June 7: There are multiple groups painting storefronts now. The Paint the Storefront group was painting on glass only. Now there are ones painting on the plywood. Several of those are included here. I talked with Mel Bieler who said her group was doing Denver Smith Foundation painting on plywood for BLM. They had started the previous day and I had run into some of them near 14th and K. All of their's have #cre8change in the message. I also talked to an artist who was doing something for the National Women in the Arts Museum and she said her work was for the museum itself.
June 9: During my travels, I happened on Zaytinya in the Penn Station area where an artist known as Monolith was working on a new piece.
August 9: By this point, murals are done by all sorts of groups:
* Paint the Storefronts: Busboys and Poets' Andy Shallal's response to a broken window at his store in Anacostia led him to use the store windows for positive messages. Jose Andres got involved in this one as well.
* Arts Brookfield and P.A.I.N.T.S Institute started a series of paintings in DC for a "Murals & Meals" project. Those started around May 18 and are supposed to be up through September 1. They did "25 public facing murals of love, hope and inspiration at several locations throughout the DC metropolitan area. The program also donated 600+ individually boxed meals to First Responders, Healthcare workers, Essential workers, and Homeless District residents."
* The BLM protests beginning in June started another wave of murals. One of the groups involved in this was the Denver Smith Foundation. Most of these murals are on boarded up windows.
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