Work is currently underway on the first mural in a series that will commemorate the 225th anniversary of Newport. Residents of Southgate will want to watch the progress of these murals and see them as they are completed.
Major projects such as this one are often made known throughout a region with flyer printing.
The first mural is along the floodwall of the city. It depicts the Southgate Street School, an historic place of education for African Americans. Its artist is Gina Erardi, a recent graduate of Northern Kentucky University (NKU) who has a Bachelor of Fine Art degree in painting. She had met two former students of the school and was moved by their stories of the dedication of their teachers, and their hopeful attitudes. She said she wanted to create a mural to celebrate their lives and to encourage more people to tell their stories.
NKU Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement, Southbank Partners, and the Newport History Museum, which now operates in the Southgate school building, are partnering on this project. Funding for this mural is coming from a grant of just over $13,000 from the 410, a philanthropic initiative of the Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky.
There are eight more murals that are planned and depict suffrage from 1895 to the 1920s, Civil War Abolitionists from the 1860s, and Dave Cowens, a local basketball legend from the 1970s.
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