Mural Arts Philadelphia is seeking an artist to collaborate with participants from two Porch Light storefront communities on a day-long field trip to New York City on Saturday April 25 as part of Porch Light Exchange. This project will support neighbors from the Northeast Passage and Southeast by Southeast storefronts in traveling together, reflecting on shared experiences of home and immigration, and creating original artistic work in response to that experience.

The selected artist will lead preparatory workshops, facilitate reflection during the trip itself, and guide participants in producing creative work afterward. The final work may take the form of a zine, photo series, video, book of drawings, or another artist-proposed format, and will be shared publicly at a community celebration at a later date. We encourage proposals especially from poetry and other language mediums.