Lawton's Arts For All Festival: Road Closures And Event Details

The annual Arts for All Festival will kick off Friday, May 9, in Lawton, Oklahoma, but road closures are already set up for the festival weekend. The festival will take place Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Shepler Park in downtown Lawton, and a lane of Gore Blvd will be blocked off for the duration of the festival.

The Lawton Police Department posted a traffic update video on the department's official Facebook page Thursday afternoon indicating that one west-bound lane of Gore Blvd along Shepler Park has officially been blocked off for the Arts for All Festival. The lane closure stretches from SW 5th Street west to SW 4th Street.

According to the Lawton Police Department, the lane closure allows Arts for All Festival vendors to safely unload and load their supplies for the festival. The department encourages those who are traveling from the east side to the west side to take alternate routes, like Cache Road and Lee Boulevard during Mother's Day weekend.

Those who plan to attend the festival are encouraged to be mindful of the lane closure. Parking for the annual Arts for All Festival is available around downtown Lawton, including along streets and in various parking lots of surrounding businesses. Parking is free and the festival is free to attend.

The annual Arts for All Festival will feature art vendors, entertainment, food and more.

The annual Arts for All Festival will feature a weekend of art vendors, live entertainment, food, drinks, children activities and more. Below is the full schedule for this weekend's festival:

4-8 p.m. Friday, May 9
10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, May 10
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 11

More information can be found on the Arts for All Facebook page.

Where to Find the many murals by Justin Hackney's Spreading PAINT in Lawton, Fort Sill.

If you've driven around town you've probably seen all the murals we have in Lawton, Fort Sill. If you take the time to look you'll notice that they're everywhere. We're lucky to have so many talented artists that share their work with us regularly by painting murals. One name you've probably heard before is Justin Hackney and Spreading PAINT. His work of masterful murals can be found all over town. He's done some of the very best and has painted everything from rock stars to celebrities and everything in between. He has a style all his own and has painted murals in full color, vivid transposed negative style, and in black and white. Be on the lookout for his latest mural masterpiece he's going to keep painting them so long as people want them and there's wall space. Looking forward to seeing his next one! Check out the gallery below of Justin Hackney's Spreading PAINT murals and where to find them. We'll continue to add to the gallery as he paints them.

Gallery Credit: Don "Critter" Brown

Lawton's Worst Roads As Voted By You

Roads have always been a hot topic in Lawton. The local government always promises to fix them when elections are at stake, but the improvements never come. It's more of the same, crumbling roads and band-aid patches due to what the city describes as "too little funding," even though we continually vote for bonds to satisfy these issues.

Here are the worst commonly used roads in Lawton as voted by you.

Gallery Credit: Kelso