Wilhelmina McAlpin Godfrey (August 27, 1914 – May 13, 1994) was an American painter, printmaker and textile artist, art educator and community activist in Buffalo, New York.

Starting in the early 1950s, she organized and taught drawing and painting classes in Buffalo, at the YMCA on Michigan Ave and at St. Philip's Episcopal Church Community Center.

Along with fellow artist Jim Pappas, sculptor/photographer Allie Anderson, graphic designer Clarence Scott, Godfrey co-founded the Langston Hughes Center for the Visual and Performing Arts (later renamed the Langston Hughes Institute),[3][5] which strove to use art to improve social conditions, and to teach children to express creativity through dance, drawing, painting, weaving, graphic design, and ceramics.

Buffalo State College's Burchfield Penney Art Center houses several works by Godfrey, including the 1989 acrylic painting Sint Maarten (Dutch West Indies) and City Playground (1949-1950), the latter donated by her husband and daughter in 1994.

[6] In 2018, collector Mark Dabney donated an extensive archive of materials relating to Wilhelmina Godfrey’s career, including 350 color slides of her paintings, weavings, and prints and a 277-page copy of her manuscript, “From These Hands: Contemporary African-American Craftspeople of the 60’s and 70’s,” copyrighted 1980.