In 2008, Mural Arts Philadelphia launched This We Believe, its first Citywide Mural Project. The final multi-panel artwork was temporarily displayed in multiple public locations. To date, only one panel has found a permanent home. Beginning in 2020, Mural Arts, in partnership with the Public Art Archive and public art scholar Laura Holzman, PhD, developed a digital exhibition for the project, thereby providing a long-term, public, virtual home for the completed mural.

Here, through images of the fully completed mural and engagement activities, videos of paint days and the artists talking about the project’s impact, process documents, and interactive interpretation of the final artwork, this digital exhibition describes the collaborative participation behind the creation of a large-scale, citywide mural project, and the continued legacy of that process.

Monument Lab was a public art and history project produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia. The project, taking place over nine weeks between September 16 and November 19, 2017 challenged people to join a citywide conversation about history, memory, and our collective future.

Open Source was a citywide exhibition that brought 14 extraordinary artists from around the world to Philadelphia. They worked with Mural Arts Philadelphia and guest curator Pedro Alonzo to create a new series of public artworks that explore and illuminate Philadelphia’s diverse urban identity.

The Climate Justice Initiative uses the power of public art to tell stories about the causes, effects, and solutions to the climate crisis in Lenapehoking (the greater Philadelphia region).

Philadelphia’s response to COVID-19 in 2020 is a tribute to the City’s dedication to public health and safety and effective communication with constituents. Through Mural Arts’ decades-long partnership with the City of Philadelphia, nine art projects were developed, called the Art in Action campaign.