Will Eskridge, Meredith Raiford Akins and More Murals of the Moment

BACK WHERE IT ALL BEGAN: Growing up with a veterinarian father and an artist mother, painting a mural at Firehall 4 Animal Hospital is a full-circle moment for Will Eskridge. “It’s like being home again,” he says. The clinic, which is celebrating 20 years in business, recently underwent renovations and asked Eskridge to paint the walls of its expanded examination rooms. Eskridge’s signature bold colors and textured style are on full display in the piece, which features a broad spectrum of small animals, silhouettes of iconic Athens structures and a 1953 GMC fire engine that pays homage to the building’s history as a fire station—all set in a…