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Jane Golden
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.

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- CONGRATULATIONS. THE SHOW IS GETTING GREAT REVIEWS. IT IS SUCH A GREAT IDEA. I SAW A PROMO FOR IT, AND I WAS LIKE, "WHAT A FABULOUS IDEA." - I KNOW. I KNOW. - IT'S FROM A NOVELLA. - YEAH. IT'S ADAPTED FROM A VENEZUELAN TELENOVELA. - UH-HUH. - AND IT'S-- - WELL, TELL EVERYBODY WHAT IT'S ABOUT. - YEAH, SO "JANE THE VIRGIN" IS ABOUT A YOUNG GIRL WHO IS STUDYING TO BE A TEACHER, HAS DREAMS OF BEING A WRITER. SHE'S SAVING HERSELF FOR MARRIAGE BECAUSE OF HER AMAZING GRANDMOTHER, WHO HAPPENS TO BE IN THE AUDIENCE. YES, IVONNE. - YUP, SHE'S OVER THERE. [cheers and applause] - IT'S ALL HER FAULT. NO, I'M KIDDING. SAVES HERSELF FOR MARRIAGE, AND GOES TO THE GYNECOLOGIST FOR A ROUTINE PAP SMEAR, AND GETS ACCIDENTLY ARTIFICIALLY INSEMINATED. - THE DOCTOR GOES INTO THE WRONG ROOM. - RIGHT? - AND THEN THERE'S JUST, LIKE-- I MEAN, LIKE I SAID, THE REVIEWS ARE GREAT, AND YOU'RE GETTING TOUTED FOR ALL KINDS OF WONDERFUL THINGS, SO CONGRATULATIONS ON THAT. BUT THAT MUST BE SO FUN TO SEE BIG PICTURES OF YOU ALL OVER THE PLACE, POSTERS EVERYWHERE. - I THINK THE COOLEST THING IS BEING HERE ON "ELLEN." - AW, THAT'S-- [cheers and applause] - I'M LIKE, "FORGET ABOUT THE POSTERS." I'D EXCHANGE THEM-- - THAT'S VERY SWEET OF YOU. - THIS IS-- - THANK YOU SO MUCH. - DREAM COME TRUE. - THANK YOU SO MUCH. BUT, REALLY, LET'S TALK ABOUT YOU SEEING YOUR BIG FACE ON-- THE FIRST TIME, THAT MUST'VE BEEN LIKE, "OH, MY GOD." - YES, I WAS GETTING LOTS OF, LIKE, PICTURES AND ALL THIS GREAT STUFF, BUT I'M CONSTANTLY EITHER AT HOME OR ON SET. AND THE FIRST TIME, I WAS COMING BACK FROM LONG BEACH, AND THERE'S A HUGE 50-FOOT BILLBOARD ON THE SIDE OF THE 405. AND I'M TALKING TO MY BOYFRIEND ON THE PHONE. I'M LIKE, "YOU HAVE TO TALK TO ME; IT'S LATE." IT WAS LIKE 1:00 A.M. I WAS LIKE, "I THINK I'M GONNA FALL ASLEEP." LIKE, "JUST STAY ON THE PHONE WITH ME." AND I SEE THE BILLBOARD, AND I STARTED SCREAMING, LIKE, "OH, MY GOD! OH, MY GOD, I SEE IT!" I WAS LIKE, "I'M GONNA STOP, AND I'M GONNA REVERSE." AND HE'S LIKE, "NO, NO, NO, NO. YOU'RE ON THE EXPRESSWAY," AND I WAS LIKE, "THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. I SHOULDN'T DO THAT. I'M NOT GONNA DO THAT." - THANK GOODNESS YOU WERE ON THE PHONE WITH HIM. - YEAH. - WERE YOU WORKING LATE? YOU WERE SHOOTING, AND YOU WERE DRIVING HOME AFTER SHOOTING? - YES, YES. - THAT'S THE THING. IT'S LIKE, YOU'RE WORKING ALL THESE LONG HOURS, SO YOU-- YOU'RE IN THIS BUBBLE, AND YOU DON'T KNOW ALL THIS EXCITEMENT OUT THERE THAT'S GOING ON FOR YOU. - AND IT'S WILD. - IT'S REALLY COOL.

Background and education

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]

Art and community initiatives

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]

Awards

Katharine Hepburn Medal from Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr PA, 2009^[9]
Governor's Award for the Arts (Pennsylvania) 2012 – Arts Innovation, Erie PA, 2012^[10]
Noam Chomsky Award, Justice Studies Association, 2013^[11]

Publications

Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell, Temple University Press (2002). ISBN 9781566399517
More Philadelphia murals and the stories they tell, Temple University Press (2006). ISBN 9781592135271
Philadelphia Mural Arts @30, Temple University Press (2014). ISBN 9781439911310