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!

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.

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

It’s International Nursing Day, and Florence Nightingale’s birthday today, and nurses, administrators, sponsors and the media gathered at Broad and Vine Streets for a press conference.

In the studio, wild color and beats. Erica and Steve paint away.

Here is a video of the lights being lifted up.

Once the mural design is complete on PhotoShop, the image is gridded so that it can be duplicated on a large scale. Here is an shot of the computer gridding process, some completed work which can be seen in the corner of the grid, and one of the large faces in which the grid can still be seen before being painted over.