The Village of Arts and Humanities is an arts organization in North Philadelphia.
The Village was founded by Lily Yeh, an artist and Chinese immigrant who was a tenured professor at the Philadelphia School of Fine Arts.
[1] It has renovated dozens of urban lots and empty buildings with murals, mosaics, and gardens.
In 2001 it received the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence.
[1][2] The Village was the subject of a Public Broadcasting Service documentary entitled An Angel in the Village.