News

In recent months, Brunson worked with Mural Arts (which she featured in an early Abbott episode) to spearhead the development of an education-focused mural on Hamilton Elementary. The mural is designed by Philadelphia painter Athena Scott, an alum of the Art Institute of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

The Drunken Knitwits also created public art in Fitler Square and Cherry Street Pier last year.

Athena Astraea joins Art Outside host Conrad Benner to talk about her journey from the 9-5 office life to portrait painting in a shipping container. Athena Astraea is featured in the Cherry Street Pier Artist-in-Residence program, where the visitors can see and communicate with artists in publicly accessible studios.

Painter Athena Scott’s winding path as an artist has brought her through many of Philly’s famous arts schools and institutions – Temple’s Tyler School of Art, the University of the Arts, PAFA, and more. We meet her in September of 2024 at her studio in Cherry Street Pier where she tells us the ups and downs of an artist’s life, the fate of Philly’s art world, and how she got hand-picked by Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson to make a mural.

Studio artist Caroline Stoughton shares about how her childhood inspires her vibrant, floral paintings. Her excellent interview starts off the episode.