Cookeville Color Pops: Murals and Art Throughout the City
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One of Cookeville’s many murals sits adjacent to the Downtown Train Depot.
Cookeville has gone mad for murals.
Historic murals…
Donut morals…
Florals murals…
Murals of technicolored roosters!
Murals of all colors, sizes, and designs are springing up all across the Cookeville West Side. The murals are a part of the city’s continued beautification efforts. And those efforts are paying off!
The West Side has quickly grown to be a cradle of art and culture in the Cookeville and wider Upper Cumberland area. Artists of all walks of life and mediums flock to this area of town for Art Prowls, First Friday Art Exhibits, and public art installations.
Alongside the murals, the West Side features a blending of history and modern. Adjacent to the historic Engine 509 train stands an archway festooned with bicycles. The bicycles range from new frames to models reminiscent of decades reaching back all the way to the 1930s.
These bikes are a perfect analogy for how the West Side operates. It seamlessly integrates the history, the present, and the future of culture and art in the Upper Cumberland. The murals are a further extension of this integration. Some murals strive to reclaim pieces of our history while others celebrate what’s to come.
The newest mural is a beautiful cascade of florals. Each brilliant flower bursts like fireworks against a dark backdrop of black brickwork. They are a wild and vibrant explosion of color and life. They are fireworks celebrating the West Side’s vitality.
