“Ernest Shaw ’87 heard the news that Toni Morrison had died while he was driving to Station North Arts Café Gallery for breakfast….
“By afternoon—following a stop for spray paint at nearby Artist & Craftsman Supply—the muralist and longtime city arts teacher found himself in North Howard Street’s Graffiti Alley, putting the finishing touches on a large-scale, pop-up work of Morrison, who won a Pulitzer for her novel Beloved.”
You can read more in this story from Baltimore magazine.