In 2010, artists began turning a vacant Houston lot into a park using broken dishes, bottle caps, shells, keys and discarded tiles; 16 years later, more than 300 artists have filled it with a 400-foot mosaic wall and free public art
Smither Park transforms discarded materials into public art, reflecting Houston’s diverse communities, creative spirit and ever-evolving identity through colour and imagination. What began as an abandoned patch of land in southeast Houston has slowly transformed into something far more magical: a public park assembled from the fragments of everyday life. Broken crockery, discarded tiles, shells,…