The Village of Arts and Humanities is an arts organization in North Philadelphia. The Village was founded by Lily Yeh, an artist and Chinese immigrant who was a tenured professor at the Philadelphia School of Fine Arts.[1] It has renovated dozens of urban lots and empty buildings with murals, mosaics, and gardens. In 2001 it received the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence.[1][2]

The Village was the subject of a Public Broadcasting Service documentary entitled An Angel in the Village.[3][4]

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  1. 1 2 Art in the Village, Yes Magazine, May 25, 2005
  2. ↑ "Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence". Bruner Foundation. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Going Toward the Light: Philadelphia's Village of Arts and Humanities, The Wallace Foundation, March 2003
  4. ↑ Angel in the Village
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