Welcome to Streets Dept's 2nd Saturday Philly Art Walk! These walks are a new kind of guided tour that explore the art around Philadelphia's public spaces one neighborhood at a time. Each month we walk a different part of the city in search of street art, murals, independent galleries, exciting exhibitions – and more! Each tour is hosted and led by StreetsDept.com's founder Conrad Benner.
MAY'S TOUR:
While Philadelphia is widely known as the City of Murals, most of those murals are spread out pretty evenly across our city. In fact, despite the fact that Philly is home to thousands of public murals, there's only a few areas of highly concentrated murals in our city. And still then only two specifically curated mural districts. For May's tour, we're going to check out one of those two curated mural districts in Spring Arts (the other is the Gayborhood, which we'll be exploring in October.) We'll then end our tour by checking out a number of pubic artworks created in the Eraserhood neighborhood just north of Spring Arts!
TOUR HOST:
I'm your host for this and every 2nd Saturday Philly Art Walk. My name's Conrad Benner, and I'm a Fishtown-born and raised photographer, podcaster, curator, and the founder of StreetsDept.com, an award winning photo-blog that's been discovering art on streets of Philadelphia since 2011. Over the years, I have been named Philly's ‘Best Art Curator’ by Philadelphia Magazine, and my blog named one of the ‘Best Blogs for Travellers’ by The Guardian. I have a passion for art in the public space and the role it plays in our hearts and minds; in fact, you can read my blog's full purpose statement here!
QUICK NOTES:
1) May's tour will start at 10th and Buttonwood streets and end within a 10 minute walk of this location. 2) Tours include roughly two hours of walking, which may not be suitable for all. Please feel free to email me at StreetsDept [at] gmail [dot] com, if you have any questions. 3) Tours are rain or shine, so be sure to dress accordingly. 4) Lastly, tours are ticketed and tickets/names will be checked at the start of each tour; you can bring a digital or printed copy of your ticket, or just check-in with the ticket purchaser's name!
Can't wait to see y'all! #StreetsDept2ndSat
(Murals in the featured photo by NDA and Lauren West.)