Topic: Mural Arts Philadelphia
Arts Can Transform Lives and Cities
In honor of Mural Arts Month, a longtime college president not only nominates Jane Golden for a MacArthur Genius Award, she urges educators from pre-school to grad school to respect and promote the arts—not cut them.
By Elaine Maimon
More Art, Fewer Accidents?
A collaboration between Mural Arts Philadelphia and a South Philly neighborhood group aims to slow down speeding cars. Could it help reduce the nearly 500 serious traffic injuries in the city every year?
By Jessica Blatt Press
Ideas We Should Steal: Arts Everywhere
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is embedding the arts in myriad city agencies with a bold, economy-boosting goal that Philly should emulate: supporting art in every neighborhood in the city
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
The Citizen Recommends: Young at Art
Throughout the week of April 26, enjoy free daily online mini concerts borne out of a collaboration between three iconic local arts groups: Play On Philly, Astral Artists and Mural Arts Philadelphia
By Jessica Blatt Press
The Citizen Recommends: Stitching Our Futures
Mural Arts’ participatory quilting project invites all of us to imagine—and create—a city budget that reflects who we want to be
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2020: How Art Can Change the World
Join The Citizen in December to hear from Jane Golden, Shepherd Fairey, Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, Hank Willis Thomas, and many more
By Christine Speer Lejeune
The Citizen Recommends: Art for Social Justice
“Points of Connection”—a collection of 10 portraits by the DA’s first-ever artist-in-residence—offers a moving look at the people impacted by, and impacting, our justice system
By Christine Speer Lejeune
The Citizen Recommends: Mural Arts’ Wall Ball
The city’s public art organization sets the stage for Monument Lab, a citywide look at our stories, both historic and contemporary
By Annie McDonough