Precita Eyes Muralists
Instant Murals 2005-2019

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​“Aloe Event Live Mural Project”
© 2019 Precita Eyes Muralists

5'x8', acrylic on TYVEK

Directed Muralist: Lead Muralist Francisco Franco and Mural Assistant Diego Irizarry 
Painted with: participants from the Aloe Event Hearts and Heroes Reception   
​"Sutter Hospital Community Day Event Participatory Mural and Craft Project”
© 2019 Precita Eyes Muralists
  
5'x8', TYVEK paper
Directed by Muralists: Sarah Siskin and Sami Schilf   
Description
This mural was for the opening of CMPC’s new hospital at St. Luke’s Campus. The event organizers gave us themes of healthy living/ eating, community, twin peaks and wanted the hospital to be a central part of the mural. We put the new rendered image of the hospital in the left side of the mural with kids biking and hula hooping around the street in front. A man selling fruits appears on the bottom right to encourage healthy eating and fresh foods. Behind the hospital you see the hills of san Francisco with colorfull box like houses and rolling, swirling grey/ blue fog underneath. On the top right is twin peaks and Sutro Tower to give this a distinctly San Francisco feel
Our SF Neighborhoods
©2019 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5x8 Materials: Chalk Pastel
Mural Director: Max Martilla
In collaboration with: Town School for Boys
Location: 348 Precita Avenue, San Francisco
Celebrating Life 
©2019 Precita Eyes Muralists

5x8 ft, Chalk Pastel
Designed & Created by the community at The Arc San Francisco
Directed by Julia Barzizza
Assisted by Teresa Benson
Funded by The Reimagine Festival
Description 
The community at The Arc explored ways that they choose to celebrate life! The mural shows a home with a family at the center of a bright yellow sun. Surrind the sun and the home are flowers and portraits of Arc community members and loved ones. Mythical creatures including a one-eyed green friend, a flying witch, a student-designed "weirdo" and a pixie of positivity are sprinkled throughout the drawing. An airplane launches off of the home and ascends into the blue sky. In the clouds are poems written by the group. One poem reads, 

Flowers blooming
We breathe air all around us
Life is all around us
Hills filled with snow
and grass growing

At the bottom of the mural is an old woman on a bench, observing the life that surrounds her and savoring the images that have brought her to this moment. Hidden elements include a baseball (a nod to the World Series!), flying butterflies, and music notes.

The Arc community chose to continue to evolve their mural overtime, incorporating more drawings from community members who could not attend the workshop.
Reimagine Death 
©2019 Precita Eyes Muralists
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5x8 ft, Chalk Pastel
Designed by the ReImagine Festival Community
​Directed by Diego Irizarry
Description
As part of the Reimagine Festival, a community-driven exploration of death and celebration of life through creativity and expression, this mural is representing different views on death. On the left there is a character expressing grief in the shadow of a tombstone. The other two characters wave "goodbye," and walk to the light, representing a positive and welcoming attitude toward death. On the right are psychedelic mushrooms and abstract, colorful, and vibrant visions about death.
Breaking Through 
​©2019 Precita Eyes Muralists

5x8 ft, Acrylic Paint
Designed by the students at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton
Directed by Diego Irizarry and Flavia Mora Estrada
Description
Mural designed by a group of 15 8th-graders inspired by social justice in the realm of immigration, farming rights, gender equality, climate change, and the border crisis. ​
Natural Reflections
©2019 Precita Eyes Muralists
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5x8 ft, Acrylic Paint
Designed by Creative Arts Charter School Staff
Directed by Max Martilla
Assisted by Xavier Bess
Located at Creative Arts Charter School
Education Breaks Barriers
​©2019 Precita Eyes Muralists

​5x8 ft, Acrylic Paint
Designed by Creative Arts Charter School Staff
Directed by Julia Barzizza
Assisted by Diego Irizarry
Located at Creative Arts Charter School
Description
Part of the CACS inauguration and graduation ceremony, Creative Arts Charter School students create flower arches at the center of the mural. The flower arches are part of an annual school ceremony, which welcomes the incoming students and graduates the exiting class. The students are surrounded by a crumbling brick wall inscribed with the words sexism, poverty, ageism, classism, inequality, oppression, and patriarchy. Colorful spheres radiate the students' brightness into the world, and encompassing dry, desert mountains and rocky waters (symbolic of the struggles they meet on their path to learn). Flowers grow from the cracks in the ground and cracked earth is dotted with colorful poppies and wildflowers. 
Strong Like a Woman 
​©2019 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size 5x8 ft Materials Acrylic Paint
Designed by The 2019-20 Elevate Learning Community at California State University Stanislaus
Directed by Julia Barzizza
Located at CSU Stanislaus
Description
Inspired by their group of all female-identifying students, the 2019-20 members of the Elevate Learning Community united under themes of female empowerment, environmental stewardship, and the uprising from an ongoing struggle with gun violence. A world overwhelmed with bodies of gun violence victims rests beneath the sea. At the bottom, painted in black are the lyrics from a song, "Guns in my head and they won't go." Individuals painted in different colors with different-shaped heads wrap around the world. They represent community, diversity, and multicultural alliance. Lilies, symbolizing life and hope, rise up around the bottom edges of the mural. Candles lit in remembrance of the dead float along the rising ocean, among precious sea life: fish and sea turtles. 

