Artist Statement: Our Team Viento piano started as a community piano secured for Viento y Agua Coffeehouse a few years back as part of ongoing music events and monthly Saturday family music coffeehouse events. The piano began from concept to design in pandemic, in the fall of 2020. Spacing the planning between intermittent periods of lockdown, families arrived with their masks to paint marigolds and over 20 students helped paint the marigolds. The design started as an idea to highlight the Mexican art and feel of the cafe space. The title came from a song from the Disney movie Coco, themed around Día de los Muertos, and the lyrics and music by composer Germaine Franco embody the spirit of the piano, that through sharing music we connect the stories and songs of the past, present and future, and become one united in the ideal of “art for all.”