{"id":200728,"date":"2026-03-02T16:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200728\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:46:06","slug":"super-dope-alysa-liu-mural-in-oakland-serves-as-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200728\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Super dope&#8217; Alysa Liu mural in Oakland serves as inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/w6zr11fzs4xc8is0.jpg\" alt=\"Alysa Liu mural in Oakland for The Town \" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">A vibrant new mural of Alyssa Liu is now gracing Oakland in the Temescal district.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">Reaching 15 feet high, the colorful painting shows off Liu&#8217;s signature halo hair and sparkling teeth. Surrounding her are green and gold accents in an homage to the departed Oakland A\u2019s, and the phrase &#8220;Shout out Oakland&#8221; next to her.<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">Artist Steve Ha, co-founder of the Illuminaries, a local graffiti artist group, designed and painted a mural at the corner of 43rd Street and Telegraph Avenue on Friday and Saturday to celebrate the Olympic gold medalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">Liu, 20, was born in Richmond and raised in Oakland, including learning to skate at the Oakland Ice Center, and became the first American woman to win a gold medal in figure skating since 2002.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">&#8220;She represents the Bay Area,&#8221; Ha told KTVU over the weekend. &#8220;For us personally, it&#8217;s super dope\u2026.an inspiration, you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">The city of Oakland has said it will honor Liu, but no specifics have been released yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/oakland\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-1b07e41a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/olympics\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-1b07e41a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olympics<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vibrant new mural of Alyssa Liu is now gracing Oakland in the Temescal district.\u00a0 Reaching 15 feet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,1184,100,143,145,144,10012,1181],"class_list":["post-200728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-olympics","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}