Established October 16, 1999 The Ellen Powell Tiberino Memorial Museum celebrates the life and career of this renowned Philadelphia Artist. The complex includes a courtyard decorated with sculptures and murals. It would be enough to say that "the Ellen" is filled to the brim with the family's efforts. Three-dimensional murals, sculptures, and large-scale paintings ripe with elongated limbs, exagge
rated glances, and sociopolitical and religious references are on display throughout the complex's five buildings. Outside, nine lush city plots make up the grounds of the sculpture garden. But the museum is also the family's home, where their art and the works of friends and followers pop from every nook, hallway, gazebo, kitchen, bathroom, living room, library, grotto, cranny, and knoll in a constant display of Tiberino-ism. "Forget about the scores of works that we have done," patriarch Joseph Tiberino says of the living memorial in which his family dwells. "We've been here approximately 44 years and in that time, people other than the family have created various works - some genuine masterpieces, some that no one knows about, some I don't even recall completely. This space is about constant discovery."
