Community Impact
“I think Meg put Philadelphia on the map as it relates to public art. She inspired a generation of young artists and now she is committed to helping our city in a different and important way."
- Jane Golden, Executive Director of Mural Arts Philadelphia
Common Threads (1997) on the corner of Broad and Spring Garden Street. Meg Saligman completed this mural with the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program (MAP). Photo: Mellisa Kelly
Knotted Grotto (2015) installation for Pope Francis’s visit to Philadelphia.
“My collaboration with Meg on this particular work of art remains one of the highlights of my life.
Meg is an authentic and gifted artist whose work is always a result of her collaboration with people who are directly involved and impacted... This Grotto was visited by tens of thousands of people from around the world. People waited in long lines to write down their knots and to take a knot of someone else’s and pray for them. It was the most popular activity of the entire Papal visit in the United States, culminating in Pope Francis’ visit to the Grotto when he blessed everyone’s knots and we all prayed together for them.”
- Sister Mary, Founder of Project Home