Garden of Mutuality: A Collaborative Mosaic Project

2022 Community Micro-grant winner
Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Asheville Poverty Alliance, Jennifer Murphy

Garden of Mutuality is a collaborative mosaic project that will create a mural and paving stones for the 12 Baskets Cafe Garden, catering to community members regardless of financial means. The cafe and adjacent garden is an alternative social space that serves hot free meals and pantry items rescued from local restaurants. The space builds relationships among neighbors, housed and unhoused, by deconstructing stereotypes. The Garden of Mutuality project will provide supplies, instruction, and space for community members to drop into the cafe garden during lunch hours to create mosaic paving stones and a mural.