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Community mural project
Community mural project
MILWAUKEE -- More Milwaukee artists came together to beautify a new canvas near Holton and Locust with Black Lives Matter-inspired murals on Saturday, June 13 -- they asked the community to come out and help.
Local artists have been busy lately. Two murals in Milwaukee -- one remembering George Floyd, the other Breonna Taylor -- have already been completed.
Artists paint mural near Locust and Holton
Organizers of the mural-making effort said their focus was to bring the community together and beautify a piece of two neighborhoods -- Harambee and Riverwest.
"Before, it was a pretty separated area, but this is an opportunity for me -- and peers like me -- to get to know different artists around the city, different artists from different cultures," artist Mario Hamilton said.
Among the prominent figures portrayed on the wall -- Milwaukee's own Vel Phillips.