TEMPO on the Trail 2025-2026
Tempo on the Trail brings original public art to the Ann and Roy Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail – inviting discovery, reflection, and connection with the Trail’s landscape, history, and rhythms of daily life. The program celebrates the Trail as a link between people and place – connecting artists to its natural and cultural resources, and connecting neighbors, visitors, and tourists to the communities and ecosystems that shape it. In doing so, TEMPO on the Trail helps make Austin’s creative spirit more visible, more accessible, and more alive.
The year’s exhibition features nine local artists working across mural, sculpture, and new media. Spanning sites along the 10-mile Trail, their installations transform the corridor into a dynamic, open-air gallery.
TEMPO on the Trail is presented in partnership with Austin’s Arts, Culture, Entertainment, and Music Art in Public Places program.
Explore Each Piece
Vy Ngo
Photos by David Aguilar
All Boats Bloom is a site-specific installation exploring community, migration, and our shared connection to nature. Boats—symbols of passage, protection, and possibility—anchor the work. Over the course of a year, the installation evolves through gardening, performances, and gatherings that activate the space. Together, these moments invite reflection on unity, diversity, and our collective responsibility to ensure all communities thrive and bloom.
Vy Ngo is a Vietnamese-American multidisciplinary artist based in Austin, Texas, whose work explores themes of cultural identity, memory, and collective healing through painting, sculpture, and site-specific installations. Ngo’s work has been shown nationally in solo and group exhibitions, held in private and public collections, including Austin City Hall and the Texas A&M Multicultural Center, and featured in Glasstire, Tribeza, Austin Woman, and PBS. As a member of the ICOSA artist collective, she remains deeply active in the Austin arts community, using programming and curation to uplift inclusive voices and expand the conversation around contemporary art.
Victoria Marquez
Photos by David Aguilar
Reverie UnderArch brings whimsy and vibrant color to the underside of the bridge, drawing inspiration from the trail’s animals, aquatic life, insects, and native plants. At this busy crossing, the rush of cars overhead can interrupt the area’s calm. The mural invites visitors back into a peaceful, immersive experience—walking alongside these lively forms and celebrating the energy and interconnected life of the trail.
Victoria Majesta Marquez is an Austin-based artist from Laredo, TX, whose work explores themes connected to nature, psychedelia, color theory, and creatures intersecting in the realm of the surreal. Marquez strives to create public artworks that not only engage the space and share a piece of herself, but also embody and represent the community her work resides in.
enFold Collective
Photos by David Aguilar
Sunclipse weaves together Austin’s sky, land, and water in a dynamic, site-specific form. Oriented due south and suspended within the helixing ramp, it shifts with the viewer’s movement, the weather, and the time of day. A luminous gradient of purples, lilacs, oranges, and amber evokes the city’s “Violet Crown,” celebrating sunset gatherings and our shared connection to nature.
enFOLD Collective is an interdisciplinary art, architecture, and design practice that seeks to position community voices at the center of our work. Founded in 2021, enFOLD is composed of architect and urban designer Dana McKinney White and artist and urbanist Megan Echols. Through stakeholder engagement and collaborative design processes, their mission is to propel a renewed sense of thinking and uplift the voices of underrepresented and under-resourced communities.
Jamal Hussain
Photos by David Aguilar
Every new day, the sun offers new light. Moved by the way the sun speaks through the land—especially in its dance with the fragile water system—New Light reflects a belief that these natural elements act as emotional and spiritual forces, shaping ways of being and grounding connection to both the environment and one another. To celebrate this relationship, reflective materials bathe the pavilion in evolving light and color throughout the day. The installation transforms the sun’s energy into a dynamic play of color that invites viewers to look up, reflect, and harmonize.
Jamal Hussain is a New Media Artist working at the intersection of technology and science. Jamal’s background in the technology industry has informed his current practice of using the power of light via the application of media artifacts. His work explores the human story and our deep connection to the planet through media installations, digital sculptures, and immersive experiences. He was recently selected to participate in the Marfa Invitational and completed his first international show in Mexico City, Mexico.
Jasna Boudard
Photos by David Aguilar
Wing Trace features the flight of the Golden-cheeked Warbler, an endangered songbird native to Central Texas. A sequence of panels traces its motion frame by frame, oriented toward its exclusive nesting grounds in the Texas Hill Country. Reflective insets invite passersby to see themselves mirrored within the silhouettes. Their movement animates the work, linking human motion with the natural rhythms of the surrounding landscape.
