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin and studied Creative Placemaking at the University of British Columbia.
PORTFOLIO
Pioneer Tower
Pioneer Tower Dreams / Texas Surveys
Refik Anadol Studio, 2021 / Quayola, 2021
Four channel audio/video projections
Will Rogers Memorial Center, Fort Worth, Texas
Role: Director of Public Art and Project Manager
Photos by Paperlyte
For his soaring new media work, internationally renowned artist Refik Anadol collected a vast pool of visual data from local archives and an open Call for Memories and, using machine-learning algorithms, transformed it into a dreamlike visualization of Fort Worth’s collective memory. The work was projected on all four sides of the 204’ tall historic Pioneer Tower alternately with Quayola’s nature-based Texas Surveys, during a 2-night event titled, New Stories: New Futures at Pioneer Tower, attended by thousands. This location was among four recommended for “iconic” artworks in the Fort Worth Public Art Master Plan Update of 2017, and first to be implemented.
Chisholm Trail Parkway
Trinity Water Fowl and Water Crossing Markers
Norie Sato, 2015
Cut stone and glass mosaic
Chisholm Trail Parkway (State Highway 121), Fort Worth, Texas
Role: Director of Public Art and Project Manager
Photos by Ralph Lauer
Spanning six bridge monuments and ten vertical columns along the Chisholm Trail Parkway, Norie Sato’s mosaics mark historic water crossings and natural habitats tied to the Trinity River watershed. Drawing on photographs of native waterfowl and aquatic species contributed by local photographers, Sato reinterpreted the imagery into stylized stone and glass compositions that spark conversation about ecology, memory, and urban growth. Each column is capped with a sculpted, water-related object, while the bridge monuments serve as symbolic gateways marking the transition into downtown Fort Worth.
Hemphill Underpass
Flight
Dan Corson, 2021
Painted steel, polyethylene, and LEDs
Hemphill Underpass, Fort Worth, Texas
Role: Director of Public Art and Project Manager
Photos by J. Smith
Artist Dan Corson drew his inspiration for this installation from Fort Worth's aviation history, the patterns of migrating bird, jets flying in formation, and the city’s “Molly” (Texas Longhorn) logo. Twenty-eight identical “longhorn/bird" components, each 12 feet wide with internal LEDs, appear to be flying out from the underpass on the north (downtown) side, while another 35 “fly” southward under the Interstate 30 bridge and emerge from the south side. Corson designed over 60 lighting programs that seamlessly and randomly transition every few minutes to enliven Flight after dark, making every experience traversing the underpass unique.
AC Hotel
Pamplona Rose
Julie Groschen Richey, 2021
Mexican glass smalti mosaic on “half chap” fiberglass column
AC Hotel Downtown Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Role: Art Consultant
Photos by Danny Fulgencio
In 2020, a short list of local artists, curated for Dallas-based developer JacksonShaw, were invited to develop proposals for the AC Hotel Downtown Fort Worth, which was under construction. The process culminated in the selection of Julie Gorschen Richey, whose proposal complemented the hotel’s Spanish-influenced modern European design. According to the artist, the sculpture’s shape is based on a half chap or “pollaina”, and both the mosaic surface design and paving pattern were inspired by custom handmade cowboy boots by the iconic Fort Worth brand, M.L. Leddy’s, established in 1922 and still operating in Fort Worth’s Historic Stockyards.
Lake Como Park
Do Something GOOD For Your Neighbor
RDG Dahlquist Art Studio, 2021
Engraved weathering steel with white oak benches
Lake Como Park, Fort Worth, Texas
Role: Director of Public Art and Lake Como Park Master Plan Project Manager
Photos by Matt Niebuhr
Informed by Anitra Blayton and Mel Ziegler’s Lake Como Park Public Art Master Plan, this contemporary monument honors William H. Wilburn, Sr., founder and editor of The Lake Como Weekly, and Amon G. Carter Sr., publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, who gifted 59 acres of land to establish a park for African Americans in 1955. The structure’s engravings and cutouts feature quotes artists Matt Niebuhr and David Dahlquist selected from The Lake Como Weekly archives, including the encouraging phrase which appeared on the masthead. In 2024, the project won a CODAaward, and in 2025, was included in the exhibition, PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity, at the 19th Architecture International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale de Venezia.
