Emmett Wigglesworth is a muralist, painter, sculptor, fabric designer, poet and civil rights activist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Wigglesworth has designed and illustrated for several publishing companies, including McGraw-Hill, Harper & Roe, Macmillan Press and American Books.
[3] In February 2010, Wigglesworth organized an exhibition of over 40 murals with the intention to give the public greater access to works by black artists.
[4] His work has been exhibited in Ghana and throughout the United States, and his mural commissions include: private homes, P.S.
181 in Brooklyn, the New York State Council on the Arts, Metropolitan Transit Authority, Kings County Hospital, Abyssinian Development Corporation and the Brooklyn Children’s Center, and 11 murals for the Addiction Research and Treatment Corporation and Urban Resource Institute (ARTC-URI).