MURALS

Mural #1 for The Mural Building / Springcreek Church

Garland Tx

Mural for Wild West Mural Fest 2023, Dallas, Tx

Multicultural Mural for Brixmor Property Group

Oakcliff, Dallas, Tx

“Absolute Equality 2023: Dallas” Juneteenth mural

south dallas cultural center, dallas, tx

“Pleasant Run Portal” for the City Of Desoto

Dog Park Mural for The Phoenix Apartments, Fort Worth, Tx

“Repose” for SXSW Art Program, The LINE Austin, Austin, TX

“Alignment” for Compound Athletics / Anubis Crossfit, Foundry District, Fort Worth, Tx

“Black Swan Music Shop” for Deep Ellum Blues Ally, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Tx

Deep Ellum’s blues sound reached and inspired the nation and then the world from the early 1920’s and on. A key figure in the export of Dallas’ sound was businessman/entrepreneur R.T. Ashford. Ashford owned a music shop advertised in the Dallas Express as The Black Swan Music Shop. The music shop distributed paramount records (not affiliated with Paramount movie studios). Ashford's relationship with the record company was the key that turned Blind Lemon and the now lesser known, but nationally acclaimed blues singer Lillian Glinn into signed recording artists.

Ashford is himself a black swan given all of his accomplishments growing up in the Jim Crow South. Finding no portraits of him online I decided to depict him as just that, a black swan.

The illustrations used in newspaper ads also played a role in gaining interest and giving the music they accompanied, a visual identity. I think they helped describe the events and experiences that inspired the musicians to create their songs