Public Art • Placemaking • City Design
How can the arts and culture community make sure it’s on the policy radar of candidates campaigning to be Philadelphia’s next mayor? The answer, from arts leaders at a forum at Moore College, is simple: Don’t ask the mayor how … Continued
Over the summer and fall, commuters along Philadelphia’s Vine Street Expressway have been treated to the spectacle of a ten-story tall mural rising on the side of the Crane Building, the mixed-used building that includes much-needed affordable housing and community … Continued
Future Valley, an artist-designed plaza with sculptures and murals in Brewerytown, is being dedicated Monday, October 21. The artwork is inspired by the interplay of architecture and landscape in nearby Fairmount Park, particularly the ruins of a nearby waterworks. The … Continued
In Philly Friday night? Join us for a muraLAB discussion about the role public art plays in our newest urban parks the with curators of the Rose Kennedy Greenway and the Atlanta Belt Line. How are curators working with artists … Continued
Mural Arts’ third major public art festival — Site/Sound: Revealing the Rail Park — opens this weekend at three sites in Center City Philadelphia. The festival presents collaborative projects between visual artists and sound artists, who were charged with creating … Continued
Mural Arts Philadelphia and Parkway Corporation are dedicating a mural, Expanding Perspective, by Brad Carney and Michael Conrad, Tuesday morning, May 21. The mural, on a five-story parking garage in Center City Philadelphia, presents viewers with an optical illusion: Colorful … Continued
Westrum Development is seeking an artist or artist team to create public artworks in a variety of media in a new public space that is part of The Hub at 31 Brewerytown project. The commission would include at least two … Continued
Artist Nate Harris has begun installing five new artworks at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, which has evolved from its days as a military base into an office and industrial area, including firms such as an active shipyard and the … Continued
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
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