Murals, Street Art, and Graffiti: How Philadelphia Artists Maneuver the Politics of Public Space
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2017
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology
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In this thesis, I conceptualize and analyze the distinctions between three kinds of public art in Philadelphia (murals, street art, and graffiti) using interviews that I conducted with various individuals from the Philadelphia public art community. As I do this, I provide small case studies of various murals created by the Mural Arts Program, I examine the Mural Arts Program community mural-making process and how it chooses which communities to collaborate with, and I analyze how members of the street art community and the Mural Arts Program conceptualize the differences between murals, street art, and graffiti. However, the underlying question of this thesis is one regarding the politics of public space, as the prioritization and illegalization of different kinds of public art makes a profound statement about who is welcome in a space and who isn’t.