{"id":3356,"date":"2021-10-13T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbhids.org\/dev\/?post_type=news&p=3356"},"modified":"2022-12-06T19:11:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T19:11:52","slug":"mural-arts-paid-homeless-artists-to-paint-200-columns-underneath-broad-street","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dbhids.org\/dev\/news\/mural-arts-paid-homeless-artists-to-paint-200-columns-underneath-broad-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Mural Arts paid homeless artists to paint 200 columns underneath Broad Street"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
WHYY October 13, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CLICK TO READ ENTIRE ARTICLE ON WHYY AND WATCH VIDEO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The subway concourse at Walnut Street Station in Philadelphia is supported by about 200 concrete columns, which are holding up South Broad Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Each is now painted with artistic designs, as part of a program that employs people experiencing homelessness and economic insecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The rows of columns were designed with geometric patterns by artist Lauren Cat West <\/a>and painted by hundreds of people hired through Color Me Back, a program of Mural Arts Philadelphia that identifies people who are homeless or economically insecure, pays them $50 for working a 4-hour workday, and offers them social services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n