The Black Lives Matter mural in front of Cincinnati City Hall is getting a refresh this week. The art was installed on Plum Street two years ago with private funding, and the city added a protective overlay last year.
鈥淭here are 17 amazing artists that the visionary Alandes Powell and myself pulled together in just two days,鈥� said Tashawna Otabil, co-owner of Black Art Speaks. 鈥淭his is just symbolic of not just our heart desires, but our goal to want to express real change 鈥� systemic racism, health equity, pay equity 鈥� among various different things that are represented out there.鈥�
Artists from Black Art Speaks will re-paint the outline of each letter this year, then another protective overlay will be applied across the whole mural. The public is invited to watch the artists at work from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday.
Plum Street between 8th and 9th will be closed starting until early Tuesday morning so people can see the mural.
Black Art Speaks documenting how the project came together.
