In 2020 Damon Lamar, a Chicago hip-hop artist and muralist, started painting an eye-catching vivid series of portraits titled “The Searching Project” of missing Black women and girls in the Chicagoland area for the past two decades. Due to their lack of local, national, and global media coverage, he is utilizing his artistry as social justice bringing awareness to their cases and hope to their families that they will be found.
In 2020 Damon Lamar, a Chicago hip-hop artist and muralist, started painting an eye-catching vivid series of portraits titled “The Searching Project” of missing Black women and girls in the Chicagoland area for the past two decades. Due to their lack of local, national, and global media coverage, he is utilizing his artistry as social justice bringing awareness to their cases and hope to their families that they will be found.