Lexington Avenue Gateway Mural
Asheville, NC

    Lexington Avenue Gateway Mural completed in 2007-2008, 3,000 square feet, Acrylic paint on concrete. Painted by 6 different artists: Molly Must, Daniel Beck, Joshua Spiceland, Harper Leich, Kurt Theasler, and Steve Lister of Asheville. The collaborative design depicts a stylized timeline of Western North Carolina history. One set of concrete piers is painted with six characters personifying different eras of experience. The first three represent the past; a Cherokee mother and child, an matriarchal Appalachian pioneer, and a black laborer of the Industrial Revolution. The last three represent the present and future of asheville; an artist and urban planner, a cyclist, and a gardener. The second set of concrete piers is dedicated to artists and musicians in Asheville, and is comprised of six portraits of relevant personas.

Chess Players (extension of the Lexington Avenue Gateway Mural), 1500 square feet, 2011. Designed by Molly Must, painted by Molly Must and Ian Wilkinson. Based on photographs taken in 2009 of two men who played chess in Pritchard Park on a regular basis for many years. One of the players in the mural, Charles O'Kelley, could be found at the Haywood and Patton intersection "every day the sun shines," playing on a table he brought from home. Originally reigning from New York, Charles appears in the movie Searching for Bobby Fisher as an extra playing chess.