The Palm Beach Gardens Art You Drive Past Every Week, and Why October Is the Month to Stop

You pass under one of the city's best-known artworks every time you take the PGA Boulevard flyover at Alternate A1A. It is Astralis by Wendy Ross, and the City lists its location simply as "PGA Flyover." From behind the wheel at 45 miles an hour, it's hard to take in much.

From October 1 through October 25, 2026, the City of Palm Beach Gardens is giving people a reason to look again. Its Art in Public Places Scavenger Hunt posts clues on the City's social accounts at @cityofpbg. Participants then visit a piece in person for a chance to win a prize. The hunt is open to residents and nonresidents of all ages. The City has not said which artworks the clues will point to. The collection itself is public, though, and its layout is the useful part. Most of the pieces sit where the October calendar already sends you.

Four Pieces Share a Campus With the Sunday Market

The City's 2025 public-art maintenance inventory lists four works at a single address, 10500 N. Military Trail:

• Triptych by Tim Prentice, inside the City Hall lobby
• Contiguous Currents by Costas Varotsos, in front of City Hall
• Be Right Back by Mark Fuller, at Veterans Plaza
• John D. MacArthur by Zenos Frudakis, at the entrance to the City Hall/Municipal Complex

The Gardens GreenMarket uses the same address. Its 2026–27 season opened today, Sunday, October 4, and runs Sundays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the City Hall Municipal Campus. The Palm Beaches' regional market guide puts the season's end at May 30, 2027.

Put the two calendars side by side. The hunt covers four GreenMarket Sundays: October 4, 11, 18 and 25. Every one of those mornings puts market shoppers within walking distance of four catalogued artworks. Be Right Back stands at Veterans Plaza, and the amphitheater there hosted the free Core Centrix Stretch & Shop class at this morning's kickoff.

The City's market logistics apply to art stops too:

• Parking: onsite, with overflow at Gardens Park and Burns Road Community Center
• Weather: the market runs rain or shine
• Pets: leave them at home, under City ordinance
• Music: the Palm Beach Post's October roundup names local acts including the Killbillies, Heidi Merrill and Chris Piquette, plus art shows, painting events and yoga sessions

The overflow lot at Burns Road Community Center matters for the rest of this route. Another piece in the collection stands right beside it.

Where the Collection Sits

This table maps the City's catalogued pieces against what else is happening at each spot this fall.

One Artist Keeps Turning Up

Read the inventory top to bottom and Mark Fuller's name appears again and again. He made Be Right Back at Veterans Plaza and the 9/11 Memorial on Northlake Boulevard. The same inventory credits him with the City's Artistic Bus Shelters, listed at "various locations," and a work titled Loving You, Loving Me.

His most recent piece here is the newest thing on the Alton Art Walk. The City's 2025 year-in-review describes School of Fish as a new illuminated artwork inside Alton Town Center. It was installed in place of a previously approved piece called "Double Helix Flowing Dots." Because it is illuminated, this is the one stop on the list that rewards an evening visit.

That pattern gives hunters a practical shortcut. If a City clue mentions a bus shelter, it could point to a dozen corners, all by the same artist.

Burns Road, With Cones

Double Rainbow by Lila Katzen stands beside Burns Road Community Center at 4404 Burns Road. Getting there takes a bit more planning this fall than usual.

The City has been building a two-way bicycle track along the south side of Burns Road, separated from traffic by a concrete curb. Construction started Monday, April 13. Lane closures run from Military Trail to the traffic signal at the Weiss School, and at least one lane stays open at all times. The City's schedule has the work lasting through late November 2026. So the art stop on Burns Road sits inside a work zone for the whole hunt.

The corridor's other October and November events are clustered within a few doors of the sculpture:

• Stories in the Park: a free interactive storytime for young children and their caregivers. It meets Tuesday, October 6, and Tuesday, November 3, from 9 to 10 a.m. at Burns Road Playground, 4404 Burns Road.
• Floating Sound Bath: Saturday, November 7, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the PBG Aquatic Complex, 4420 Burns Road. You can join on a floating mattress or from the dry deck.

The October 6 storytime falls inside the hunt window and uses the same address as Double Rainbow. For a family with small children, the hour of stories and the art stop happen on the same patch of grass.

The Newest Mural Hangs Over the Fall Festival

The collection's most recent outdoor addition is at Gardens North County District Park, 5101 117th Court North. The City's year-in-review calls Shadows of Victory by Benjamin Heller one of the newest additions to the Art in Public Places Program. It describes the piece as a mural of leaves painted along the borders of the Grand Pavilion.

That pavilion's park hosts the City's Fall Festival on Saturday, October 24, from 4 to 8 p.m. The City promises a dance party, food vendors, inflatables and trick-or-treating, and asks guests to wear costumes, bring a bag for candy and leave pets at home. Alan B. Miller Medical Center sponsors the event.

The festival lands on the second-to-last day of the hunt. The park also gets a second look later in the season. The Gardens Trailblazer 5K starts there on December 5 at 4:15 p.m. and runs through the park's trails. Early registration costs $39.44 including mandatory charges, with $5 off for participants 17 and under. That price ends October 31. It rises to $44.79 from November 1 through December 4 and to $50.14 on race day. For anyone already at the park for the festival, the October 31 cutoff is a week away.

The Final Weekend, Stop by Stop

The hunt's last two days line up with two events already on the calendar. Here is one way to use them:

1. Saturday, October 24, before 4 p.m.: drive in through Alton Town Center and find School of Fish on the Alton Art Walk.
2. Saturday, 4 to 8 p.m.: go to the Fall Festival at Gardens North County District Park, with Shadows of Victory on the Grand Pavilion.
3. Sunday, October 25, from 8 a.m.: shop the GreenMarket, then walk the City Hall campus for Triptych, Contiguous Currents, Be Right Back and John D. MacArthur.
4. Sunday, on the way home: if you parked in the Burns Road Community Center overflow lot, Double Rainbow is right there.
5. Any day through the 25th: drive under Astralis at the PGA flyover, preferably as a passenger.

That route covers eight of the City's catalogued works in one weekend. Only one stop, the Alton detour, is somewhere you weren't already headed. Before you go, check @cityofpbg for the week's clues, since the City posts the hunt there.

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