Client: the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program

Overview

This is painted in acrylic 24″ x 200″ on a block wall around the neighborhood swimming club. The community members in West Philadelphia joined in the concept, deciding it should be about education. I chose to show education embodied in a series of birds shown through the narrative.

Goals

This work was a commissioned project by the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program

Process

The Philadelphia Mural Arts Program commissioned this, and the neighborhood committee and I brainstormed on the concept. We had multiple community meetings, and preliminary versions of the design. Following that, I took photos of people in the neighborhood, and friends to be models for the characters in the mural.