City of Philadelphia
PhiladelphiaMuralArtsProgram
Adrienne Webb
Katharine Houghton Hepburn
Center
Intern Summer 2010
Overview of Summer Internship
 Interned with the Special Projects department at Philadelphia
Mural Arts. My main project was the Bryn Mawr 125th
anniversary Pioneering Women Mural.
–
Worked closely with lead Muralist Shira Walinsky to create
a network for the project.
 Organized and coordinated three events to publicize the
mural project to community members in West Philadelphia.
–
 Collaborated with Bryn Mawr's partnership high school
Parkway West, and interviewed 30 women in West
Philadelphia about their experiences with education.
I will continue my work on this mural in the fall as a Teaching
Assistant for the Kaleidoscope program's Philadelphia Mural
Arts course.
Pioneering Women: a Mural and Oral History Project
This fall students,
faculty and Alumni from
Bryn Mawr College,
Parkway High school
and the community
surrounding the City of
Philadelphia's Health
Center number four will
work together to
complete a mural
celebrating pioneering
women and women's
education
Clockwise: Ella Baker, Civil Rights Activist, and Mill Creek
Communit y Member Beverly Braxton. We interviewed Ms.
Braxton and Researched Ms. Baker for the Project.
The majority of my summer work involved working to promote the
project and develop content for the project by attending
community events,listening to local women's oral histories and
networking with community stakeholders.
City of Philadelphia Public Health Center 4
This is the mural site for the "Pioneering Women" Bryn
Mawr College 125th Anniversay Mural.It is located at
44th and Haverford, in the Mill Creek neighborhood of
West Philadelphia. The health center is a short walk
from Parkway West, Bryn Mawr' partnership high school
and a 20 minute drive from the College.
Shira Walinsky
Shira was my supervisor for this
project. We worked together on
everything related to the project, from
interviewing women at the senior
center and plan course material for the
fall. I will be Shira's teaching assistant
for the class.
Shira Walinsky helps Parkway West Graduate,
Latasha Billington use the Lumix Camera. ra
Shira’s Lunch Truck project.
Detail from her mural at
American streets.
2nd
and
Detail from Shira’s mural
at 44th and Ludlow. and
Oral History
Shira Walinsky shows Beverly Braxton
potential designs for the mural. Ms. Braxton
was a subject for Oral History interviews.
Parkway West Students videotape
interview each other about inspiring
women in their lives.
As a Community Based program, murals are based in the
communities where the murals are installed.
We interviewed women from a wide range of backgrounds
in the community surround the health center about their
experiences with education, jobs and life in West
Philadelphia. Much of the content from these interviews will
become audio and visual components of the mural.
Mural Kick-Off Event at Parkway West High School
On July 11th with
help from Parkway
West students, we
got ready for our big
event at the
Lancaster Avenue
Jazz Festival.
We taught the
students how to
conduct oral
histories and made
tee shirts for the
festival.
Latasha Billington, a Mural
Corps student and Parkway
West graduate decorates a tee
shirt.
Bryn Mawr alums Zanny Alter and MZ
Morris help Parkway West student Kevin
Gurrier decorate his tee shirt.
Lancaster Avenue Arts and Jazz Festival
She
We partnered People's
Emergency Center to set up a
'Pioneering Women' table at
the Jazz Fest.
Parkway students conducted
Oral interviews and the Bryn
Mawr College Art Club
provided printmaking supplies.
We printed lino-cuts and
interviewed festival visitors.
We interviewed 20 people at
this event and made over 50
prints.
It was our most successful
public event.
Clockwise: Students interview Jazz Festival visitors,
Volunteer, Elly Lehman helps a young visitor pull a
lino cut of Ella Baker using a traveling printing press.
Community Design Review Meeting
On August 17th,
members of the Bryn
Mawr and Mill Creek
community met for a
second time to
examine and
discuss potential
mural designs.
Possible Mural Designs
We got lots of
feedback and great
suggestions for the
mural design.
Mural Arts Program director, Jane Golden talks to
Community Members about the Mural Design.
How can a small (elite) suburban liberal arts
college make a mural in West Philadelphia?
This question was asked
several times.
• We are the facilitators
not the owners.
• The mural does not belong
to Bryn Mawr. It belongs to
the community surrounding
the mural.
• As students and muralists in
this class, we are honored
to be a part of the process.
Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women workers held
an art show in 1934 Sulzberberger Middle School
(now Parkway West). Throughout the summer we
found many connections between West Philadelphia
and Bryn Mawr College, demonstrating the college
has been connected in many ways to West
Philadelphia's history.
Coming this Fall....
Students from the Bryn Mawr-Parkway West Mural Arts class
will continue to engage in community dialogue
by collecting Oral Histories and finalizing the mural design.
Community Paint Days!
Community members from Bryn Mawr and Mill Creek will
be hosting a series of paint days.
October 5th at Health Center 4
October 30th
Book Release
Planned for Winter 2010-11
Mural Installation
Planned for Spring 2011