| Matt Halm Murals |
| https://matt-halm.com Direct contact link I was born on a June morning in Allentown Pennsylvania. My parents a jet engine mechanic and elementary school teacher gave me a loving home and encouraged me in everything including sport and art. I first learned to draw on the backs of Mack truck invoices that my grandfather gave me by the box full. My grandmother a student of Walter Baum was a beacon guiding me to be an artist. The more I drew my hand became more deft my interest more focused. I soaked up every art class and scribbled on every piece of paper I could find with no idea that I would never stop. When the Allentown Academy of the Arts was born in Allen High School I knew my direction. It was in these rooms after hours of drawing apples or toast that I saw the future. I saw the importance of art and artists and realized someone might actually pay me to create. Amazing. So from then on all I wanted to be was an artist. I walked onto the Syracuse University quad in fall of 1998 wishing to change the world with my mind. The people I knew and things I learned built my mentality formed the way I thought about the earth society and art. I found power in my paint strokes and a voice in eight a.m. critiques. Following college my head was filled with strange and ambitious dreams but my prospects as an artistic commodity were dim to start. To start I swept the floor at a food bank schlepped plumbing tools for my uncle and dreaded the days at the paint bucket factory. The autumn of 2004 brought an opportunity. A group of progressive minds sought to beautify Allentown neighborhoods with murals. On three unique projects I apprenticed under three talented seasoned muralists and learned how true professionals create a mural. It gave me space to stick my foot between the door and jam that is the professional art world. For the years following I threw myself into public art. My experience has grown from many mistakes obstacles and successes. I have become a true professional muralist; adaptable creative and conscientious. With the opportunity to share my knowledge and passion for murals teaching has become a new ardor. Working with students is challenging and infinitely rewarding as I seek to embolden them with creativity imagination and collaboration. Inspiration abounds and the transformative nature of art continues to drive me. I am a painter somehow because of everything outside of me an artist because everything inside. Art is expressive journalism and I am the field reporter. I paint to find struggle and beauty to rattle complacent minds and to build compassionate cities.  halmm*****@gmail.com /mehalm /matthalmmurals/ |  |
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