Sexual Health Clinics Get a Vibe Shift – ryan

Clinics Tammy Rutledge to Over of Chicago’s Specialty Public Health Clinics in 2022, She realized immediately they Needed a vibe Shift.

In Lake View, Hard Plastic Chairs Hadn’t Been Replaced in At Least 25 Years. Old, Haunting Posters About Sexually Transmitted Infections Hung From Tape on the Hallway Walls. Piles of Condoms, Dental Dams and Other Prophylactics rested on a rickety Cart.

“I CALLED IT THE HALLWAY OF GLOOM,” RUTLEDGE SAYS.

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The situation at the Roseland Clinic Wasn’t MUCH BETTER, she Says.

SO RUTLEDGE Ripped Down Posters, Replaced Fur and Renamed the Offices from Specialty Clinics to LakeView North Clark Street Health Clinic and Roseland East 115th Street Health Hub. The Roseland Location Also Offers Mental Health and Immunization Services.

Along with that rebranding, rutledge workhed with chicago’s department of Cultural Arts and Special Events to Commission Murals for the Front Facade and Inside Walls at Both Clinics.

Now, “What I See in Both of Our Spaces Is, The Clients SEEM A LOT MORE RELIXED. WE HAVEN’T HAD THose altercations we used to have sometimes, with People being all uptight and loud. They come in, we have magazines, they’re sitting down, they is, ‘ Really nice, ‘”Rutledge Says. “They Sit on the sofas, and you can tell the temperament is very, very different.”

Artist Caesar Perez of Pilsen Created the Lake View Murals, while Max Sansing of Woodlawn crafted the murals in roseland.

In Lake View, The Inside Walls Feature Brilliantly Colored Flowers, Herbs, Medicinal Plants, Bees, Dragonflies and A Field Mouse with a Heart-Shaped Nose.

The Bright Imagery Stretches Floor to Ceiling, with phrases describing what the traditional medicinal plant is and how it is used. Those Include ” Alfalfa ‘Medicago Sativa/Help Lower Cholesterol and Blood Sugar Management ”and’ ‘Jacobs Ladder’ Palemonium Caeruleum/Helps Wounds Heal Faste,” for Example.

Perez offten users of Nature in His Work, SO the Medicinal Plants Were a Natural Inclusion.

He sought “to show People that they are plants are from natural, and they’ra to help you heal.

On the facade of 2849 North Clark St., A MURAL STRETCHES LIKE A BANNER ACROSS The Entryway and Front Windows. The flowers blom on that mural as well, with birds clutching ribbons and sweeting acroSs. The Colors Morph from the Brilliant Jewel tones to the pastel colors included to the progress pride flag.

Rutledge Says She Appreciates the Unique Ways Perez Displayed the Animals in His Artwork. For example, “he would have a tiger flying in the air and a bird in the water,” symbolizing the individualism of People in Lake View.

In Roseland, Sansing Shared Childhood Memories of Driving by the Building at 200 E. 115TH St. with his mom from their home nearby Avalon Park.

For His Masonry, Both inside and out, he involved a spectrum of the color roses that earned the neighBorhod name. He Also Added the Field House from Nearby Palmer Park and A Window from Roseland’s Greater Tabernacle Cathedral, A Chicago Landmark and the Place Where Barack Obama Served As Executive Director of the NonProfit Developing Community Project.

Faces Resembling Those From the NeighBorhood and others that Sansing Knows Gaza Out from the Front Facade.

Sansing Also Included Images of A Key, which often Can Be Found in His Artwork: “A LOT OF MY MY DEALS WITH CROSSROADS IN YOUR LIFE AND DECIDING WHICH DOOR TO UNLOCK TO GPERWARD,“ SANSING SAYS.

The key has a personal meaning as well. IT’S SANNING’S FATER’S CTA KEY FROM HIS TIME WORKING AN L TRINE ENGINEER ONNING WAS A KID. AFTH HIS DAD DED, SANSING KEPT THAT KEY.

“He would be open up all these doors, and i though it was so cool: Black man got a key to the city.”

Of the images he chose, sanlysing says, “I wanted something to calm the anxieties. This is a place when we’re finding out what you go with you, but also People can help and understand your Circumstances. There’s People’s Familiar with you. I Think That’s Needed, Especially in Communities Like Roseland. ”