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Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith (born January 13, 1991) is an American artist based in
During the spring and summer of 2020, following the
Artist website
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Oakland
Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major West Coast port, Oakland is ...
, California. She is known for her large-scale mural
A mural is any piece of Graphic arts, graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate. Mural techniques include fresco, mosaic, graffiti and marouflage.
Word mural in art
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s, and she is also the creative director of the Bay Area Mural Program.
Works
During the spring and summer of 2020, following the murder of George Floyd
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black American man, was murdered in Minneapolis by Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old White police officer. Floyd had been arrested after a store clerk reported that he made a purchase using a c ...
, Wolfe-Goldsmith was among the many artists who painted murals in response to the killing on pieces of plywood covering storefronts in downtown Oakland
Downtown Oakland is the central business district of Oakland, California, United States. It is located roughly bounded by both the Oakland Estuary and Interstate 880 (California), Interstate 880 on the southwest, Interstate 980 on the north ...
. Her piece on 15th St. is called ''We Can Breathe''. During this time, the Bay Area Mural Program, with Wolfe-Goldsmith as creative director, and African American Arts & Culture Complex organized the Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a Decentralization, decentralized political and social movement that aims to highlight racism, discrimination and Racial inequality in the United States, racial inequality experienced by black people, and to pro ...
mural in San Francisco, which ran for three city blocks.
The group She Will Rise, which is working to get a Black woman on the United States Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on question ...
, commissioned Wolfe-Goldsmith to paint a mural in Washington, DC
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and Federal district of the United States, federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from ...
. Completed in October 2020, the work features Black women judges and activists.
In November 2020, it was announced that Wolfe-Goldsmith would be painting a mural focusing on social justice with fellow muralist Joshua Mays. The mural was commissioned by Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente (; KP) is an American integrated delivery system, integrated managed care consortium headquartered in Oakland, California. Founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield, Sidney R. Garfield, the ...
and ABG Art Group, and was displayed outside of Kaiser's offices in downtown Oakland before a planned move to Liberation Park. Also in downtown Oakland, Wolfe-Goldsmith has painted a 3-story mural of artist Stoney Creation and model Yanni Brump.
In February 2021, West Oakland
West Oakland is a neighborhood situated in the northwestern corner of Oakland, California, United States, situated west of Downtown Oakland, south of Emeryville, and north of Alameda. The neighborhood is located along the waterfront at the ...
homeowner and curator Jilchristina Vest commissioned Wolfe-Goldsmith to paint a mural of women in the Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist and Black Power movement, black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newto ...
on the side of her house at Center and 9th Streets. The 30-foot mural is based on several photographs taken by Stephen Shames and portrays Delores Henderson, Angie Johnson, Lauren Williams, and Williams's daughter Mary. The mural currently features the names of over 300 women, and is planned to be 2,000 square feet when completed. Black Panther leader Ericka Huggins
Ericka Huggins ( Jenkins; born January 5, 1948) is an American activist, writer, and educator. She is a former leading member of the Black Panther Party (BPP). She was married to fellow BPP member John Huggins in 1968.
Early life and educatio ...
was consulted on the project.
References
External links
Artist website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wolfe-Goldsmith, Rachel 1991 births Living people 21st-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women American contemporary painters African-American contemporary artists American muralists African-American women artists Artists from Oakland, California African-American painters 21st-century American women painters 21st-century American painters