Join Mural Arts for a community paint day to restore Paul Santoleri’s Concrete Tree mural along the Manayunk Towpath, just north of Fountain Street. The event will be led by artist Diana Gonzalez, who will guide participants in painting directly on the existing mural.
In a space once consumed by heavy industry, Santoleri “planted” a concrete tree along a long retaining wall. The relief sculpture symbolizes the resilience of nature, while paying homage to the industrial past. Adjacent paintings and mosaics show some of the flora and fauna above and below the waters of the canal. At its core, Concrete Tree speaks to the contradiction of nature as both fragile and as an inexorable force.
