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 worked with Groundswell's Lead Teaching Artist Yolande Delius and 11 youth artists from Groundswell's Voices Her'd program to create a 200 sq ft mural focused on empowerment, resilience, and self-affirmation. The mural will be installed at a pharmacy located at 1147 Fulton St 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 from Elite Brooklyn Jumpers, 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

Special thanks to Ms. Dale Charles of the Bed-Stuy Gateway BID for identifying a location for the mural.