About this mural:
This mural was a partnership between Mural Arts Philadelphia and The Easter Pennsylvania Girl Scout initiative, Girl Scouts Beyond Bars. The mural is located at an all women's correctional facility in Philadelphia. This was a hands on community engaged project where I visited the correctional facility and met with a group of inmates and their daughters that were a part of the Girl Scout program. The design was inspired by creative vision board workshops I ran with the group.
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Location:
8151 State Road, Philadelphia, PA 19136 US · Get directions
Ali M Williams is a Philadelphia based artist and public muralist. She is interested in how visually altering a space with public art affects the surrounding environment. Ali has been a visiting teaching artist at Lycée Rochambeau (The French International School), The Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen, Moore College of Art, Project Learn School, The Hillside School, and Riverside Correctional Facility. She has worked with numerous education and community outreach programs such as Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Twist Out Cancer, Morris Home, Mural Arts Philadelphia, and many more.
Some of her clients include Zappos, Primark, Nasdaq, Target, Marriott Hotels, The Wells Fargo Center, and Blick Art Materials.
Her murals invite you inside a collaged, fabricated dreamscape of paint, mysterious beauty, and contemporary iconography. She's interested in combining realism with abstract concepts and design to create a surreal experience. Symbolic elements, graphic imagery, and vibrant bursts of color are frequent components of her work. She's drawn to bold, feminine color palettes, and loves to incorporate neon pink as much as possible!