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, bottle caps, keys and scraps of found objects have found new purpose here, brought together by hundreds of artists into a sprawling celebration of colour, memory and imagination.