Hope Beneath the Wings Mural Project
Project Categories: All Projects Public Art Placemaking
12/04/2025
A New Community Art Project is Coming to Midtown Atlanta.
And You Can Get Involved.
About the Project:
Hope Beneath the Wings is a new mural by artist Aysha Pennerman ('25-26 Artist-in-Residence) 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.
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.
Two Ways You Can Get Involved:
1. Tell Us: What Gives You Hope?
You're invited to help create the message for this mural. Click the button below to submit your message. Responses will be incorporated into text on the artwork.
2. Watch for Details on Community Painting
A community painting day and dove painting workshops will be announced soon. Stay tuned!
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.
