Mural Arts
Skateable Sculptures Installed at Paine’s Skatepark
This afternoon, Mural Arts dedicated a couple new skateable sculptures at Franklin’s Paine Skatepark. The pieces, created by Berlin-based artist Jonathan Monk, are called Steps […]
Schuylkill Wildlife Get Spotlighted in New Street Art Project in Manayunk
Manayunk is getting a blue makeover this summer courtesy of one of Mural Arts’s largest installations ever. “Waterways,” a collaborative effort between Philadelphia Water and Mural Arts, is a 50-piece […]
Philly’s Getting a Gloria Casarez Mural
Philadelphia’s first Director of the Mayor’s Office of LGBT Affairs, Gloria Casarez, will be memorialized in a new mural thanks to a team up between Mural Arts, William […]
Mural Arts Teams With Google to Highlight and Preserve Local Street Art
Philly’s Mural Arts program joins 68 organizations around the globe who have teamed with Google on an initiative to preserve our quickly fading street art through […]
Gloria Steinem Wore This NSFW Ring (And Here’s Where You Can Get One)
What do you do when you meet feminist icon Gloria Steinem? If you’re Brooklyn-based street artist Caledonia Curry, widely known as Swoon, you give her the clitoris ring off your […]
Morning Headlines: Murals Arts Program Wall-Hunting in Bella Vista
It’s been a busy couple of week for the Mural Arts Program. Not only have they announced a star-studded lineup of artists for their “Open Source” […]
PHOTOS: Gay Couple Married on Mural Arts Love Train for the First Time Ever
On Sunday, February 8th, Mural Arts annual Love Train took off on its fifth and final voyage. To celebrate the milestone—and nearly a year having […]
Neal Santos and Andrew Olson Getting Married On Mural Arts Love Train Tour
Mural Arts has chosen the gay couple who will get married on their fifth and final Love Train tour on Sunday, February 8th: photographer Neal Santos […]
Mural Arts Announces Artists for “Open Source” Project
Today the Mural Arts Program announced the artists who will be participating in the new “Open Source” project, which it says is Philadelphia’s biggest site-specific […]
Gay Couple to Be Married On Mural Arts Love Train for the First Time
Mural Arts‘ annual Love Train is gearing up to embark on its fifth and final journey on February 8th. The trek is a slow-speed, privately […]
Dutch Artist Duo PolakVanBekkum Reveal New Mural in Cedar Park
Back in May, artistic duo Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum arrived from the Netherlands for a residency in Philadelphia at the University City Science Center […]
PHOTOS: Chroma Dolls Paint Adorable Mural for PAWS
Philadelphia is a city of murals, and it seems like every day a new one pops up to deliver us from the blahs of the […]
First of Phillip Adams’s “Industrious Light” Murals Debuts at Ortlieb’s
Philadelphia artist Phillip Adams just completed the first in his “Industrious Light” series of murals that is dedicated to Philly’s history in the brewing, textile, tool-making and railroad […]
CHECK IT OUT: Shake Shack in Center City Gets a New Mural
Pretty soon Shake Shack will be more than a place to slurp milkshakes and throw back a burger or two, it will serve as a bastion of public […]