Art Alley

Edmund Williamson's art is scattered on both sides of the river. The multimedia artist, who died in 2009, opened a gallery called Lost Bazaar in a long-unused alley on North 2nd Street, and the alley became Art Alley in 2010, after his death. The Monroe-West Monroe visitors bureau credits him with starting downtown's arts revival. His large public pieces include Maypop in Palace Park, Trenton Flowers in West Monroe's Antique Alley, Tomato Worm at the West Monroe Community Center and Great Blue Heron at Restoration Park.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Masur Museum of Art — 0.8 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.
• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 1.4 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 3.7 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 5.6 mi
  A museum chartered in 1994 that tells the story of the Black pioneers of Monroe and northeast Louisiana, with local art, quilts and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail's only Ouachita Parish stop.

More markers nearby

• St. Matthew Catholic Church — steps away
• The Ouachita Candy Company Building — steps away
• Prairie des Canots Seat of Justice — 0.2 mi
• Don Juan Filhiol Historic Preservation District — 0.3 mi