'Sharing our love of community together'; 'Unifying as a community to create a sense of pride in our vibrant lives'; giving, caring, security - these were keynotes picked up on from a community listening session for an art installation completed over the summer with a team of 8 interns. The project was a summer residency with ArtWorks for Milwaukee, Inc., an arts-based organization that hires high school students as interns to learn job readiness skills by working with a lead artist. For this project, youth helped design and paint a mural, boulders for seating, and a story-pole garden with written statements painted by people living in the Burnham Park neighborhood. This park is a popular mixed-use park that attracts family and kids for recreation - mainly soccer and baseball, and is regularly booked for birthday parties, meetings and other gatherings in its recreational building. During the first week of programming I watched as my extremely shy interns came ...