The César E. Chávez Drive Business Improvement District 38, TRUE Skool and local artists Jazmin Roman, Nyia Luna and Mahala Sy have unveiled a 13-by-25 foot community mural in Clarke Square. Across the center of the mural is the phrase, “De Aquí, De Allá,” which means “From here, From there.”

Mahala Sy, muralist, scraps paint off an exterior wall at La Michoacana Plus 16th on Sept. 9.
Jazmin Roman, muralist, preps an exterior wall of to La Michoacana Plus 16th on Sept. 9.

The painting was completed as part of Viva Nuestra Herencia, a celebration of Hispanic heritage.

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Themes reflected in the mural include community, freedom, multicultural representation, resistance, migration, the 16th Street Bridge, as well as dance and lowrider culture, Luna said. 

A man watches muralists as they prep a wall on an exterior wall of La Michoacana Plus 16th.

“I think people are going to honor it because they respect the artists and the messaging behind it,” Luna said. 

Nyia Luna, artist, works on a mural on the exterior wall of the La Michoacana Plus 16th.


Jonathan Aguilar is a visual journalist at Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service who is supported through a partnership between CatchLight Local and Report for America.

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Jonathan Aguilar is a photojournalist as well as a Report for America corps member and Catchlight Local fellow. Before coming to Milwaukee, he spent two years as a photographer at one of America’s oldest daily newspapers, The Blade, in Toledo, Ohio. Aguilar grew up in the Chicago suburbs. He earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from DePaul University and his master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism.