RIP George Floyd: This Is How Chicago Artists Honor His Name in Street Art

June 9, 2020

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RIP George Floyd: This is how Chicago artists honor his name in street art

Chicago artists are creating beautiful work to honor and remember George Floyd. We took these photos in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood on June 9, 2020, shortly before Floyd was laid to rest next to his mother in his hometown of Houston, Texas.

George Floyd memorial on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago by Nick Apple Crap

Black Lives Matter artwork by Brie Hines in Chicago

The “Fam is Key” artwork on the outside of Floyd’s Barber Shop, 1409 N. Milwaukee Avenue, in Chicago

Create and Build artwork by The Fourth Element Project and @Nixon_oner

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. artwork by Cecilio Garcia of The Fulton Street Collective

The art in front of Una Mae’s on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago

A young artist gets started on a fresh billboard canvas in Wicker Park, Chicago.

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