The Westside community and local artists are teaming up to create new, more politically and socially relevant murals for the area’s most prominent outdoor walls.
According to excerpts from the article:
A two-story mural on the west wall of Shanora’s Wig and General Merchandise (formerly Shanora’s Beauty and Barber Supplies), at 829 W.Saginaw St., was painted white two years ago.
Orabe “Ora” Fuller, owner of Shanora’s, said the mural was in bad shape.
A second mural, facing north onto the same parking lot, is still hanging in there, a peeling time capsule of black entertainment and sports stars from the mid-‘90s.
The blank wall will be completely painted over with fresh faces. The other one will probably stay, Fuller said, but she wants O.J. Simpson out and Michael Jackson off the wall.
“I want no blemishes,” Fuller said. “Just people that are having fun and living good.”
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