Civic leaders are joining together for a Black Lives Matter art project in September. The goal is to enlist Black artists and create six street murals throughout Kansas City. “It’s one of those things that I feel art speaks to you,” artist Avrion Jackson said.Jackson has a creative eye.”I try to incorporate things that are in my everyday life,” she said.Jackson has painted six murals in Kansas City, but she said the seventh mural might be the most important one.”I feel like this is very important for this to happen for our city,” Jackson said. On Sept. 5, six streets will be closed so artists can participate and create. “I’m going to definitely have like an Afrocentric vibe to it, kind of like a Renaissance feel,” Jackson said.It is called KC Art on The Block: A Black Lives Matter Project, and it will paint the message that’s being shared all over the world.”I’m happy that I’m going to be a part of this, and it’s going to make a difference,” Jackson said.It’s a project that some said is overdue in the community, one that they hope will bring the community a little closer together.”I definitely feel like this is what it takes. We’re right outside the door and they have to face the reality of the things that are going on around them,” Jackson said.She said it usually takes about eight hours to finish a mural, and she is hoping to have it done in five hours. Jackson’s mural will be at 10th and Baltimore streets.Mural locations: 10th and Baltimore 18th and Vine 31st and Troost 63rd and Troost 63rd and Brookside Boulevard NW Briarcliff Parkway and N. Mulberry
Civic leaders are joining together for a Black Lives Matter art project in September. The goal is to enlist Black artists and create six street murals throughout Kansas City.
“It’s one of those things that I feel art speaks to you,” artist Avrion Jackson said.
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Jackson has a creative eye.
“I try to incorporate things that are in my everyday life,” she said.
Jackson has painted six murals in Kansas City, but she said the seventh mural might be the most important one.
“I feel like this is very important for this to happen for our city,” Jackson said.
On Sept. 5, six streets will be closed so artists can participate and create.
“I’m going to definitely have like an Afrocentric vibe to it, kind of like a Renaissance feel,” Jackson said.
It is called KC Art on The Block: A Black Lives Matter Project, and it will paint the message that’s being shared all over the world.
“I’m happy that I’m going to be a part of this, and it’s going to make a difference,” Jackson said.
It’s a project that some said is overdue in the community, one that they hope will bring the community a little closer together.
“I definitely feel like this is what it takes. We’re right outside the door and they have to face the reality of the things that are going on around them,” Jackson said.
She said it usually takes about eight hours to finish a mural, and she is hoping to have it done in five hours.
Jackson’s mural will be at 10th and Baltimore streets.
Mural locations:
- 10th and Baltimore
- 18th and Vine
- 31st and Troost
- 63rd and Troost
- 63rd and Brookside Boulevard
- NW Briarcliff Parkway and N. Mulberry
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