Brandon Spicer Crawley Harrisburg Mural
September 8, 2019
"Muralist Brandon Spicer-Crawley is a prolific Black artist who is intellectually disabled. From the 300 artists who applied to be part of the nonprofit Sprocket Mural Works’ 2019 Harrisburg Mural Festival, he was one of about a dozen selected, to highlight the power of art within artists of all backgrounds .Brandon is one of many Black artists whose murals now stand as public art for all to enjoy in Harrisburg.
Spicer-Crawley lives and works in the suburban Philadelphia area. He’s an artist with the Center for Creative Works, a unique work environment with a goal of developing creative work potential and cultural identity for people with intellectual disabilities.
Abstract and contemporary in design, Spicer-Crawley’s first mural panel was installed in 2019. He returned to Harrisburg in 2021 to install the middle panel, and we look forward to his return at a future date, to complete the entire wall-length mural. His style is simultaneously freeform and carefully crafted with numerous recurring motifs. Notice how there seems to be energy and movement emanating from this mural, enlivening what would otherwise be an unremarkable alleyway." - From VisitHersheyHarrisburg.com
About 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.
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