The group was also inspired by Greta Thunberg's recent sailboat trip across the Atlantic Ocean. In this mural, Greta's sailboat becomes an image of both women empowerment and environmental stewardship. A rainbow swirls from Greta's boat. Inside of the rainbow are the words, "strong like a woman," "acceptance," "equality," "unity," and "love." Peace was a common theme among the group, and so a peace sign sun shines brightly over the scene.
The Mysterious Orchids 
​©2019 Precita Eyes Muralists

5x8 ft, Acrylic Paint
Designed by Foothill Middle College Class of 2020
Directed by Julia Barzizza
Located at Foothill Middle College ​
Description
Interested in their Foothill College community as a theme for the project, the Class of 2020 was collectively inspired by their campus surroundings: the mysterious orchids that surround the main campus building (and sometimes disappear without explanation!), the various pathways that led each of them from four different high schools to their shared, yet unique, Foothill College experience, and the nature that surrounds the students under a limitless sky. Lotus flowers float above the ominous fog the Foothill students sometimes see on their campus. The fog depicts both their observed surroundings and the metaphorical fog they emerge from. Their place of learning (and the school telescope!) sit in the middle of a glowing and bright orchid.
Change for the Better 
​©2019 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size 5x8 ft Materials Chalk Pastel
Designed by Child Family Health International
Directed by Julia Barzizza
Description
Change for the Better shows a typewriter rewriting history. The typewriter paper wraps around several community gathering spaces including a home and a school. A peace sign made of people spirals from the typewriter page and spreads into the world. A burning tree signifies change, and the flowing leaves symbolize the spread of ideas. Vultures sit atop the corporate offices, and tents line-up underneath a suspended highway. On one side, people work hard to feed their families by picking grapes and working in the sun. On the other side of the field workers are panhandlers. The pigeon flies from the right of the mural representing those that are underprivileged yet still powerful and wise.
Balancing Worlds 
​©2019 Precita Eyes Muralists

5x8 ft, Chalk Pastel
Designed by The students at Lick-Wilmerding High School
​Directed by Julia Barzizza
Description
Google, Uber, Tiwtter, and Facebook ride a bus driven by Money ($). Behind the bus is an industrial city run by men in suits. On the left, a school bus drives toward the tech bus, and both busses meet in the middle. Surrounding the school bus, on the left, is a swirl of flowers, music, art, and people dancing. Both worlds are balanced on the apex of night and day, teetering back and forth on the scale.

While the tech economy dominates one side of the mural, creativity and education flourish on the other side. Both worlds teeter on a scale as we attempt to find a balance between the new tech tools we have adopted into our day-to-day lives and the creative, expressive nature of the Bay Area as a whole.
San Francisco Neighborhoods 
​©2019 Precita Eyes Muralists

​5x8 ft, Acrylic Paint
Designed by Town School for Boys
Directed by Julia Barzizza
Description
Culminating their social studies research of the San Francisco area, the boys from the Town School for Boys wanted to illustrate the city's landmark architecture: Lombard Street, the Painted Ladies, Coit Tower, the TransAmerican building, the Salesforce Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge. A throwback to the 1906 Earthquake, the students also drew a fault line under the city's grassy hills, reminding us of a time when these landmarks did not yet exist.
Mi Promesa, Our Past Our Present
©2019 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: (2) 3x5 ft  Materials: Acrylic Paint
Designed By: Paly Latinxs Unidos, Paly Black Scholars United (Bsu)
Directed By:Max Marttila
Assistant: Diego Irizarry
Location: Palo Alto High, Mission District
Funding source/s: Youth Speaks Out, PALY
Description: 
These two instant murals were conceptualized by the Latinxs Unidos and Black Scholars United clubs which serve as a resource and space for POC youth at PALY which is a predominetly white school. The Latinxs Unidos piece represents the struggles and triumps of latinxs in northern California as well as across the border, depicted in the top left corner by a border wall with people behind it saying “Si Se Puede”. Below that is a strawberry farmer representing the migrant farm workers of California. Along the right hand side is a portrait of Dolores Huerta, a group of protestors with signs and monarch butterflies. In the middle of the canvas is a non binary conforming student graduating.
The BSU instant mural shows a female figure holding two diplomas in a wakanda X-arm stance. Framed around this figure is a depiction of a single black student among many white students to represent the past when schools were hardly integrated. In the other corner are two trees that are recognized as a symbol of the Palo Alto area. Below that is a line of non-black allies holding space and showing solidarity. Also shown is musician and activist Joan Baez. Throughout the rest of the composition are African symbols of strength and other attributes. 
"Foothill Middle College"
© 2019 Precita Eyes Muralists

5'x8', TYVEK paper
Lead Muralist: Carla Wojczuk
Design and Painted: Foothill Middle College students
Description
This mural was completed by the senior class of Foothill Middle college, an early start college program based in Mountain View. This program uses different themes to explore through various subjects throughout the year. This year they have been talking about themes surrounding community, inclusion, and non-conformity. All the students came from 4 different high schools to end up in this program, many of them did not have positive experiences at their old high schools so were redefining community and what it means to be a student. 

