Asta's latest mural at Fulton Market Kitchen encourages women 'today and every day'

Artist Lauren Asta is adding to the public art in Chicago, and in her latest piece, extends her celebration of International Women’s Day “today and every day.”

Asta’s latest creation, a mural painted on an outdoor wall of Fulton Market Kitchen, was unveiled on March 9, along with 10 whiskey barrels hand-painted by five women muralists, to commemorate International Women’s Day.  The mural was created as part of a partnership between Jack Daniel’s “Gentleman Jack” whiskey and the advertising department of the Chicago Sun-Times. 

Asta’s message with this mural is for women to “flex your hustle today and every day,” Asta recently told the Sun-Times.

“‘Today and every day’ I have written in the mural,” said Asta. “It’s great that we have a day to recognize there’s still a lot of struggle with differences between men and women in the workforce specifically. It’s good to recognize how far we’ve come. But it should be something we recognize every day as well.”