Power of Vision Mural Project

The Power of Vision Community Mural Project (POV) is a project-based community mural program of Hope Community established in 2004. We use mural creation as an avenue for building artistic skill, leadership, and relationships in community. POV serves as a training ground for emerging artists, centering indigenous artists and/or artists of color, to gain experience and be mentored in working with other community members to produce high quality public art. We believe process matters as much as the final mural. This process includes community engagement and listening, identifying foremost themes and ideas, collective design, community feedback, and community participation in mural creation.

POV is part of Hope Community’s art and creative strategy department, Art of Radical Collaboration (ARC). ARC is about growing creative networks, skills, and our collective creative capacity to impact positive change. Foundational elements to our work is art and creative strategy, organizing and community building, place-keeping and listening. ARC is home also to the Transformational Creative Strategies Training (TRCSTR).

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Explore the 30+ murals created by POV since 2004.

• 20th Anniversary Booklet – a PDF of the booklet highlighting program photos, process, and history.
• Documentary on the 2020-2021 Vivienda Digna/Dignified Living mural.
• Mural on the Ave (and more info and content at the project’s blog:  Mural on the Ave Project.)
• The making of the 2019 Winnie Jourdain Mural.
• Video short about the St. Stephen’s 2016 Sign of the Times Mural.
• 2013 Youth Mural
• Chaka: A Mural Tells a Story

She Who Welcomes You and Brings You Hope, 2023.

A mural honoring Ms. Bunny Ruiz who enriched Hope Community as a leader for nearly thirty years.  POV, along with Ms. Bunny‘s family, hosted 2 story circles, and designed the mural inspired by Ms. Bunny‘s impact on her community. Mural located in the Commons at Hope Community.

We Deserve to Breathe with Panel Mural Series, 2022.

Environmental Justice themed murals made in partnership with COPAL and PYC School. Located at PYC School, Little Earth, and Hope Community.

Dignified Housing / Vivienda Digna, 2021.

Mural in collaboration with Inquilinx Unidx, Colectivo Cielos Sin Limites, and Mia focused on housing justice. The main mural is located at 14th Ave and Lake St and the panel murals are installed on the Cielos Sin Limites buildings in the Cochoran Neighborhood (S 22nd Ave and E 31st St).