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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 Philadelphia arts community, programming and producing a wide range of performances, and spearheadi...

Families. we have a final present before you leave us this evening. philadelphia is a city of murals and we couldn't imagine a better way to commemorate your visit than with a mural. we've 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. >> it's the city of philadelphia has a mural arts program. it's the most murals than any city on earth. each is collected by the community. they have 2,700 people that have participated in painting this mural over the course of the summer. yesterday it was certified as...

>> it's back up against the wall. it's hard to do anything. >> reporter: until he came across the mural arts program. >> if i never was introduced to the mural arts program, i don't 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 crossed paths, again, with his victim. >> i heard through the grapevine the mom of the young man wh...

More than 30,000 have taken part. some are budding michelangelos, but others like jamie grigsby weren't quite sure. >> i wasn't 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 city street corners. >> so good! >> this is more about sketching, drawing and painting, math, p...

On going. all you have to do, just fix it up again. >> everything isn't 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 we've been following here throughout the afternoon, we have some images in turkey. we'll talk about that. also, parent liability, a small wisconsin town will fine the pa...