The Broward County Cultural Division has collaborated with a number of cities to create ArtsParks, which are cultural centers or gathering places that offer a variety of arts-related activities. ArtsParks aim to provide free or low-cost services to the community and enhance the cultural landscape of Broward County. Our Public Art & Design Program allocates public art funds to these initiatives in various ways, including by commissioning designers and artists, or by providing dedicated art dollars to be managed by the municipalities directly.
City Parks & ArtsParks
ArtsPark at Young Circle
1 N Young Cir, Hollywood, FL 33020
The 10+ acre ArtsPark at Young Circle is located at US 1 and Hollywood Boulevard in downtown Hollywood, Broward County. Dedicated in March 2007, the ArtsPark offers residents and visitors a wide array of visual and performing arts themed educational, recreational, and entertainment activities. The redevelopment of the park was funded by the City of Hollywood with assistance from Broward County using proceeds from the 2000 Broward County Safe Parks and Land Preservation Bond Issue.
The design includes site-specific artworks blended with unique natural aspects of the South Florida landscape. According to Project Designer, Margi Nothard, “The concept of the ArtsPark is the integration of landscape and art through human discovery. It was conceived as an integrated artwork that transforms from an organic landscape into a constructed landscape; ultimately, the ArtsPark is architecture as landscape and as sculpture”. An integrated design element commissioned by our Public Art & Design Program, was Ritsuko Taho’s is a site-specific water feature entitled Millennium Springs, who took inspiration from the five massive baobob trees that are located within the park.
Central Broward Regional Park ArtsPark
3800 NW 11th Place, Lauderhill, FL 33311
The Central Broward Regional Park ArtsPark is located within the County’s 110-acre regional park developed through the Broward County Commission’s 2000 Safe Parks and Land Preservation Bond Program.
Recreational activities and sports include tennis, basketball, netball, cricket, and Australian rules football. A 15,000 people stadium is capable of hosting major international sports championships. Children have two playgrounds and an aquatic center that is specially equipped with a swimming pool and slides, a 30 ft. high rockscape waterfall and lifeguards on duty, as well as an instruction area. Nature lovers can walk trails through wildlife areas where burrowing owls nest undisturbed, paddle boats along the lake, or just spend quite time in seating areas and overlooks. The Regional Park is also an anchor for an entertainment and media district, and Lauderhill Performing Arts Center, for which the Public Art and Design Program allocated funds for art to be managed by the City of Lauderhill.
Artist Alice Aycock was commissioned by the Public Art & Design program to create a water feature, entitled , Whirls and Swirls and a Vortex on Water, at the entrance to the park.
Pembroke Pines’ River of Grass ArtsPark
17189 Sheridan Street, Pembroke Pines, FL 33331
The River of Grass ArtsPark at Academic Village was a joint project of Broward Cultural Division and the City of Pembroke Pines.
The River of Grass ArtsPark is located on 1.6 acres within the City of Pembroke Pines Academic Village and consists of approximately 26,614 square feet in cultural center amenities. Included in the ArtsPark is an art gallery, 442-seat theater, classrooms, fine arts and dance studios, outdoor performances pavilion with seating for 1,200, sculpture garden, and parking. The ArtsPark is operated as a cultural center for regional artistic impact and serves all Broward County residents and visitors by providing cultural programming with professional artists for people of all ages.
Miramar ArtsPark
2400 Civic Center Pl, Miramar, FL 33025
Miramar Cultural Center and ArtsPark, was a joint project of the Broward Cultural Division and City of Miramar. Part of a 54-acre Town Center parcel, the 42,162 square foot Miramar Cultural Arts Center anchors the ArtsPark, part of the 15-acre civic portion of the Town Center. Key Elements include a 814-seat theater, exhibition space, classrooms, recital room, lecture hall and multipurpose room, banquet room, studios, outdoor amphitheater, botanical and sculpture garden.
A Civic Plaza fronts the Cultural Center and City Hall and the ArtsPark to serve all Broward County residents and visitors by providing cultural programming with professional artists for people of all ages.
Miramar Regional Park
16801 Miramar Pkwy, Miramar, FL 33027
Miramar Regional Park was originally developed by Broward County and later transferred to the City of Miramar. As part of the County’s investment, our Public Art & Design Program commissioned artists Harries and Héder to design the heart of the park’s nature area.
Terra Fugit, derived from the Latin tempus fugit (time flies), is a 4-acre environmental public art installation nestled within Miramar Regional Park on the edge of the Everglades. Designed by artists Mags Harries and Lajos Héder, the work serves as a contemplative landscape, sculpted around a circular bay. The design offers two mirrored experiences. One is a bowl-shaped lawn, gently sloping toward views of the human-made park, the other preserves an 80-foot-diameter ring of untouched marshland, a visual reminder of the land’s natural past and a symbol of what once covered the entire site.
Visitors can engage with a floating gazebo on the water by operating a hand pump that releases a five-gallon water bubble to disrupt the pond’s surface to ripple outward, and a pathway etched with marsh grasses and poetic text traces the water’s edge. Along the way, visitors encounter coral rock boulders excavated from the site and carved into seating. Rich with actual fossils, these stones serve as thematic anchors, grounding the artwork in both geologic and cultural history.