The Church of the Advocate Murals were created between 1973 and 1976 to depict the parallels of Biblical passages and the history of Black people in Africa and America.
After years in storage, Gerhard Marcks’ bronze Maja recently returned to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in a new public park, “Maja Park”. The sculpture once stood on the East Terrace of the nearby Philadelphia Museum of Art for decades.
This site-specific installation in a condominium courtyard traffic circle utilizes remaining architectural elements of the historic building that once stood at the site: the Preston Retreat maternity hospital. The design also incorporates local stone and planting materials native to the area.
Lighthearted and cartoon-like, these twin spiral mobiles and their complementary murals capture the free-spirited energy and playfulness of the youth who use the Mount Airy recreation center.
Completed in 2010, the watershed-shaped Decay Garden at Washington Avenue Green harnesses the natural power of plant roots to gradually break apart an industrial hardscape.
On view in 6 U.S. cities, including Philadelphia, Liberty Bell is an augmented reality public art project that relies on geolocation and requires downloading a free app. The animation invites viewers the opportunity to consider their own experiences of liberty, freedom, and injustice and inequality.
Fredenthal was fascinated by patterns made by simple geometric objects. These four interpenetrating pyramidal forms of black painted steel depict the shape of an asymmetrical evergreen tree.
Originally designed for an opera house in Vienna, these two winged horses and their muses were purchased by a Philadelphia businessman and installed at Memorial Hall for the 1876 Centennial Exposition.
Anthony J. Drexel was a powerful Philadelphia financier and philanthropist. He founded Drexel University and served as the first president of the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art).
Considered a pioneering figure of minimalism, Tony Smith is best known for his abstract, modular sculptures. This hulking open cube of welded steel, painted black, can be walked through but also create a boxed-in feeling.