Hamilton Street Mural

Hamilton Street Mural was created by artist Charles Burwell in the Callowhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He worked with Art Education students from Northeast High School and Kensington High School for the Creative and Performing Arts on his first collaboration with Mural Arts Philadelphia. As Burwell’s first-ever mural—the work is true to the artist’s reputation for crafting intricate, vibrant, meticulously-painted patterns and shapes. Green, blue, and orange prisms float between colorful threads that activate a dotted and striped canvas rising three stories high.

Charles Burwell is an internationally known abstract painter, born and raised in Philadelphia, and now represented by Bridgette Mayer Gallery. Starting in the fall of 2016, Burwell worked with on-site teaching artists Brad Carney and Jamee Grigsby to teach Art Education students from Northeast High School and Kensington High School for the Creative and Performing Arts about his process. Burwell’s large-scale, abstract work was the first permanent mural to be installed as part of the Spring Arts.

Since 2016, Spring Arts is an annual installation of temporary and permanent artworks in collaboration with Arts + Crafts Holdings. Artists are invited annually to experiment, create, and innovate old building walls between 10th and 11th, Spring Garden and Hamilton Streets to rebrand the neighborhood. Artworks are be exhibited on a revolving basis, providing a diverse range of artists with the opportunity to create engaging public art.