2️⃣LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AWAY2️⃣ from our 10th Anniversary Party at The Silos on June 14 from 6-9pm. 💥Get your tickets at www.mosaicinstitute.us/birthday 💥 ▶️We've been counting down a decade's worth of community-collaborated, lasting public mosaic pieces from over the years. This week we look back on the 9 Doves, a piece for healing. 🙏🙏🙏We designed, prepped and lead the creation of this memorial mosaic as a therapeutic first response to tragedy. It was started with the Dayton community during Dave Chappelle’s ‘Gem City Shine’ event August 25th. Hundreds of people, before placing the tiles, wrote prayers and messages to honor the 9 lives that were taken on August 4th, 2019 during the Oregon District mass shooting. After the event the mosaic was set up to be finished in a more private setting and we welcomed many of the victim’s friends and families to honor their loved ones. The messages written in this mural are raw and filled with emotion from trauma. They are steps towards expression, understanding and healing. The tile for this piece was donated by Daltile. Our local Home Depot donated some materials and my team of Mosaic Artists donated the time to create the doves, the hands and the yellow beams of light. All were completed in just 11 days before the event. Special thanks to award winning poet Sierra Leone for blessing the materials before we started and providing a healing and sacred space during the event. Thank you to the Contemporary Dayton for entrusting us with this honor. And most of all, thank you Dayton.🙏🙏🙏 (fb)

🥳💥🌈⭐️🤩2 weeks away from The Mosaic Institute's 10th Anniversary Party at The Silos on June 14 from 6-9p!!! It's gonna be an epic celebration of a decade's long pursuit of creating connection through mosaic! We have LIVE MUSIC from the Kelli Campbell Trio, party favors, silent and live auctions, delcious food and drinks, cake, champagne and SO much more. Tickets at www.mosaicinstitute.us/birthday 🥳💥🌈⭐️🤩 (fb)