Graham Projects FIRM PROFILE
Graham Projects is a Baltimore-based creative agency making cities more inclusive and livable through public art, placemaking, and civic engagement. Building on his background in public art, urban design, and advocacy, Principal and Public Artist Graham Coreil-Allen produces participatory projects and leads social initiatives in the service of pedestrians and places. Since founding Graham Projects in 2006, Coreil-Allen has expanded his creative work to include a comprehensive array of built, programmatic, design, and engagement strategies.
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Graham Coreil-Allen Bio
Graham Coreil-Allen (he/him) is a Baltimore-based public artist making places more inclusive and livable through public art, placemaking, and civic engagement. From artistic crosswalks and creative wayfinding to immersive sculptures and participatory urban design, Coreil-Allen infuses public space with play and intrigue.
Coreil-Allen was born in Galveston, Texas, grew up in Tampa, Florida, studied at Tulane School of Architecture, completed his BA at New College of Florida, and earned his MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at Maryland Institute College of Art.
Since founding Graham Projects in 2005, Coreil-Allen has created public projects and programs for numerous organizations, places, and events both nationally and abroad, including the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, The Deitch/Creative Time Art Parade, Eyebeam, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Washington Project for the Arts, Arlington Art Center, Artscape, Transmodern Festival, VisArts, Current Space, ICA Baltimore, and Light City. Coreil-Allen has reached hundreds of thousands of participants through radical New Public Sites walking tours led in cities across the country and numerous public art installations at events like Artscape and Light City Baltimore. Coreil-Allen’s work has been featured in numerous exhibits and media outlets including the American Pavilion in the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale, hit podcast 99% Invisible, and Forecast public art magazine.
Coreil-Allen was a 2018 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow and served as a co-chair of Baltimore City Mayor Brandon M. Scott’s Arts and Culture Transition Committee.
Artist Statement
As a social practice artist, I make cities more inclusive and liveable through public art, placemaking, and civic engagement. Through research and action, I develop projects that push pedestrian agency, interpret the overlooked, and renegotiate public space. I collaborate with neighbors to interpret and activate public space through placemaking projects for pedestrian safety and play, interactive mapping, radical walking tours, and civic engagement. Along the way, I invite the public to practice “radical pedestrianism” – traveling by foot through infinite sites of freedom while testing the limits of and redefining public space.
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Graham Projects Selected works
Design for Distancing Curbside Commons
