Under Teal Thibaud’s leadership, Glass House Collective partnered with Public Art Chattanooga and Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA) to bring three new bus shelters to the Glass Street area and wrap them with colorful artwork. They received 55 responses to a local Call for Designs from artists within 50 miles of Chattanooga. A selection committee composed of neighborhood representatives and Public Art Chattanooga committee members chose the winning proposals. Designs by Ashley Worley, Daryl Thetford, and Mary Margaret LaVoie were selected.

Bus shelter artwork has added blasts of personality to city streets across the country, although it had not been used in Chattanooga at the time. Thibaud and her team at Glass House Collective wanted to harness their own community’s creativity to build on the momentum that the residents were experiencing. GHC invited artists and designers to help illustrate the story of Glass Street, to transform the energy they felt into an energy people could see. Today, bus shelter art can be found all across Chattanooga.