The Roots Support Philadelphia Mural Arts

The Roots Support Philadelphia Mural Arts

On Monday, November 7, 2011 at 10:30am in Headhouse Square, located on 2nd Street between Pine and Lombard Streets, the South Street Headhouse District, Mayor Michael Nutter and Philadelphia music sensation The Roots will host a press conference announcing a new mural arts project involving The Roots.

The Roots is an American hip hop/neo soul band formed in 1987 by Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter and Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson in Philadelphia. They are famed for beginning with a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which includes live instrumentals. (Wikipedia)

Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program (MAP) was founded in 1984, as a sub division of the Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network (PAGN), led by Jane Golden. Prior to the Mural Arts Program operating as its own entity its roots were founded in a meeting between Spencer and Golden in 1984 where Golden asked to run a program within PAGN. Spencer originally envisioned a program that would move kids more towards other arts and crafts, however Golden envisioned what is now the MAP program. The Mural Arts Program works with community groups to educate and involve children in arts and in creation of murals throughout the city. The MAP also takes in prosecuted graffiti vandals at the rate of over 100 a year and involves them in the creation of many of the murals around Philadelphia. During the 2001–2004 Neighborhood Transformation Initiative, MAP had painted over 600 murals around Philadelphia. (Wikipedia)

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