Our annual fundraiser, featuring live entertainment, silent & live auctions, & special guest Julius "Dr. J" Erving!
learn moreJoin us for the 2nd Annual Porch Light Program's Painting a Healthy City Series!
learn moreThe City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program is the largest public art program in the United States. Look here for a brief overview of our programs and initiatives. Explore our history, search for job openings and more.
66% of ex-offenders return to prison within three years of their release. Through 2011, only 10% of re-entry workers employed by Mural Arts re-offended within a year of their release.
Restorative Justice Youth
MuralArts provides more than 1500 underserved youth with a positive learning experience every year.
Each year Mural Arts employs more than 250 artists, as muralists, assistant artists and instructors, contributing $2.2 million to Philadelphia's creative economy.
To push our creative boundaries we are developing an experimental creativity hub at Mural Arts called muraLAB.
Mural Arts Projects are one of the top five investments the city can make on commercial corridors, reducing blight, increasing retail sales, and raising property values (Econsult Corporation 2009).
Painting a Healthy City
by Josh Spielman
Despite the foreboding weather, last Saturday, May 11, marked a successful kickoff to our 2nd Annual Painting a Healthy City event, a collaboration between the Mural Arts Program and the City of Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS). Painting a Healthy City celebrates the intersection of public art, public health, and agriculture.
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