In their mural they put hands opening up to give life to a tree. In the Palms of the hands and foot of the tree is a luscious garden. Roots climb down the arms and harbor clocks that are the school colors from where the students came from before Foothill. There is a broken milk bottle with bugs flying out to represent freedom; all the bugs are students thumb prints. Two puzzle totems flank the sides of the mural. This idea came from the group feeling that their school unites them as strong individuals but they also don’t conform to the normal high school experience. The animals in the totem are raising each other up and the planets are supposed to keep them in perspective. The mural is darker on the bottom by their roots representing their struggles and where they came from, but lightens with the tree and flowers moving up towards the top of the piece.
"Intercontinental Hotels Extend Your Reach Event”
© 2019 Precita Eyes Muralists

5'x8', TYVEK paper
Designed by: Max Marttilla and Diego Irizarry. Assisted by Teresa Benson 
Painted by: Participants at California Academy of Science: Earth Day Event
"Content Curation Team: PwC"
© 2019 Precita Eyes Muralists

5'x8', TYVEK paper
Muralist: Deirdre Weinberg
Design and Painted by: Content Curation Team: PwC
"What is Kept in the Eye"
© 2018 Precita Eyes Muralists

5' x 8' acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural Directors: Carla Wojczuk.
In collaboration with: Boys and Girls Club Lake Tahoe
Location: 348 Precita Ave., San Francisco, CA
DESCRIPTION
This Instant Mural was designed by nine young women from the North Lake Tahoe Boys and Girls club. Their themes were: family, Tahoe, community, love, culture, LGBTQAI. The mural depicts an large central image of an eye with a rainbow eyelid. The eye has pine trees for eyelashes. The center of the eye is the shape of Lake Tahoe and a line of people of all ages  holding hands. The center person has their hand stretched out to the viewer. Around the eye are hearts and the hands of all the young women who worked on the mural to signify each of their unique identities unified together. ​
"Leadership High School"
© 2018 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8'  Materials: TYVEK® paper
Lead Muralist: Elaine Chu 
Designed and Painted: Students from Leadership High School
"St Ignatius College Preparatory Mural Project"
© 2018 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8'  ​Materials: TYVEK paper
Lead Muralist: Priya Handa
Designed & Painted: Participants from First Christian Church
Description
The group decided that they wanted to focus on diversity and the flipping the story of where their church is located in the community. In real life the church is small and overshadowed by the city hall, the university, and new buildings being built all around. In this mural their community church and the people are the largest and most glowing parts of the community. There is a hand offering fresh garden produce to the community. There is a river that turns into a river of diverse people, because the group wanted to see more people show up for one another and share compassion. This mural is a manifestation of what the group hope will soon come for their community and city. 
"St Ignatius College Preparatory Mural Project"
© 2018 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8'  Materials: TYVEK® paper 
 Lead Muralist: Carla Wozjuk
Designed & Painted: Students from St Ignatius College Preparatory
Description
This mural was designed and painted by students in a summer immersion program looking at housing and displacement in the Bay. This was a culminating project for their two week immersion program.  The students focused on the themes of love, community/diversity, awareness, appreciation, gentrification, being an ally in community, and priorities.   The mural depicts a big heart in the center with bart train tracks leading to various communities:  West Oakland, Mission District, and Bay View, and the church that the group stayed at. The mural shows images from each community as well as people they met along the way.  The mural shows city hall at the top with two different priorities: money and justice. The flowers in the center symbolize the community community  together.
"VLA"
© 2018 Precita Eyes Muralists
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5' x 8' acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural Directors: Sarah Siskin, Assisted by Samantha Schilf.
In collaboration with: Natoma Charter School
Location: 2981 24th St., San Francisco, CA
DESCRIPTION
Natoma Charter School brought in a group of High School juniors from Sacramento to do a mural tour of Balmy Alley and paint an instant mural. In their mural they explored themes of unity, diversity, freedom, independence and breaking tradition. They explored these themes through images of the earth with hands holding us up, a dream catcher, a diverse group of young women on top of the world marching with a banner, an eagle head vs a raven head representing two different birds working together. In the bottom right corner a birdcage has been cut
down and the birds are flying out, liberated. To the left side there is an open door with music notes, colors and a dog coming out to represent the light at the end of the tunnel or, behind the door. ​
"Archstone Foundation's Re- Envisioning Aging: Celebrating 30 Years of Grant making Event"
© 2018 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8'  Materials: TYVEK paper
Designed by: Lead Muralists Eli Lippert and Assistant Muralist Amanda Hooshmand 
Painted by: Participants at the Re- Envisioning Aging: Celebrating 30 Years of Grant making event.
Location: Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission Street, San Francisco CA 94103
Kids in Parks / Green Hairstreak Butterfly Festival
© 2017 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5’ x 8’  Materials: ​Acrylic paint on tyvek
​Mural Directors:  Designed by Yukako Ezoe and painted by participants at Green Hairsterak Butterfly Festival.
"Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton Mural"
© 2017 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5’ x 8’ Materials: acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural Directors:  Directed by Elaine Chu
In Collaboration with: Students from Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton 
Location: 348 Precita Ave, San Francisco, CA
"Branches of Connections"
© 2017 Precita Eyes Muralists

