This collaborative three-part project was hosted by the Mulvane Art Musem of Washburn University as part of their annual WUmester program. The theme of the 2024 program was community. I, alongside a local poet named Annette Billings, was invited to lead a project that combines art, poetry and community engagement in a dynamic way. In part one of the project, Billings facilitated a poetry workshop where participants were prompted to create poems about their definition of community.

For part two, I facilitated a painting workshop where participants took one poem created during the poetry workshop and created a painting based on their interpretation of that poem. Part three consists of me taking the poems and the paintings to create a mixed media work of art. The final piece consists of the participants artwork serving as garments for figures that are looking up into the sky admiring a flock of birds and poetry lines the participants poems. The creation was revealed during an open mic style reception on May 2, 2024, as a culmination of the project.