Fort Pierce – Fort Pierce is set to make history on May 20th with the grand opening and ribbon cutting of the City of Fort Pierce Florida Highwaymen Museum, a long-awaited tribute to one of the most remarkable and resilient chapters in American art history.
The museum, located at 1334 Avenue D, will open its doors at 2 p.m., welcoming the public to experience 26 original paintings — one from each of the Hall of Fame Highwaymen — in a single, dedicated space for the very first time.
The Highwaymen were a group of 26 Black artists from Fort Pierce who, beginning in the late 1950s, captured the sweeping beauty of pre-development Florida — its golden sunsets, windswept coastlines, and moss-draped marshes — in vivid, fast-painted scenes they sold from the trunks of their cars along U.S. Route 1 and Florida’s A1A…