Image via flicker, CC BY 2.0 After our MLK Art Event, we posed several questions. The responses are listed below. “What is the purpose of honoring someone with a national holiday like today?Volunteers wrote:To ensure that the legacies of heroes like MLK live on forever.To remember and respect his work.To …
Community Arts Reflection: 20 + years later Going through my high school sketchbooks this week, I found long-forgotten notes to my grown-up self. Concerned about my future as a grown-up, I wrote about the role of cynicism in adult behavior: limiting their actions and beliefs and allowing them to use …
Are you one of those people who say you aren’t an artist because you can’t draw a straight line? Can you print the alphabet? If so, you can draw straight lines as well as perpendicular, curvilinear, and rectilinear lines. Giving your voice a creative vehicle for expression helps develop the problem-solving skills …
Mark your calendars for our Fall Fundraiser and see lots of artwork in the historic 915 Spring Garden Studio home of hundreds of artists. We are participating in Open Studios OCTOBER 15-16: Tours for Studios EAST of Broad Street http://www.philaopenstudios.com/ Purchase colorful gourd birdhouses to support Art Sphere Inc and …
Inner City youth from Northern Liberties Recreation Center painted the Mural Stamp Duck http://www.fws.gov/duckstamps. It is made drawings of ducks for the national contest helping local John Heinz Refuge in raising money for education programs. Continued after school and summer programs to include: sketchbook nature hikes to local Liberty Lands Park …
Public outdoor spaces like parks and playgrounds are the meeting places where inner-city youth develop lasting memories and beliefs on home, safety, community, and responsibility. Coordinating neighborhood clean-ups with various groups is essential to Art Sphere Inc. It involves people so they meet and build relationships with their neighbors, see …
On April 15th, 2011, we celebrated our first Heinz Refuge nature drawing, hike, and art workshops at Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum with the installation of our “Duck Stamps Mural” over the door for the first national park stamp celebration in PA. Kevin, our art college student volunteer, worked …
In April 2011, we completed the first phase of our Million Books Project Mural. Formerly the abandoned Connell Recreation Center in SouthWest Philadelphia, graffiti made the building unappealing. With animated colorful books painted flying around the entire building. We have given this structure a new identity as an essential community …
