Building Community Through Murals
Includes a Live Web Event on 01/08/2025 at 7:00 PM (EST)
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Building Community Through Murals
Wednesday, January 8, 2025 | 7–8pm ET
FREE for NAEA members; $49 for nonmembers
Join a discussion with leaders from community-based mural organizations from around the country and discover how the art of mural making can transform public spaces and individual lives. Hear from:
- Mural Arts Philadelphia—a group that engages communities in 50–100 public art projects each year, creating project-based learning opportunities for thousands of youths and adults.
- Mending Walls—a Richmond, Virginia–based collaborative, community-engaged mural program that aims to advance social justice by connecting community members from different backgrounds in conversation to foster empathy, understanding, and healing.
- Muralist Alexa Chumpitaz, discussing community-engaged murals and leading art workshops targeted to underserved communities in North Carolina.
Netanel Portier
Mural Arts Philadelphia, Senior Director of Learning & Practice, Philadelphia, PA
Netanel Portier, with Mural Arts Philadelphia since 2009, joined its executive team in 2023 and launched the Mural Arts Institute in 2017, sharing Mural Arts’s learnings with other change-making leaders across the globe. Devoted to peer learning and community-centered cultural practices, Netanel enjoys bringing together diverse artists and communities through socially engaged public art practices.
Hamilton Glass
Artist, Mending Walls, Richmond, VA
Hamilton Glass’s career as an artist stems from his architecture and design background. After working in architecture for 7 years, his passion for public art took over. As a Philadelphia native, public art has always been a big influence and inspiration to Hamilton because of its power to influence and inspire the surrounding community. Using his background in architecture, he creates images that reference architectural drafting practices, represented in the pieces’ sharp lines, scale, and balance. One of the things he enjoys most is creating multilayered projects that amplify many voices.
Alexa Chumpitaz
Visual Artist
Visual artist Alexa Eliana started from small-scale illustrations and has expanded to large-scale murals over the past decade. Her murals showcase vivid colors, patterns, and animals, influenced by her Latinx heritage. Viewers can enjoy her artwork throughout her home state of North Carolina and see how she mixes realistic portrayals with illustrative design. Mural projects and interactive workshops that promote communal participation have become her new, growing passion: collaborative pieces that celebrate the community and are by the community. Her goal with her art is to engage, educate, and empower all types of people in different walks of life.
Upon completion of this NAEA webinar, you may earn 1 hour of professional development credit as designated by NAEA. Once the webinar is completed, you may view/print a Certification of Participation under the "Contents" tab. You may also print a transcript of all webinars attended under the "Dashboard" link in the right sidebar section of the page.
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