Project Overview 

This public art commission, The Three Graces, features three large-scale murals (11 x 11 ft.), painted with latex paint at the 14th Street Plaza at the border of Texas in Brownsville. This work was a collaboration with designer/artist Monica Lugo and artist/illustrator Samantha Rawls supported by a grant received from AARP Texas Community Challenge in partnership with the City of Brownsville.

The mural, The Three Graces, sheds a light on the relationship between sisters, the relationship between cities, and the relationship between countries. This work is based on our guiding quest to find unity and live together peacefully. These sentimental scenes between sisters illustrates our view that sisterhood is the key to empowerment, social change, and freedom. This connection to each other allows us to recognize how our actions effect those closest to us. In referencing the painting, Primavera by Sandro Botticelli, we borrow from one of the most renowned images of sisters and reconfigure the forms and figures so that they become more emblematic of today’s times. The flora and fauna represent the beauty found in Brownsville, Texas and act as a frame for the figures.  Merging the figures with anonymous abstracted faces so that there is a focus on the eyes, we engage with the concept of looking, of watching. This work recognizes the way in which sisters keep watch of the world.