For one month 35 students, participating in programs at both the Bethlehem Center and AIM Center, worked with professional artists from the Mark Making Studio to create a mural composed of butterflies. This 97-foot wide mural has been installed on the exterior of the Bethlehem Center and it will be officially unveiled during a press conference open to the public on Saturday at noon.
The mural was the most recent in a series entitled Painted Gardens. The goal of the series created by Mark Makings is to offer participants who are not usually exposed to public art the opportunity to take ownership of and beautify their neighborhoods by animating areas with flowers, trees, butterflies and other insects.
Past projects include Awakenings at the Hart Gallery on Main Street, Painted Gardens on Glass Street at Mark Making's headquarters, and Pollinators at Hope for the Inner City on Roanoke Avenue.
The students that painted the mural, local dignitaries, and officials from the Bethlehem Center and Mark Making will be at the unveiling.