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Jane Golden

Jane Golden is the founder and executive director of Mural Arts Philadelphia (Mural Arts). Under the driving force of Golden’s direction, Mural Arts has created more than 3,800 works of public art through innovative collaborations with community-based organizations, city agencies, nonprofit organizations, schools, the private sector, and philanthropies.

Through these partnerships, she has developed innovative and rigorous programs in youth art education, restorative justice, and behavioral health that have made it possible for thousands to experience and witness the power of art. She has also overseen a series of increasingly complex, ambitious, and award-winning public art projects, and is currently sought after nationally and internationally as an expert on urban transformation through art.

Golden has received numerous awards for her work, including the Philadelphia Award, the Visionary Woman Award from Moore College of Art, the 2012 Governor’s Award for Innovation in the Arts, an Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Award, and Philadelphia Magazine’s Trailblazer Award, among others.

She has also co-authored two books about the murals in Philadelphia and co-edited a third, Mural Arts @ 30 (Temple University Press, 2014), published on the occasion of Mural Arts’ 30th anniversary.

Golden holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and degrees in Fine Arts and Political Science from Stanford University. In addition, she has received honorary PhDs from Swarthmore College, Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, Widener University, Arcadia University, LaSalle College, Haverford College, Rosemont College, and Villanova University.

Artworks
Black American Gothic
North Philadelphia
History of Puerto Rico
North Philadelphia
Life in the City
West Philadelphia
Waterfalls
West Philadelphia
Rousseau’s Garden
North Philadelphia
The Gateway Garden
North Philadelphia
CoreStates Art Park mural
North Philadelphia
Puerto Rican Statue of Liberty
North Philadelphia
Reaching for Your Star
West Philadelphia
William Penn Treaty
North Philadelphia
Black Family Reunion / I am a Man
North Philadelphia
Eric “Hank” Gathers, Jr.
North Philadelphia
Just Before Fall
Southwest Philadelphia
A Family Garden
West Philadelphia
Black Family Reunion / Heavenly Hall
West Philadelphia
Brazilian Rainforest
Center City
Callowhill Street underpass mural (title unknown)
Center City
Growing Towards the Future
West Philadelphia
History of Immigration
North Philadelphia
Musical Explosion
West Philadelphia
Pathology of Devotion
South Philadelphia
PDR Peace Wall
South Philadelphia
Peaceable Kingdom
Center City
Portrait of James Weldon Johnson at the Johnson Homes
North Philadelphia
Reading: A Journey
Shop N Bag-Land of Giant Vegetables
North Philadelphia
Spring Garden Street underpass mural (title unknown)
North Philadelphia
Stop Domestic Violence / In Memory of Atiya Rodriguez
North Philadelphia
The Liberties of Sport
North Philadelphia
Tribute to Diego Rivera
North Philadelphia
Urban Geometrics
Center City
Wall of Community Heroes
North Philadelphia
Children’s Garden
North Philadelphia
Room with a View
North Philadelphia