Stacey Williams Ng painted a mural for Victory Garden's Milwaukee office after listening sessions with women in urban agriculture, including director Ann Brummett and former director Gretchen Mead. The design centers on Mother Nature and fertility imagery, reflecting how the garden shapes families and children.
And we have the opportunity to showcase.
One of your.
Fabulous.
Pieces of work, which basically spans the entire building.
Yeah.
So we are in the Harambe neighborhood. And you painted the Victory Garden office space. I feel like this mural was a turning point for me. Yeah.
When I was doing this mural, we started by having a listening session here at the building with this community and. And with a lot of women who are in urban ag in Milwaukee. So it wasn't just Gretchen Mead, who is the former executive director. She's now step down.
But it was.
Ann Brummett, who is the current executive director. It was other women here in Milwaukee. I won't go through the whole list, but women who are very deeply ingrained in urban agriculture here in Milwaukee. It was women who. It was very female. It was women who are involved in this neighborhood, who are activists in this neighborhood. And we asked them, what does Victory Garden mean to you? What do you want to see in a mural on this?
What does this building mean to you?
What do you remember about this corner?
I love it. So you really did engage the community leading up to it. Obviously, the community was engaged being part of it and watching it happen, but.
Mother Nature arose from that. It was all about femininity and growth.
Fertility, like.
Fertility was the main word that kind of kept coming. Everyone kept talking about how the garden impacts their children, how food and the table is like a centerpiece of this. Of this community. And so that's what this all was about.
Yeah, I love it.
