With each project in her ever-winding career, Milwaukee mural artist Tia Richardson learns something new about herself.
She believes the everyday people involved in her works grow, too from articulating what they want a mural to symbolize to helping paint it. It s therapeutic; it s relaxing. It brings people together; there’s sense of unity, Richardson said. Those are all the things that I want for our community. And that s what happens when we do that work.
Richardson saw the power of community art in her years helping students paint murals in schools. Now a full-time community artist, she often involves people of all ages in projects across the region.