Hope Beneath the Wings Mural Project

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06/22/2026

Artwork by Resident Artist Aysha Pennerman Transforms the Corner of Spring and Ponce

About the Project:

Hope Beneath the Wings frames hope as a collective act, grounded in participation, reflection, and the enduring impulse to imagine a better world together. Designed and led by Aysha Pennerman ('25-26 Artist-in-Residence), the project was created in collaboration with congregants of All Saints’ Episcopal Church and the wider Midtown community. It began with a simple question: “What gives you hope?” Shared themes are woven into the painted text.

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Community members also helped paint the walls and metal doves that span the garage openings. Together, these elements speak to interconnectedness and the possibility of unity amid uncertainty. The tactile presence of the doves draws viewers closer—to feel the work of many hands—and to consider their own role in cultivating and carrying hope forward.

Learn more about the project, and hear from Aysha and the Rev. Simon Mainwaring, in this feature story on our News Center.

Watch:

See the community painting day, documented by ReImagine ATL: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ItLOCizLM8rSNnmewkTCGtyHA3J_M55c

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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, grounded in participation, reflection, and the enduring impulse to imagine a better world together.

Project Partners:

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 Spruill Center for the Arts.

Assistant Artists:
Lori Smith
Patricia Hernandez
Dominique Stanford

Fabricator:
Brandon Harder

Art Advisor:
Neda Abghari, ASHA Advisory

Photography:
DeSitaa Lipscomb