INDIANAPOLIS — Large vinyl replicas of 28 Murals for Racial Justice are on display at Central Library through January 20, and additionally are available for checkout from IndyPL. Local artists of color were commissioned to create the murals in June, originally creating the artwork on the wood that was used to cover downtown windows amid protests of the police-involved killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Dreasjon Reed.
The Indianapolis Public Library’s Center for Black Literature & Culture (CBLC) at Central Library partnered with artist, equity practitioner, and design researcher Danicia Monét and the Arts Council of Indianapolis to ensure that the murals are archived as a part of Indianapolis history. The murals were replicated on 3-by-5-foot vinyl banners and as high resolution images in the online collection Digital Indy: Murals for Justice, which includes information about the contributing artists. The murals will be available in the IndyPL online catalog indefinitely.
Patrons can request and pick up the murals from any library branch for display at homes, businesses, and events. A maximum of eight murals per patron may be checked out at once. The murals have a 42-day checkout duration and cannot be renewed. They are “late fine free” items, which means they are exempt from “per day” late fees that accrue when materials are overdue.
Digital images of the murals can be found on digitalindy.org in the category “Murals for Justice.” To place a hold on a mural for checkout, patrons can search “racial justice murals” in the indypl.org catalog and request them for pickup at any of IndyPL’s 23 locations.
