Wood County’s second Texas Street Art Festival added to the growing stock of murals around the county, as several internationally acclaimed muralists plied their trade at locations in Mineola and Yantis, with added projects at Lake Holbrook and Winnsboro.

The final two pieces were dedicated Monday evening at the Mineola Civic Center, where the county got its first piece by artist BK Foxx.

Her work now graces the north wall of the facility among the tennis courts while Claudio Picasso completed his second work in Mineola on the opposite side.

Picasso also attended the first festival in 2023 and painted the mural on the west wall of the The Works coffee shop on E. Broad St..

Luis Valle, whose work helped kick off the mural push in the county with the Unity Wall on S. Pacific, Willie Nelson on the MPrints print shop and the bull bursting through the wall at the Smoke Shop, completed two pieces of swans and herons on the sides of a boat house at Lake Holbrook, one of which he painted from a Jon boat.

Kevin Burdick, whose bass adorns the wall of the Quitman Police Dept., completed an eagle on the north side of the Yantis Fire Dept.

Patrick McGregor did a buffalo at the native prairie classroom in Yantis and then added an extra piece on the south wall of the APET thrift store on S. Pacific in Mineola, featuring some local pets.

His Bulldog in downtown Quitman is also from the first festival.

In dedicating those pieces at the civic center, Todd Witt said the works of such well-known artists will make people want to come to the area.

“There’s nothing like this anywhere around here,” he said, adding that most such installations are in large cities.

Not only are the works of art enjoyable to view, but the artists are also leaving a legacy for the future as local artists interact with them to learn the craft, he added.

The Texas Street Art festival is a project of Wood County Walls and Murals, a part of the Flint and Steel Coalition.