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Exhibition Opening Reception
Fairmount Park Welcome Center in LOVE Park
1599 John F. Kennedy Blvd.
Join the Mural Arts Program and Philadelphia Parks & Recreation for the opening of A2O: Arts & Artists Outdoors, an exhibition celebrating the unique work of six artists-in-residence working in collaboration with Recreation Centers across the city. Over this past year, the A2O initiative brought together artists, students, communities, and Recreation Centers to create site specific work that highlights nearby green space.
Funded by:
Philadelphia Parks & Recreation
City of Philadelphia Department of Human Services
For more information:
Jocelyn Nelson / Art Education
Residency Program Manager
215-685-0726
jocelyn.nelson@muralarts.org
Our City, Our Vets Community Barbeque
Saturday, June 2, 2012
6:30 – 8:30 pm
4129 Woodland Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19104
The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and Warrior Writers invite you to a community barbeque featuring grilling, art, and storytelling. The BBQ will take place at the Our City, Our Vets mural site, where we will project the mural design and other art work created by veterans. Enjoy storytelling, poetry, and opportunities to get your hands dirty in art-making. The BBQ is family-friendly. Feel free to bring a dish to share!
FUNDED BY: Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services, Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development
Vie
600 North Broad Street, Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates is thrilled to announce the eighth annual WALL BALL fundraiser in support of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program! Featuring live entertainment, mural-making, silent and live auctions and more, WALL BALL raises critical support for Mural Arts. Join us as we honor hometown heroes, The Roots, and present the Mayor’s Award to Steve and Christina Graham, and Senator Vincent Hughes and Actress/Activist Sheryl Lee Ralph.
5:30 - 6:30pm
Pre- Event VIP Reception
Hosted by
Jose Garces
featuring Chef Gregg Ciprioni, Garces Trading Company
and Marc Vetri
featuring Chef Damon Menapace, Alla Spina
6:30 - 9:30pm
WALL BALL
Featuring cocktails and dinner stations, live entertainment, silent and live auctions, art-making, and more!
WALL BALL 2012 HONOREE
The Roots
MAYOR'S AWARD RECIPIENTS
Steve & Christina Graham
State Senator Vincent Hughes & Actress/Activist Sheryl Lee Ralph
PRESENTING SPONSOR
Citizens Bank
Official Airline of Mural Arts
US Airways
Event Partner
Cescaphe Event Group
Public Relations & Special Events Sponsor
Cashman & Associates
The Roots Mural Project: Fourth Friday at 327 with Charles Barbin
Friday, May 25
6 - 8 p.m.
327 South Street
Join visual artist Charles Barbin, one of the muralists on The Roots Mural Project, for a curated exhibition of his work at our new Arts on South space in the South Street Headhouse District. Barbin creates large and small abstract multi-media paintings that take form during a process of adding and subtracting. Line, shape, color, pattern and texture often revealing the path not taken. Barbin has been a teaching artist and muralist for the Mural Arts Program for many years and has exhibited his work in Italy and Philadelphia.
DJ Fenicx gives us music, and we'll have food, drink, and an artist meet-and-greet at this FREE event.
RSVP: events@muralarts.org | 215-685-0753
FUNDED BY: CITY OF PHILADELPHIA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, THE JOHN S. AND JAMES L. KNIGHT FOUNDATION FUND OF THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION, NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
Connelly Auditorium
University of the Arts
Terra Hall, 211 South Broad Street (at Walnut)
Our next Thought Experiment artist conversation when we host Laura Kurgan, whose work occupies the intersection of data visualization and social practice, two topics that are part of Mural Arts’ larger inquiry into the nature of 21st Century muralism.
Kurgan’s recent projects explore digital mapping technologies, the ethics and politics of mapping, new structures of participation in design, and the visualization of urban and global data. Her recent research includes a multi-year project on "million-dollar blocks" and the urban costs of the American incarceration experiment, and a collaborative exhibition on global migration and climate change.
Kurgan is Director of Visual Studies, Director of the Spatial Information Design Lab, and associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
This event is hosted by the College of Media and Communication, University of the Arts, and co-sponsored by Breadboard.
SPONSORED BY: THE FORD FOUNDATION
