The City of Fort Myers, by and through its Public Art Committee, seeks to commission an artist/artist team to create, fabricate and install a site-specific outdoor work that commemorates the rich traditions of the cattle industry that thrived in southwest Florida during the 19th and 20th centuries along the historic cattle trail that ran through what is now the heart of downtown Fort Myers on First Street. Extensive historic documentation is available to the artist that includes information about the prominent ranchers of that period as well as images of their brands and earmarks...read more