HOPE Outdoor Gallery Returns With a New Home Near Austin’s Airport
After six years closed, a beloved Austin art park relocates and reopens with new murals, programming and room to create
The community art park, once known as Austin’s Castle Hill graffiti park, has reopened in a new home near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. The original Baylor Street location closed in January 2019 to make way for luxury condominiums. The new site aims to preserve that cultural legacy with a permanent space designed for long-term growth.
The free, all-ages art gallery opened Nov. 28 at 741 Dalton Lane with more than 30 contributing artists creating new large-scale works. The revamped campus includes public paint walls, outdoor park space and a 6,000-square-foot gallery and event venue, as well as a coffee bar, retail gift shop and art supply store.
Artists featured in the debut installation include Miles Starkey, Emily Ding, Kimie Flores, Bradford Maxfield, Daddy Otis, Matt Tru, Wiley Ross, J Muzacz and others.
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HOPE founder Andi Scull said years of data collection helped HOPE understand how visitors interacted with the original park and what features resonated with the community.
“Many people were meeting creatives and artists at HOPE and then commissioning them to do a mural in their home or for their business or to then work with them on some sort of design or project or festival,” Scull said.
She said environmental consciousness remains key to the organization’s mission. The original gallery became the No. 1 paint recycling project in Austin’s history, and the new campus includes efforts to expand upcycling and reduce waste, including the “P” in the HOPE sign, which is made of 60,000 earth bricks.
Scull hopes the reopened gallery can serve as a safe space for visitors “to express, create, learn and feel inspired.”
Winter operating hours are Wednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. A ceremonial ribbon-cutting is scheduled for Dec. 17 at 10 a.m.