Welcome To Morada Way Arts and Cultural District.

We have our monthly Art Walk every third Thursday of the month from six to 9:00 PM.

We have a couple of resident galleries like Jessica Ann Art and Limelight Studio and Gallery, as well as Morada Way Play behind me.

And then we have rotating visiting artists from all over the Keys, South Florida, and beyond.

We've got live music, food vendors, local craft beer, a couple of great wine and drink vendors as well, like WineCo, and it's a very fun, family-friendly event.

Every month come rain or shine, no matter what.

We even had one right after Hurricane Irma, that was more of a community potluck.

And from there we try to have events as they come up and create a space for artists to come and have affordable studio and gallery space.

So it's all about a home for artists and creation.

This is how I live and it's a lifestyle, and of course we had to make a shirt.

I only use the ones that I rescued from the sea 'cause they can't stay in the sea 'cause they're polluters.

So I get them all my friends who fish, find them for me.

Friends who live in a house by the sea.

Yeah, they come, they get washed up in storms and things.

And I'm Brazilian originally, so the cultural influence and inspiration that I use is colorful.

Colorful, colorful colorful.

So that's what I use in my work.

My name is Randy, I am a scuba instructor.

When I was scuba diving and catching lionfish, I was like we need to do something more with the lionfish spines.

We need to do something more interesting.

So I was like, "Well, I'm gonna take this on, and see if I can make something that appeals to more people."

That, you know, love of the ocean comes out in what we wear, and that's what the whole purpose is.

Make it so people wear it, talk about it, teach more people about it.

Get everybody underwater and teach them about lionfish.

[Mariano] I retired after 43 years of teaching and stuff.

I retired here in the Keys and I started picking up pallettes and scrap woods and stuff, and I made furniture and I make furniture, still make furniture and stuff, and I paint all the sea creatures, all the birds and everything here in the Keys.

The sailfish broke water and when he did, the sun hit him, and you could see the silvers and you could see the golds, and you could see all the blues and stuff.

So it was kind of like somebody's showing you a snapshot.

All of a sudden you got that kind of, you know in your mind, that was it.

My name is Keith Ousley and I go by keef_paints, but I try to focus on marine conservation artwork here in the Keys.

I learned to paint from painting graffiti when I was younger and when I moved to the Keys, I had to change it to something more professional, so I kind of transitioned into canvas work, and it still has the inspiration with a little bit of street art behind it.

I love the daylight, but there's a magical undercurrent that happens at night here for sure.

High chroma is something that I've always really been interested in.

Kind of a trend similar to looking at that kind of like tarpon light at night growing up here.

The tropical nature, the plants, the flowers, the fish.

You look at a fish on a reef and it has the most neon colors.

I don't think you really find colors like that anywhere else in the world, other than kind of these tropical regions, you know?

So yeah, here is the best.