Field Trip: I Take You to the Making of a Mural

Folks, come with me. We’re hanging out under some train tracks late at night in Philadelphia doing street art. As the promised companion piece to our wonderful Modern Toichographology episode on murals and street art, this Field Trip takes us to where the action happens, chatting with several muralists as they work on their 17-foot paintings lining Front Street. You’ll meet UNAPXLXGETIQ, El Toro, and Iris Barbee Pendergrass a.k.a. These Pink Lips, Donna Grace Kroh, and Mr. Scoot and learn about their favorite inspirations, methods to making their designs huge, how many Sharpies it takes to outline a building-sized painting, sticker vs. marker vs. paint, graphic and text mural designs, freehand, and most of all, how not to get caught doing illegal art. Onward.  A donation went to Mural Arts Philadelphia Conrad Brenner / Streets Dept Instagram | website Mural Arts Philadelphia Instagram | website Donna Grace Kroh Instagram Iris Barbee Pendergrass/ These Pink Lips  Instagram | website Emmanuel Wisdom/ Unapxlxgetiq Instagram | website Michele Scott / Mr. Scooot Instagram | website Justin Nagatalon / El Toro Instagram | website Emily White (wasn’t in the ep but was the 4th muralist of the set) Instagram More episode sources and links Smologies (short, classroom-safe) episodes Sponsors of Ologies Transcripts and bleeped episodes Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, hoodies, totes! Follow @Ologies on Instagram and X Follow @AlieWard on Instagram and X Editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions and Jacob Chaffee Managing Director: Susan Hale Scheduling producer: Noel Dilworth Transcripts by Aveline Malek  Website by Kelly R. Dwyer Theme song by Nick Thorburn