​Two murals both 5’ x7’ acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural Directors: Francisco Franco and Eli Lippert.
Assisted by: Robert Louthan 
In Collaboration with: ENCORE.ORG staff members.
DESCRipTION:
The narrative of the mural was essentially about making connections between the young and the old. It was about bridging the generation gap, using the techniques written by the founder and expounded by the group. The metaphor of a tree with its roots and branches become symbols of reaching out and connecting with other, while rooted in the community, its foundation, and the knowledge of it’s elders.
"We Stand Connected"
© 2017 Precita Eyes Muralists

​Size: 5’ x 8’  ​Materials: acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural Directors: Yukako Ezoe. Assisted by Flavia Elisa.
In Collaboration with: Jewish Community Center of San Francisco HYC Students
Location: Jewish Community Center of SF, 3200 California St, San Francisco, CA 94118
"San Francisco Village Dignifies Aging"
© 2017 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5’ x 8’  ​Materials: acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural Directors: Sarah Siskin.
In Collaboration with: San Francisco Village community members.
​Location: San Francisco Village, 3220 Fulton St, San Francisco, CA 94118
DESCRIPTION:
This project was designed and painted by a group of 10 seniors through San Francisco Village. This organization is a membership based community for seniors who wish to continue living independent lives. In our workshop they stressed the theme of embracing your age and engaging active aging. Their themes addressed community, living in the present and creating their own future. Several participants drew patterns and “mosaics” into their drawing so this became a central part of the mural. In the mural we have a San Francisco street scene with two friends sitting on a bench having coffee and a mother and son walking beside them. The various people in the street are supposed to represent intergenerational and the diversity of San Francisco and their own community. Instead of cement, the street is a mosaic of many vibrant colors also to represent diversity. The tree on the left reminds us of our roots but also what we grow into and what we become over the years. In the bottom right, a hand is giving flowers as an offering to the community. The painted ladies and Golden Gate bridge are also included in the mural as a symbol of loving San Francisco. The design in the top right corner is to remind us of our creativity
and the abstract beautiful ways that life takes its course. The blue swirls in the background represents the fog that covers a unified yetdiverse city.
March to A Brighter Future Mural
© 2017 Precita Eyes Muralist

Size: 5’ x 8’  Materials: acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural Directors: Elaine Chu
In Collaboration with: 16 Students from Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton
Location: 348 Precita Ave., San Francisco, CA
Description:
10 students from Sacred Heart Academy in Atherton created an instant mural inspired by the Women’s March. The mural in the foreground features a group of marchers each holding up signs that symbolize a different cause and issue that are important to continue to stand up and support. Black lives matter, LGBT rights, equality for all, the environment, animals. All these causes are important and threatened to be taken away with the current government administration. Our youth needs to be prepared to protect the beliefs and liberties that are so vital and important to our country. In the background of the mural to the left are the effects of global warming with melting buildings and a hot sun. The background to the right are colorful buildings, blue skies, parks and trees. The right shows what the people need to protect and preserve. The nature and people that symbolize what makes our country so special and beautiful. ​
Foothill Middle College
© 2017 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5’ x 8’ Materials: acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural director: Sarah Siskin    
Designed and painted by: fifteen 12th grade Foothill Middle College students. 
Location: 348 Precita Ave., San Francisco, CA
DESCRIPTION:
​This mural was completed by the senior class of Foothill Middle college, an early start college program based in Mountain View. This program uses different themes to explore through various subjects throughout the year. This year they have been talking about themes surrounding community, inclusion, and non-conformity. All the students came from 4 different high schools to end up in this program, many of them did not have positive experiences at their old high schools so were redefining community and what it means to be a student. 
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In their mural they put hands opening up to give life to a tree. In the Palms of the hands and foot of the tree is a luscious garden. Roots climb down the arms and harbor clocks that are the school colors from where the students came from before Foothill. There is a broken milk bottle with bugs flying out to represent freedom; all the bugs are students thumb prints. Two puzzle totems flank the sides of the mural. This idea came from the group feeling that their school unites them as strong individuals but they also don’t conform to the normal high school experience. The animals in the totem are raising each other up and the planets are supposed to keep them in perspective. The mural is darker on the bottom by their roots representing their struggles and where they came from, but lightens with the tree and flowers moving up towards the top of the piece. 
"Equality"
© 2017 Precita Eyes Muralists
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Size: 5'x10' Materials: acrylic on tyvek  
Mural director: Sarah Siskin 
Design and painted by: 25 students from California State University Stanislaus​

