PORCH LIGHT INITIATIVE

For the next year I am working The Mural Arts Program on a project at the 11th St Family Health Services of Drexel University - located within the historic Richard Allen neighborhood. I am leading a process that will result in multiple murals that focus on ideas of home, nature and wellness. The drawings and cards above begin to share this process.

ABOUT PORCH LIGHT: The Philadelphia Mural Arts Program's Porch Light Initiative situates art and human connection at the heart of recovery and healing in distressed Philadelphia neighborhoods.  Read More

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Written in Wood @ The Center For Art in Wood, Philadelphia

Written in Wood is a mural for the Center for Art in Wood located at 3rd and Quarry in Old City Philadelphia. Created with The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Restorative Justice GUILD. The mural is sponsored by the Hummingbird Foundation, The Philadelphia Prison System, and the Thomas Skelton Harrison Fund.

A lighting system will be added in 2013!

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Written in Wood @ The Center For Art in Wood, Philadelphia

Written in Wood is a mural for the Center for Art in Wood located at 3rd and Quarry in Old City Philadelphia. Created with The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Restorative Justice GUILD. The mural is sponsored by the Hummingbird Foundation, The Philadelphia Prison System, and the Thomas Skelton Harrison Fund. 

Written In Wood

Base Coat

Testing our wood grain imagery using computer cut vinyl paint mask 

Written in Wood is a mural for the Center for Art in Wood located at 3rd and Quarry in Old City Philadelphia. Created with The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Restorative Justice GUILD.

Mural sponsored by the Hummingbird Foundation

Wall Prep Begins for Written in Wood

Wall prep begins for Written in Wood - with The Center For Art in Wood and The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Restorative Justice GUILD @ 3rd and Quarry St in Old City, Philadelphia, PA

Home That Was Demolition

 

LINK TO HOME THAT WAS BLOG

Home That Was Drawing Workshop

HOME THAT WAS: OBJECTS THAT FILL A HOME, ON THE WALLS OF A HOUSE THAT NO LONGER EXISTS
Saturday, October 16
10th & Vine Streets

This summer, Benjamin Volta worked with a team of intergenerational artists to create 12 wallpaper patterns that explore consumption, memory, and loss as part of a temporary artwork. Join us for a pre-dedication Drawing Workshop from 12 - 2 pm to draw ideas of "home" on large cardboard panels, which will be assembled to build a 15-foot-high sculpture. Sponsored by the City of Philadelphia, Mural Arts Program.

BLOG THAT SHOWS OUR PROCESS
http://homethatwas.blogspot.com/

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HOME THAT WAS

OBJECTS THAT FILL A HOME, ON THE WALLS OF A HOUSE THAT NO LONGER EXISTS

Located at 10th and Vine Streets in Philadelphia, Home That Was is a temporary artwork created during the summer of 2010. Benjamin Volta worked with a team of intergenerational artists from the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program to create wallpaper patterns that explore consumption, memory, and loss. Attached to the exterior wall of a neighboring row home, the wallpapers are installed on the thin plaster remains of a house that no longer exists.

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