Here are a few shots to give you an idea of what you will see when the nursing mural at Broad and Vine Streets goes live. What you are looking at is the same spot on the wall, and the changes you will see as the area is bathed in different colored lights. On the left, a man’s face simply melts away and an empty, three dimensional cube appears. On the right, words, faces and graphics change color, appear and disappear depending on the LED projection.

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Stay tuned for more!

The lifts are off the site and the bulk of the painting is complete. The next step is getting the lights up and running, choosing a running pattern, and then stepping back to look.  It’s important to see the paint under the influence of the light. This is where the magic happens. The painting process will continue guided by the way the LED colors make the paint glow and transform into a continuous rainbow of colors.

Every day, more colors, shapes and faces go up at Broad and Vine. Stop by and have a look. The electricians are coming later this week to begin the lighting, which is sure to turn heads.

With the mural completion date fast approaching, Meg can be seen painting right until sundown. It’s not unusual for her to keep daylight savings hours, squeezing the final rays out of the day.

Philadelphia Team Repairs and Restores Murals

Read today’s Philadelphia Inquirer for a positive and informative story featuring The Evolving Face of Nursing.

Melissa Dribben describes the process of painting over older work, bringing new life. Meg Saligman and James Shuster are quoted, explaining the process of this mural. Of the technology planned for the mural, Meg says, ”This time, the nursing community was more interested in looking to the future.” And when asked what James is working on, he replies drily, ”I’m putting in the top of this guy’s head because he would be incomplete without it.”

Thanks to Melissa and the Inquirer for an excellent story.

Please click on the link for the whole article.

Current images underway in the studio will soon appear on the wall at Broad and Vine.

We are proud to announce our first exterior installation. Artist Alex Derwick has painted two figures on the front of Meg Saligman Studios. He is a founding member of the art collaborative The Tomohawks, based in White Plains, NY.
The work is designed as a representation of a private one sided relationship played out on a public wall. You can see more of Derwick’s work at his blog.
We hope to use this space as a changing gallery that showcases innovative projects.

The blazingly brilliant colors are now on the wall, in contrast to the primarily sepia toned sections.
Look for illusion to emerge. Flat surfaces pop into three dimensions.

The far right panel is well on its way, and the project is making fast progress.

Meg’s mural Common Threads, the most loved piece of public art in Philadelphia, is pictured in a new article about the City of Murals just published in Budget Travel’s blog This Just In.

You can link to it here:

http://current.newsweek.com/budgettravel/2010/05/philadelphias_the_city_of_mura.html