A 7000-square-foot ground mural in Chambers Park depicts Breona Taylor with the message "Black Lives Matter." Near her, the dates "June 5, 1993 - March 13, 2020" are written.
Annapolis-based Future History Now, a nonprofit art collective that creates murals with youth facing adversity in underserved communities, in partnership with Banneker-Douglass Museum and the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture organized the mural.
"Defund The Police BLM ✊" is painted on the pavement. "Defund" and "Police" are painted in orange and "The" is painted in yellow. At the end of the phrase is the Black Power Fist.
"Black Lives Matter" is painted on the pavement with various patterns. One of the letters "T" has a topographical map speckled with butterflies named after Black explorers inside the letter “T.”
Both of the “L” letters are inspired by the “Love This City” series of murals in Denver, which portray an equal, inclusive and friendly version of the Mile High City. Inside the letter “B" there are two white and two blackbirds interwoven with each other. Other letters included changing aspen trees, Colorado sunsets, abstract patterns, and wildflowers.
Altogether, 13 professional artists, a local architect, an interior designer, elementary students, high school students, college students, teachers, a 70-year-old white woman who marched in the ’60s with Martin Luther King Jr., and the wife and daughter of a local police officer participated in the creation of the mural.
The letters and assigned artists are as follows:
B: Johnny Draco and Amy of Realize – Denver
L: Pat Milbery and So-Gnar Creative – Denver
A: Frisco teachers and elementary students – Frisco
C: Aaron Sutton AKA "Visual Goodies" – Denver
K: Kellie Rogers – Silverthorne
L: Pat Milbery and So-Gnar Creative – Denver
I: Olivia Brown Wolf and friend – Frisco
V: Jaime and Pattie Callahan and family – Frisco
E: Time McCall, Nam Lang and Tom Lang – Frisco
S: Piotr Olimpiusz Kopytek – Frisco
M: Consuelo Redhorse and community – Summit County
A: Patrick Gleason – Frisco
T: Tracy (anonymous Panamanian painter) – Denver
T: Elyse Hope – Frisco
E: Tim McCall, Nam Lang and Tom Lang – Frisco
R: Devon Galpin Clarke – Frisco/Breckenridge
"Black Lives Matter" is painted in various colors on the pavement.
There were a number of artists who worked on the mural.
Lead Artists:
Joseph Pearson - Lead artist for the word "Black"
Jenny Pickens - Lead artist for the word "Lives"
Marie T. Cochran - Lead artist for the word "Matter"
Supporting Artists:
Dustin Spagnola, Jas Washington, Autumn Nelson, Ovidio Acevedo, James Love, Michael Barnard, Walter Dickenson, CJ Randell, Beth Ivey, Timothy Davidson, LaKisha Blount, Rahkie Mateen, Kela K. Hunt & Trey Miles, Broderick Flanigan, and Faustine McDonald
"One Love" is painted in yellow on the street. Inside of the "O" in "One" there is a black number 1, and inside of the "O" in "Love," there is a black heart.
