Alliance for Building Communities
Building a tomorrow for our communities today
LEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT
Bridging
Communities, Embracing Change
is the Lehigh Valley
Mural Project’s first mural, located at 6th &
Chew Streets in Allentown. The mural was done
with oversight from artist Michelle Angela Ortiz,
first assistant Matt Halm, and second assistant
Alwing Lopez. The project was funded by
grants from the Harry C. Trexler Trust, an
anonymous donor, the Lehigh Valley Community
Foundation, the Century Fund, and Just Born,
Inc. Special thanks to Congregations United
for Neighborhood Action (CUNA;) Safe Space, which
proposed a mural after two houses at the site were
demolished; the Lehigh Valley Community Mural
Project Committee; the Allentown Housing Authority
(owner of the site;) Safeway Services, Inc.; and
Valley Wide Signs and Graphics.

Healing, located in the 100 block of North
8th Street in Allentown, is the second in a series
of three murals done by the Lehigh Valley Community
Mural Project, a collaboration between Alliance for
Building Communities and the Hispanic American
League of Artists (HALA.) Artists Anita
Wagenvoord and Matt Halm coordinated the effort and
oversaw a “staff” of volunteer painters. This
mural was inspired by a Revolutionary War hospital
once near the site, which treated wounded
soldiers. Like the previous mural, the
subject matter for Healing
was conceived through
meetings with neighbors and collaboration
partners. The project was made possible by
generous support from Harry C. Trexler Trust, City
of Allentown, Old Allentown Preservation
Association, Rodale Foundation, Wachovia Bank,
Metropolis Management, Action Rental, All That Hair
and Nail Salon, Mr. & Mrs. Fred B. Ball and an
anonymous donor. Alliance for Building Communities
and the Lehigh Valley Community Mural Project wish
to thank all our partners for helping to
make Healing
become a
reality!

Love
Educates,
depicted on the side of Vic’s Market, located at
the corner of 4th and Gordon Streets in the City of
Allentown, is the third in a series of three murals
done by the Lehigh Valley Community Mural Project,
a collaboration between Alliance for Building
Communities and the Hispanic American League of
Artists (HALA.) Artist Russell Buckingham;
First Assistant Muralist, Matt Halm; and Second
Assistant Muralist, Amy Kelly coordinated the
effort and oversaw a “staff” of volunteer
painters. This mural was inspired by the
community’s desire to depict hope, love and
education, images that were significant and
reflected the
community
surrounding the mural. The project was made
possible by generous support from the Harry C
Trexler Trust, The Rodale Foundation, a private
foundation that wishes to remain anonymous, The
Wachovia Foundation, the City of Allentown’s Weed
& Seed initiative, the Salvation Army and
Sacred Heart Hospital. Alliance for Building
Communities and the Lehigh Valley Community Mural
project wish to thank all our partners for helping
to make
Love
Educates become
a reality!



