To the Polls (2020)

To the Polls featured six large-scale temporary mural installations at LOVE Park intended to excite the electorate and explore their reasons for voting. Curated by Conrad Benner of Streets Dept, the Philadelphia-based artists include D’nae Harrison, Candy Alexandra González, Kah Yangni, Khalid Dennis (aka BKLvisions), Hysterical Men, and Nathaniel Lee.

An additional structure featured Aram Han Sifuentes‘s Voting Station for the Disenfranchised, which collects ballots from those who can’t legally vote, as well as artwork from students in our Art Education classes that highlight artistic responses to the current political climate from youth voices. More than 1/4 of the U.S. population cannot vote, the largest demographic of that population being young people. This installation will amplify the voices of young people who lack decision-making power and lift up others who cannot vote such as undocumented people, residents of U.S. Territories, and in many states, those currently and formerly incarcerated. New artworks rotated on the wall over the course of the month and anyone could cast a vote through Aram’s project at officialunofficial.vote.

The temporary installations were on display in LOVE park from October 2, 2020 through Election Day on November 3, 2020.

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

Read more about To the Polls at the Mural Arts Philadelphia Website.