DESCRIPTION:
This mural was completed by a group of young women entering into their freshman year of college at Stan State. Their elevate program allows these students to live together and take one first year experience course together. It is designed to help them build community and acclimate to college.  These students explored the theme of Black Lives Matter, Equality, Multi-cultural community and environment.
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In center of the mural is a large circle representing the earth. Holding up the earth are two striped hands, one with various skin colors to represent racial diversity and one that is rainbow colors to represent sexual diversity. Inside the globe is an atlas like statue holding up an eye shaped mass that says “equality.” On top of the globe are people of different skin colors holding hands. To the left of the globe is a giant heart with different statements and ideas that are important to the group. There is a chain around the heart that goes across the mural and into a giant fist to represent solidarity and power within their struggle. There is a bird with a key in its mouth flying down to unlock the padlock on the chained up heart, or to “free” the heart. At the bottom of the mural is a chain link fence with barbed wire. The fence has some breaks into it and those breaks turn into birds flying up to represent freedom. The flags on the top left of the mural represent their multicultural background.
"The Jew Generation Mural"
© 2017 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5’ x 8’ Materials: acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural Directors: Directed by Sarah Siskin
Design and painted by: Temple Isaiah Camp Kefli
Location: 348 Precita Ave., San Francisco, CA
Description:
“The Jew Generation” was completed by a group of 8th graders at camp Kefli, a Jewish summer camp in Lafayette. The name of their session was Idan Chadash, which translates from Hebrew as the next generation. The themes of the mural were centered around their group identity as young Jewish Americans: religion, heritage, perspective, community, trust, leadership, and taking responsibility as the next generation. Almost all the campers drew the Star of David in their sketches so they decided it was the most important symbol to put in the center of the mural. Around the six points of the star are people of different colors holding hands. The colors are to represent diversity and tolerance and how we all unite to form a special community. Above the star is a pair of rainbow hands representing their parents’ generation. The hands are passing the star off to the “accepting” hands below which represent the next generation. There is one tree on each side of the mural, one with leaves and one without leaves. This is to represent sickness/ health and the roots that flow into each other below unite us and heal us. They are our ties to our heritage and keep us connected. The stars in the sky are ancestors watching over us, and help us keep perspective in our daily lives.
"Becoming Buddha Mural"
© 2017 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5’ x 8’ Materials: acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural Directors: Directed by Yukako Ezoe
Location: Nueva School
Description: ​
The mural is about the Chinese Buddhist cave painting, designed by students from Nueva School based on their interpretations on what they learned in their studies. In the middle is a main Buddha surrounded by his disciples meditating together. The six men on the left are from a story where they become Buddhist after being robbers and losing their sight as a punishment. The right side depicts the king of China finding poverty in his own city and turning Buddhist. The Buddahs on the top are part of the famous cave painting called ‘1000 Buddah’.
"Air Jordan Sneakers Mural"
© 2017 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5’ x 8’ ​Materials: Acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural Directors:  Directed by Yukako Ezoe
Painted in collaboration with: Kelsey Pendleton and Eli Harold
Location:  2981 24th St, San Francisco, CA
Description: ​
Birthday party workshop conducted for Eli Harold #58 from the 49ers football team. Eli Harold is a big AirJordan sneaker fan so the mural is about his obsession for his collection.
"The Kite Runner Mural"
© 2017 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5’ x 11’ Materials: acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural Directors: Directed by Priya Handa, Assistanted byJoseph Colmenares. Design by Miss Taylor’s 4th and 5th Period Class at Ida B. Wells School
Location: 348 Precita Ave., San Francisco, CA
Description: ​
This mural focuses on the crux of the book. The Crux of the book represents the change in Amir and Hassan’s relationship. Amir and Hassan are the two main characters in the book “The Kite Runner,” that Miss Taylor’s class is currently reading. This class chose to read this book because it focuses on the lives of two Muslim Boys in Afghanistan, and the class felt it would be appropriate to focus on this book because of the current political climate that we are facing right now.
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Amir and Hassan come from two very different classes. Amir comes from privilege, while Hassan from a lower class. They both try to overcome this and bond over books. Hassan cannot read, and Amir reads to Hassan. Books are the basis of their friendship, hence why the students chose to use it as a background. The crux represents the point after the friendship falls apart. The left side shows the boys getting along and basking in the sun, with a lively tree. The tree is what the boys had carved their initials into to symbolize their friendship.

