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Hudson Reporter Jersey City to host first annual mural festival New event seeks to highlight local art × Murals like this one by Fermin Mendoza at 771 Ocean Ave. will be on display in the citys first annual mural festival next weekend. Jersey City will host its first annual Jersey City Mural Festival from June 5 and 6. It will take place throughout the city, celebrating vibrant public art, fostering community, and benefiting small businesses affected by the pandemic. “We start...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - The first annual Jersey City Mural Festival will help kickoff summer in the city with a celebration of vibrant public art that will foster community and benefit local small...

WHYY By Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney announces the launch of Safe Routes Philly, the city’s bicycle and pedestrian safety education program, at William Cramp School on April 12, 2021. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Updated: April 15, 11:00 am. After a year of belt-tightening, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney unveiled an ambitious $5.18 billion spending proposal that looks to boost city services and avoid layoffs while simultaneously accelerating cuts to business and wage taxes. The latest budget comes after a...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BENNINGTON — Odili Donald Odita, an abstract painter who received his master of fine arts from Bennington College in 1990, has joined the college’s board of trustees. Odita was born in Enugu, Nigeria and lives and works in Philadelphia. He is an abstract painter exploring color both in the figurative historical context and in the sociopolitical sense. In addition to general trustee duties, Odita will serve on the college’s educ...

A new mural, seen Thursday, was painted on Catalano’s delicatessen and market in West Scranton as part of a public contest by NeighborWorks Northeastern Pennsylvania. The mural of a West Scranton High School football player sporting former Invader Matt McGloin’s number received the most votes of three designs by artist Eric Bussart. Titled “West Side All-American,” the artwork also features an American flag billowing behind the athlete. Jake Danna Stevens / Staff Photographe...

BURLINGTON — Jay Wahl, producing artistic director at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, has been hired as executive director of the Flynn. He succeeds Interim Executive Director Charlie Smith, who began in January 2020. Wahl joins the Flynn after 11 years at the Kimmel Center, an inclusive organization that engages the Philadelphia region’s diverse communities through performance and education. Wahl served as an international liaison and advocate for the Kimmel Center and the...

Families. we have a final present before you leave us this evening. philadelphia is a city of murals and we couldnt imagine a better way to commemorate your visit than with a mural. weve been working on it all summer. >> bruce, tell us what the cardinal is talking about right now. this is special. you know especially about it. >> its the city of philadelphia has a mural arts program. its the most murals than any city on earth. each is collected by the community. they have 2,700 people that have ...

>> its back up against the wall. its hard to do anything. >> reporter: until he came across the mural arts program. >> if i never was introduced to the mural arts program, i dont know where my life would be right now. >> reporter: it focuses on painting murals in crime neighborhoods. the artists -- >> we hire everyone. we hire young people all the time. we said to michael, you have a place at must recall arts, consider us a home for you. >> reporter: with that, he began his transformation and cr...

More than 30,000 have taken part. some are budding michelangelos, but others like jamie grigsby werent quite sure. >> i wasnt goisure where i was going with this art thing. being part of the program really changed me. >> reporter: they recently graduated from art school and is now a teacher with the mural arts program. >> we did it so kids can be interested in throwing their stuff in the grash can, so basically we put designs on it. >> reporter: dozens of the menacing solar trash compactors sit ...

On going. all you have to do, just fix it up again. >> everything isnt going to be perfect. >> in a world disconnected and sometimes seen by barriers and divisions and borders, this is something that is unifying. >> reporter: the mural arts program is the largest public arts program in the country. starting in september, it will be weaved into the curriculum of a school in philadelphia. when we come back, that breaking news weve been following here throughout the afternoon, we have some images...