Mural Artistry Masterzoom
with Meg Saligman
Mural Artist
Thursday, February 4, 2021
7:00 pm ET on Zoom
Meg will lead us through a participatory talk and visual presentation of her work to delight and inspire. Learn about the process that goes into creating some of our world's largest public work while you glean skills for creating your own art, no matter what the size. The second half of the event will be dedicated to a Q & A session.
About Meg:
Meg Saligman loves local color. As a public artist whose work has a worldwide following, Saligman is a master of transforming public spaces. Using a variety of media that includes paint, light, glass and people, she is known for her collaborative, site specific process and intricate designs. Her iconic public art combines the classical with the contemporary, painted with a master’s skill that consistently breaks new ground and elevates the way public art is conceived and executed.
Meg painted Philadelphia’s landmark, Common Threads (1998), and has since been at the forefront of the contemporary mural movement. Her national and international works include the transformation of a theatre in Mexico City, a water tower in Tanzania, and a village gathering site in Santa Rita, Ecuador. Meg's works in Shreveport, Louisiana; Omaha, Nebraska; and Chattanooga, Tennessee all fall within the top 10 largest murals in the United States.
Other well-known works in her native city include Philadelphia Muses, Theatre of Life and Passing Through, which is seen daily by hundreds of thousands of motorists on Interstate 76. Her installation, Knotted Grotto, has the distinction of engaging a record number of participants as 150,000 people placed their struggles, prayers and wishes on strips for a blessing from Pope Francis.
Meg’s work is widely acclaimed. In 2006, Public Art Review featured Saligman as one of the ten most influential American muralists of the past decade. She has received numerous awards, including the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program’s Visionary Artist, and honors from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Philadelphia’s Leeway Foundation. Meg has received the Distinguished Alumnus award from her alma mater, Washington University in Saint Louis and she recently received the 2016 Visionary Artist Award from Moore College of Art.