Corpus Christi Bayfront skyline
— a white city set against a green sea.
Not only on a wall.
Corpus Christi Bayfront skyline, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“The skyline of Corpus Christi rises off the bayfront in a low white wall of mid-century towers and palm-lined seawall, the Harbor Bridge arcing above the ship channel to the north. The seawall, designed in the 1930s by Gutzon Borglum of Mount Rushmore, steps down to the water in long limestone tiers people still fish from. The USS Lexington, a Second World War carrier turned museum, sits across the bay at North Beach in haze grey. In the afternoon a steady Gulf wind comes in off the water and the bay turns a deep green that takes the city's reflection without quite holding it. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Corpus Christi sits at the head of Corpus Christi Bay on the South Texas coast, about 130 miles southeast of San Antonio. The city is the seat of Nueces County and the eighth largest in Texas, with a population of roughly 317,000 as of the 2020 census. The bayfront skyline runs along Shoreline Boulevard from the marina north to the Harbor Bridge, a 1959 cantilever-through-arch span carrying U.S. Highway 181 over the ship channel at a clearance of 138 feet. A replacement cable-stayed bridge has been under construction alongside it through the 2020s.
Corpus Christi Bay is a shallow estuary of the Gulf of Mexico, sheltered behind Mustang and Padre Islands, averaging about ten feet deep. The bayfront seawall, designed by sculptor Gutzon Borglum and completed in 1941, runs roughly two miles along Shoreline Boulevard in a stepped limestone profile that doubles as fishing access and a long public walk. The Port of Corpus Christi, reached through the ship channel under the Harbor Bridge, is the largest crude-oil export port in the United States by tonnage. A persistent southeasterly breeze off the Gulf keeps the water moving and gives the bay its deep green colour through most of the summer.
The bayfront is best read on foot along the seawall promenade, beginning at the People's Street T-Head marina and walking north toward the Harbor Bridge. The USS Lexington, an Essex-class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1943, has been moored at North Beach since 1992 as a naval museum and is open daily. The Texas State Aquarium sits beside it on the north shore of the channel. Selena's Mirador de la Flor, a stone gazebo on Shoreline Boulevard built in 1997, draws visitors year-round. Sunrise over the bay is the best photographic window; the wind generally rises by mid-morning and stays up through the afternoon.
