In honor of Black History Month, acclaimed artist Robert Vargas will create this mural on site inspired by one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s last books, The World House.

King imagines the world as a large house in which we must learn somehow to live with each other in peace. We are facing converging global crises – a horrific pandemic, the growing threat of world war, climate change, inequality both in the U.S. and globally, the continuing scourge of systemic racism and tensions in the U.S. brought on by elections later this year.

Vargas brings his dynamic approach to portraiture and re-imagines this inherited large house on canvas. As King writes, “A great ‘world house’ in which we have to live together — Black and white, easterner and westerner, gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu – a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace.” Robert Vargas brings necessary attention and healing through this mural in the spirit of mindfulness, and creating art for the greater good of mankind.