{"id":300110,"date":"2026-10-05T14:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300110\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T14:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:02:07","slug":"philadelphia-sculptor-miguel-horn-leaves-his-mark-on-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300110\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia sculptor Miguel Horn leaves his mark on the city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">From Reading Terminal Market to North Philadelphia playgrounds and The Logan Hotel, sculptor Miguel Horn is creating public art that sparks conversation and reflects the human experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Raised in Belmont Hills by parents who immigrated from Venezuela and Colombia, Horn discovered his passion for sculpture while studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. After spending five years in Mexico City working alongside renowned artist Javier Mar\u00edn, he returned to Philadelphia and opened his studio, El Cubo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Many of Horn&#8217;s works draw on personal experiences, including Abu, a tribute to his father, now on display at the Woodmere Art Museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Most recently, Horn was selected to create a 150-foot-long installation for Negro League Memorial Park, scheduled to be unveiled on Jackie Robinson Day, April 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;If I was able to make people feel anything, then it&#8217;s successful,&#8221; Horn said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miguelhorn.art\/about\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miguel Horn<\/a> | <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/miguelantoniohorn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> | <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/miguel.a.horn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Reading Terminal Market to North Philadelphia playgrounds and The Logan Hotel, sculptor Miguel Horn is creating public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[123657,123656,69,71,70,56087],"class_list":["post-300110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-123657","tag-miguel-horn","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-visions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}