My daughter and I had great time creating the front porch at Old Mill Tasty Shop.! The design was inspired by Old Mill's 90th anniversary. While the porch stays there for one year, we hope you can visit Old Mill to have their delicious foods and congratulate them! Not just for eating at Old Mill, everybody is welcome to the porch for just sitting and talk!
We call it, "Celebration of Dream," because we believe a long-running business might have been the owners' dream come true. Old Mill is a family friendly place, so we kept it in our mind to create a design that invites children as well and hoped it will be inspiring to them to have dreams. The design also represents the city of Wichita as a good "home" where we see good businesses and the people of the community who support them.
We're very thankful to the people who helped us - especially Farha Construction, Nam Le, Bob, Tina, Croix, and James. Thank you to NMW Crafts in Michigan as well for their excellently-crafted miniature Dutch Mill paddles. We are so grateful for the opportunity that Downtown Wichita gave us with the funding from National Endowment for the Arts and the Knight Foundation Fund at the Wichita Community Foundation. Thank you to Emily Brookover and Megan Radley at Downtown Wichita for their marvelous leadership and support.
It was also great to get to know the other Front Porch Project creative people for the other five locations, Belinda, Kevin, Drew, Elizabeth, and Engy. Their porches show each person's amazing talent from their rich experiences in their own specialties. I am going to miss our weekly zoom meetings. Hope we can keep in touch!
About the Front Porch Project, please see the Down Town Wichita's link. If you're interested in the process of making, please go back to my previous posts in this blog, or check out the reels in my Instagram.
