Black Lives Matter Mural Project Taking Over Broadway Today

The street mural will be painted in the 1400 Block of Broadway.

June 12, 2020

Image: The design for the Broadway street mural.

The design for the Broadway street mural. courtesy Pat Milbery

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While artists with the Black Love Mural Festival are painting protective covers around statues and monuments in Civic Center Park, other artists will be creating a Black Lives Matter street mural along the 1400 block of Broadway, a project that will close the street from 13th to 17th avenues today, June 12.

Local artist Adri Norris designed the mural; she'll be working with Pat Milbery, the creator of the "Love This City" campaign who just finished a Denver-sanctioned street mural on the other side of Civic Center Park, on Bannock Street right in front of the Denver City and County Building. While that block is now permanently closed to vehicular traffic, the Broadway closure is only temporary; it lasts until 11:59 p.m. tonight.

Finishing a street mural this fast will require some help, so Norris and Milbery are calling on local Denver creatives — in particular, black, indigenous and other artists of color — as well as community volunteers to be a part of the process, which will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today.

The project is a partnership between the City of Denver and the artists; they say it's being "undertaken in the spirit of collaboration and alliance, creating a platform for voices of color, and building community voices against racial injustice."

"Toni Morrison," by Adri Norris, who's designed a street mural for the 1400 block of Broadway.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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