Sometime early next year, ideally on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the long-anticipated Embrace Memorial will be unveiled on the Boston Common, where it will pay homage to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, and their legacy in the city of Boston.

During the construction period leading up that that moment, photographs and digital art by Boston-based artists of color will adorn the fence surrounding the memorial’s future site.

Local artists have proposed works to The Embrace Memorial Fence Wrap Art Commission, and two of the celebrated artists are Dorchester’s own Ngoc-Tran Vu and Harry Scales.

Vu identifies as a first generation Vietnamese American artist and organizer. She grew up in Dorchester and early on was drawn to community work in the neighborhood, organizing voter registration drives, pushing for Asian-American history education, and heading up a neighborhood mural project in 2017 about Vietnamese cultural narratives.

As she continued with her artwork and her activism, she thought about how to intertwine them. “It was always something that I was really wondering,” she said. “How do I connect both of those halves?”

Now she channels those passions into “projects that amplify community issues.” Her work that is displayed on the fence depicts a crowd in Dorchester protesting anti-Asian American sentiments and a Black Lives Matter rally in Nubian Square.

Scales is a fine art and editorial photographer who works out of Boston and New York. His recently completed project, “The Clover’s Shadow,” showcases Boston’s communities of color. His work on the fence wrap around the Embrace Memorial features some of these same communities and views of Boston that are often overlooked.

Vu is excited to have her art play a role in this “amazing public art initiative,” especially one honoring the Kings. “Their legacy and their contributions to the civil rights movement has informed a lot of my activism,” she said, calling the Embrace Memorial “really transformative and so needed.”

King Boston is the nonprofit organization behind the memorial, which aims to spark a conversation about this vision in perhaps the old city’s most iconic spot and among its most visited tourist sites.