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 …
Ask my personal Facebook friends, that ever-growing number of elementary through high school, college, grad school, and foreign group of friends, and they will probably tell you I’ve always been a shy, private person. Few know I was the first girl to play baseball on an all-boy team and league…until …
Over the years teaching art for Art Sphere Inc., we have encouraged participants of all ages to go beyond childhood labels and the labels of others to recreate themselves, their neighborhoods, and their dreams through art. Here on this blog as for much of my work for Art Sphere Inc. …
Before Process After Abandoned Recreation Center Bathrooms made into an Outdoor Theatre Before photo of abandoned bathrooms with 2011 dated graffiti, “Hard one”, “F-word”, “Reks”, “ABS” “TNT” Tags We couldn’t incorporate these tags into an appropriate youth mural. Above are process shots of the same space that was transformed into an outdoor theatre. …
Art Sphere Inc. helps participants of all ages and skills make drawings into stencils. Stencils are a great tool to allow participants of all ages and skills from various neighborhoods be involved in mural painting and collaborations. Experience the painting of murals, make a difference in the community and let your …
