Slated for completion next spring, the yet-to-be titled installation is part of Drexel’s Academy of Natural Sciences ongoing “Illuminating Birds” exhibition.
Artist and science illustrator works on a draft of her new mural on Philadelphia birdlife. The installment is part of a partnership between Drexel's Academy of Natural Sciences and Mural Arts of Philadelphia.
When visual artist and science illustrator, Jane Kim, recently toured Philadelphia’s John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, she was struck most by the abundance and diversity of birds she found. Kim, whose avian artwork blends classical science illustration with modern fine art, spotted over 30 species during her daylong excursion. Everything from turkey vultures and nighthawks, to osprey and catbirds, to swallows and a juvenile bald eagle. She now hopes to incorporate paintings of those feathered creatures into her upcoming Fishtown mural on Philadelphia birdlife. Slated for completion next spring, the yet-to-be titled installation is part of Drexel’s Academy of Natural Sciences ongoing “” exhibition, a celebration of contemporary avian illustration in partnership with the Mural Arts of Philadelphia. Kim’s commissioned mural will highlight the “wide variety of birds found in Philadelphia and their fascinating connections to local ecologies, watersheds and neighborhoods,” the museum said in its announcement.studio in Half Moon Bay, California, Kim said she hopes the public artwork will capture the richness of Philadelphia’s avian ecosystem, which is defined by the many birds that migrate through the city every spring and fall. “I love the idea of celebrating the seasonality of Philly,” Kim said. “It’s really about the movement, the coming and going, and yet there’s just this anchor of deep history.”Kim, who studied printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design and earned a master’s certificate in science illustration from California State University, has created large-scale public art across the country. She is best known for her mural at The Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The 3000-square foot mural features 243 birds, spanning 375 million years of avian evolution. In 2017, Kim painted, a series of six murals in Redwood City, Calif., commemorating the city’s lost chrysanthemum industry, which had flourished during the 1920′s, when Japanese immigrants were growing and exporting the flower. The industry was decimated by the internment of the Japanese Americans during World War II.her Fishtown mural on parachute cloth, a non-woven fabric that can then be adhered, almost like wallpaper, to a wall of a mixed use building at 2331 Frankford Avenue, she said. “This allows me to produce the mural in my studio here in California and then ship the painted cloth back to Philly,” she said, noting that the technique results in a shorter installation period than hand-painting. She plans on releasing a draft of the mural in October, she said. Though centered on plant and animal life, Kim’s work often includes a symbolic connection to its human backdrop. Her Philly mural will include a depiction of the
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