New mural downtown urges viewers to “open your heart”

A 28 foot by 22 foot photographic mural will soon grace the south wall of the former Strand Theater, which now houses Roots – The Restaurant, and faces Washington Street and Rutland City Hall, joining three sculptures on the Rutland Sculpture Trail and two other murals in the Center Street Marketplace in downtown Rutland.

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Rutland artist paints massive BLM mural

Titled “We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest Until it Comes,” the mural is 60-feet high at its tallest point and it is painted on the back wall of the former Strand Theater overlooking Center Street Marketplace Park. The title is from a song composed by Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, founding member of Sweet Honey in the Rock and inspired by Ella Josephine Baker, a civil rights leader and mentor with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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