Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Mural For All


If you read yesterday's blog post, you saw some charming artists hard a work. This is the finished product, a wonderful mural entitled MURAL FOR ALL.  It was part of the 50th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing which took the lives of 4 young girls in 1963.  It was a beautiful weekend of remembrance and healing for our city.  This mural, which consisted of 1800 individual tiles, hand painted this week at Railroad Park was designed by Russ Bennett for the non profit organization City Year.  It was well planned and executed and was done in record time.  I sat with a delightful group of children from a local school on Friday and proudly painted my tile. Yesterday I went back to capture the finished mural and looked for my tile.  I know it's up there somewhere!

9 comments:

Revrunner said...

Important statements.

Thérèse said...

It is simply marvelous!

Duncan D. Horne - the Kuantan blogger said...

Well that is a fantastic piece of art with a great message!

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Daryl said...

what a wonderful project to be involved in ..

FancyHorse said...

What a wonderful work of art with a message, many messages! I want to see that next time I'm in Bham. Will it be at Railroad Park?

Anonymous said...

How wonderful.

William Kendall said...

It's just the right touch as a mural, for the subject.

Bob Crowe said...

That's superb work and so sincere. I hope people notice it and respond.

TheChieftess said...

What a wonderful community involved project!