Based in Philadelphia, #FillTheWallsWithHope began in early March, 2020 in response to the growing number of boarded up businesses, emptiness, and fear that was spreading across the city. We asked artists and poets, "If you could fill the walls with your words and images, what would you share in this moment to support folks emotional/mental health, share resources, and help us all dream of a more just, creative, and beautiful future?" As dozens of submissions came in, they were printed and wheat pasted on blank walls and boarded up businesses. Within a month we've installed over a thousand posters across the city.

The project has since developed partnerships with journalists, non-profits, and city programs to help spread public health information and graphics to thousands of residents through yard signs, virtual billboards, vinyl decals at free food distribution sites (giving people safe places to stand while sharing hopeful images and information), and a multitude of mass distribution strategies. 


Have a building and wanna host the exhibition? Reach out and we'll organize!

Did you download, print, and put them up in your windows or neighborhood?
Send a photo and we'll put it up here!

Ruth and Clearfield

5 days a week #StepUpTothePlate is doing free food distribution, medical support, and so much more for folks in Kensington. This week we had the honor to partner with them on some new #FilltheWallsWithHope wheatpaste murals to help make their work look, feel, and function as powerful as possible. This mural was made possible through the support of Mural Arts (thank you!)

3rd and South ST

Thanks to South St Headhouse District for their Support!

The Village of Arts and Humanities
2544 Germantown Ave

Supporting their food distribution (twice a week) our artwork serves as the backdrop as they serve out hundreds of boxes of free food, resources (including coloring books for kids!) and more. Artwork has been paired with public health messaging and been transformed into huge vinyl banners, yard signs, vinyl decals (to mark where people can safely wait for food while having something beautiful and informative to read), and wheat paste murals.

Huge thanks to Color Reflections PHL for printing our banners and vinyl decals for free!!!! Support their work!

Asian Arts Initiative
1219 Vine St, Philadelphia

Huge thanks to Color Reflections for the Printing Support on this!

12th and Spring Garden

Thanks to Arts and Holding Company / Mural Arts for their Support

EMERGE // Multiple Locations

THE LATIN ROOT OF THE WORD EMERGENCE, EMERGERE, MEANS “TO BRING TO LIGHT.” We partnered Mural Arts Philadelphia’s on the EMERGE campaign aims to foster inspiration and hope, acknowledging not just the intersections of COVID-19 and systemic racism in America, but the innate strength and resilience of people of color challenged by both pandemics. Apprentices in The Guild, a job readiness curriculum for citizens returning from incarceration, were paired with a writing coach to develop their original PSAs, we then helped them turn these into powerful portraits and posters which we then pasted up on walls across philly. 

Poets: Freeway, Mary “Isis Tha Savior” Baxter, Ant Brown, Nina “Lyrispect” Ball, Ursula Rucker, Taliah Neal, Wayne Gainey, Saul Miller, Tamir Redding. 
Video Production by Chad Eric Smith, MisterDuke Productions LLC. 
Posters designed by Mark Strandquist, Kate DeCiccio. 
Emerge Campaign led by Restorative Justice Director, Greg Corbin. PROJECT MANAGER: Kali Silverman

26th and South St

Huge thanks to all the neighbors from Fitler Square and Graduate Hospital who made this possible!

Brewerytown Garden Food Distribution

Banners and vinyl decals were used to support Brewerytown Garden's weekly free food distribution that gives out hundreds of free boxes of food per week.

South St (between 7th and 8th)

Thanks to South Street Head District for their support and the UPS store at 3rd St for all their printing help!

20th and Ridge

52nd and Baltimore

2nd and Laurel

Thanks to for all their support

Color Reflections
475 N 5th St

They downloaded posters and turned it into a giant 25x14ft banner for their building!!!!!
​Support their amazing work HERE. 

Outside of Mariposa Co-op

We set up a banner outside of #MariposaFoodCoop in SW philly so that, as people wait in line to get into the store (cause The Coop is taking the right moves for all of us!), they have something positive, informative, and inspiring to read and engage.

PhillyCam
669 Ranstead St

PhillyCam staff printed and pasted the posters up in their windows for their neighbors to see!

All Across the City

Wheat paste posters we've found that other people did!!!!!
Thanks to everyone whose put the work up in your windows, workplace, and city streets!