Cool the City Mural

Written By Sarah Wilkinson

In the summer of 2025, local Richmond artist Paris Allen completed a giant Cool the City mural at 411 N 1st Street. Paris says the mural reminds her of Audrey Hepburn's quote: “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”

Photo of the mural wall, painted with the background blue and green paint colors.
Photo of a portion of the mural with green background and tree accents. The Cool the City logo is sketched on the wall in marker.
Zoomed out photo of the completed mural featuring trees, a woman holding her hand out to a young boy, and wind and leaves fluttering around them. A scissor lift sits off to the left.
Artist Paris Allen sits on a bucket on a scissor lift as she works on painting the trees on the mural.
Progress photo showing part of the young boy, woman, and Cool the City logo filled in with paint.
A woman stands next to the mural, reaching her hand out to touch the wall just above the painted woman’s outstretched hand.
Sarah Wilkinson
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