(28 May 2025)
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Philadelphia – 28 May 2025
1. Wide of Philadelphia’s Mayor Cherelle Parker, left, honors actor Quinta Brunson with a key to the city. UPSOUND (English) Mayor Cherelle Parker: “This is a key to the city of Philadelphia presented to Ms. Quinta Brunson on May 28, 2025. Our key, Quinta Brunson, this is your city and you are ours.”
2. Close up of the key
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Quinta Brunson, producer and actor:
“Also, it is crazy surreal being in this room right now. I used to look at this stage like, man, I hope I get to perform on this stage one day. And now I’m sitting up here being honored. I used to eat lunch right back there. This school is part of the architecture of Abbott because I had to explain to people in LA that schools could be auditoriums and lunchrooms.”
4. Various of Brunson posing for photos in front of murals
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Quinta Brunson, producer and actor:
“I grew up in Philly and we are home to the most murals in the city. I grew up really inspired by the murals I saw. They used to just bring me so much life and joy as I rode the train, as I was on my way to my dreams, on my way to what I was doing. And I just know how much a mural can do for a neighborhood. It makes people happy, it makes them see the beauty and where they’re from. So, I am beyond honored to be able to bring one to the city. It’s a dream come true to be part of that.”
6. Various of murals
7. Wide of presser
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Quinta Brunson, producer and actor:
“And I said, "This is exactly what I want. Kids from the neighborhood, kids from the school, people from the neighborhood, people from the school. We have to see ourselves in the big picture. That’s how we know there’s a tomorrow. That’s how we know there’s a community to take care of. You don’t need to see famous people on the wall. You need to see you on the wall, painted, beautiful. We are beautiful.”
9. Various of school’s principal, Torrence Rothmiller, standing in front of his mural
10. Exterior of the school
STORYLINE:
Philadelphia’s mayor honored actor and producer Quinta Brunson with a key to the city Wednesday in a ceremony dedicating a separate mural at Brunson’s alma mater, which was the inspiration for her show “Abbott Elementary.”
Brunson used the ceremony held at Andrew Hamilton School to celebrate the power of public education, public schoolteachers and music and arts education. Her parents and siblings were in attendance, along with Joyce Abbott, the teacher who inspired the name of the show’s fictional school, the “real life Gregory” and other teachers and classmates.
The mural, titled Blooming Features, was created by artist Athena Scott with input from Brunson and Hamilton students and staff. Its brightly colored depictions of real people from the school wrap around the outside of the school’s red brick facade.
Brunson described taking inspiration from the murals painted along her subway route as a kid, especially when she saw one of her own teachers featured. She said she hopes this mural has the same effect.
The actor said she nixed an initial mock-up brought to her by ABC that featured actors from the Emmy Award-winning show in favor of actual community members — because “that’s how you know there is a future.”
“You don’t need to see famous people on the wall. You need to see you on the wall,” she said. “Painted, beautiful. We are beautiful. It makes a difference. It made a difference for me, so I know even if it makes a difference for just one child, that one child matters.”
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