In summer 2024, Nazeer Sabree, painter and Mural Arts Art Education Lead Teaching Artist, and participants in the summer Career Connected Learning program embarked on a journey to create a mural inspired by Mayor Cherelle Parker’s “One Philly: A United City! Safer, Cleaner, Greener” initiative. Nazeer and his students engaged in conversations about what life is like as a young person living in Philly and their vision for a safer, cleaner, greener city. These discussions resulted in the creation of SAFER, a mural combining Sabree’s “false face” approach to portraiture and student-selected imagery.
