The Times

Located at the intersection of A and Indiana in Kensington, across the street from Hope Park and next to an Impact Services veteran housing facility, this mural project from artist Tyree Guyton is a monument to time, recovery, resilience, and healing in the context of trauma. The project covered the walls of this vacant building with imagery based on the themes of this changing neighborhood, focusing specifically on clocks and the passage of time. THE TIMES will remain installed after Monument Lab ends in Fall 2017, and is still on view in Kensington.

Collaborators: Veterans in the transitional housing facility managed by Impact Services; Mark Johnston (Detroit); McPherson Square Library Maker Jawn program; and everyone who participated in public paint days in Kensington.

Major support for Monument Lab projects staged in Philadelphia’s five squares provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. An expanded artist roster and projects at additional neighborhood sites made possible by the William Penn Foundation. Lead corporate support provided by Bank of America. Generous additional support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.