Community Art/Cultural Organization

The Garden Intern is an important part of supporting healthy living at PTM and will work within the Exhibits Department to help maintain, improve, and interpret the Please Touch Garden. This opportunity will allow the intern to experience working directly with an urban garden in an interactive children’s museum setting. Primary responsibilities for the Garden Intern include:

Temporary Museum Learning Educators execute multi-faceted educational programs, experiences, and events in the Museum, and offsite with activities for young children, their families, and group, including nontraditional museum audiences and/or underserved populations. Temporary Educators implement programs in the visual and performing arts, STEM, history, social-emotional learning, and early childhood education in a variety of exhibits and studio spaces.

Primary Function: The Program Coordinator is responsible for supporting the production, implementation, communication, and evaluation related to public programs, with special focus on administrative support and program planning. These programs feature different generations of national and international contemporary artists, who bring new perspectives to Alexander Calder’s work and connect them to ideas and experiences relevant to the present. 

Centering experimentation and cross-disciplinarity, programs also include practices related to wellness, the environment, and nature at-large. These programs aim to foster introspection and multiple types of audience engagement, while featuring racial, ethnic, gender, generational and accessibility diversity. 

Reporting to the Marsha Perelman Senior Director of Programs, this individual supports the implementation of all Calder Gardens public programs, as well as the production and planning of private events. The Program Coordinator is also vital for maintaining relationships with internal departments and stakeholders, and with our artistic and community partners locally, nationally and internationally.

Printmaking by the People is a citywide dialogue and public art project about how the Declaration of Independence has set the stage for life in our city and our nation today.

The project is revisiting and reimagining printing’s historic role in public communication and civic dialogue, particularly its roots in Philadelphia as a means of disseminating debates about the movement for independence.

The project will hone in on the Declaration’s promise of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” to the emerging nation. Today, we will ask people to explore where we have succeeded at that, what work remains to be done, and what their own passions and commitments are for the future — and express their ideas through posters that they design and print themselves.

We are inviting any community organization that would like to host a workshop to apply for consideration. Please respond by checking full description and application form.  Please note that our funding allows for  a limited number of workshops available, and we will want to make sure we reach all areas of the city, so we may not be able to schedule workshops for all applicants.

Mural Arts Philadelphia is seeking expressions of interest from non-profit printmaking organizations and from
artists to organize and facilitate printmaking workshops as part of its Printmaking by the People project, a
signature project to celebrate the semi-quincentennial anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.

The project will consist of dozens of workshops throughout the city, a mural in a prominent location, an
exhibition at the Free Library of Philadelphia, and an online gallery.

The project, and our “Among These Are” workshop model, are described in attached documents.
Interested organizations should respond with a letter of interest describing their capacity to take on this project.

Budget: $70,000

For questions or concerns, please contact sahiti.bonam@muralarts.org

To make a submission, follow this link.

Information sessions

Tuesday, February 11 from 6-7pm
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/cxx-ahqj-hmw

Tuesday, February 18 from 6-7pm
Video call link: meet.google.com/ftp-mjpf-aqs

Wednesday, February 19 from 2-3pm
Video call link: meet.google.com/djc-mbeg-sea

Mural Arts Philadelphia is seeking an artist or team of artists to help conceive, design and implement a placemaking project for the new shopping center (Sharswood Plaza) at Ridge Avenue, Jefferson Street and 21st Street, in the Sharswood neighborhood of North Central Philadelphia.

The placemaking project will consist of painting a ground mural on two segments of a pedestrian walkway that connects a community plaza to the entrance of a supermarket, and painting murals on the vertical concrete columns of a parking garage that faces the plaza and the street. Photographs of the site are provided in an attachment to this RFQ. Artists / artist teams must have the skills to lead community engagement, and to design and install their projects. Mural Arts will provide technical assistance and facilitate approvals. For artists applying on their own, Mural Arts can also put together a team of assistants.

Three artists / teams will be paid a fee of $1,000 for preparing and proposing a concept for the project. The artist fee for the community engagement process, finalizing the design and installing the murals, including both lead artist and assistants, will be $70,000. This will include priming the walls and painting and sealing the murals. Mural Arts will pay for materials, supplies and equipment, and manage permissions for the work. The project will begin upon the selection of the artist, with installation expected to be complete by the end of July, 2025.

Printmaking by the People – a reflection on the nation’s semi-quincentennial – is a public art project that will engage people across Philadelphia in a dialogue about how the promise of the Declaration of Independence has set the stage for life in our city and our nation today. It will result in a signature Center City mural and an exhibition at the Free Library of Philadelphia in 2026.

Printmaking by the People will reimagine the Declaration of Independence, asking people across Philadelphia simple yet catalytic questions that arise at this moment: 

• What values do we share? 
• What work remains to be done to realize the promises of the Declaration? 
• How might the Declaration’s vision be reimagined for the future? 

The project will also reimagine printmaking’s historic role in public communication and civic dialogue, particularly its roots in Philadelphia as a means of disseminating debates and news about the movement for independence. It will embrace the tradition of poster-making as a means of political expression and advocacy. 

Throughout the coming year, Mural Arts will convene free workshops across the city, led by facilitators and artists, that feature small-group dialogues and hands-on printing activities that engage people in this dialogue and provide a space for them to create prints with their own messages.

See more in full description.

Role Type: Full-Time
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Salary Range: $65,000 - $75,000 / year

The Development & Communications Manager will play a key role in supporting SAADA’s fundraising efforts and implementing and overseeing our communications activities.

We are seeking a Program & Education Manager who will be responsible for supporting arts program development and impact measurement.  The Program & Education Manager will support teaching artists and instructors with curriculum development, assessing learning objectives, and evaluating outcomes.

The Chief Development Officer (CDO) at Please Touch Museum (PTM) is accountable for setting and achieving the contributed revenue goals of PTM and manages and is accountable for special projects and initiatives that advance PTM’s mission.