About that new mural, two years in the works, along North Ninth Street

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GREETINGS FROM NORTH NINTH STREET

A half-hour of the reverberating din of typical Tuesday afternoon traffic along North Ninth Street, under the concrete and girders at the Sagamore Parkway underpass, gave a small taste of the days artist Oscar Joyo and his assistant, James Sturnfield, went through to create Lafayette’s latest, large-scale mural.

“We spent a lot of time, like, ‘What was that? What did you say?’” Joyo said Tuesday after a dedication of a mural finished a week earlier on a bridge abutment.

“I had ear plugs. And we had playlists,” Joyo said. “It all played into how this worked out.”

(Photo: Dave Bangert)

Touted as the start of The Art Federation’s 2022 mural season, Joyo’s piece was two years in the making and more than a year delayed, thanks to the pandemic, according to Tetia Lee, TAF’s CEO. The idea came from a summer 2020 social media campaign to crowdfund a public arts project in support of Black Lives Matter.