A community task force is bringing a 1,700-square-foot mural to Jacksonville’s 5 Points neighborhood, celebrating its diversity and honoring its LGBTQ history.<\/p>\n
The task force commissioned Jacksonville native Shaun Thurston, whose murals appear at EverBank Stadium, the Cummer Museum of Arts & Gardens, the PGA TOUR headquarters and the Museum of Contemporary Art, to design and paint the piece.<\/p>\n
The mural will cover the southwest-facing wall of Sunburn Cannabis at 1059 Park St. Paint Maven began prepping the surface July 23, and Thurston starts painting July 25, with completion expected within a month.<\/p>\n
Adjacent parking spaces will be closed during the work to prevent overspray damage.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Located on private property, the project is funded by Riverside Avondale Preservation, the AIDS Memorial Project of Northeast Florida, the Jax LGBT Chamber of Commerce and the LGBTQ Alliance.<\/p>\n The task force also includes the 5 Points Association, Equality Florida, JASMYN and Jax River City Pride.<\/p>\n Riverside Avondale Preservation preserves and celebrates the history, arts and culture of the Riverside and Avondale neighborhoods, and runs the weekly Riverside Arts Market Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. under the Fuller Warren Bridge.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A community task force is bringing a 1,700-square-foot mural to Jacksonville’s 5 Points neighborhood, celebrating its diversity and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[144037,761,116,118,117,143884,109780,13368,143883],"class_list":["post-352113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-cummer-museum-of-arts-gardens","tag-free-action-news-jax","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-lgbtq-history","tag-museum-of-contemporary-art","tag-riverside-avondale-preservation","tag-shaun-thurston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}