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location
Citywide
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Neighborhood
Citywide
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completion date
July 01, 2022
Year Two: People’s Budget
Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
The goal was to advocate, negotiate, collaborate, and dream of a city budget that is more just, equitable, and sustainable. Through these negotiations, artists created a series of posters wheat-pasted across Philly and held a People’s Budget Festival, in May, 2022 that invited the public to imagine what they want to see from the budget.
Artist Team

Phoebe Bachman
Phoebe Bachman
p.bachman is a Philadelphia-based socially engaged artist whose practice is rooted in facilitation, collaboration, and advocacy. They work alongside local experts to amplify ongoing acts of resistance and build reciprocal relationships in various communities. Their recent body of work is focused on the economics of incarceration, civic engagement, and government budgets. Their methodologies range from mapping and collage to creating popular education tools, to facilitating intimate and large-scale events.
Bachman completed a Master’s at the Center for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University of London. They are a founding member of BetweenSpace, a member of Urban Front, a transnational cooperative consultancy, and work closely with the Debt Collective Philadelphia Revenue Project, and End the Exception.
Her work has been supported by numerous organizations including Mural Arts Philadelphia, Worth Rises, Rule of Threes, BAK, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Tiger Strikes Astroid, Hale Gallery, and Creative Time.

Blanche Brown
Blanche Brown
Blanche Brown grew up in the Florida panhandle. She currently lives, works, and collaborates with arts and community-based organizations in Philadelphia. Her docu-poem, Consider the Oyster, won the 2019 Diagram/New Michigan Press chapbook contest and The Subject Line Reads was released by Cut Bank in fall 2022.

Maia Chao
Maia Chao
https://www.maiachao.com/Maia Chao is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines informal and formal institutions, such as family, schools, museums, language, economic systems and legal systems. Working collaboratively in performance, video, sculpture, installation, and social practice, she draws on methods from anthropology, linguistics, and psychology. She is co-creator of the social practice project, Look at Art. Get Paid. Chao has shown at The Shed, Tufts University, Brown University, RISD Museum, Kellen Gallery at Parsons, Haverford College, and Cuchifritos Gallery. Recent fellowships include: Andrew W. Mellon Residency at Haverford College, Asian American Arts Alliance of NYC, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pioneer Works, and Queer|Art. A Fulbright grantee, Chao holds a BA in Anthropology from Brown University and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

Samantha Rise
Samantha Rise
http://samantharise.com/Music is your birthright.
Your voice belongs as it is, you belong as you are.
We can’t be afraid and sing at the same time.
These are the tenets and principles that guide Samantha Rise, a non-binary songcatcher and performer based in Philadelphia. As a self described ‘pollinator’ performer, their songs collect and evoke their myriad influences, across labels of genres and medium.
Samantha’s passion for music and community building are the heart of their work; a student of jazz, improvisation, social justice movements and the music that drives them, Samantha encourages a unique vulnerability with their audiences, reminding us all that music is our birthright, and a technology of healing, transformative justice and self-determination.
An award-winning songcatcher, Rise’s music is sensual and staggering in its accounts of what it means to allow ourselves to be known; giving voice to heartbreak, hope and all the spaces between, wherever words fail. Through their music, Samantha Rise invites us to listen for our own music, and to sing in the world we know is possible.

Eugenio Salas
Eugenio Salas
Eugenio Salas (Canada/Mexico, b.1976. Mexico City) is a self-taught artist based in Lënapehòkink, the ancestral homelands of the Lenape people, also known as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His practice involves disrupting social roles and dynamics through collaborative process-based projects carried out autonomously and within institutions. The resulting participatory performative actions employ media, print, and cooking. Previous projects include Snack Pack, a doughnut-based stop-motion animation work reflecting on his first job as a new immigrant; Tunnel, an installation involving the construction of a tunnel inside an art gallery with a non-status construction worker and gallery curator; YYZGRU Express, a parcel delivery system designed to exchange personal objects between Brazilians in Toronto and their families back home; Social Plastics/Nail Party, a participatory performance in a nail salon in collaboration with an immigrant family of nail technicians; The Supercake, a 22-foot long edible sculpture in collaboration with immigrant women with whom he worked at a cake factory, and Garage_____, a land art installation and impromptu art exhibition on a major artery in London (Canada). He is currently working with immigrant Latinx cooks, waste laborers, food producers and grassroots journalists in Philadelphia on a participatory project to develop sculptures for cooking out of waste called Waste Feast/Fogones.
Posters
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
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Produced by Mural Arts Philadelphia and facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman, A People’s Budget FY23 brought together a group of artists to collectively reimagine Philadelphia’s city budget. Selected artists Blanche Brown, Eugenio Salas, Samantha Rise, and Maia Chao worked collectively to visualize five core components of the city budget building off of the themes from the previous year: How we exchange and steward, how we heal and protect our community, how we learn and grow, how we live and share space, how we govern and administrate
Artists, Phoebe Bachman, Blanche Brown, Samantha Rise, Eugenio Salas, Maia Chao, worked with design by M Slater, to create a series of posters for the project. They elicited budget priorities from city officials, grassroots organizers, and advocacy groups and then designed them onto posters that were wheat-pasted across the city.
The artists also created their own interpretive posters which included photographs of immigrant businesses, a collaborative piece of music, a poem about budget line items, and a diagram of who makes decisions on the budget. Artists also annotated the existing budget, highlighting key bits of information and questioning the existing structure.
People’s Budget Festival
As part of A People’s Budget FY23, the collaborating artists produced a fun, interactive festival about the city budget. At the Festival, Philadelphians were invited to quite literally take a seat at the table to create the People’s Budget. The artists created a multi-sensory experience that included a delicious meal cooked by Mercado de Latinas, music by local performers, and games to better understand the budget. The festival was hosted at Kingsessing recreation center, highlighting the need to fund public spaces.
Funder
City of Philadelphia
Partners
The City of Philadelphia Budget Office, Mercado de Latinas, Councilmember Kendra Brooks Office, Philly Revenue Project