Heritage Park & Paddock Park Master Plan
Heritage Park & Paddock Park Public Art Master Plan
Legge Lewis Legge, LLC, 2023
Role: Director of Public Art and Project Manager
Illustrations by: Legge Lewis Legge, LLC
In early 2021, the multidisciplinary team, Legge Lewis Legge (LLL), was selected to develop a public art master plan to complement the existing Heritage Plaza and an ambitious design in-progress for two adjacent parks led by Downtown Fort Worth Initiatives, Inc., in partnership with the City of Fort Worth, including amenities and access down the limestone bluff to the Trinity River. The LLL team conducted extensive research back to the fossil record and met with diverse community members to understand the natural and cultural history of the site. In coordination with the design team, they identified key locations and a range of artwork types to tell the stories of all those who called the site ‘home’. Adopted by the Fort Worth Art Commission in 2023, the Heritage Park & Paddock Park Public Art Master Plan is guiding the implementation of the first two projects.
Nashville Police Station
Blue Lines
Ralph Helmick, 2010
Powder coated steel
Nashville Police Station, Fort Worth, TX
Role: Director of Public Art and Project Manager
Photos by Will Howcroft, Will Howcroft Photography
Inspired by William Shakespeare’s poem, Seven Ages of Man, Helmick’s conical-shaped suspended sculpture is composed of seven metal rings created by overlapping linear silhouettes of diverse members of all ages from the Polytechnic Heights neighborhood, graduating upward from elders to infants. While the rings reflect ideas of community unity, continuity, and collective history, the blue LED lighting, visible at night through the station's architectural ‘lantern’ honors the vital role of police to provide protection to citizens.
Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport
A Place Between
Sedrick Huckaby, 2000
Oil on Canvas mounted on panel
DFW Corporate Aviation Terminal
Role: Art Consultant and Curator
Photos by Martha Peters
Skyscapes
Martha Peters, 2009
Silver negative gyclée prints
Tri-Divide
Jay Shinn, 2009
Stainless steel, paint, shadow
During the process of transforming an existing building into the DFW Corporate Aviation Terminal, Peters was invited to curate a collection of portable artworks by diverse Dallas and Fort Worth-based artists for permanent exhibition in locations specified by the project designers. In addition to the artists credited above, the collection includes works by artists Lilian Garcia-Roig and Otis Jones.
KUDOS
Martha Peters’ knowledge of the “ins and outs” of public art is extraordinary. A highly successful and collegial administrator of public art programs, Martha enthusiastically advocates the importance that artworks and artists serve in the public sphere. It’s been my pleasure to work with Martha over many years and to be in awe of her many accomplishments.
Among the many public art installations that Martha Peters led for the City of Fort Worth, one of the most impactful was the Pioneer Tower Iconic Public Art Project. Complex in nature, and utilizing state of the art technology, the completion of Fort Worth’s historic Pioneer Tower’s renovation was heralded by this special experience. It was community based in its creation and celebrated by thousands of our community’s citizens.
Martha is a dream project manager for an artist. She is an artist advocate and a master at providing support for helping to negotiate complicated scenarios. The project we worked on together seemed to have many unexpected and sometimes inexplicable challenges, changes, and complications. She was fantastic at keeping things on track, working on our behalf, but also realistically within project parameters. She sees the big picture as well as the details and is a clear-eyed visionary.
Flight immediately elevated the Hemphill Underpass by creating an iconic gateway between downtown and the near southside, unlike any other in Fort Worth. Martha Peters worked with the artist to overcome the many challenges of an infrastructure project of this scale, working with multiple public agencies along the way to deliver a treasured public art landmark in Fort Worth’s central city.
Martha Peters possesses the crack skills of a seasoned diplomat and she naturally engenders goodwill with whomever she connects. Her vast experience, astute judgement and encyclopedic knowledge of the arts and public art specifically, would make her an indispensable asset to any institution or individual needing help negotiating the realms of civic arts and community development.
Martha's intelligence, attention to detail, and collaborative spirit were crucial to the success of both the Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial (Austin) and the Nashville Avenue Police Station (Fort Worth). She expertly navigated logistics while ensuring artistic integrity and demonstrating exceptional cultural sensitivity throughout. Her background as a fine artist gives Martha a unique perspective that bridges the gap between creative vision and practical execution — a rare and valuable combination in public arts administration.