On Capitol Hill’s 15th Ave E, a community mural is restored as a new work rises above

Billy Davis CHS SHORT AND SWEET SUMMER SUBSCRIBER DRIVE — PLEASE HELP KEEP CHS PAYWALL-FREE!Subscribe to CHS to help us pay writers and photographers to cover the neighborhood. CHS is a pay what you can community news site with no required sign-in or paywall. Become a subscriber to help us cover the neighborhood for as little as $5 a month. Summer is the most challenging time to keep our subscriber total up. Thanks for any help and for spreading the word about CHS! Amid a wave of 2020s change, 15th Ave E is getting some artistic touch-ups with an effort to restore a 2000s-era community mural and a massive new mural from an artist synonymous with the 2008 presidential election victory of Barack Obama. Shepard Fairey is at work this week above 15th Ave E. Artist Billy Davis just spent the past weeks here after a bout of graffiti vandalism inspired a clean-up of an old project. The Sanctuary mural was created by Davis on the building constructed in 2000 for the neighborhood’s new Walgreens. The painting’s origin traces to another time of change for Capitol Hill. When the beloved local business City People’s closed and its owners sold the...