It can be hard to keep track of all the visible art that has popped up around the city in the last few years. That’s why we’re doing it for you.

The first concerted splash of color in the city was painted onto a 60-foot-tall water tower along Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway in 2020. The vibrant graffiti-style art, commissioned on the privately owned structure, was just a taste of what was to come.  

A year later, the city commissioned local artists to paint 10 horse statues that were installed as a part of the city’s first arts initiative called Maricopa Wild Horses. In 2022, nine more horse statues were unveiled and eventually installed around town.  

The first two wrapped traffic boxes were also installed that year, and come summer of 2023, local artists like Senita resident Veronika Leshchinskaya were commissioned to decorate more traffic boxes in town either via a combo of digital art and a wrap, or hand-painting them in the sweltering heat.

Since then, a total of 20 traffic boxes have been covered in paint. Some were still being painted at the time of publishing (click here to meet the newest artists). InMaricopa will continue to update this interactive map as more are added.

Casa Grande artist Mauriel “Mory” Morejon was commissioned to paint a mural on the Maricopa Museum and Visitor Center in 2023 and returned last spring to paint two more landscape murals, one near Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway and another at Pacana Park.

Last month, he painted a second Pacana Park mural featuring a native Gila monster.

One piece of art stands out from the rest: A single sculpture of a pecan tree, made entirely of brass and copper, sits at the front of City Hall. For that piece dubbed “Agrarian Roots” the city commissioned Surprise-based artist Joe Tyler, who produced and installed similar art in other cities around the state like the “Grace Tree” at Grand Canyon University and “The Learning Tree” outside Oro Valley’s public library.

And there’s plenty more visible art, too. Use the interactive map below to see where each piece of artwork is located.

Map updated July 18, 2025

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