“I’ve been working on this for three years, and it just vanished on Sunday,” says Raphael Tiberino, whose family has been making art in Philly since the 1960s." Raphael Tiberino was expecting to spend almost all his time this week creating art in his West Philadelphia home, located in the same compound where his family has been creating art since the 1960s. But instead, he’s been walking around the Powelton Village neighborhood, talking to neighbors, searching for surveillance cameras, and taping “lost kitten”-style signs to poles, desperately hoping to track down a painting of his that was stolen on Sunday from outside his home.
“I’ve been working on this for three years, and it just vanished on Sunday,” says Tiberino, a 51-year-old graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
