About Erika Rosendale

Fine Artist and Muralist from Santa Cruz, CA

Erika ‘Teal’ Rosendale was raised in the redwoods and sandy seas of the southern Santa Cruz County, developing an art practice at an early age inspired by comic books. This grew into a love for painting, which she took to study on the east coast, earning a BFA from Boston University's College of Fine Art. 

Part of the art collective Made Fresh Crew based out of Santa Cruz, she was Lead Ground Operations and crew mural lead for the Seawalls - Artists for Oceans production with the Pangeaseed Foundation, about ocean stewardship and conservation, working on two of their international projects in Santa Cruz, CA & Emeryville, CA. MFC also produced the largest road mural for the BLM movement in Santa Cruz. She  painted in the Sand City Mural Festival with WE.create Art, Noisy Waters Mural Festival in Bellingham, WA - awarded 1st Place Voters Choice Award, and most recently received both the Judges and Voters Choice Award at the Talking Walls Art Battle in Sand City, CA. 

She has over twenty public art pieces in the counties of Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz, with a handful of ‘Best Of’ awards in local newspapers and magazines. Recently she joined The Method Makers: A Global Artist Network and was accepted into Muros: A Global Art Activation Agency, both based out of the Bay Area. With a style dubbed ‘elemental surrealism’, often depicting wildlife and figurative narratives combined with atmospheric effects, she seeks to bring fine art to the streets, combining art and activism with site-specific art to inspire others in finding and fostering their creativity. Our world needs to shift, and it will take many hands working together to change it for the better.