Murals and Community Collaborations
Lynn has completed large scale private and public mosaic commissions, from Zig ZagSeries, eight tile/mosaic murals for the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta (1990), to her mural Schell Street Cosmos (pictured), 2015, on Schell Street between Ninth, Eighth, South, and Bainbridge Streets in Philadelphia.
Lynn has initiated collaborations with untrained artists and children to transform city environments. In 2001 and 2002, directing the first project of the Arts and Spirituality Center, she worked with recovering addicts and children in North Philadelphia to create their designs in a wall-sized mosaic and sculpture garden, Recovering WorldandGarden for a Recovering World (pictured).
She has orchestrated numerous additional large-scale tile/mosaic projects in Philadelphia, including City Diary, at the Susquehanna/Dauphin Subway Station, a SEPTA commission, for which she raised an additional $40,000 through grants from the Samuel Fels Fund and the William Penn Foundation, collaborating with 160 children from surrounding neighborhoods and installing special lighting.
In a 2006 project, sponsored by the Mural Arts Program and the Eagles Youth Fellowship, she invited 36 fourth grade students from Edward Heston School to design 6’x 9’ panels for the façade of the school, and with them installed over 12,000 mosaic pieces for a 65’ wall as well as planters and playground benches. Plant, Grow, Live, Learn, at54th Street and Lancaster Avenue, is the largest mosaic community collaboration ever completed in Philadelphia (pictured).
Other mosaic projects include And An Iguana Too?,the entrance to Fell School, at 9th Street and Oregon Avenue, composed of over 200 handmade bas relief tiles (pictured), and Dream Catcher, a mosaic collaboration with 6th grade students at Potter-Thomas School. Both projects were sponsored by the Mural Arts Program and the Philadelphia Public Schools.
Lynn collaborated with her classes at Moore College of Art and Design to create mosaic murals with students at Greenfield School and at Delaware County Community College in Media, PA, collaborated with her students in designing murals to transform the administrative offices of the College. In 2017 and 2018, through grants from the Picasso Project, she led students at Tacony Charter School and Clara Barton School in Philadelphia,to create permanent large scale murals for their schools.