This community mural was created with public high school students in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Over the course of sixty sessions, teaching artist Eric Miles worked with four classes of fifteen students each to research, design, and fabricate the mural. The 35-foot-long mural was painted in a traditional classroom setting on seventeen separate sections of “parachute cloth” using acrylic paint and water-based spray paint. In the initial phase of the project, students researched the history of public art including early cave paintings at Lascaux, the work of Mexican muralists, and 1970s NYC subway graffiti. Students analyzed the contemporary intersection of art and activism in protest posters, political illustrations and community murals.  In developing the mural’s theme, students were asked to envision a more just and equitable world. They highlighted the need for change, immigrant rights, LBGTQ rights, peace, fair housing and an end to systemic racism.