Fort Pierce announced on its Facebook page this week that the Florida Highwaymen Museum is a featured stop on the America 250 Road Trip. The museum, which opened this year at 1234 Avenue D, is the nation's only one with exhibitions that include paintings from each of the 26 renowned Highwaymen artists.
The museum celebrates 26 Black artists who began painting in the 1950s, creating bold, colorful landscapes of Florida's untouched beauty and selling them along the roadside when segregation kept them out of traditional galleries. During the summer from June 16 through July 31, the museum is open Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. The museum will be closed in August and reopen in September with a new exhibit.