Amy Cameron Evans, Writer and Documentarian, and Israel McCloud, Artist

A long tradition exists through time of artists memorializing significant cultural events in community spaces. Meet Israel McCloud, a 4th-generation Houston muralist and sign painter who believes that he has a responsibility to use his work as a mechanism for change. Two of his most recent murals were created in the summer of 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and are documents of violence and injustice, pain and loss.