
Eastern Market is a globally known street-art destination, and one of its most beloved walls is Detroit artist Desiree Kelly’s tribute to the Queen of Soul. Awash in pink tones — a nod to Aretha Franklin’s “Freeway of Love” pink Cadillac — the mural beams the hometown icon out over the market district. (It’s one of several Aretha murals around the city, only fitting for one of Detroit’s very own.)
It’s a quick, joyful stop amid the produce sheds and the hundred-plus other works splashed across Eastern Market’s warehouses — and, like the Stevie Wonder mural, a natural companion to the Motown trail, since the Queen of Soul’s Detroit story runs from her father’s LaSalle Boulevard home to the Palmer Woods estate she named for her roses.
Russell St & Winder St, Detroit, MI 48207, USA