Jane Golden | |
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 Golden in 1981 | |
| Nationality | America |
| Education | B.A. Stanford University M.F.A. Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University Honorary PH.D., Swarthmore College |
| Known for | Mural Arts Program |
Jane Golden is an American artist who has been an active mural painter since the 1970s.
Following graduation from Stanford University, Golden moved to Los Angeles and created a number of large, well received murals in the Los Angeles beach areas, particularly in Santa Monica, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She was co-founder and director of the Los Angeles Public Art Foundation. [1]
In 1985, following a diagnosis of lupus, Golden left California to be with her family in the Philadelphia area, where she had grown up. [2] In 1984, she founded Mural Arts Philadelphia, which grew out of the Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network. [3] The program was designed to fight graffiti in the city by giving graffiti artists a more productive artistic outlet. She quickly began working with at risk teens. Together, they painted murals throughout the city and were trained in practical working skills. The program grew, and the Mural Arts Program has now created over 3600 murals to date.
In 2003, Golden received a Visionary Woman Award from Moore College of Art & Design. Eisenhower Fellowships selected Jane Golden as a USA Eisenhower Fellow in 2003. She is an instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.[ citation needed ]
Supporters of Golden urged her to run for Mayor of Philadelphia in 2015, an idea Golden said she was "intrigued by. [4]
Golden has become an important voice and organizer within the community. Under her leadership, the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program actively engages with critical issues in the area. Their Porch Light program spotlights mental illness issues and homelessness and addiction, in cooperation with the Department of Behavioral Health. [5] Golden has taught at Graterford Prison for many years and has also spearheaded a collaborative project connecting inmates and juveniles at a correction facility with a Kensington neighborhood. Connections at Graterford brought Golden to a position where she could support conceptual artist Peggy Diggs, who worked with inmates to construct shelters for disaster survivors. [6] Some bemoan the quality of the murals developed through local participation as a model for developing the murals, citing uneven quality, artist Stephen Powers identifies Golden's success in convincing civic authorities that art can be an agent of positive change. [7]
In 1989, Golden painted a mural in the Point Breeze section of Philadelphia with a group of neighborhood children titled "Stop the Violence", in honor of children from that neighborhood that had been killed by gun violence. [8] In 2018, this mural was destroyed when the wall of the rowhouse that contained it crumbled during the process of redevelopment, sparking controversy about the effects of gentrification in that neighborhood. [8]
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| External videos | |
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 “Mural Arts Moments of 2016: Jane Golden", December 5, 2016 | |
| “Why Philadelphia has Thousands of Murals", April 24, 2017 |
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