OUTsideIN:
A Collaboration between the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Mural Arts Program
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OUTsideIN was an opportunity for emerging and established artists from the Mid-Atlantic region to undertake the challenge of creating a temporary two-dimensional work in an indoor public gallery space. Ten artists were selected to develop a proposal for the final execution of a site-specific work on the walls of the Art Alliance second floor galleries. The project was designed to encourage innovative and experimental public projects that would combine the conceptual framework of the outdoor mural into a temporary indoor space. The artists that were selected prepared their projects with the PAA and the Mural Arts Program and executed the piece during a three-week period.
Participating artists included: Nancy Agati, David Guinn and Jim Hinz (collaborative project), Valerie Hollister, B. Ever Nalens, Matthew Pruden, Paul Santoleri, Buy Shaver, Elisheva Biernoff and Jennifer Smith (collaborative project), Xiang Yang, and Mauro Zamora.
Selections were based on the strength of previous site-specific works as well as the proposal created for the Mural Arts Program and the Art Alliance. Themes ranged from identity, to history, to the environment and architecture, and were created in a variety of media ranging from stencils, to silk embroidery, to watercolor, among many others.
