In the summer of 1999, Project Millennium engaged the Chicago Public Art Group (CPAG) to create a mural that would permanently record people’s hopes and dreams for the new millennium. Artist Juan Chavez and I co-led this project. At workshops, which we and our assistants conducted on eight weekends at the Field Museum, we taught and helped more than 4000 men, women and children to carve their ideas in clay tiles. These tiles were combined with commercial and specialty tiles to produce a nature-themed mural. It was fabricated in space donated by the Art Institute of Chicago and in a rented warehouse. It was intended for a site in Millennium Park, where design changes prevented its installation. Then Chicago Department of Transportation commissioned CPAG to remake the mural to cover the two-story atrium walls in its current site.