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  • 'I was heartbroken...and needed to do something.' Woman helps preserve George Floyd plywood art murals

    04/11/2021 6:22:18 PM PDT · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 31 replies
    KARE11.com ^ | 4/10/2021 | Charmaine Nero
    MINNEAPOLIS — Hundreds of boards sit inside a 1,000 foot space. “We are in the Northrup King Building in north Minneapolis and we've had this since the beginning of October,” says Leesa Kelly, with Save the Boards to Memorialize the Movement. After George Floyd's death and the protests that followed, Kelly says, "I just was heartbroken and experiencing a lot of trauma and I needed to do something." Kelly wanted to save the murals popping up on plywood boards posted on businesses throughout the Twin Cities, murals that captured the emotions of a community dealing with the hurt and pain...