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By any placemaking metric—access, activation, identity, and impact—IGNITE Broward has matured into one of South Florida’s most compelling examples of how immersive art can transform everyday spaces into shared civic experiences.

Downtown Fort Lauderdale is about to witness something different. Not just murals going up on walls, but stories taking shape in real time. Not just artists painting, but nonprofits being seen. Not just a weekend event, but a new benchmark for how public art, community impact, and cultural collaboration can coexist. On February 28 and March 1, Business for the Arts Broward, in partnership with the Fort Lauderdale DDA, will debut the inaugural Art Walls Mural Fest at The

What started as an effort to activate a single street has grown into one of Broward County’s most impactful cultural movements. The AOTA (Avenue of the Arts) Mural Festival began along NW 7th Avenue—now widely recognized as the Avenue of the Arts—with a simple but powerful idea: bring art directly to the community and invite people to experience creativity where they already live.