Public art helps to convey a sense of community. It serves as a point of pride. As you drive throughout our community, stop to check out local art.
And have you seen those colorful utility boxes?
We love looking for the little touches in unexpected places—walls, trailheads, bus stops, bridges. Our public art is just one more reason we can all be proud to call this home.
1. Sunrise Mountain Library, designed by Richard Kennedy Architects, juxtaposes straight concrete walls with a whimsical wave on the roof. Visit the library at 21109 N. 98th Ave.
2. totem: The Plant Princess by Joan Waters welcomes visitors to Sunrise Mountain Library. The welded steel sculpture casts shadows as the day progresses.
3. Be Water by Colorado artists Tom and Jean Latka incorporates ceramics and metals. It sits in front of Sunrise Mountain Library off of Lake Pleasant Parkway.
4. Mirage mural at New River Trailhead at Westbrook Village (83rd Ave at Village Pkwy) was a 2017 collaboration by local high school students. It shows the agricultural roots of the community.
5. Vida by Beth Nybeck. The seven-piece sculpture of Cordon Steel at Paloma Community Park (29799 N. Lake Pleasant Pkwy) represents the agave plant and features phrases collected throughout the community.
6. Park West shopping center (97445 W Northern Ave) launched a #PeoriaProud contest in Fall 2020. See the top four winning entries installed on Park West storefronts.
7. It's ice cream time! These two little ones on a bench at Lake Pleasant Crossing Shopping Center offer a perfect Instagram selfie spot. Lake Pleasant Pkwy and W. Happy Valley Rd, in front of CHAR Pizzeria Napoletana.
8. Songbirds by David Boyer is alongside the road leading into Paloma Community Park. Not only does this steel and alloy metal sculpture look pretty—it is a kinetic and sound sculpture, moving and chiming with the wind.
9. Sunset Flight by Cecilia Lueza. The giant hummingbird in Camino á Lago Park (behind Sunrise Mountain Library) is actually a sundial. The base is made of 148,000 glass mosaic tiles depicting a desert landscape at sunset. The aluminum hummingbird is 18 feet from tail to beak.
10. Blooming Spire by Jeff Zischke, located at the important retail crossroads of Happy Valley Road and Lake Pleasant Parkway, sits bright against the day sky and illuminates at night. It is based on the blooms and leaves of several indigenous desert plants.
11. Look for the Utility Box Art Wraps around town. In October 2021, Peoria received WESTMARC's West Valley Quality of Life Enhancement in Community award for this and the Happy Valley Bridge mosaics project. This wrap is on Deer Valley Road at 95th Avenue.
12. Puppy Love is a life-sized sculpture by Texas artist Marianne Caroselli. Although originally in downtown Peoria, the city relocated it to Osuna Park in 2012, and artist Kristine Kollasch created a new ceramic base to resemble running water. 10510 N 83rd Ave.
13. Colorful tiles decorate the walls around the walking paths in Camino á Lago Park behind Sunrise Mountain Library.