Brandon’s Mural
- Artist
- Brandon Spicer-Crawley
- Location
- 1321 North 4th Street, Harrisburg, PA
The artist behind this mural, Brandon Spicer-Crawley, is an abstract and improvisational painter. He creates art at the Wynnewood-based Center for Creative Works, a non-profit organization that supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
With the assistance of the center, Brandon has exhibited at dozens of galleries and public exhibitions. He sells his work at art fairs and other events in the community. In 2019, an artist assistant at the center submitted an application to our mural festival on Brandon’s behalf – and Sprocket gave him the opportunity to complete his very first mural in Harrisburg.
The project was organized to suit Brandon’s unique needs as a nonverbal artist. Sprocket delivered painting supplies and materials to his studio in Wynnewood, enabling him to work comfortably and create his mural on parachute cloth panels with help and guidance from an artist assistant.
The mural was then taken to Harrisburg and installed at the site by volunteers with a gel medium, permanently bonding his art to the wall.
During the festival, Brandon and his family stayed in Harrisburg so he could finish his mural by painting directly onto the wall.
Benches have been installed near the mural so that visitors have a place to look, sit, and enjoy the art.
The Artist
Brandon Spicer-Crawley
A versatile and improvisational artist, Brandon Spicer-Crawley (b. 1980) works with a wide range of material, including wood collage, ceramic, calligraphy ink, paper sculpture, and acrylic paint pen. His style is both free-form and carefully crafted, with recurring motifs of letters, police officers, and squiggly lines. Creating dynamic compositions of abstract shape and figurative forms, Spicer-Crawley develops an electric series of marks emanating outward, creating vibrating, dynamic spaces. Since 2011, Spicer-Crawley has worked in the studio at CCW, a professional art program serving adults with intellectual disabilities. He lives with his family in Jeffersonville, PA.