Tag Archive "mural-arts-program"
News: Fleisher @ the White House, Barnes educates construction workers, and lots of opportunities!
News Fleisher Art Memorial @ the White House Student Zulmarie Nazario, 16, attended a ceremony on November 2 at the White House where she received the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from First Lady Michelle Obama on behalf of the Fleisher Art Memorial. The prestigious award is for Fleisher’s work to develop learning and life skills in young people through the arts and creative experience. Nazario is one of many students who participate in Fleisher’s after school program in which a number of activities help young people explore their artistic and creative abilities.
News: Lucien Freud, Magic Garden, Delaware Art Museum juried centennial show
News Lucien Freud dies at 88 Painter Lucian Freud – grandson of Sigmund Freud – died on July 20 in London at age 88. Copious commentary everywhere for this master portraitist and figure painter. The Washington Post obituary is is a good overview of the artist’s story.
Love! SEPTA! murals!–Romance lives
I got this heart-thumping bit of news from Mural Arts, which is capitalizing on the Steve Powers’ Love Letter murals for Valentine’s Day, and being a sap, I had to share. The thumper is that SEPTA, that’s right, SEPTA, is sponsoring a contest entitled Did You Find Love on SEPTA? Riders can submit their love stories of how SEPTA trains, buses or trolleys led them to love. Submissions go to shoyos@septa.org from now to Feb. 1, 2010.
A Love Letter for You
Last time I saw Annette Monnier (at Little Berlin’s BYOTY last weekend), she said she was going to take the West Philly el tour of ex-graffiti artist Steve Powers’ A Love Letter for You series of murals for the Mural Arts Program. I said I was going to do that too, but she got it done, and what a job she did! Here’s what she had to say.
Two Community Projects: Dread Scott in Philadelphia and Hassan Hajjaj in Cardiff
I ran into Dread Scott in New York, which is how I learned that he’d done a work for Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program. Dread Scott and Mural Arts? Scott describes himself as making revolutionary art to propel history forward.
