SUMMER MURAL FUN!Three New Murals in S.F. Celebrate Indigenous People, LGTBQ+ and Healthcare
There are always new murals popping up all over San Francisco, especially in the Mission neighborhood — and El Tecolote is trying to document as many of them as possible. Read more here… 28th Annual Urban Youth Arts Fest
Lotsa energy, creativity and solidarity at Precita's 28th annual Urban Youth Arts Festival last weekend. Thanks to ours sponsors and collaborators, artists and participants. See more here…
The Only Blue is the Sky:
New Mural in SFO'S Harvey Milk Terminal Described by the Bay Area Reporter as a "psychedelic mélange of blissful grooviness," the new mural by that name by artist Craig Calderwood is located in the atrium of SFO Terminal 1. The artist describes the work— and its connection to slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk, for whom terminal is named-- this way: "I distilled Harvey Milk's legacy into something simple, making life for people living in otherness easy, relaxed, and comfortable, focusing on the symbols and patterns of fruits, flowers and stripes which historically have been used to represent deviants, queerness and otherness." Other elements include Queer family structures, a dog park, and the potted plants that function as gardens for SF residents without yards. Calderwood was assisted by a Precita Eyes Muralists team of Susan Cervantes, Eli Lippert, Ellen Silva, Jared Mar, Richard Bolingbroke, Kerra Hendrickson, and Paola Reyes Melendez. More here…
Pop Up Vendors Get Pop Up Mural at Paseo
Painting in public for all to see, Paola Reyes Melendez, Precita Eyes Education Director, created a mural with tacos and flowers to honor the street vendors who were the focus of the Cultural Ambulante Paseo Artístico, held along 24th Street last June 9.
Bank of America's Mission Branch "Teller" Mural Turns 50
Artists Luis J. Cortazar, Jaime Camillo and Jesus Campusano in June 1974, standing before the mural located inside the Bank of America branch at 2701 Mission Street.
"If politics makes strange bedfellows, capitalism arguably makes stranger ones," states an article published in Mission Local on the 40th anniversary of the mural. "That may explain why these defiant words of farmworker organizer César Chávez are featured on a mural sited in one of the biggest corporate symbols of our time: a Bank of America branch in the Mission District." When the office was renovated in 1974, the bank hired three local artists to adorn it: Jesús “Chuy” Campusano, Luis Cortázar and Michael Rios. Artist Emmy Lou Packard, who had assisted muralist Diego Rivera, was a technical adviser. The three painters—who called themselves los tres muralistas in a nod to their artistic Mexican forbears—dedicated the mural to painter David Alfaro Siqueiros. Read the full article here. "Home is When We’re Together"
Hope-filled mural of families and togetherness is gateway to housing agency's new offices.
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