Ben Volta News Today

On this episode of App Spotlight, we highlight one school in Philadelphia that got a makeover this summer. The results were under the sea enchanting.

Students, parents and staff at a Fishtown school spent Saturday morning painting their aquatic themed mural on the school building.

Philadelphia-based muralist, Ben Volta (American, born 1979), is working with the students of the Harriet Ross Tubman School, PS 31, to create a design for a mural to be located just blocks away at the Jesse Nash Health Clinic. Staff of the clinic suggested a few conversational prompts that Volta used to guide students from

The Fairway Drive underpass in Reston is slated for a facelift. Public Art Reston is seeking artists to submit ideas for an art project at the underpass, which connects residential areas with a pool, community center and the Lake Anne Village Center. The project is the third permanent public artwork commissioned by Public Art Reston.

A new public mural in Juneau honoring Tlingit activist Elizabeth Peratrovich highlights Alaska Native peoples’ resistance to colonialism.

A familiar site intended to liven up Reston's Colts Neck Road underpass is slated for temporary removal. The public art installation — called "Thoreau's