"A Lunchtime Chat with Carl Pope and Mari Hulick" Thursday, March 5 at Temple GalleryPosted March 2nd, 2010 at 3:25:48pm

In conjunction with Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious at Temple Gallery, artist Carl Pope will present The Wall Remixed: The North Philadelphia Small Business Advertising Campaign along with collaborator and designer Mari Hulick.  Bring your lunches and learn about this major billboard campaign on view through March 2010 in North Central Philadelphia.

About The Wall Remixed: The North Philadelphia Small Business Advertising Campaign
Carl Pope’s billboard project brings the scale of public advertising to the small businesses that define the North Philadelphia neighborhood surrounding Temple University. Collaborating with students from the Mural Arts Program and local business owners in North Philadelphia, Pope and Hulick combined the existing visual identities of the businesses with drawings generated by the children to create a visual statement for the neighborhood. By mixing the existing businesses with children's drawings (utilizing local talent and enterprise), the two have helped mark out a visual identity for the area that makes it unique and personal to the neighborhood. While each business maintains it's own identity, the children's drawings now thread the entire neighborhood into a unique whole. The project replaces the marketing images of multinational corporations with resonant images of local businesses by local residents. Insinuating neighborhood anchors with great local significance into these commercial spaces, Pope and Hulick celebrate the dynamics of community and substitutes their productive values for the easy consumption usually offered in these such advertisements.

About the speakers
Carl Pope received his MFA from Indiana State University, and also studied at the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting. Pope’s work has been widely exhibited including at the Whitney Biennial, the Soap Factory in Minneapolis, MN, Momenta Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Renaissance Society in Chicago, as well as in citywide projects including The Mind of Cleveland.  Pope was an Assistant Professor at The State University of New York at Stony Brook, The University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Hanes Visiting Lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also was a  Fellow at the Humanities Institute at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland School of Art.  He currently lives and works in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Mari Hulick is the Chair of Communication Design at The Cleveland Institute of Art and runs the design consultancy, "the studio", creating Information and Spatial Graphics as well as collateral design. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of California (Los Angeles), and Parsons School of Design in New York. Her client list includes Houghton Mifflin, The Corcoran Group, The Museum of Natural History in New York, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Internationals Public Schools Campaign.