COSACOSA art at large, Inc. is a non-profit organization creating new public art specific to the concerns of Philadelphia neighborhoods in direct, long-term collaboration with city residents. COSACOSA reasserts art's original role as a catalyst for community dialogue, creative cooperation, and positive change. Since 1990, COSACOSA projects have brought together thousands of Philadelphians of differing backgrouunds and abilities to learn about art, about each other, and about how to work together.
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We're so proud to announce the upcoming release of Kin/Folk/Lore Volume 2, a community-led history project organized by GVGK Tang!

Explore Volume 1: Community... a digital exhibit, album series, and more! sites.google.com/view/kinfolklore

Kin/Folk/Lore offers a grassroots, translocal approach to 21st storytelling. Residents forge unlikely connections while considering changing landscapes, core values, and hopes that define their lives – past and present.

Funding was provided by Spring Point Partners, PA Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional support was provided by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and Independence Foundation.

Logo - dark brown hands holding blue wildflowers against yellow circle, above black text "kin/folk/lore: a community-led history project."

Throughout 2025, our Common Ground initiative is centering community resilience – power, purpose, and placemaking.

Philadelphians are creating public artworks, exploring public histories, and cultivating public ecologies that unite us across cultures, generations, and localities

Join us for our 35th anniversary, online, at our Manayunk studio, and around the city as we work to make it better!™

Spring has sprung, and planting has begun in our North Philadelphia Healing and Unity Gardens!.

Working with COSACOSA artists, the Gardens were designed and developed by neighhborhood residents to transform overgrown, abandoned lots into sacred sites for the community – with paintings, mosaics, sculptures, and plantings that honor elders past and present, and signify hopes for the future. These spaces of walkability, wheelability, rest, and respite have been centerpieces of community life since 2006. Please meet us there for family-friendly activities throughout the coming year!