We do a lot of walking through the streets of Louisville. As we noted in our last podcast, we also run across murals you won’t necessarily notice if you’re driving through the city, like the painting at the top of noted mid-20th century singer Rosemary Clooney, the aunt of actor George Clooney, located on a side road across the street from Churchill Downs.

But there are many other works appearing on walls and sides of buildings that we’ve run across in our daily walks through the city, like these two that are under the interstate in Downtown Louisville near the medical complexes:

Then there are a string of murals around Logan Street in Shelby Park, where you get to see Albert Einstein:

A tribute to Mia Katherine Zapata, who was the lead vocalist and lyricist of the punk rock band The Gits. Born in Chicago and raised in Louisville, Zapata was raped and strangled to death in Seattle in 1993. The case remained unsolved for a decade. The Seattle grunge community, including members of the bands Nirvana and Pearl Jam, helped fund a private investigator:

And Louisville’s most famous writer and the king of Gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson:

We also have murals dedicated to victims of police violence, like this tribute to George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in Phoenix Hill:

Of course, if you’re in Phoenix Hill, you have to have some tribute to music, like this mural of Prince:

Sometimes, I find out a neighborhood name because I took a picture of a mural, like this one in Merriwether near the University of Louisville and Germantown:

And, of course, at UofL, this mural on campus near the street named for former athletic director Tom Jurich, sums up what the school is best at: sports!