Fat City is the 100-acre area adjacent to Lakeside Shopping Center in Metairie. With numerous music clubs and restaurants, Fat City was once considered the French Quarter of Jefferson Parish. The Fat City Mural Project creates a new visual identity for Fat City with ten distinctive artworks by local and nationally-recognized artists. Arts New Orleans and Fat City Friends Inc., with the support of the Metairie Business Development District and the Jefferson Parish Government completed the area’s largest mural project. Spanning two years, the Fat City Mural Project creates a new visual identity for Fat City by adding ten distinctive artworks by local and nationally-recognized artists to highly visible walls of the business community in the Fat City area. The murals enliven previously blank walls in the Fat City business area and unify the neighborhood by inspiring creative thought and conversation among residents and visitors. Imaginative visions from a school of fish circling through a shark, colorful abstract bead dogs, to giant legs kicking high into the air are among the new works decorating Fat City facades. The Fat City Mural Project exemplifies the transformative power of public art in communities.