Priscilla Bell
Community Liaison
Priscilla Bell was born in North Philadelphia and raised in the Hunting Park section of the city. As a young child, she marveled at the colorful street art and graffiti that adorned the North Philly streets. Inspired, Priscilla began to take up drawing and photographing the art she saw in her neighborhood and community. She went on to graduate from Community College of Philadelphia and then transferred to Moore College of Art and Design where she received a BFA in 2D Fine Arts and in 2010 earned a Master of Fine Arts in Painting. Priscilla looks towards her family, surroundings, and cultural heritage for guidance and inspiration and continues to address and explore issues including parenthood, BIPOC rights, urban decay/renewal, and what it means to be a woman artist.
As a Community Liaison, Bell's contribution to L~W is to nurture the flow of connectivity between the Lead Artists, the staff of the AWE Centers, and local artists and residents; she has been instrumental in connecting the project to the indigenous community and gaining tribal permission for the project name to include the Lenni-Lenape place name, Lenapehoking.
Priscilla is the recipient of the Leeway Art & Change grant (2017), Taino Storyteller of the Year award (2017), Phenomenal Woman award (2020), and Taino Muralist of the Year award (2020). Bell works as a freelance muralist with Mural Arts and is a teaching artist for the Jubilee School and Fleisher Art Memorial.
