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We Create Great Art That Ignites Transformation. We Celebrate Our ART IGNITES CHANGE We create great art that ignites transformation. We celebrate our impact and ANNUAL 2015 REPORT ANNUAL ANNUAL 2015 REPORT ANNUAL the many ways we change people, places, and practice. MURAL ARTS PROGRAM 1 MURAL ARTS PROGRAM MURALART IGNITES ARTS PROGRAM CHANGE Art ignites change. This simple phrase captures our core belief. Like any powerful tagline, each word was selected with great care and intention. In this report, we are excited to take the opportunity to parse this phrase—to explain what each word means to us and how this big idea played out in our practice last year. By the time you have finished reading, you will have a better sense of what we mean the next ANNUAL 2015 REPORT ANNUAL time you hear us say, “art ignites change.” This report also is an opportunity to acknowledge and thank the incredible range of people and organizations that make our work possible, and to share our statement ANNUAL 2015 REPORT ANNUAL of financial position. As you will see, Mural Arts is going through a growth spurt. We have increased capacity to launch projects of significant scale, like last fall’s Open Source exhibition, as well as initiatives that consider artistic possibilities for an entire neighborhood. When we move off the wall, our medium might change, but our commitment to democratic expression remains the same. We are pleased to present you with this report on our evolving portfolio of work. As always, we are grateful that you have joined us in expanding our practice and our impact. David Pudlin Jane Golden Board Chair Executive Director Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Philadelphia Mural Arts Program 2 1 MURAL ARTS PROGRAM ART IGNITES CHANGE ART EDUCATION RESTORATIVE SPECIAL We provide quality art JUSTICE PROJECTS education to underserved We provide project-based We explore the experimental youth, who emerge with jobs and work readiness dimensions of public art. expectations and senses of training to formerly Special projects grow direction that help them find incarcerated individuals, from the social and civic success in higher education probationary youth, and foundations of the Our work is created and within the work world. current inmates, allowing mural tradition, while participants to make responding to innovative MURALAB healing contributions to ideas that propel muralism Philadelphia’s communities. into the future. in service of a larger We organize events and exhibitions in this think tank for advancing muralism in COMMUNITY the 21st century. Artists, curators, social scientists, MURALS movement that values and urban leaders offer We collaborate with fresh perspectives, broader community members to lead contexts, and new urgency. projects that build social capital, inspire a sense of communal ownership over equity, fairness, and TOURS space, and empower people We offer public and private to become change agents. ANNUAL 2015 REPORT ANNUAL tours of the world’s largest outdoor art gallery, where PORCH LIGHT progress across all people explore the murals, artistic processes, and We partner with the community histories that Department of Behavioral inspire our work. Health and Intellectual disAbility Services, as well of society. Through as health and social service agencies, to situate art at the heart of recovery, beautiful collaborative 2015 REPORT ANNUAL resilience, and healing. art, we provide people with the inspiration We believe… art ignites change. We create art with others to transform places, individuals, communities, and institutions. Through this work, we establish and tools to seize new standards of excellence in the practice of public and contemporary art. Our process empowers artists to be change agents, stimulates dialogue about critical issues, and builds bridges of connection and understanding. Our work is created in service of a larger movement that values equity, their own future. fairness, and progress across all of society. We listen with empathetic ears to understand the aspirations of our partners and participants. And through beautiful collaborative art, we provide people with the inspiration and tools to seize their own future. 2 3 MURAL ARTS PROGRAM ART IGNITES CHANGE For Mural Arts, quality art says something important about who we are as people, neighbors, and as a city. It’s art that means something to those who see it every day, who feel that the work captures their experiences. It’s art that leads to a change in perception, belief, or place—art that pushes boundaries and inspires 2015 REPORT ANNUAL meaningful conversation. 01 . 2015 REPORT ANNUAL ART In the midst of a heat wave, Jessie Unterhalter, Katey Truhn, and 20 assistant artists turned the Oval— a highly trafficked part of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway— into Summer Kaleidoscope, a bright urban oasis. 4 5 MURAL ARTS PROGRAM ART IGNITES CHANGE ANNUAL 2015 REPORT ANNUAL ANNUAL 2015 REPORT ANNUAL On the Strawberry Mansion Bridge, Joe Boruchow installed Uptown Locomotion, a playful Artists Paul Santoleri and Beth Clevenstine created Water Under the Bridge, a verdant series of black-and-white scenes illustrating the cultural history of the neighborhood. mosaic-and-mural extension of the river that touches Manayunk’s Fountain Street Steps. 