Allah Alim

Allah Ali, who spent 29 years as Teacher-Artist in the service of Philadelphia Schools and Parks & Recreation systems, was introduced by a humble street artist named Joe Savage in 1968 to the concept of co-creation and Tree Folk Art. For Allah, working with ‘Beautiful Trees’ is at once artistic and spiritual, taking what he considers a “divine gift from the Divine Source” in the form of old trees and giving the wood new life in his striking carvings of tree spirits. Each tree spirit emerges as a one of a kind living memorial to the wood that inspired it. Each carving takes on its own persona-– from “Gina” to “Crow” to “Bijou.” In Allah’s words, “Trees don’t need us- we need the trees. I am so honored to serve through the Beautiful trees.”