MAJOR WORKS 1995-2007
Bahdeebahdu Gallery Exhibition- Philadelphia, PA
Exhibition including installations, archival prints and paintings. Oct/Nov 2007
Room 414 –Westin Hotel Philadelphia, PA
Collaboration with Philadelphia artists creating a one of a kind work of art. Spotlighted in USA Today
“The coolest hotel room in the country.” 2007
“Oh World I Can Not Hold You Close Enough.” 1200 sq. ft., Wynnewood, PA
Artist in Residence. Student created and painted imagery. This was combined with Meg’s Trom d’loeil techniques. 2005
The Family Portrait: A Perfect Community Mural – 2000 sq. ft., Philadelphia, PA.
The Public is asked to both draw and vote on an image that will be a mural on 2nd and Race Streets in Philadelphia. This design process creates the perfect family while poking fun and investigating how public art really gets created in contemporary times. 2005
Passing Through – 15,000 sq. ft., 14 sites, Philadelphia, PA.
One 5,000 sq. ft. central site and 13 satellite locations. A public work of art scattered throughout the city of Philadelphia. Signage was altered with eavesdropped words heard at each location. 2003-2004
Broad & Lombard Sts. - 6,000 sq. ft., Philadelphia, PA.
Located across from the new Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts on South Broad Street, this mural, The Theatre of Life incorporates sculptural, mosaic and computer generated media. 2002
“Once in a Millennium Moon” - 30,000 sq. ft., Shreveport, LA.
Largest publicly funded mural in the United States. This two-sided painting wraps around the AT&T communications center for the Southeast. It explores the theme of the cycles of life. This project involved over 2500 community participants. 2000-2001
“Philadelphia Muses” - 6,000 sq. ft., Philadelphia, PA.
This painting appears near Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts. It explores the diversity of artistic disciplines today. It features the nine contemporary muses of the arts taking part in a gigantic arts game. 1999
“Journey” - 2200 sq. ft., Philadelphia, PA.
This multi-paneled mural covers a Children’s Crisis Treatment Center and it depicts a metaphorical journey that parallels what a youth might experience at the center. 1998
“Common Threads” - 7500 sq. ft., Philadelphia, PA.
The largest mural in Philadelphia transforms a classic building into an urban masterpiece. Students from an area high school are juxtaposed with classical figurines. 1997
“One Year” - 2000 sq. ft., Norristown, PA.
A painting and ceramic collaboration that covers four sides of a campus art building. 1996
“La Vida de Teatro Venustiana Caranza” - 1800 sq. ft., Mexico City, Mexico.
This gigantic fresco adorns the front of a Mexican theatre. It takes political figures (typically painted in Mexican murals) and replaces them with the portraits of people who live in the adjoining park. 1995
“Phoenixville” - 3500 sq. ft., Phoenixville, PA.
This painting spans the side of a four story building and depicts the metaphorical rebirth and history of a steel town. 1994
“The Gateway” - 3200 sq. ft., Philadelphia, PA.
Located in the heart of Central Philadelphia, this mural is an innovated look at a city’s present day people and its historical past. 1993
AWARDS AND HONORS
RPM (Rescue Public Murals –http://rescuepublicmurals org) National Advisory Committee, 2005-2007.
Visionary Artist Award, 2006 City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program award for outstanding vision and groundbreaking achievement.
Spotlight on Muralists Public Art Review, Fall/Winter 2005.
Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship, 2002.
Franklin Institute IMAX Film, spotlight in Philadelphia Anthem.
NEA/Mid Atlantic Artists Create for the Millennium Resident Artist, 2000.
Leeway Foundation/Award for Excellence, 2000.
Art in America’s Public Art Year in Review, 1999.
National Endowment for the Arts / MidAtlantic Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1996.
Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship, 1996.
National Endowment for the Arts, International Residency, 1995.
Pew Charitable Trust Disciplinary Finalist, Painting, 1993.
Rutgers University / MidAtlantic Foundation for the Arts Resident Artist, 1994.
Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship, 1992.
Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Roster Artist, AIE, 1993 - 1996.
Rutgers University Museum of Fine Arts print collection.
Johnson and Johnson works on paper collection.
EDUCATION
Washington University, School of Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO.
B.F.A., May 1987, major in painting. Honors include Commencement Marshall awarded for highest GPA at Washington University School of Fine Arts and Julia M. Charlotte Secor Award for superior performance in junior painting.
Parsons School of Design, New York, N.Y.
Freshman Core Program.
Meg's Story
Meg Saligman was born in Olean, New York in 1965. There she experimented with many kid friendly medias including finger paint, the etch-a-sketch, and play dough. She painted her first mural in 1989 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since then her talents have blossomed into an internationally recognized mural career. Meg has created Philadelphia’s landmark “Common Threads” at Broad and Spring Garden Streets. Other well known works include “Philadelphia Muses” on 13th and Locust Streets, a multimedia “Theatre of Life” on Broad and Lombard Streets and the new “Passing Through” wall that can be seen looming over the Schuylkill Expressway. Saligman’s work can be seen in both the national and international arena of public Art. She has created work from a fresco in Mexico City to the largest publicly funded project in the United States in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Her work has been influential from the very beginning. In Philadelphia, she was the first artist to include community members in the actual mural itself. One of Saligman’s greatest innovations was that she devised a system where people from communities could easily paint the murals themselves. This technique has enabled entire cities and even prison communities to participate in the public art making process. Saligman was the first artist to use a computer in the designing of murals here in Philadelphia. Her influence continues as she has developed many computer techniques that are widely used in the designing process. She currently is developing digital works incorporating LED and moving images.
Meg’s work has been celebrated nationally. In 2006, Saligman was featured as one of ten muralists from throughout the country who has been influential in the past decade in the national publication, Public Art Review. She has received numerous awards that include honors from The National Endowment of the Arts, The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Philadelphia’s Leeway Foundation.