6 7 MURAL ARTS PROGRAM ART IGNITES CHANGE 01A. MORE WAYS TO ENGAGE “Mural Arts’ ability to bring communities together to make art accessible to all distinguishes it from any other arts organization. As an educator, I love helping my students build their passion for the arts while applying their talents to creating public art.” ANNUAL 2015 REPORT ANNUAL SAM RODRIGUEZ, TEACHING ARTIST AND ALUMNUS OF THE ART EDUCATION PROGRAM ur incredible works of art are The idea was simple: Artists received O inextricably linked with the process a space, a stipend, and materials, by which they are brought to life. As our and in exchange, they offered up their ANNUAL 2015 REPORT ANNUAL palette of methods expands, moments time to nearby neighbors, who enlisted the of connection and interaction are fueled artists’ help and expertise for community- by the thoughtful, in-depth work of our driven projects. artists, our staff, and our collaborators. More than 40 projects, all requested by In a storefront studio in West Philly, we local residents, came out of Neighborhood partnered with the People’s Emergency Time Exchange. The results included a Center, Broken City Lab, and Creative new sensory room at a school for students Philadelphia – City of Philadelphia’s Office with behavioral disorders, bright new of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy signage for community gardens and events, for Neighborhood Time Exchange, a civic- and stenciled tulips on the 34th Street minded twist on the artist residency model. Bridge that promote messages of peace. 200 Community members and Vivid signage, a product of Neighborhood Time Exchange, 15 artists participated in brightens a community garden in West Philadelphia. Neighborhood Time Exchange 8 9 MURAL ARTS PROGRAM ART IGNITES CHANGE 01B. NEW MEDIUMS & CANVASES rt enlivens our city, flowing over pay tribute to the spaces and places A every surface imaginable: walls, bikes, we travel every day and unite neighbors cars, trash cans, and more. We completed with a deeply shared sense of pride. 63 public art projects during the 2015 fiscal year, worked on another 100 ongoing Sometimes our canvases defy traditional ANNUAL 2015 REPORT ANNUAL projects, and connected with more than expectations. Last spring, 30 billboards 100,000 people. and posters popped up across Philadelphia, featuring larger-than-life portraits of Three extraordinary thoroughfares LGBTQ youth and seniors. This was the received a Mural Arts makeover in 2015: result of Showing Face, a project that Manayunk’s Fountain Street Steps, the fostered intergenerational conversations Strawberry Mansion Bridge, and Eakins about identity, and produced an outpouring Oval, at the end of the Benjamin Franklin of positivity and confidence from all Parkway. By beautifying these popular of the participants. 2015 REPORT ANNUAL pathways with compelling imagery, we Lining bus stops and subway stations, the portraits of Showing Face reveal the confidence and vulnerability of each participant. 10 11 MURAL ARTS PROGRAM ART IGNITES CHANGE 01C. “Working with Mural Arts has, I feel, given back to me many times more than I was able to give to it, and I tried to give as much as I possibly could. I feel so fed by it, and my life THE has changed in really profound ways.” CURATOR’S CALEDONIA CURRY, A.K.A. SWOON, OPEN SOURCE PARTICIPATING ARTIST VOICE ANNUAL 2015 REPORT ANNUAL ANNUAL 2015 REPORT ANNUAL fresh perspective can open up a rich Open Source embraced the city as an open A space of learning and collaboration. platform—one where artists, creative Our work with outside curators has thinkers, and neighbors contributed their improved our ability to interpret our ideas and watched new possibilities process within the broader fields of artistic emerge. Fourteen artists produced public and social practice, and has allowed us to artworks around themes that spanned our amplify the impact of individual projects. core areas of work, diving into subject matter such as immigration, education, The idea for Mural Arts’ largest project to incarceration, and trauma, and exploring date arose from one of these extraordinary how art connects, reveals, and inspires. curatorial partnerships. Open Source, our exploration of the intersection of art and social justice in Philadelphia, was a show- stopping citywide exhibition of new public art, created in conjunction with curator 8 Pedro Alonzo. Number of curators Surrounded by a packed house at the Institute of Contemporary Art, SWOON recounts Mural Arts has worked with the powerful narratives that informed her Open Source project, Five Stories. in recent years 12 13 MURAL ARTS PROGRAM MURALART IGNITES ARTS PROGRAM CHANGE ANNUAL 2015 REPORT ANNUAL ANNUAL 2015 REPORT ANNUAL Geometry and art mingle in MOMO’s stunning mural on Frankford and Berks in Fishtown, Elements of clutter and chaos in the Italian Market take shape painted in collaboration with Art Education students.
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