Feb 8, 2021
“A mural cannot be a band-aid on a society that puts Black and Brown people at the bottom every single day,” says Katie Yamasaki, muralist and children’s book artist who uses art as a platform to build dialogue and tell stories of communities.
In the latest episode of the
Make Meaning Podcast,
Katie speaks with host Lynne Golodner about her early influences (including her
famous grandfather, architect Minoru Yamasaki, who designed the
World Trade
Center), collaborating
with former students and incarcerated mothers on important mural
projects, and how she always cobbled together jobs to make ends
meet so she could focus on her art.