Artist Richard Wentworth shares works of subtle ingenuity in neighborhood mini-gallery
Blind Alley opened this spring, the latest addition to a three-decade project in Fort Worth

For the past 30 years, artists Cam Schoepp and Terri Thornton have been cultivating a creative homestead just blocks from Fort Worth’s museum district.

In which the couple had long considered adding a gallery to their property, Blind Alley was spurred on by Schoepp’s desire to create a structure with a living roof after he participated in a TCU-funded environmental study on the subject. Together with local environmental scientist Cleveland Powell, Schoepp created a substrate that mimicked the limestone-decked terrain of Walnut Glade, just outside Fort Worth. The rest of the building was designed by San Francisco-based architects Mark and Peter Anderson — longtime collaborators of Schoepp’s — and constructed with the help of family and TCU students.