The Skateable Art Park provides a wide range of unique traits that cultivate a special sense of place, attract new visitors, and inspire people to come back to exercise, socialize, and explore. It features an enormous 10-foot-tall rattlesnake that honors the Florida A&M University, and Historically Black Community, as its larger-than-life centerpiece. The park is 540 feet long, contains a 300-foot street course, and is Florida’s longest snake run, at 225 feet long.
Team Pain, a Florida-based skate park design-build company created the park’s design. The snake’s head and neck were painted by local Tallahassee artist, Peter Koenig. Painting the snake feature and using FAMU’s colors let the snake come to life and added to the park’s artistic component.
Peter is a Tallahassee-based artist who creates works that are both beautiful and professional, capturing the color and originality of the places they represent. “I’m passionate about creating beautiful, inclusive, and accessible public art,” Peter said. “I believe that there is no better opportunity for engaging with art than in our own neighborhoods.” After graduating from Florida State University with a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art, Peter began his creative career by producing branding materials for local businesses in Tallahassee. His early designs combine simplicity with fun, fantasy-based aspects, with a nostalgic vibe influenced by some of his favorite films, comic books and video games. “My hope was that, by incorporating things that inspired excitement and imagination in myself as a kid, others would connect to those feelings, too.”
