Painting a Parkway mural to welcome Philly back, urge vaccines
WHYY By Acting Health Commissioner Dr. Cheryl Bettigole paints as Mayor Jim Kenney speaks with artist, Felix St. Fort, and Mural Arts executive director Jane Golden. (Kenny Cooper / WHYY) Mural Arts Philadelphia dipped its toe — or rather, its brushes — into the “Vax Up Philly” vaccination effort Saturday, teaming with the city’s Department of Public Health in inviting the public to help paint a 33,000-square-foot ground mural — called “Welcome Back, Philly” — at Eakins Oval on Benjamin Franklin Parkway. “What better way for Mural Arts to welcome people back than to give p...
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