Wall Watch

Restorative Justice Symposium
Arts and Criminal Justice Symposium
Friday, April 27, 2012
Temple University Center City
1515 Market Street
9 a.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Optional Mural Tour 3:30 - 5 p.m.
Cost: $25 (scholarships available)

The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts, with support from the Ford Foundation, presents the Arts and Criminal Justice Symposium, a forum for organizations and practitioners to share program findings, learn from others in the field, seek partnerships, and reduce institutional obstructions between non-profits, academia, and the criminal justice field to foster a climate of collaboration and mutual learning. Noted restorative justice educator and photographer, Howard Zehr, will launch the day-long forum with Chief of Staff to Mayor Michael Nutter, Everett Gillison.

Other special guests include John E. Wetzel, Secretary of the Department of Corrections for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Roberta Uno, Senior Program Officer of the Ford Foundation.

Workshops include:

• Restorative Justice and Victims Perspectives

• Research and Program Evaluation

• Working Behind the Walls

• Funding and Grants

• Best Practices and Interventions

• Film Screening: Concrete Steel and Paint

For detailed information on the workshops, click here.
To register for the symposium, go here.

To learn more about the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program Restorative Justice Program, visit www.muralarts.org/learn/restorative-justice

For more information: Laure Biron | laure.biron@muralarts.org | 215-685-0751

FUNDED BY: Ford Foundation, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, The Barra Foundation, City of Philadelphia Department of Human Services, City of Philadelphia Department of Public Safety, City of Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, Connelly Foundation, U.S. Department of Justice: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Hummingbird Foundation, IBM, Lomax Family Foundation, Marathon Restaurants, Philadelphia Prison System, The Thomas Skelton Harrison Foundation

Family Interrupted Paint Day
Saturday, April 21, 2012
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Mural Arts at The Gallery
9th & Market Streets
Level 2
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Mural Arts’ latest multidisciplinary project, Family Interrupted, sparks a dialogue around the impact of incarceration on families and the community-at-large, through the mural-making process. Please join us to contribute to this project and learn more.

RSVP: events@muralarts.org | 215-685-0753

Art/Inside Out Exhibition Opening
Thursday, April 12, 2012
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Lincoln Financial Mural Arts Center
at the Thomas Eakins House
1727-29 Mount Vernon Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130

Join us for the opening reception of our annual Restorative Justice Exhibition, which features art work by inmates, ex-offenders, and adjudicated youth.  The speaking program includes special guests Mayor Michael A. Nutter and District Attorney Seth Williams.

RSVP: events@muralarts.org | 215-685-0753

FUNDED BY: The Ford Foundation, City of Philadelphia Department of Human Services, Connelly Foundation, U.S. Department of Justice, IBM, Lomax Family Foundation, Philadelphia Prison System, Thomas Skelton Harrison Foundation, the Hummingbird Foundation

Family Interrupted Community Paint Day
King Solomon Baptist Church
2314-2324 Germantown Avenue
Saturday, March 17, 2012
10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Join Mural Arts to paint portions of our latest multidisciplinary project, Family Interrupted.

We are using the mural-making process to spark dialogue around the impact of incarceration on families and the community-at-large. In partnership with the Pennsylvania Prison Society, Mural Arts will transform a wall on Dauphin Street (709 W. Dauphin St.) in North Philadelphia with a new work designed by muralist Eric Okdeh.

Visit familyinterruptedproject.com for more project information and upcoming events.

Funders: Ford Foundation, City of Philadelphia Department of Human Services, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Thomas Skelton Harrison Foundation

Questions: Kristin Hankins | kristin.hankins@muralarts.org | 215-685-0751

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Historic Landmark Building
118 N. Broad Street

The Mural Arts Program is honored to partner with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) to create a mural in memory of distinguished alumnus Henry Ossawa Tanner.  The mural is themed and timed to coince with PAFA's nationally touring exhibition Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit.

Join Mural Arts Executive Director Jane Golden and muralist Keir Johnston for the mural celebration, then stay with us to enjoy the Family Workshop, provided by the PAFA Family Arts Academy.  The workshop will include a mural painting activity faciliated by the Mural Arts Program.  In addition, admission to the exhibition, Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit, will be free to guests who attend the dedication / participate in the workshop.

Mural Dedication:  1-2pm
Family Workshop: 2-3:30pm

* In case of severe bad weather, updated event information will be available at 215-972-7600.

For more information about the mural dedication, please contact the Public Engagement office at Mural Arts at 215-685-0759 or events@muralarts.org.

For more information about the Family Workshop, contact Kelly Perfit, the Family Programs Coordinator at PAFA, at 215-972-2022 or kperfit@pafa.org.

About the mural

Designed and painted by Keir Johnston, this mural was funded by the US Department of Justice and the City of Philadelphia Department of Human Services.  The project engaged youth and young adults involved with the criminal justice system.  Participants attended classes about Henry Ossawa Tanner (a native Philadelphian who became America's first internationally renowned African-American artist) and provided input that informed the artistic content and design for the mural.

About the exhibition

The subject of this exhibition is the career and life of the artist Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937) - including the pioneering African-American artist’s upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War; the artist’s success as an American expatriate artist at the highest levels of the international art world at the turn of the 20th century; Tanner’s role as a leader of an artist’s colony in rural France and his unique contributions in aid of American servicemen to the Red Cross efforts in WWI France; his modernist invigoration of religious painting deeply rooted in his own faith; Tanner’s depictions of the Holy Land and North Africa interpreted through comparison with contemporary French orientalist painting and photography; and the scientific and technical innovations of the artist’s oeuvre.  

Henry O. Tanner was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1879 to 1885. PAFA is proud to organize this exhibition, and especially to elevate Tanner’s reputation through new scholarship and to bring his greatest works together for the first time in a generation.

For more information about the exhibition, please visit PAFA's website.