In the book Hassan is raped a group of teenage boys who do it show spite for his class. The book keeps bringing up the brick wall that was al he could see during the incident. There is a pomegranate being thrown and broken (from left to right) to represent Amir asking Hassan to hurt him, because Amir had hid during the crime instead of helping Hassan. The Kites are flown in the book, and signifies the kite flying competitions they have, and one kite beating the other kite.
"Nueva School Instant Mural Project"
© 2017 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK® paper
Directed Muralist: Yukako Ezoe
Designed and Painted: Middle School students of Nueva School
Description
The Instant Mural touch base on multiple themes; unity, equality, and change. Change comes in role in three areas. First, trees shifting in season from spring to winter, second, their school mascot recently changing from wave to a maverick, and finally, a caterpillar turning into a cocoon, then into a butterfly. The butterfly with gears also a symbolize change; referencing that technology is slowing taking over nature. Unity is represented with figures holding hands surrounding the ‘giving hand tree’, and the banner wrapping around in Spanish, ‘Estamos Todos Juntos de Una Vez y por todas..’, translating to ‘We are together once and for all...’. The grsy scale in the middle shows equality, balancing two hands holding an eye reflecting numerous country flags. 
​"JPRN Instant Mural Project"
© 2017 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK® paper
Lead Muralist: Yukako Ezoe
Designed & Painted: Students from Kinjyou Gakuen, Japan of JPRN
​"Highland Hall Waldorf School Instant Mural Project", 2017
© 2017 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK® paper
Lead Muralist: Carla Wojczuk
Designed & Painted: Students from Highland Hall Waldorf School
"The Lollipop Monster Garden Chalk Pastel Mural Project"
© 2016 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: Lead Muralist Priya Handa
Designed and Drawn: Students of Flynn Elementary TK Students
Description
The Flynn Elementary TK Students created a mural using oil pastels, titled ‘The Lollipop Monster Garden.” The inspiration for this mural came from their curriculum emphasizing their community garden. The students are currently learning about different vegetables and fruits and they life cycles involved. The flowers and butterflies represent what the students usually see in their school garden. The monster and lollipop are personal touches of the students of how they imagine the garden to look like when it has completely flourished. 
"Portola Family Connections"
© 2016 Precita Eyes Muralists
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Size: Two ​Materials: 5’ x 8’ acrylic and tyvek
Mural Directors: Yukako Ezoe. Assisted by Amanda Hooshmand.
In collaboration with: family members of Parent Action Grants from Portola Family Connections
Location:  Portola Family Connections, San Francisco, CA 94134.
"Unititled Mural"
© 2016 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5’ x 8’ ​Materials: acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural Directors: Directed by Carla Wojczuk in collaboration with 29 Shung Tak Catholic English School students
Location: 348 Precita Ave., San Francisco, CA
Description: ​
Inspired by cities of Hong kong and San Francisco , the mural depicts the skylines of both cities split by the Golden Gate Bridge and the Tsing- Ma bridge. From the bridge hangs ornaments that depict aspects of Hong Kong. Below are various foods and symbols of Hong Kong. The Chinese Lion Dance figure is on the bridge in celebration of the Chinese New Year.
"Be a Neighbor Not an Invader Mural"
© 2016 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5’ x 8’ ​Materials: acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural Directors: Directed by Elaine Chu
In Collaboration with: St. Ignatius High School Students
Location: 348 Precita Ave., San Francisco, CA
Description: ​
"The students from St. Ignatius wanted to focus on the changing city with the message "Be a Neighbor Not an Invader" to promote a more conscious perspective for new comers to the city. The students depicted in the glasses the two different worlds of the Mission District. On the left lens is Mission Street with places and businesses that are part of the cultural fabric of the Mission District and on the right lens is Valencia Street that had turned more commercial and lifeless.They used these streets as symbolic examples of gentrification in San Francisco. The center of the mural depicts Mission Playground and the incident that occurred between children from the neighborhood and Dropbox employees. The students wanted to send the message that we should share the city instead of continuing to segregate and take away.
"Our San Francisco Neighborhoods & Landmarks Mural"
© 2016 Precita Eyes Muralists
 
Size: 5’ x 8’ Materials: Acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural Directors: Directed by Cory Devereaux
In Collaboration with: 2nd grade students from Town School for Boys  
Location: 348 Precita Ave., San Francisco, Ca 94110
Description: ​
"Our San Francisco Neighborhoods and Landmarks " depicts several prominent communities, and the landmarks that make them famous. Many of these features are beloved by residents and tourists alike. It is the neighborhoods, the landmarks, and the people who live here that make our city unique and renowned, and at the same time, home.Starting in the upper left-hand corner, and moving clockwise, the first neighborhoods we visit are Japantown and Chinatown. Here we see a dragon over the Grant Avenue gates, and a plate of sushi. Up above, lanterns and fireworks explode in the night sky.

