The surge in high-profile murals going to Black artists was primarily led by Black women, said Art Rudick, founder of the Atlanta Street Art Map who has been documenting the Atlanta street art ...

Simchowitz had actually kicked off the craze the year before. In 2019, he’d bought a painting of a Black woman in a lemon-printed bathing suit, by the Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo, for $22,500.

“I absolutely never made ‘Sesame Street’ a goal because it is the pinnacle of the art of puppetry,” said Piphus. Megan’s character is a 6-year-old Black girl named Gabrielle.