Town Art

East side of B Street, south of 8th, this mural is no longer there as the child care center was replaced with apartments

Also see Urban Art and Art Galleries. Art on the UC Davis campus can be found at Campus Art,

The town of Davis is home to all sorts of city-sanctioned art such as murals and sculptures. But there's also a lot of impromptu sort of art lying around there. Some of it, on the whole, is pretty awful. But some pieces are hidden treasures. Here we collect a little of both.

• A Street Bridge Mural
  

• Alluvium in Walnut Park
  

• Ancient Shadows by Oakshade Town Center
  

• The Bicycle Statue on Russell Blvd.
  

• Butterfly Pillar
  

• Butterfly and Hummingbird mosaic vase in Central Park Gardens
  

• Arroyo Avenue Ceramic Bench
  

• Clepsydra in the E Street Plaza
  

• Cnawan Stone sculpture of dancing people in Central Park Gardens
  

• Columbus Cafe mural by Carousel Stationery
  

• Covell Greenbelt Dog Sculptures
  

• Cow Fountain at The Marketplace
  

• Mediation sculpture of hands in Central Park Gardens
  

• "Davis '88" tile mural at the DMV
  

• New Again, aka the "Davis Family Mural"
  

• The Dancing Pigs at The Marketplace
  

• The Dominoes
  

• Driven to Davis
  

• The Joggers aka "The Eyesore" in Downtown
  

• Ken's Bike & Ski's south wall is painted with a mural
  

• The L and 2nd Garden
  

• The Lamplighter Players
  

• The Locomotive Hedge
  

• The Mace Ranch Community Tile Project
  

• Plant Plaza between Thai Nakorn and the USDA building on G Street
  

• Portrait of a Plump Tomato at the Davis Food Co-Op Shopping Center
  

• Send My Roots Rain, a series of metal gateways in the Northstar Nature Trail
  

• Standing Wave
  

• Stevenson Bridge located west of Davis
  

• Straw Bale Bench at the train depot
  

• The Ugliest Statue outside of Albertsons
  

• The Loneliness of Integrity between the Library and the Veterans Memorial Building
  

• Solar Intersections on the south side of 2nd Street, where it ends at the Train Station (used to be a mini traffic circle)
  

• Tidal Play sculpture of dolphins and an otter in Slide Hill Park
  

• Wheel Dome
  

• Woman On Balance Beam on the North East corner of 5th Street and Pole Line Road at Fifth Avenue Place

April 2008 photo perspective in Davis Life Magazine.
May 2008 photo persepctive in Davis Life Magazine.
June 2008 photo perspective in Davis Life Magazine.

Art at the Train Station

Look for temporary public art installations and events April 9 - June 30, 2007 at the Train Station Plaza and the former police Substation nearby.

• Davis Arch mural
  

• What happened to the naked man in a box statue that was in the shopping center downtown(Ben & Jerrys, Borders, etc)?
  

I thought for sure this was removed and reconfigured as Woman On Balance Beam but I'd love to know for certain. Seems it must at least be by the same artist — EdHenn

For more information about the City's Art in Public Places Program, you can visit http://www.cityofdavis.org/pb/cultural/