Skipping the center images for now, we move to the upper right-hand corner of the mural. Here are the Castro and Mission Districts. The theatre, along with several rainbow flags fluttering in the clear blue sky, is front and center. From the theatre we move to the buildings of the Mission, and naturally, a colorful mural.

A car takes us to the Haight-Ashbury, directly below. Haight Street is resplendent in music, peace symbols, and love. It even boasts one of San Francisco's famed Victorian houses. This home appears to date back to the "Summer of Love." As we travel to the lower left-hand corner, we pass cable cars traversing the hills of SF. Then we arrive in the TL (the Tenderloin), and to Glide Memorial Church.

Look at the center of the mural. Here our focus is not any particular neighborhood. Instead, we see San Francisco's most famous landmarks: the Palace of Fine Arts, Alcatraz (with its lighthouse, dock, and boat), Coit Tower, the San Francisco Zoo, and many “SF” symbols, so that there is no mistaking where we are. Lastly, what is San Francisco's most noted landmark? What else, but the Golden Gate Bridge, complete with a cruise ship darting through the deep blue waves as it approaches the gate.
“Compass Point 40th Anniversary Participatory Mural Project ”
© 2016 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' ​Materials: TYVEK paper
Designed by: Elaine Chu and Yukako Ezoe
Painted by: Participants from the Compass Point 40th Anniversary Event
"Team Justice Mural"
© 2016 Precita Eyes Muralists
 
Size: 5’ x 8’ ​Materials: acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural Directors: Directed by Cory Devereaux Business, Assisted by Francisco Franco.
In Collaboration with: Washington Elementary School:Kim Burton-Laurance & Room 102 Students  
Location: Washington Elementary School, 2300 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Description: ​
The title, “Team Justice”, summarizes this Washington Elementary School instant mural. The images in the mural directly tie to the super hero logos encouraged by teacher Kim Burton-Laurance, and designed by the Room 102 (1st grade) students. Working on the mural afforded the students opportunities to further develop their ideas for both thoroughly familiar, and completely imaginary characters.

To the students, the world, as shown in the center of this mural, and our cities to the left and right, can be troubling places. There is crime as pictured by the bank robber. Disasters happen such as a building ablaze with fire, and abductions symbolized by the crying girl (to the left of the world) take place too often. Fortunately for all of us, there is the brilliant and dynamic “Team Justice” to surround us, and to fight anything that may cause us harm.

Through the mural design and creation process, the students made easy connections between fictional, and real-life super heroes. Going clockwise from the middle left, we see recognizable characters including Wonder Woman, Bat Girl, a flying Wonder Woman (undoubtedly rushing to save someone), the Flash, Spiderman (along with his aura), and Superman.

Along the bottom of the mural, moving from right to left, we encounter the purely imaginary heroes: Cheetah Girl (with her lovely spots), Nature Girl (greening the world), even sports cars are super since they can rush our heroes to crime scenes, or whisk away someone in distress. Lastly in the far left lower corner is “Cuty Cat” for the cat lovers of the world.

Down the center of the mural are the real-life men and women selected by the students as their super heroes. At the top is Martin Luther King, Jr. In the middle we see Frida Kahlo lying in her sick bed while displaying one of her paintings. We even find Noam Chomsky holding a beaker, and depicted as a scientist who discovered cures for diseases. Chomsky also represents the researchers who fight to find new remedies to end suffering.

Working on the mural enhanced the students’ awareness of not only fictional characters as super heroes, but also of real people who protect, and save lives. Real people who also fought, and still battle to correct injustices in the world.
"First Day of School Instant Mural"
© 2016 Precita Eyes Muralists
 
