ASI Home and Directions

Art Sphere Incorporated (ASI), located at the 915 Studios, was created by painter, printmaker and Philadelphia-area native Kristin Groenveld, to promote individual and civic empowerment through art education.  Led by a core staff and sustained by a dedicated volunteer base ASI offers comprehensive educational and community building experiences, providing teachers, curricula and materials where they’re needed most. Visit our …

Art in the Open 2016

We are so excited to have been selected to participate in this year’s biennial Art in the Open along the Schuykill River Trail. On May 13, 14, and 15, Sarah and I led a “PA Native Fish” mural painting project on parachute cloth with the public to help promote environmental awareness about conserving natural habitats, protecting natural …

Bird Origami Hand Puppet

Title: Bird Origami Hand Puppet Description: Students make hand puppets using a single sheet of paper and folding paper like a traditional origami fortune teller. This project is a great way to introduce compassion as a theme. Students relate to the different characters and the stories they create. Project Ideas: theater, interpersonal, compassion, body …

Meet Sean!

Meet Sean – a Film and Media Arts student at Temple University and an ASI videographer, photographer, art teacher, and mural painting volunteer. My name is Sean Olivier, a Film and Media Arts student at Temple University. I was looking for opportunities to volunteer in my community and the programs that you’re …

Meet Grace!

Meet Grace – a professional Graphic Design Assistant with Anthropologie, graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Industrial Design, and an ASI volunteer Graphic Designer and  Mural Painter. She has made Art Sphere Inc. posters, flyers, lesson plan layouts and helped ASI with creating ASI design policy and strategy as …

Meet Tricia!

Tricia (in front) is an ASI Art Teacher and Mural Painting Volunteer who has helped Candice (in back) at Fishtown Recreation Center this past summer (seen here working on the mural) and worked with youth during the summer programs at Northern Liberties and Fishtown Recreation Centers and participated in giving out art …