ALL ITEMS
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Michele Tremblay
$1400Floating Garden: Cadmium Red #1
2015-2016
Mixed media
19 x 19 x 1 ¾ inches (framed)
Statement:
The piece, Floating Garden: Cadmium Red #1 is an exploration of color and light and how the two interact. As you look at the piece and see the pale blue behind some of the flowers please note that the color is reflected color. It is not applied to the support.
https://www.muralarts.org/artworks/floating-dogwood/
Bio:
Michele Tremblay is a Philadelphia sculptor and painter. Her work is a result of her interactions with nature and flowers in particular. She strives to delight and inspire joy for the viewer by connecting them to their relationship to the natural world.
Michele graduated from The Tyler School of Art and also studied at PAFA. Her sculptures have been exhibited in Philadelphia at various galleries and venues as well as The Philadelphia International Airport. Her work has also been selected for shows at The Noyes Gallery, Stockton College, The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art in Wilmington, Delaware and a private showing in Washington, D.C. Her work is also found in many private collections.
Most recently Michele, along with friend and fellow artist Polly Apfelbaum, designed a mural and worked with the Mural Arts Foundation to install the mural across the street from the room where Michele spent a month as a cancer patient. The mural is dedicated to the MDs, RNs and fellow patients on the oncology floor.
You can usually find Michele in her studio, but often can also find her walking around her neighborhood, taking photos of flowers with her iPhone, or just enjoying time with her husband.
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Color Me Back Participants
$100Alicia Keys
Acrylic paint on parachute cloth
47 x 27 inches (unframed)
**100% of the proceeds of this artwork go to the Color Me Back program
Statement:
These images were created as part of the Color Me Back program's Mother's Day celebration where the participants selected 3 noteworthy women to research as a group, create short presentations on, and present 3-5 important facts about each of the individuals. With this participants also created painted portraits of each of the three women and countless bouquets of flowers which were all put together as a large display for our studio window. The entire display was put together over the course of 4 weeks and it was a collaboration between CMB lead teaching artist Alvin Tull, assistant artist Michael Belo and between 30-40 CMB program participants.
Bio:
Color Me Back: A Same Day Work and Pay Program is an innovative new initiative that combines participatory art-making and access to social services in a unique model offering individuals who are experiencing economic insecurity an opportunity to earn wages. Designed in partnership with the Scattergood Foundation, SEPTA, the Sheller Family Foundation, and Mental Health Partnerships, the initiative is managed by Mural Arts' Porch Light community wellness program, a collaboration with the City of Philadelphia's Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services. Participants are recruited through outreach and have the opportunity to connect, contribute, and engage with outreach specialists who can link them with support services, including social and/or behavioral health services and potential opportunities for longer-term employment while working in the program.
https://www.muralarts.org/program/porch-light/color-me-back-a-same-day-work-and-pay-program/
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Meg Saligman
$250Common Threads
2019
Artist proof, edition 1/1
Hand printed silkscreen in ink
18 x 24 inches (framed)
Statement:
Who defines the identity of a place? Is it individual community members or written history? Is it perhaps something more amorphous - a collective voice? I am fascinated by the fluid relationship between the one and the many. For this reason, I engage directly with community members throughout all stages of my creative practice. For me, looking, listening, sharing, and collaborating are inseparable from the paint, the place, and the form.
https://www.muralarts.org/artworks/common-threads/
Bio:
For the past 25 years, Meg Saligman has produced over 40 permanent public artworks worldwide, including some of the world's largest public murals. Though she has produced works internationally, Saligman's seminal murals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are considered a catalyst for the contemporary mural movement. Her practice stems from a deep desire to use public art to give a voice to those who have been marginalized. With a focus on community engagement, collaboration, and facilitating social exchange in pursuit of shared experience, Saligman consistently amplifies local culture in her designs. She seamlessly combines both the classical and the contemporary using paint, glass, and light to give new life to existing architecture. In addition to her iconic murals, Saligman takes on the same challenging subject matter in her temporary and architectural installations. Most recently, Saligman created public installations for Pope Francis' visit to Philadelphia in 2015 and for the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in 2016. Additionally in 2015, Saligman and her team produced a 42,000+ square foot mural in Chattanooga, Tennessee that highlighted the city's complex racial and cultural dynamics.
Saligman's work has been featured by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the new York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Public Art Review, the Today Show and numerous others. She has received honors from the National Endowment for the Art and the Mid Atlantic Council for the Arts. She has received the Moore College of Art & Design Visionary Woman Award, Washington University in St. Louis Distinguished Alumnae and Mural Arts Philadelphia Visionary Artist Award.
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Michelle Ortiz
$450Flores de Libertad
2017
Archival print
20 x 16 inches (unframed)
Statement:
Flores de Libertad: Ortiz led several free paper flower workshops open to the public at the Barnes Foundation. Over a thousand paper flowers, a tradition passed down by her maternal grandmother, were created by more than 100 participants that include students, educators, and families in Philadelphia. The flowers made by the participants will join the flowers made by the mothers detained at Berks which carry messages of freedom and the continued fight against family detention. On Wednesday, October 25th from 11 am -12pm, the hand dyed flowers were assembled at the north gates of City Hall to spell out the 10'x40' word "Libertad" (Freedom/ Liberty). The collective artwork is a creative action followed by a press conference led by the Shut Down Berks Coalition to end family detention in Pennsylvania and in the United States.
https://www.michelleangela.com/flores-de-libertad
Bio:
Michelle Angela Ortiz is a visual artist/ skilled muralist/ community arts educator/ filmmaker who uses her art as a vehicle to represent people and communities whose histories are often lost or co-opted. Through community arts practices, painting, documentaries, and public art installations, she creates a safe space for dialogue around some of the most profound issues communities and individuals may face. Her work tells stories using richly crafted and emotive imagery to claim and transform spaces into a visual affirmation that reveals the strength and spirit of the community.
For 20 years, Ortiz has designed and created over 50 large-scale public works nationally and internationally. Since 2008, Ortiz has led art for social change public art projects in Costa Rica & Ecuador and as a Cultural Envoy through the US Embassy in Fiji, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Venezuela, Honduras, and Cuba.
Ortiz is a 2020 Art For Justice Fund Grantee, PEW Fellow, Rauschenberg Foundation Artist as Activist Fellow, and a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist National Fellow. In 2016, she received the Americans for the Arts' Public Art Year in Review Award which honors outstanding public art projects in the nation.