Meg Saligman
Meg Saligman is an American mural artist.[1] Saligman has painted more than fifty murals all over the world, including Philadelphia, Shreveport, Louisiana, Mexico City, and many other places. Saligman has a way of mixing the classical and contemporary aspects of painting together.
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Works
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. Other major works 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".[2] Saligman's work can be viewed nationally in Shreveport, Louisiana, with "Once in a Millennium Moon", and in Omaha, Nebraska, with "Fertile Ground."
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
- Meg Saligman official website
- Fertile Ground: Omaha Mural Project
- Theater of Life - Philadelphia
- Once in a Millennium Moon - Shreveport, Louisiana
- "The Murals of Philadelphia", Time magazine
- Meg Saligman's "Common Threads" - A Review, The Free Library
- Philadelphia Muses, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
- Family Portrait, A Meg Saligman Project
