Hope Beneath the Wings Mural Project
Artwork by Aysha Pennerman (Artist in Residence '25-26)
in collaboration with Midtown Heart of the Arts and All Saints' Episcopal Church.
Hope Beneath the Wings is a new mural by artist Aysha Pennerman coming to the corner of Spring Street and Ponce de Leon Avenue in Spring 2026. The artwork highlights hope as a collective act grounded in reflection, participation and the enduring drive to imagine a better world together. The artwork itself will be realized through collaboration with the community – at All Saints’, in Midtown, and beyond!
Tell us: What gives you hope?
Responses will be incorporated into text on the artwork.Artist Concept
This mural is a collective meditation on hope, realized through collaboration with the community. The work intertwines three-dimensional and illustrated doves, olive branches, and layered fields of color and motion to pose a quietly resonant question: “What gives you hope?” Each hand-painted dove bears an individual reflection, transforming private expressions into a shared visual chorus. In their accumulation, they create a rhythm of gesture and light that speaks to interconnection, an embodied reminder of our capacity to find unity amid uncertainty. Through its interplay of texture, transparency, and community authorship, the mural transforms a public wall into a contemplative surface, part archive, part offering. The tactile presence of the doves invites viewers to move closer, to sense the labor and intention of many hands, and to consider their own role in sustaining hope. Ultimately, Hope Beneath the Wings reframes hope as a collective act, one grounded in participation, reflection, and the enduring impulse to imagine a better world together.
Join us:
Be on the lookout for more ways to participate in the mural installation! A community paint day and dove painting workshops will be announced soon.
This project is made possible by partnership between Midtown Alliance’s Heart of the Arts Program and All Saints’ Episcopal Church , with additional support from the Larch Creative Fund.
Aysha Pennerman is an Artist in Residence through the Midtown Heart of the Arts Studio Residency Program. Her studio was gifted to her for eighteen months by partnership between All Saints’ Episcopal Church and Midtown Alliance.
By creating space and opportunities for artists to work in Midtown, the Heart of the Arts Residency Program generates a growing volume of artwork for Midtown’s public spaces – like this mural! – and enables district-wide conversations about our community’s shared vision for Midtown.
Learn more about Midtown Heart of the Arts.