Atlanta Artist Corey Barksdale Selected as Muralist for Dr. King Monument Project Funded by Georgia Tourism Website Grant
Dublin Downtown Development Authority and Visit Dublin GA announced today that Corey Barksdale, a nationally recognized Georgia artist, continues to be selected since the muralist for your Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Atlanta Artist Corey Barksdale Selected as Muralist for Dr. King Monument Project Funded by Georgia Tourism Website Grant Decatur, GA, August 16, 2016 –(PR.com)– Dublin Downtown Development Authority and Visit Dublin GA announced today that Corey Barksdale, a nationally recognized Georgia artist, continues to be selected as the muralist for the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Monument under increase in Dublin, Georgia. The result of a $5,000 award from the Georgia Department of monetary Development’s (GDEcD) Tourism division to invest in a mural and gateway signage at the site with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. monument, the mural will probably be found at the intersection of Church and Telfair Streets. It will set the tone in creating an artist ic and interactive public space for tourists to experience the first step in Dr. King’s rise to greatness as a leader from the Civil Rights movement.
The work will install a 54’ 7” wide by 10’ high mural on your wall of a neighboring building highlighting First African Baptist Church and Dublin, Georgia as the location of Dr. King’s first public speech in 1944. This mural by way of a Georgia artist will serve as a possible additional interactive part of the monument site, present an artistically colorful backdrop for the monument site, and create a vivid gateway for downtown Dublin. “This project is definitely the unique opportunity to not just commemorate a very important moment in our history, but in addition transform a downtown gateway and enhance the variety of unique public art we now have in downtown Dublin. This is a win for everyone involved, and we are so happy with the support and man power that may be poured to the MLK Monument project,” said Tara Bradshaw, Director, Main Street Dublin.
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Atlanta artist Corey Barksdale uses art to capture Dark history, and offers to capture Dr. King’s speech in Dublin through color and emotion, saying, “A lot of my images are representative of the experiences that I have had and how I identify myself. These subjects reflect my community. The bold colors that I use have been beside me forever.
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