Artist Creates New Mural To Honor Front-Line Workers

By Sarah Tate

September 28, 2020

It seems as if a new mural pops up every week in Nashville, some honoring local celebrities and others celebrating the return of sports. Over the weekend, artist Kelsey Montague completed a new mural in Capitol View to honor front-line workers and give people hope for the future.

"This mural is meant to honor the front-line workers during this pandemic for all of their sacrifice and for keeping our country going," she told Fox 17. "It also is designed to be hopeful. Rainbows, to me, have a spiritual component and mean there will come a day when this pandemic no longer haunts us - a new beginning is coming. We just need to hang on."

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SURPRISE Nashville!! Just finished this piece in Capital View! This piece is a huge thank you to the front-line workers who are keeping this country going during this pandemic (It's on the side of a grocery store - which is so perfect) and I want this rainbow to be a reminder to have hope. We are going to get through this. Thankful to @capitolviewnashville for supporting this mural and to the City of Nashville for ALWAYS supporting me. Love you Nashville - hope you enjoy this one Xx #whatliftsyou (located at 1010 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd) 🌈⭐️

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"We've wanted to work with Boyle in Capitol View for a while and when they suggested putting the piece on the side of Public grocery store we couldn't have been more thrilled," she said. "We want the brave folks that have kept our food supply going in grocery stores around the country to know how much we value them."

Montague has created other iconic Nashville murals like the Wings in the Gulch and the wall art commissioned by Taylor Swift in 2019. The new mural is located in the Capitol View neighborhood at 1010 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

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