Art in sports city usa

Ranked #11 among The South’s Best Cities on the Rise by Southern Living in 2022

town to city overnight

Frisco Texas is one of the fastest growing cities in the nation. Located on the north edge of the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex, Frisco has gathered attention internationally as a desirable destination for corporate headquarters looking for a better home. The list of companies calling Frisco home continues to grow.

In just a couple of decades, Frisco has gone from rural home town community to thriving city, Think “DFFW”. You heard it first here. :-)

On a private tour of the Dallas Cowboys Headquarters with the Frisco Public Art board. Our guide was the City manager who coordinated with Jerry Jones and the Cowboys franchise to land this spectacular facility in Frisco.

Sports City USA

With five professional sports teams and ample sports facilities for its kids, teens, and everyone in the community, Frisco has been dubbed Sports City USA. Frisco is proud home to:

The Dallas Cowboys and The Star in Frisco
FC Dallas Soccer and The National Soccer Hall of Fame Experience
The Dallas Stars hockey
The Frisco RoughRiders, a farm for the Texas Rangers
The Texas Legends NBA G League basketball team
The Frisco Fighters, indoor football league
Interactive Football League
The Dallas Rattlers lacrosse
PGA Headquarters, newly announced, to be completed 2022
Multiple world class arenas, stadiums, and other facilities
Artists specializing in Sports related art - See the Thomas Jordan Gallery.
Sports Medicine, multiple specialists

Professional Sports and arts in unison

Tammy Meinershagen enjoying some of the large art collection at the Star in Frisco.

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A corresponding surge in the arts is also brewing to round out the city as a cultural and entertainment community. Frisco Arts, the City Public Arts program, The Visual Arts Guild of Frisco and other organizations along with a growing number of galleries and artists.

Tech

Some of the technology orgs and events happening in Frisco:

Gearbox - Broderland
Code Authority - Now part of Improving
Launchpad City - Nurturing entrepreneurship
Stadia - eSports and gaming startups
CodeLaunch events -
The Texas Blockchain Council
Captured Dimensions 3D modeling
Roundavu - web3 standard

I enjoy shooting photos of everything. Here I am photographing some wonderful art pieces (not mine) at the Frisco Fine Art gallery.

Public Art

The Public Art board - Nurturing arts in the community and growing a wonderful world class public art collection.
Performing Arts hall - A collaborative public-private effort in the works.
Texas Sculpture Garden at Hall Office Park - A model for how all office parks should be

Museums

Frisco Heritage Museum
Traintopia and The Railway Museum
National Video Game Museum
Exemplary Schools
Sci-Tech, a STEAM education makerspace at the Discovery Center

Music and the Performing Arts

Dance - dancers
Music - School of Rock
Local venues - Stonebrair Church, the home church of respected bible teacher Charles Swindoll. The church regularly opens up their beautiful sanctuary for performances by the local artists.
The Lincoln Experience Center at the Frisco Star