Gill Saligman is MoA’s resident engineer, repurposing old machines and banking equipment into new automated sculptures. With no formal art background, he blends engineering skills and playful curiosity to bring discarded tech to life. His kinetic creations blur the line between function and imagination, inviting people to see machines not just as tools, but as expressive, evolving forms of creativity.

In early modern Europe, artists labeled their work ad vivum—“from life”—to suggest authenticity. But often, it wasn’t true. As curiosity about the natural world exploded, illustrations filled the gaps, combining careful observation with creative guesswork and introducing the term counterfeiting into the mix.

Within the underbelly of Ministry of Awe lies Asset Liquification, a department where the desks of Ministry workers remain eerily intact. No employees can be found. What happens when a constructed fiction begins to feel just as revealing as a lived truth?

Our summer Bloomberg interns, Gabe and Ingrid, reflect on their experience as part of the MoA Art Team.

July through photos, photographed by Melissa Kelly.

Malachi Floyd: artist, designer & always evolving

Madison Polidoro: artist, fabricator & amateur biologist based in Philadelphia. A student of art since her formative years, she has dedicated her life to her expanding body of work, and accumulated a variety of fabrication skills.

5 Questions with Eric Dale aka Eric the Puzzler, the designer behind the Mega-Mystery Puzzle Experience.

Meg reflects on her experience with Pope Francis in 2015

Graham Pfeil is an illustrator and muralist based in Philadelphia. Taking inspiration from nature and community events, he blends traditional and digital methods to capture the beauty of the natural world in his own unique style.