Jasna Boudard is an Austin-based new media artist and photographer whose work explores movement, light, and our connection to the natural world. Through site-responsive installations and projection-based artworks, she creates immersive experiences that invite viewers to see themselves as active participants within the work.
Seth Prestwood
Photos by David Evanich
Passages celebrates the diverse terrain, activities, flora, and fauna along the Ann and Roy Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail. Set against a twilight gradient, people and wildlife move together through shifting landscapes and portal-like arches—distinct yet connected in a single continuous path. Skies and cloud forms fill each arch, inviting viewers to imagine where these dreamlike doorways might lead, honoring the natural and human spirit of Austin.
Seth Prestwood is an Austin-based multidisciplinary artist, born and raised in lower Alabama in 1989. His career spans the country and many facets of the art world, including arts administration, studio production, residencies, and conservation work. His personal work explores themes of home, loss, longing, and resilience, blending symbols and imagery drawn from travels, intimate relationships, and the natural world. These elements intertwine with mystical and spiritual motifs to create dream-like landscapes, intentionally preserving ambiguity with the subjects, inviting viewers to project their own stories and meanings onto the work.
TJ Lemanski
Photos by David Aguilar
Cenotaphs is the latest in an ongoing, eponymous series of sculptures that began in the fall of 2020. Each column stands as a memorial to local flora, wherein dead and fallen tree limbs and plant matter are captured and carbonized in concrete blocks, then erected near the area in which they originally grew. All the dead flora, native and invasive alike, were gathered from along the Ann and Roy Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail and the Lower Colorado River Watershed.
TJ Lemanski is an Austin-based artist whose artistic process is simply described as observation, preservation, then presentation. Working with discarded and organic materials—cardboard, demolition debris, lottery tickets, fallen limbs—he transforms the overlooked into contemplative objects. His approach resembles a kind of backwoods archaeology, prioritizing reverence and curated presentation over exactness.
J.C. King
Photos by David Aguilar
Ghost Harps features six Aeolian harps—ancient wind-activated string instruments—that create ethereal sounds, both known and unknown. Silhouettes of Great Blue Heron honor Miakān, from the Coahuiltecan creation story and the unbreakable human bond with water. The work invites reflection on the site’s human and ecological ancestry, calling us toward stewardship and balance. This work was envisioned, assembled, and installed with gratitude and respect for the ancestral stewards of these lands, who continue to enrich our lives and communities: the Coahuiltecan, Tonkawa, Lipan Apache, and Comanche peoples. The artist asks that you consider supporting the Indigenous Cultures Institute (indigenouscultures.org) and their work in youth programs, Indigenous pedagogy, and water protection.
J.C. King (Juan Christian King) is a Colombian-American, multidisciplinary artist and designer currently living and working in Central Texas. Their creative work focuses on equity, public space, interaction, critical geography, and civic design. Working with sound and improvisation as praxis, King’s work is a research-centered, social practice concerned with bringing visibility and communication to matters of human and ecological concern.
Steef Crombach & Priscilla Lustig
Photos by David Aguilar
Cazimi (“in the heart of the sun”) is a quilted sculpture offering shelter from the Texas sun. The colorful fabric planes interact with the sun’s movement across the sky, casting shadows that shift throughout the days and seasons. Precisely aligned to the cardinal directions, Cazimi serves as a point of orientation. Inviting visitors to pause and be mindful of our place within the vast cosmos, here and now.
Cazimi’s shade sails are made possible through a partnership between the artists, Wholesale Shade, and DiscountFenceUSA.
Steef Crombach and Priscilla Lustig are an Austin-based artist duo who began collaborating in 2024, bringing together practices rooted in fiber, painting, and spatial composition. Crombach is a curator and fiber artist whose work engages traditional craft techniques through materially driven experimentation. Lustig is known for her mathematical grid-based compositions, her vivid use of color, and precision-oriented hard-edged abstraction. Together, they merge textile traditions and abstract visual languages into large-scale, architectural fabric environments that transform light, color, and space. Their collaborative works function as immersive, site-responsive structures that invite gathering, reflection, and embodied awareness. Through the interplay of textile, geometry, and chromatic intensity, their practice explores perception, orientation, and humanity’s relationship to the cosmos.
Launched in 2023, the Arts + Culture Plan for the Butler Trail is a transformative initiative to enrich our community. Programming empowers local artists, amplifies diverse voices, and creates vibrant, inclusive spaces that reflect our city’s rich heritage.
