Afternoon Stroll by Mikel Elam, in conversation with The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure

Mikel Elam’s mural Transition was part of The Philadelphia Museum of Art and Mural Arts collaboration to create a public art series featuring work by alumni of Mural Arts’ Fellowship for Black Artists. Alumni were prompted to explore the central themes (double consciousness, our aliveness, persistence of history) of the museum’s acclaimed exhibition, “The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure” on view November 9, 2024–February 9, 2025.

Mikel Elam was born in Philadelphia. He attended the University of the Arts receiving his BFA in painting. He also attended the School of the Visual Arts in New York. He has been showing his paintings in numerous gallery spaces nationally and internationally for the last 25 years.

Location Note: Mural no longer on view at this location (temporary project).