Meg Saligman

Meg Saligman is an American mural artist.[1] Saligman has painted more than fifty murals internationally, including several of the largest murals in the United States.[2] The artist is known for mixing classical and contemporary aspects of painting, and for her community centered process. [3] Saligman's seminal murals in the late 1990s-early 2000s are credited as exceptionally influential to the contemporary mural movement.[4]

Notable Works

Saligman's public art can be divided into three distinct, but related, bodies of work: large-scale exterior murals, hybrid interior/exterior projects, and temporary installations.

Mega Murals

2015 - MLK Mural: We Will Not Be Satisfied Until
2013 - Water Tower, Water Tale
2012 - Hues of the Heart
2012 - Magic Hour
2010 - The Evolving Faces of Nursing
2009 - Fertile Ground
2004 - Passing Through
2002 - Theater of Life
2001 - Once in a Millennium Moon
1998 - Common Threads
1998 - Journey
1996 - One Year
1995 - La Vida de Teatro Venustiana Caranza
1994 - The Phoenix
1993 - The Gateway

Saligman's most famous mural is "Common Threads" in Philadelphia. It is painted on the west wall of the Stevens Administrative Center at the corner of Broad and Spring Garden streets. The mural uses portraiture of local high school students alongside antique dolls owned by Saligman's grandmother to commentate on shared humanity.[5]

Other murals include "Philadelphia Muses" on 13th and Locust streets, a multimedia "Theatre of Life" on Broad and Lombard streets, "Passing Through" over the Schuylkill Expressway, and the paint and LED light installation at Broad and Vine streets, "Evolving Face of Nursing".[6] Saligman's work can be viewed nationally in Shreveport, Louisiana, with "Once in a Millennium Moon", and in Omaha, Nebraska, with "Fertile Ground." Saligman's latest work is The MLK Mural: We Will Not be Satisfied Until on MLK Boulevard in Chattanooga, TN. The mural is the largest mural in the Southeastern United States as well as one of the five largest murals in the United States.[7]

Hybrid Interior/Exterior Projects

2015 - Woven Sanctuary
2014 - Water, Earth, Fire
2012 - Safety Net
2011 - The Mustard Tree

Temporary Installations

2016 - Our Common Ground - Vote for the Good Life
2015 - Knotted Grotto

Biography

Saligman grew up in the small town of Olean, New York. In high school she helped to paint one of the murals in Olean. Saligman's first independent mural was painted on the front of a sweater factory that no longer exists, owned by a man that is now her husband.

Saligman currently lives in Philadelphia with her husband Peter and their four children.

External links

References

  1. ↑ Golden, Jane; Monica Yant Kinney, David Graham (2002). Philadelphia murals and the stories they tell. Temple University Press. pp. 114–129. ISBN 978-1-56639-951-7. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
  2. ↑ "The MLK Mural: We Will Not Be Satisfied Until". Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  3. ↑ "America's Boulevard". Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  4. ↑ "Public Art Chattanooga Calls For Local Artists for M.L. King Mural". Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  5. ↑ "Common Threads | Mural Arts Program". muralarts.org. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  6. ↑ "Meg's Story". MegSaligman.com. Retrieved June 26, 2012.
  7. ↑ "The MLK Mural: We Will Not Be Satisfied Until - Forecast Public Art". Forecast Public Art. Retrieved 2016-03-04.


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