Philadelphia, PA · 2025
Healing Verse Germantown
Healing Verse Germantown — a poetry-driven public art project anchored by a 24/7 mental health poetry hotline (1-855-POEMRX2), bus shelter murals, neon signs, and AR works confronting gun violence through community storytelling.
- Artworks
- 19
- Neighborhoods
- 1
- Attendance
- 6,000
- Press hits
- 11
The project
Healing Verse Germantown
Healing Verse Germantown in Philadelphia was one of the first projects to collaborate on branding, and the team has actively integrated the identity into events, poetry workshops, and press conferences using their helpline motif and recognizable phone illustration. The design draws from the rhythm of poetry and the colors of local murals and natural surroundings, visually aligning the project with its mission to use storytelling as a tool for healing from gun violence.
The full project is not slated to open until 2026, so wayfinding and signage are still under consideration and in development as the team finalizes the site strategy.
Press & coverage
- Axios PhiladelphiaHealing Verses turns grief into public art in Germantown →
- CBS PhiladelphiaNew Germantown art exhibition uses poetry to help survivors of gun violence →
- Philadelphia TribuneYouth voices lead Germantown art healing gun violence →
- The Philadelphia InquirerPhiladelphia launches a $1 million public art program to address gun violence →
- Philadelphia InquirerPhiladelphia Awarded $1 Million Grant to Address Rising Gun Violence Through Public Artworks →
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