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Ali M Williams is a Philadelphia-based artist and public muralist. She began creating murals after she graduated from Moore College of Art and Design with a BFA in Fine Art. She has exhibited her work and murals internationally and has led workshops in schools and community programs throughout the east coast.
She has worked with numerous education and community outreach programs such as Cancer Treatment Centers of America, The American Foundation For Suicide Prevention, The Pennsylvania Conference for Women, Riverside Correctional Facility, Zambia Tukongote Community Projects, The Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society, Mural Arts Philadelphia, The City of Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services, and at-risk youth and adults, as well as a range of participants of all ages. Some of her recent clients include The Wells Fargo Center, Primark, The NFL, Zappos, New Balance, and Nasdaq.
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Poppies be poppin 🌸
I’m now offering custom pet portraits! There are only a few slots available while I finish working on this mural for Morris Animal Refuge.
For info on how you can snag a limited spot for a custom pet portrait, shoot me a DM or head to the link in my bio 🌸
Here’s one Kitty featured in the @morrisanimalrefuge mural: Cutie boy Oliver 😽🧡 (@k_oday_r ‘s kitty)
Iris approved 💕 The perks of your aunt being a muralist means you make it into a public art piece 🎨 #satellitestomps
Always mixing. Always pink. 💓
Painting dogs all day like it’s my job … it is! 🥰 @morrisanimalrefuge
I think she’s jealous I didn’t start her portrait first 🐶
Rolled out some ghost prints of a newbie mural to show Tula all of her new furry friends.
Ghost prints are a light, faded image of your mural design printed directly onto parachute cloth to help you map out the mural so you can skip the projector and not have to waste time winging it.
Can’t wait to start painting this one for @morrisanimalrefuge - we are pumped! 🐶🐱
Hope to see ya tonight at The 14th annual Jinxed Heart Show - 5-9pm, 1915 Washington Ave, Philly. Tula has other plans and can’t make it but says hi!
All work by participating artists is for sale, with a portion of sales going to The Lutheran Settlement House. 💕 Tula booped my mini heart painting making it priceless.💕
@jinxedstore @lshphilly
My heart for the 14th annual @jinxedstore Heart Show. 🖤 (damn right I did @phoebebridgers sad/fan girl art 😂)
Come see it in person plus a ton of other artists’ hearts tomorrow 5-9pm 1915 Washington Ave, Philly. 😘 xo
When you’re working on a traditional sized painting, but you’re a muralist, so this is the smallest brush you have (and can handle) 🤦🏻♀️
Brush by @blickartmaterials 🎨
That’s a wrap! #netrality
When an expressive, abstract design becomes calculated and monotonous… and Tula reminds me I haven’t pet her in the last 5 minutes. Lawwwwd, help me.
Last one of the year
Oops, never posted a final clean shot of this mini mural for Morgantown, WV. I don’t always release statements about a work (or title them 😂) but I was asked to sit down and write a little something:
🦉 🌸 🌏 🌊 🌈 ☁️ 🌱
‘Trusting The Mystery’
I always find inspiration from the sea and nature. The very essence of our humanness is tied to our connections and cycles within the natural world. In the mural, Trusting The Mystery, the artwork is encased in a perfect circle to signify wholeness and continuous cycles. Branching out from the circle is a rainbow that transforms into abstracted local West Virginia wildflowers.
Symbolically, the fierce sea water depicts the turbulence in our lives and brings forth the question, how do we swim? Rainbows, pink, and purple clouds create the kind of dreamlike beauty that flood you with euphoria. The idea of a pink cloud is meant to represent the changes in your life that can bring you to a place where the struggle is nonexistent, and everything is a little too good to be true. Pink smoke suggests acknowledgement of a higher power, self-renewal, and coming out the other side.
The owl, one of the most mystical creatures, said to bring good omens, free us from things that hold us back, encourage change, growth, transformation, and intuitive development. Owls make regular appearances in my artwork, as I love their symbolism and the magical narrative they bring.
Trusting The Mystery is the spirit inside ourselves that call us to follow the path of our own colors and our own lives to come to a metaphoric field of flowers.
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Really craving Summer mural fashion right now. This snow bunny bundle season ain’t my jam. #throwback #phillyaidsthrift
Gorgeous light on this little bb
No, I didn’t paint this on the floor of my hotel room the morning of my install 😬
Wasn’t sure how I was going to install a single 10’ panel alone with a ladder on a down sloped street (after driving 5 hours) … but I knew I could, and I did 👏 Next time I will pull the Mariah Carey diva card, or at least take a break between driving and climbing ladders.
Pop up studio with @burnoutjewelry
Work in progress from the other week🦉 🌈 getting installed today!
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