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WEB EXCLUSIVE Downtown Raleigh may be quiet right now but it’s also bright and colorful.
The Raleigh Murals Project, the Visual Art Exchange and Royale chef Jeffrey Seizer have teamed up to create a platform to elevate awareness around the issues that led to recent protests against racial inequality, injustice and police brutality, using art—and the plywood boards hanging on business storefronts downtown—as a medium.
“The Raleigh Murals Project believes that black lives matter and value[s] protests where voices of unity and justice can be heard,” reads a post on Raleigh Mural Project’s Instagram feed. “We want to amplify black voices in our community…We will do this by lifting the voices of those affected by systemic racism, prioritizing Black artists and artists of color and offering a platform to express those experiences and truths.”
Interested artists can email the Raleigh Murals Project about participating and the public is invited to donate funds or materials for the artists to use. Leftover funds will be donated to NAACP North Carolina.
Look out for new murals popping up all over downtown. Here are several you can visit right now.
Murals at State of Beer by Sorena and State of Beer staff
Window mural at Garland by Julio Sanchez and crew
Use Your Voice by @quercus_raleigh by @spclsigns, South Salisbury Street
Spread Love by @artofmck at Cameron Village
George Floyd Memorial by @darecoulter at the ACLU of NC Right to Protest Mural, South Salisbury Street
Equal Opportunity by @graysonmarieart and @okirah, MOFU Shoppe
Mural by @grace_ownbey, at Father and Son
Defund Injustice, by @relm1_dawood at Apex Outfitter
We the People Are In Peril, by @darecoulter at Raleigh Raw
United States of Racism, by @dangerartworks at Happy + Hale
✊🏿, by @sarahsface at Isaac Hunters Tavern
Make America Safe for Minorities, by @sarahsface at Isaac Hunters Tavern
Love and Light and Back Lives Matter, by @spclsigns and crew, Royale storefront
Tribute to George Floyd and message to his daughter, Gianna by Shirien Damra and @centroraleigh staff, Centro storefront
No Justice, No Peace and Black Lives Matter by @dartsky and @xtraedge18, Revolver Consignment Boutique Storefront
End Racism Now, by @camraleigh, @raleighdenimworkshop and @drivercharman and volunteers, West Martin Street in front of CAM Raleigh
Portrait of Morgan Freeman by @jalel_ronin, Apex Outfitter storefront
Quote from NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green by volunteers, The Mahler Fine Art Gallery storefront
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