Oakland’s Huge “Black Lives Matter” Mural Almost Didn’t Happen
The massive bold yellow mural covers three city blocks and took 400 artists and volunteers.
By Johnny Funcheap - posted 6/11/2020
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Thanks to SF Gate for letting us know the background story of Oakland’s massive Black Lives Matter street mural and how it almost didn’t happen.
See awesome aerial photos of the mural from Beto Lopez Photography
The massive bold yellow mural, which covers three city blocks and took 400 volunteers and artists to create, took an entire day to print.
But the mural almost didn’t get painted because of a series of miscommunications between the artists, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf (who had approved the mural) and the Oakland Police Department, who initially thought the artists were vandals and confiscated the artists rollers and paint brushes.
Read the full story on SF Gate
