Women's Empowerment Art Therapy Block Party

Join us this August for the unveiling of our long-awaited mural celebrating the Women's Empowerment Art Therapy Group. Meeting monthly for over 8 years, the Women's Empowerment Group is a program of Visual AIDS that supports women living with HIV through artmaking and community building.  Marking an exciting step for the Women's Empowerment, the group had the opportunity to create a collaborative mural at Groundswell Studios that celebrates both the group and women living with HIV. Over the course of seven months, 40+ women from the Women's Empowerment, along with a handful of youth participants from Voice Her'd, and support staff from Groundswell helped create a 20ft mural focused on empowerment, resilience, and self-affirmation. The mural will be installed at a pharmacy located at 1147 Fulton Ave with the mural on the wall just around the corner (on Franklin Ave).

To honor this special moment, we'll be holding a block party immediately around the corner on Hancock St (at the intersection of Hancock St and Franklin Ave). Come for food, dancing, and celebration as we hear from some of the women who participated in the mural's creation. There will also be a surprise double-dutch performance and workshop taking us back to our Brooklyn roots.

The Women's Empowerment Mural was funded by:

MoCADA

WIN Micro-Grant made possible by ViiV's Positive Action AMP Grant

Brooklyn Borough President Anthony Reynoso

Council Member Crystal Hudson