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Joe Kemp and I designed the Mosaic
Mystery Tour for the 2005 Philadelphia Fringe Festival,
and followed up with the Mosaic Mystery Tour II for the
2006 Festival. The two tours were fundraiser's for Isaiah
Zagar's Magic Garden (www.isaiahzagar.com). They were
conceived after I read a Philadelphia Inquirer article
about the threatened demolition of the Magic Garden. We
raised just over $2,000 during the two tours and
introduced many people to Isaiah's work around the city.
Mosaic Mystery Tour
The Mosaic Mystery Tour was a walking tour of 30
installations found east of Broad Street. It was designed
to be completed in about 2-3 hours. The participants were
asked a question at each mural - if they correctly
answered them and turned in the sheet before the end of
the Fringe Festival, they were entered to win one of
Isaiah's smaller murals. In addition, there was a riddle
that participants could solve using the answers from
their sheet - correctly solving this entered you in the
special drawing to win a lunch with Isaiah!
Mosaic Mystery Tour II
After meeting with Isaiah to discuss ideas for the
next Fringe Festival, we decided to focus on Isaiah's
alter ego, the Four-Armed Painter, which shows up in many
of his murals. Joe wrote a stream-of-conscientious story
about his encounter with the four-armed painter.
Participants followed his vision on their tour and then
were asked to record their own interpretation of the
four-armed painter. During this tour, any answer was the
right answer.
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