What happens when your home becomes an art gallery? HOMEMADE happens. This innovative community-based project led by internationally-acclaimed artist and Temple University art professor, Pepón Osorio, links local visual artists, high school students from across the city, and community residents through a collaborative process of artmaking.

To bring the project into being, Osorio, along with local professional artists Catalina Mejia, Tony Rocco, Rana Sindhikara and Ben Volta, developed a plan for community-centered, collaborative art-making over the course of this year long project. Each artist provided art instruction and guidance to a group of area high school students. Through this process they engaged with students from different schools and four local families to better understand the complexity of this Philadelphia neighborhood.

The four families participating in this include African American and Laotian community elders, a Colombian family matriarch, and a multigenerational Vietnamese household. Inspired by their interactions and conversations with family members, the artists and students created installations for each family's home. The installations crafted through this inclusive collaborative process represent the intersection of the histories, interests, and identities of host families and those of the artists and students. Ultimately, participants in this program strengthened and built community through citywide, cross-cultural, and intergenerational engagement and the sharing of personal experiences and neighborhood histories.

Text from Fleisher Website

Community Partnerships in the Arts School Residency Programs are supported by a generous grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.