"Heart of the Community"

• 3301 Beekman St.  Cincinnati, OH 45225, Millvale Community Center in Millvale
• A project of the 2007 ArtWorks Summer Program
• Mural dedicated September 2007

Painted on the side of the Millvale Community Center is a mural that was created as a reflect all of the hope and community that is contained within and spread by the Center. The mural is made up of images that on any given day might be seen day inside the walls of this building—cheerleaders dancing, two boxers practicing, kind smiles. There is always palpable energy inside the Center, and the Apprentices who worked there seemed to have only added to it, often laughing as they painted. When asked which project she would be on if she could choose any project, Polly Wilson replied, “I don’t know…I like this one!”

Project Manager:
Scott Donaldson

Teaching Staff:
April Lempa Cooper
Viktoryia McGrath
 Quentin Gibeau

Apprentice Artists:
Kaley Ambrosius, SCPA
Alexandra Bowling, SCPA
John Dankenbring, Walnut Hills
Donny Driehaus, Elder
Terry King, Hughes Center
Kelsey Miller, Walnut Hills
Natalie Moreland, Hughes Center
Nyasha-Victoria Myrick, Summit Country Day
Ellen Platt, Anderson High School
Hannah Rains-Grant, SCPA
Stephanie Szarwark, Ursuline
Ronnell Washington, Horizon Science Academy
Eric Webb, Jr., W.E.B. DuBois Academy
Polly Wilson, Home School

before

the design

Apprentices draw the design onto the building.	Apprentices work on scaffolding to paint the mural.
Apprentices prime the building for paint.

Thanks to the Millvale Community Center