Smoke Signals

Smoke Signals from artist Joe Boruchow was created with help from Mural Arts’ Art Education students. Smoke Signals is part of the Spring Arts District, a rotating outdoor gallery in collaboration with Arts + Crafts Holdings in the post-industrial Callowhill neighborhood.

Boruchow taught design and paper cutting techniques to students at Northeast High School, focusing on architecture as a metaphor for support systems. The finished mural covers mythology, time, spirituality, family, and more.

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 exhibited on a revolving basis, providing a diverse range of artists with the opportunity to create engaging public art.

Location Note: Murals are on view in the West Side Parking Lot of the building at 1016 Buttonwood Street.