By Hope Moses - Jun 14th, 2021 03:40 pm //end headline wrapper ?>The Sherman Phoenix
The Sherman Phoenix, located in the Sherman Park neighborhood, is officially reopening June 15 after COVID-19 forced its doors closed for more than a year.
The Sherman Phoenix, 3536 W. Fond du Lac Ave., is an entrepreneurial hub for small Black-owned businesses with the goal of advancing entrepreneurship in communities of color. Following violent unrest in the Sherman Park neighborhood after a fatal police shooting rocked the community, the Sherman Phoenix was created from the fire-burned BMO Harris Bank building.
Years later, the Sherman Phoenix finds itself – once again – rising from the ashes.
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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.