City to Light Downtown Towers in School Colors for Graduating Seniors
Published on May 02, 2025
By Susan Schrock, Office of Communication
Congratulations, Class of 2025! For a second year, the City of Arlington will light up Downtown to celebrate our community’s high school and college seniors who are graduating this semester.
Graduates and their families looking for a memorable photo op are invited to visit the public plaza on the south side of Arlington City Hall, where the 40-foot Flamme d’Illuminacion towers will be lit in school colors on a rotating schedule during the months of May and early June.
Artist Michelle O’Michael’s four towering woven steel sculptures were installed between City Hall and Levitt Pavilion Arlington in 2021. The silver towers are illuminated by programmable LED lights that can remain static, color sweep or flicker like flames. The City regularly changes the towers’ colors for holidays, such as Memorial Day, or special events.
The night of Friday, May 9, the City will light the sculptures orange and blue to celebrate graduating Mavericks from The University of Texas at Arlington. Then, the towers will be lit blue and red to celebrate Arlington Baptist University's graduating patriots on Monday, May 12. Tarrant County College’s graduating Trailblazers will be celebrated with blue and teal lights on Saturday, May 17.
Finally, the towers will be lit nightly May 24-June 4 in the school colors of all public high schools in Arlington ISD and Mansfield ISD. City Hall is located at 101 W. Abram St. and is surrounded by free public parking.
Congratulations, seniors! Your future is bright in The American Dream City.
College Graduation Lighting Schedule
May 9 – The University of Texas at Arlington (blue and orange)
May 12 – Arlington Baptist University (blue and red)
May 17 – Tarrant County College (blue and teal)
High School Graduation Lighting Schedule
May 24 – Timberview High School (maroon)
May 25 – Summit High School (blue)
May 26 – Memorial Day (red, white and blue)
May 27 – Sam Houston High School (red and blue)
May 28 – Lamar High School (blue and yellow)
May 29 – Arlington High School (green and white)
May 30 – Bowie High School (blue and orange)
May 31 – Martin High School (red)
June 1 – Seguin High School (blue)
June 2 – Venture High School (maroon)
June 3 - Arlington Collegiate High School (blue and teal)
June 4 - Arlington College and Career High School (blue)