First Project Complete!

Since the Urban Ministry Center launched the Art Works 945 program several years ago, gardening has been an intergral activity to the programs’s community building success. Likewise the garden has been the central site for community meetings, celebrations, and art making. Now that Art Works 945 has blossomed into Community Works 945, gardening has now become a program of its own under the Community Works umbrella. In the picture above, new garden director and long time garden contributor, Don Boekelheide can be seen in his trademark straw hat directing Rob Cann and Tammy Hempill as they pour concrete peers for our beautiful garden arbor. The arbor was originally built by eaglescout Andy Anderson. Folks at the center took it down, stored it, repainted it, and reassembled it for the new space after construction of the new soup kitchen. Fittingly, in the other picture, standing next to Antonio Romero, Annie Gurly, one of the true lynchpins of Art Works since its inception, hands up the first bolt to hold together the reconstructed arbor.