- Description
- Creative Waco ARTprenticeship Program, 2019 This artwork at Waco Family Health Center, 1911 N. M.L.K. Jr Blvd. was developed through Creative Waco’s ARTPrenticeship program. Aspiring young creatives from Waco ISD high schools earned real world concept-to-completion mentored work experience during the 8-week program. Under guidance from local artist mentors, the apprentices created a fresh and eye-catching work of art that reflects the spirit and beauty of our community. This artwork combines themes the apprentices drew from hearing community leaders talk about the strong neighborhoods surrounding the Family Health Center. They learned about the history of women who rose up to provide a network of healthcare as midwives, nurses, and healers, whose life mission became the wellness and flourishing of their neighbors. The fruit symbolizes all that we take in or experience that affects our health – individually and together. It has no color of its own. Only through interaction with the woman and the man at her side does it take on color, vibrancy and energy. “The Color of Health” was created by artist mentors Will Suarez (lead designer), Susan Sistrunk, Bethany Franzen, and Julie Milstead. The apprentices were Julius Merriwether, Magnolia Oliphant, Maria Quinones-Prado, Kaeleana Ramirez, Daphne Rodriguez, Danielle Stevens.
