Muralist Charles Key Wants to Teach Kids That Art Can Be a Way to Dream Find Keyâs artwork in the Napier area and elsewhere around the city Tweet
By Charles KeyPhoto: Daniel Meigs
Growing up in South Central Los Angeles in the â80s, Charles Key didnât have a lot to do. The neighborhood, he says, was infested with gangs, and his parents wouldnât let him leave the yard. But his imagination was active. His father was an artist, and the walls of South Central were covered in graffiti.Â
Charles KeyPhoto: Daniel MeigsAfter the L.A. riots of the early â90s, Keyâs parents moved the family to Nashville. He graduated from Antioch High School, and worked various jobs after, including as a chef. But art was always in his back pocket â a calling, he says, and a ministry.Â