Online Memory Matching Game Celebrates Philadelphia Architecture
Four hundred Philadelphia kids have turned Philadelphia architecture into something pretty silly. Pretty and silly! Fresh Artists today launches its new series of free, online memory matching games as a gift to the visitors in town for the DNC. “Silly City” is the headline game, featuring artwork made by kids in Philadelphia public schools interpreting the iconic architecture of the City.
“We are excited to bring the children’s artwork online,” said Barbara Chandler Allen, founder and president of Fresh Artists. “It joyfully supports our mission – delivering art programs and supplies to underfunded public schools and empowering children to bring about change through their talent and generosity.”
Take a tour of Philadelphia’s quirky and iconic Georgian, Federal, Victorian, and modern architecture through drawings of Independence Hall, Liberty Bell, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rocky Statue, City Hall, Betsy Ross House, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Barnes Foundation, Boathouse Row, Swann Fountain, Woodmere Art Museum and the Chinese Gate - all part of a playful collection called “Silly City” made by 2nd–8th graders.
Ages 3 to 103 can play for free on computer, tablet and smart phones at www.freshartists.org/play.
There are a total of six matching games: Fresh Architecture, Fresh Food, Fresh Faces, Fresh Art, Mini-Masterpieces from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Mini-Masterpieces from the Barnes Foundation. All art was donated by inner city kids to help other kids.
Recipient of the Oppenheim Best Toy of the Year award and chosen by Oprah to be featured in “O” Magazine, the matching games are available as heirloom-quality, family box games from the Fresh Artists webshop.
Fresh Artists Silly City is an ongoing art program invented by Philadelphia’s acclaimed veteran art teacher, Robyn Miller, as a way for kids to interpret their community in a frisky, artful manner. The Silly City Collection has expanded to include art depicting architecture in the Bronx and Camden NJ, made and donated by kids living in these communities – showcasing both their landmarks, homes and people in a memorable and meaningful way.
About Fresh Artists
Founded in 2008, Fresh Artists is a national award-winning nonprofit that empowers young lives through art by engaging vulnerable children as full partners in philanthropy, by widely exhibiting children’s artwork in highly visible and unexpected places, and by providing art supplies and innovative art programs to severely under-resourced public schools. Fresh Artists invites K-12 artists to donate high-resolution images of selected artwork, and then provides corporate or individual donors with thank-you gifts of high-quality digital reproductions of that art in exchange for financial contributions. The talent and generosity of 1700 public school children throughout the country has delivered the value of more than $700,000 in art supplies and innovative art programming to public schools in 40 states. Fresh Artists’ Print Studio produces the large-format images for public installation while introducing disadvantaged teens to marketable job skills in the digital printing industry. Cool Jobs, an annual pop-up expo, introduces young teens to real jobs they could have in the creative economy. Huge reproductions of children’s artwork have been installed in corporate facilities throughout the country from Washington, DC, to Oregon including SAP, Yahoo, Comcast, Independence Blue Cross, Harvard School of Education, Yale University Children’s Hospital, and the world-famous Philadelphia Flower Show. The children’s hopeful, inspirational art has been installed in 38 homeless and emergency shelters, soup kitchens and child abuse clinics. Fresh Artists launched an edition of 6 Fresh Artists Memory Games, educational, intergenerational games showcasing children’s art which received the Oppenheim Gold Award for Best Toys of the Year and were chosen by Oprah to be featured in “O” Magazine. For more information, visit www.freshartists.org.
