African in America
Baltimore, MD • Ernest Shaw
I always want to create art where people of color can find their humanity somewhere in the imagery. That’s at the forefront of most of my creations so that’s one of the main purposes of this wall.
Ernest Shaw
- Where to find this mural
- 1898 Aisquith Street
Baltimore, MD - Artist
- Ernest Shaw
Ernest Shaw’s mural, African in America, is an updated version of the wall local to Baltimore community members at the intersection of North and Asquith. Through Mended Murals, Ernest took the subjects of his art, the African mother, the drummer, and bring the youths to the forefront in a modern-day lens. Baltimore’s “Squeegee Kids” have been a regular theme in his art in recent years, and they come to the center of this mural, in the middle of the neighborhood they are most known to.
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