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Kalamazoo artists bring color to boarded up downtown businesses

Jun 8, 2020
News

Article by Lindsay Moore published on MLive

Plywood along the Kalamazoo Mall became a blank canvas for local artists to create a space supporting Black Lives Matter.

Murals honoring the lives of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old black woman killed by Louisville police and Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old black boy killed in Florida. Both portraits were a collaboration between artists Joelle McIntyre and Blake Eason.

Other murals depicted a black fist, a popular symbol for justice within Black Lives Matter and a white hand and black hand shaking in a sign of unity.

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