Please join us for music and refreshments (churros, pan dulce, & ponche) as we celebrate the installation of La Familia de Arte’s newest community artwork: an installation of 12 colorfully tiled and themed concrete posts on S. Cesar Chavez Drive in collaboration with Clarke Square Neighborhood Initiative and the City of Milwaukee.

These approximately 3ft. tall pillars (or bollards), will showcase beautifully patterned tiles created by our La Familia community artists, adding to the beauty of this colorful neighborhood of Milwaukee. Each installed pillar features the combined voices of 1,800 residents of the city. The pillars on the east side of Cesar Chavez Drive honor “Everyday Heroes of the Pandemic”, with inscriptions by 900 youth and adults of their every day heroes. On the pillars on the west side, neighbors inscribed the names of their loved ones, “The Fallecidos”, who died during the Pandemic.

Special thanks to Clark Square Neighborhood Initiative, Greater Milwaukee Foundation, and Cesar E. Chavez Drive Business Improvement District.