Kent Twitchell

Bio

Kent Twitchell is an American visual artist known for multi-storied exterior murals he calls “Monuments to American Cultural Heroes.” After serving as an Air Force artist at Headquarters 3rd AF in London he moved to Los Angeles to study art under the G.I. Bill, receiving his MFA in 1977 from Otis College of Art & Design. He has taught at several Southern California colleges and is presently MFA mentor at Laguna College of Art & Design and art department advisor at Biola University. He was cofounder of the Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles. Twitchell has received three Honorary Doctorates and is often referred to as the Godfather of Street Art. Currently he is designing mural monuments to Charles White, Edward James Olmos, and Martha Alf. He now works with his son, Art Twitchell, at their studio in Long Beach, California. A five-part video documentary is being produced by Alice Emmons and Eric Swenson covering Twitchell’s art over the last 50 years.