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Graham Projects is a Baltimore-based design-build agency making cities more inclusive and livable through public art, placemaking, and civic engagement. Building on backgrounds in public art, urban design, ecology, and neighborhood advocacy, Public Artist Graham Coreil-Allen (he/him) and team produce participatory projects in the service of pedestrians and places. We collaborate with neighbors to understand and activate public space through placemaking projects for pedestrian safety and play. The team leverages community engagement strategies for measurable impact; including creative outreach, neighborhood discovery walks, and in-person and/or virtual participatory design workshops. Resulting projects range from traffic calming pavement murals and quick-build urban design features to artistic wayfinding and immersive sculptures.

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Graham Coreil-Allen Bio

Graham Coreil-Allen, Public Artist, MFA. Click to download hi-resolution headshot.

Graham Coreil-Allen (he/him) is a Baltimore-based public artist making places more inclusive and livable through public art, placemaking, and civic engagement. Coreil-Allen collaborates with neighbors to interpret and activate public space through placemaking projects for pedestrian safety and play. From traffic calming pavement art and participatory urban design to creative wayfinding and interactive sculptures, 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 2006, 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, 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, including viral-sensation Hopscotch Crosswalks, Reverberations Crosswalks, Dancing Forest at Artscape, Sun Stomp at Light City Baltimore, and COVID-19 tactical urbanism response Curbside Commons. 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 public art journal Forecast.

Coreil-Allen was a 2018 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow, is a Baltimore Heritage board member, and served as a 2020 co-chair of Baltimore City Mayor Brandon M. Scott’s Arts and Culture Transition Committee.

Artist Statement

As a public artist I make cities more inclusive and livable through public art, placemaking, and civic engagement. Building on my background in public art, urban design, and neighborhood advocacy, I produce participatory projects and lead social initiatives in the service of pedestrians and places. I collaborate with neighbors to interpret and activate public space through placemaking projects for pedestrian safety and play. From traffic calming pavement art and participatory urban design to creative wayfinding and interactive sculptures, I infuse public space with play and intrigue.

Coreil-Allen CV


Graham Projects Selected works

Bromo Painted Path

"Bean There Sun That" Hyattsville Church & Gallatin traffic calming art aerial
“Bean There Sun That” Hyattsville traffic calming art, November 2023. Click to download high-resolution image.

Remingtopo

Hyattsville Quilted Crossing intersection mural aerial
Hyattsville Quilted Crossing, July 2023. Click to download high-resolution image.

Druid Hill Canopy Crosswalk

Highlandtown Park Shine traffic calming art birds eye view
Highlandtown Park Shine traffic calming art. September 2023. Click to download high-resolution image.

Bromo Painted Path

Bromo Painted Path alley mural of leaves and flowers aerial detail
Bromo Painted Path, October 2022. Click to download high-resolution image.

Remingtopo

Remington Remingtopo birds eye northeast
Remington Remingtopo, August 2022. Click to download high-resolution image.

Druid Hill Canopy Crosswalk

Druid Hill Canopy Crosswalk birds eye view facing southeast
Druid Hill Canopy Crosswalk, April 2022. Click to download high-resolution image.

Lake2Lake Rayobello

Lake2Lake Rayobello traffic calming intersection road diet pavement art birds eye view facing west
Lake2Lake Rayobello, November 2021. Click to download high-resolution image.

Seasonal Turn

Seasonal Turn traffic calming art crosswalks community paint day birds eye view northwest
Seasonal Turn, May 2021. Click to download high-resolution image.

Unity Tracks

Unity Tracks traffic calming art crosswalk community paint day birds eye view
Unity Tracks, May 2021. Click to download high-resolution image.

Sew to Harvest Trail

Sew to Harvest Trail alley mural with kids playing
Sew to Harvest Trail. April 2021. Click to download high-resolution image.

Design for Distancing Curbside Commons

Design for Distancing Curbside Commons birdseye view
Design for Distancing Curbside Commons, June-November 2020. Click to download high-resolution image.

Reverberations Crosswalk

Reverberations Crosswalk 26th Calvert aerial
Reverberations Crosswalk #2, Baltimore, MD, September 2019. Click to download high-resolution image.

El Paso Crafting the Corridor

El Paso Crafting the Corridor participation
El Paso Crafting the Corridor participation, October 2018. Click to download high-resolution image.

Big Jump Baltimore

Big Jump Baltimore wayfinding stencils
Big Jump Baltimore wayfinding stencils, August 2018. Click to download high-resolution image.

Choose Your Own Adventure

Choose Your Own Adventure aerial
Choose Your Own Adventure aerial, Artscape, July 2018. Click to download high-resolution image.

Sun Stomp

Sun Stomp opening, Light City Baltimore, April 2018. Click to download high-resolution image.

Dancing Forest

Dancing Forest
Dancing Forest, Artscape, July 2017. Click to download high-resolution image.

Hopscotch Crosswalk Colossus

Hopscotch Crosswalk aerial
Hopscotch Crosswalks Colossus aerial view, December 2013. Click to download high-resolution image.