Can Art Ignite Change?
As part of the Athens, Ga., public art master plan process, I recently gave a lecture on the work of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, and its mission of “Art Ignites Change.” You can read a blog post of the … Continued
“Open Source”: Hiding in Plain Sight
The Mural Arts Program’s Open Source exhibition took a second step forward yesterday when French artist JR began posting a portrait of a immigrant on the side wall of a Center City office building. As WHYY’s Peter Crimmins put it: JR, who … Continued
Five Client Projects Honored by Public Art Network
Five of our clients over the past decade followed our advice, and look what happened. We are pleased to report that five public art projects inspired by plans and research that we undertook for our clients were honored by this year’s Public … Continued
Announcing: Neighborhood Time Exchange
For the past eighteen months I have been helping the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program plan and launch a new social practice residency, the Neighborhood Time Exchange. The project grew out of a muraLAB event in 2012, at which I invited … Continued
Magic on the Manayunk Canal
Thoughtbarn installed its project, Escaped Infrastructure, last week. I managed the project through the artist selection phase for the Mural Arts Program and the local sponsor, the Manayunk Development Corporation. UPDATES: Read a review of the project on the Philebrity … Continued
Philly Painting Coming to Completion
Nearly two years after Jeroen Koolhass and Dre Urhahn first visited Philadelphia, their vision for the transformation of Germantown Avenue is nearly complete. Follow the press reports below. WHYY “Establishing a There on Germantown Avenue with Big Bold Colors”
How Philly Moves Wins National Recognition from Public Art Network, Year in Review
How Philly Moves, the Philadelphia Mural Arts’ Program’s bravura gateway project on the facade of the Philadelphia International Airport garage, has won national recognition as a project listed in the Public Art Network’s Year in Review. The Year in Review … Continued
In the News: Philly Painting and McKinney Public Art Plan
Two of my projects have made the news – Philly Painting, a Mural Arts project that I helped with in the early stages, and the McKinney Public Art Master Plan, a project that I am assisting Via Partnership with. Philly … Continued
“How Philly Moves” Unveiled
Monica Yant Kinney reports on the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program’s “bravura plan to spiff up the airport.” As a consultant to MAP, we developed the concept for the giant mural project and organized the process that selected photographer J.J. Tiziou … Continued