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Visions of Peace

I don’t love my job that much, but here again I’m talking about the things we’re doing at Mural Arts. Today was the big old local media event at Ben Franklin High School.

If you’ve been by Broad and Spring Garden in the last few months, you’ve probably noticed several giant pairs of eyes staring down from the southern façade of the school. The mural is a partnership between the Mural Arts Program, the Philadelphia Inquirer’s editorial board and the (embattled) Department of Human Services. The project brought together an enormous and improbable range of individuals in an attempt to reach for several lofty and grand ideals in an effort do massive good. The measure of its success is written across approximately 365 feet of wall. Below are a few photos from today’s event. Here’s a [link] to an article in today’s Inquirer.

The first two images show the mural itself. The third image shows Jane Golden through the eye of a local Fox News camera and the fourth is of the Artist, Don Gensler and Inquirer editorial board facilitator… I forget her name. (I claim bloggers rights in not giving name credit where it is due, due to lack of memory and effort)