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How Brandon realized that “art is my way of talking”
November 15, 2016
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Brandon from Restorative Practices Youth
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Embracing the Light: A Groundbreaking Suicide Awareness Performance
February 29, 2024
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Jenny Donnelly Johnson
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Public Health and Public Art (Part 2)
April 10, 2018
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Laura Kochman
“When you create that space to make something, it opens up another world.”
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Seeing Art and Design Everywhere: An Interview with Matt Moore
May 9, 2016
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Carly Rapaport-Stein
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Mural Arts Announces NEA “Our Town” Creative Placemaking Grant Award for $125,000
February 1, 2024
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Jenny Donnelly Johnson
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Philadelphia Fellowship for Black Artists Cohort 2025: Creating a Vibe, Building a Tribe.
May 30, 2025
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Ginger Rudolph
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Celebrating the Resident Artists of Community Murals
April 1, 2023
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Jenny Donnelly Johnson and the Community Murals Team
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How Dawan realized that “everybody becomes human through art”
September 15, 2016
By
Carly Rapaport-Stein
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Kensington Storefront
Step into the Kensington Storefront, a vibrant space where art, healing, and civic engagement intersect.
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Stacy Levy
As a sculptor, my interest in the natural world rests both in art and science. I work within the two fields using art as a vehicle for translating the patterns and processes of the natural world into the language of human understanding. I try to design a project so…
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Dāra Haskins
Dara Haskins (b.1992 Baltimore, MD) has rooted her practice in Philadelphia, working primarily in painting oil portraits and figurative oil and mixed media paintings. Addressing the ways the black body has been represented and looked at throughout history, she challenges the identity of being seen and unseen connecting historical content…
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Alice Thompson
Alice Thompson is a Philadelphia-based maker and designer. She holds a BFA from Binghamton University (2004) and an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2006) with concentrations in drawing and printmaking. Thompson observes and transforms light through drawing, printmaking, and cut paper; her creative process is grounded in refined observational…
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Ricky Yanas
Ricky Yanas is a Texas-born artist, educator, and curator living in Philadelphia. Working within a pragmatic tradition of problem finding, his work extends through a variety of disciplines (photography, documentary film, installation and archival investigation) with the aim to create inter-sectional/inter-historical spaces of inquiry, mutual engagement, and collaboration through collective…
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josh graupera
josh graupera (they/them) is an artist living in Philadelphia, PA. Their practice explores the relationship between visual art and community organizing, using drawing, screen printing, zine-making, and facilitation practices. They enjoy working with people to explore worldbuilding techniques to create new systems and structures in imaginary worlds as well as…
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Eugenio Salas
Eugenio Salas (Canada/Mexico, b.1976. Mexico City) is a self-taught artist based in Lënapehòkink, the ancestral homelands of the Lenape people, also known as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His practice involves disrupting social roles and dynamics through collaborative process-based projects carried out autonomously and within institutions. The resulting participatory performative actions employ media,…
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Glossblack
Raised in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, Jimmy is an American graffiti writer who began painting in the early 2000s. Today, with over a decade of work under his belt, he has solidified himself as a nationally recognized practitioner of the art. As graffiti culture rises in popularity, he manages to…
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Nicole Rodrigues
Nicole Rodrigues was born in New Jersey and went to the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD where they got a BFA in Printmaking. Nicole lives and works in Philadelphia as a teaching artist with the Mural Arts Program working with children and young adults. Their work includes…
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Khaleel Adger
Khaleel was born and raised in Germantown, Philadelphia. Khaleel grew up creating art from a very young age. His inspiration for art came from a love of comic books and superheroes. He comes from a family of artists, and was inspired by the art of his father and uncles. Khaleel…
