(upbeat music) - [Narrator] Murals depicting Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy by artist Roland Ruocco stood in front of the Alliance for the Arts in Fort Myers for just a few weeks before being vandalized multiple times.

Now an accordion of 20 four-foot by eight-foot murals painted by Southwest Florida artists line the Alliance's festival grounds as a beacon of community support and response to the war in Ukraine.

All using vivid colors, most emphasizing the yellow and blue of the Ukrainian flag.

Artist Erik Schlake's mural is based on a viral video of the Ukrainian president with his team behind him.

Schlake says this larger community art project is the best way to respond to the vandalism.

- I don't think there's many good responses.

And I do think that when it comes to art, art should create a dialogue and if you're gonna create that dialogue, the only way to respond is with more or different art.

- [Narrator] Artists were given seven days to create their mural with little parameters, other than to think of the people of Ukraine and have it back at the Alliance before the unveiling.

Oleg Kulyk is a Ukrainian artist who has lived in Naples for 17 years.

His artwork is not a mural but a metal sculpture titled "The Ukrainian Woman."

Kulyk describes this piece as the embodiment of women screaming in agony as Ukrainian women die from Russian missile attacks.

- [Oleg] She screams because she wanna bring attention of the war.

How Russian like affecting our Ukrainian lives.

She usually woman wouldn't scream, she would keep it quiet to herself.

It's her like last chance to work, to heal, and stop this terror, genocide of the people.

- [Narrator] The murals will be on display at the Alliance for the Arts throughout the summer.

The artwork may travel to other parts of Southwest Florida in the future.

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