"COLORFUL LEGACY"
by Willis Humphrey and Keir Johnston
Called "one of Philadelphia's finest muralists," Biloxi-born Willis "Nomo" Humphrey was a founding member of @AmberPublicArt and an integral part of Philadelphia's Mural Arts team. With his sudden passing in late 2018 @MuralArts says they lost "a role model, a collaborator, and consummate public artist, always giving and sharing and creating." Keir Johnston studied fine art at Cal State Northridge and painted his first mural at 18. An advocate for many social issues Johnston has created a number of collaborative murals with penitentiary inmates, students, disabled, and a variety of other community groups. In 2015 Humphrey and Johnston led a Mural Arts team of collaborators painting this wall on Chestnut St in Philadelphia's University City, "illuminating the systemic challenges facing boys and men of color."ย @willisnomo/
