Board of Directors

The Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation organized to raise funds and provide other support to Philadelphia's nationally-recognized Mural Arts Program. Founded in 1996, the Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates is governed by a volunteer board of directors.

The Board of Directors share our mission of transforming Philadelphia's communities through the creation of public art of enduring value as well as providing quality art education programming to the city's residents.

Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Board of Directors

Kimberly Allen
VP/Senior Program Officer
Wells Fargo Regional Foundation/CDC

Richard Binswanger
Managing Principal, Not for profit Services
The Clearview Group

Dr. Peter Gross, Chair
Department of Family Medicine
Pennsylvania Hospital 

Roger LaMay
General Manager
WXPN

Milton (Tony) Schneider
The Glenville Group
Principal

Clarena Tolson,  Ex-Officio
Streets Commissioner
City of Philadelphia

Steve Dubow
Partner, Blank Rome

Bruce Marks
Shareholder
Shechtman Marks Devor PC

Jamie Bischoff, Secretary
Partner
Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll

Linda DeJure, Vice Chair
Interim CEO
Independence Mission Schools

Erik Hirsch
Chief Investment Officer
Hamilton Lane

Margelle Liss
Philanthropist

David Pudlin
President and CEO
Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller

Frank Reed
Former CEO
Corestates Philadelphia National Bank

Howard Wilson
Executive VP, Director of Client Services
The Glenmede Trust Company

Dan Astolfi
Senior Vice President, Relationship Manager
Citizen's Bank 

The Honorable Darrell Clarke,  Ex-Officio
Councilman
City of Philadelphia

Joseph Goldblum, Chair
President
G-II Equity Investors, Inc.

The Honorable James Kenney,  Ex-Officio
Councilman
City of Philadelphia

Lynn K. Manko
RPA (Real Property Administrator)

Ed Tettemer
Writer and Creative Director

James Colligas
President & CEO
Colligas Family Markets DBA ShopRite

George “Zeke” James IV
Senior Relationship Manager
Vanguard Education Savings Group

Hilda Bacon
Director, Events and Strategic Initiatives
Institutional Strategy and Planning
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Marc Brownstein
President and CEO
Brownstein Group

Dr. Arthur Evans,  Ex-Officio
Commissioner, Department of Behavioral Health
City of Philadelphia

Susanna E. Lachs
Attorney

Brett Mapp
Director of Operations
Old City District

Gary Steuer, Ex-Officio
Chief Cultural Officer
Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy
City of Philadelphia

Wayne Trotman
President, Mid-Atlantic Market
JP Morgan Chase 

 

"Every day, people come by in tour buses. They get out and take pictures. Now we’re on the map for something other than crime and violence."

Norman “Butch” Ellis, Mantua 39th and Aspen Street Community Organization

"I toured parts of North Philadelphia I had never seen before and I learned from our tour guide about the community’s involvement with the murals."

Jim Ruddick

"Each mural is an odyssey. The design is a map. With every mural I learn a lot about the people and the place I am painting for, and about myself."

David Guinn