About this Event
Drawing and collage offer another way to understand a place. Through a combination of collage, painting, and drawing, participants can create colorful imaginary maps that reflect both real and invented landscapes. Join us at the Free Library for a hands-on map-making workshop that blends creativity, exploration, and play. Participants will collage with existing maps: cutting, layering, and rearranging them into new terrains and add their own imagery, pathways, and details using markers, pencils and paint. This workshop invites all ages to reimagine familiar places, dream up new ones, and discover how maps can become fun source material.
Miriam Singer is a Philadelphia-based artist who combines drawing, painting, and printmaking to create layered, imaginative interpretations of city life. Her work explores urban environments through a blend of observation and invention, often merging architectural details, public spaces, and abstract forms. Singer has created murals and public artworks for organizations including the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, the Philadelphia International Airport, and the Albright-Knox Public Art Program in Buffalo, NY. Her mural Compass Map (2020), created in partnership with NewCourtland Senior Services and the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, features drawings of neighborhood architecture surrounding NewCourtland buildings in Philadelphia. It was painted with the help of local seniors, who contributed to both the design and painting process.
An active educator, Singer teaches printmaking at Fleisher Art Memorial, where she leads workshops in etching and screen printing on fabric. Her collaborative, community-based approach extends to her print projects as well. Such as creating screen prints to support mural fundraising and public engagement.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries and alternative spaces including Paradigm Gallery, James Oliver Gallery, The Fairmount House, LG Tripp Gallery, and Vox Populi. Singer is a member of the artist collective Space 1026, where she also maintains a studio. She holds an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and a BA from Brandeis University.
This program is part of the Kaleidoscope: Mixing Shapes, Colors, and Motion exhibition, which can be viewed in the 2nd Floor West Gallery of Parkway Central from December 2025 through February 2026.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Art Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, United States
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