Meg Saligman
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Meg Saligman is a mural artist. Saligman has painted more than fifty murals all over the world including Philadelphia PA, Shreveport, LA, Mexico City, and many other places. Meg has a way of mixing the classical and contemporary aspects of painting together.
Saligman's most famous mural is "Common Threads" on Broad and Springarden streets in Philadelphia. It is painted on the west wall of the Stevens Administrative Center at the corner of Broad and Spring Garden Streets.
"I don't have any grand intentions," says mural artist Meg Fish Saligman. "I just want people to be walking down the street and go, ‘Whoa, what is that?"[1]
[edit] Beginnings
Saligman grew up in the small town of Olean NY. In high school she helped to paint one of the murals in Olean. Meg's first independent mural was painted on the front of a sweater factory that no longer exists, owned by a man that is now her husband.
Meg currently lives in Philadelphia with her husband Peter, and four kids Daniel, Robby, Nina, and Lindsay Saligman.
