Two massive glass and tile mosaic murals and a pair of bas-relief bronzes have been unveiled at the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. The music, sports and entertainment venue, officially opened in October 2019, features a number of public art components, including a 12-by-63-foot mural by Denver painter William Matthews and a pair of bronzes created by Texas-based artist Buckeye Blake. 
Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.
Artwork conceived by William Matthews, with sculpture by Buckeye Blake, appears on the southern façade of the Dickies Arena.The artwork, made possible by a gift from the Alice L. Walton Foundation, is titled Los Caballos and it commemorates the horse, a timeless symbol of the American West. Matthews’ work, which is on the southern façade of the 14,000-seat arena, was fabricated in the celebrated female-owned studio Mosaicos Venecianos in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where artisans pieced together more than 600,000 hand-cut glass tiles of 570 different colors to create the image. Blake’s bronzes stand 12 feet high and were conceived from Matthews’s original composition drawings and sculpted by Blake, a member of the Cherokee Nation.
The building’s north façade features a soaring triptych measuring 10 by 108 feet that shows icons of Texas culture. Created by Evergreene Architectural Arts, the mural was fabricated in Italy using more than 600,000 colored glass tiles. It depicts scenes telling the story of Texas, highlighting early settlers and cowhands, set amidst Texas flora, fauna and more. —
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