Size: 5’ x 8’ ​Materials: acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural Directors: Elaine Chu
Design By: School House 2nd and 3rd grade students
Location: 348 Precita Ave., San Francisco, CA 94110 
DESCRIPTION:
The students designed their mural around their favorite activities at school. The School House logo is large and in the middle of the mural with students arriving for their first day of school. One student is singing, another is playing the guitar while another student is eating ice cream showing the individual personalities of each student. In the foreground are two students one painting and another making chocolate which are activities the students enjoy at school. In the background are San Francisco landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge and Sutro Tower. Beneath Sutro Tower are students playing soccer. And in the clouds are math equations.  
"Remembering Our Roots Mural"
© 2016 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: Two, 5’ x 8’ Materials: acrylic paint on wood
Mural Directors: Sarah Siskin and Josue Rojas.
Designed and painted in collaboration with: SFUSD students
Location: 348 Precita Ave., San Francisco, CA 94110
Description: ​
This mural was completed by youth participants of the international indigenous student leadership summit. The summit took place from February 25-27, 2016 in Southern California. Because this mural was supplementary to the workshops, meetings and discussions of the summit, the youth leaders had a good idea of the important themes and ideas that they wanted to represent in their mural. The themes they chose to work with were indigenous rights such as land, education, the right to celebrate their own heritage, perform their rituals, and act as a sovereign peoples. Community and family tradition were also important themes. In the mural, the students placed a woman growing out of a corn stalk in the center. From her headpiece is the 2 spirit person which represents the LGBT community, openness, and the complexity of human sexuality. Feathers emerge from the 2 spirit heads and wind up into the tree of life. The tree flows through the body and soul of the corn woman and its roots shoot out through the base of her corn husk and into the ground. because family and roots were important to the youth leaders at this summit, they dominated the bottom half of the mural. The roots reached out to form different words that were important to the group, such as: ceremonies, familia, rituals, comunidad, united, semillas, education, etc.They chose to have one panel represent day, and the other night. The night panel, on the right, has the students telling stories around a campfire, an experience they all shared together at the summit in Southern California. There are several small campfires and sparks throughout the mural that represent their different cultures and how often indigenous cultures are lost and put out, but their big bonfire is the coming together of their different cultures to unite and show strength and community. In the night sky there is a symbol for the moon with a rabbit in the center, and many stars that come together to form constellations and represent the stories of their elders. The tree is full of spider webs to show the interconnectedness of each as an individual to our families, community, history, and future. The river of life flows by the bonfire to represent the unknown in life. We must keep walking even though we don't know where it is we are going.

The day panel also has different sparks and fires that are below the rainbow hills. The rainbow hills represent the richness of color and diversity in our lives and also represent the two spirit person. Above the hills is the eagle which is a symbol to unite Native American communities as one. The sun in the top left has a large conch shell in the center which is blown to call people together. The sun unites us and brings us together through its energy and warmth.
"AirBnB Global Team Instant Mural Project"
© 2016 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' MaterialsTYVEK® paper
Directed Muralist: Yukako Ezoe
Designed and Painted: AirBnB Global Team
"Overcome Struggle Mural"
© 2016 Precita Eyes Muralists
 
Size: 5’ x 11’ ​Materials: acrylic and tyvek
Mural Directors: Priya Handa and Sarah Siskin
Designed and painted in collaboration with: Ida. B High School students
Description: ​
The students at Ida B. Wells organized this mural based on the theme: Overcoming struggle and fighting racism. The students chose to focus on the artists in the Harlem Renaissance such as Billie Holliday, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, and others. They also discussed the concept the Racial Mountain and painted a mountain in the background with the two different racial groups from the 20th century in the background. There is different types of artistic expressions such drums, piano, painting, and dancing. There is the planet earth being painted by different colored hands to represent different racial groups coming together and expressing their struggles. The bottom depicts the prison pipeline system and how black youth are expected to go from school to prison, and the students identify it and hope to overcome it, by putting it on the bottom of the mural.  
"OutSchool Mural"
© 2016 Precita Eyes Muralists
 
Size: 5’ x 8’ ​Materials: acrylic and tyvek
Mural Directors: Sarah Siskin 
Location: 348 Precita Ave., San Fransisco, CA
DESCRIPTION:
This mural was completed with 3 participants of Outschool and their families. With a total of 5 individuals working on this project, I wasn’t sure if we would be able to finish the mural in the allotted time. However, everyone was very inspired and the small number of participants made it so that each one was able to put several of their original designs and ideas in the mural. We worked with the themes of balance, education, interconnectedness, humans’ relationship to their environment, eco diversity and human impact on nature. Many of the participants drew books so we put an open book in the middle of the mural as a platform for the rest of the narrative. We have the tree of life on top with a river flowing through the spine of the book into the ocean underneath. The left side of the book represents our utopian society while the right hand side represents our dystopia and human threat to the environment. The Ferris wheel on top is constantly moving forward and represents the circle of life. The tree of education on top of the main book has other books growing in the tree as fruit. The roots of the tree grow down into the utopian and dystopian societies, on the left the roots are strong and vibrant, on the right they are rotting and shriveled. On our utopian ocean side we have fish with book bodies, a salmon jumping out of the water, a tree house and rainbow. Bees pollinate the California poppies and are respected as an important part of our eco diversity. In the middle we have a jellyfish, half utopian and half dystopian. The jellyfish represents the transition between the two sides. On the right side we have a shriveled tree in the middle of a concrete city, whose dead roots grow down into skeletons and cages with people inside of them. The water is oily and black opposed to fresh and clean. A thick layer of smog surrounds the city instead of clean air.  
​"Our Community Instant Mural Project"
© 2016 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: ​TYVEK® paper
Directed Muralist: Lead Muralist Priya Handa
Designed and Painted: Students of Flynn Students and Mission Graduates
Description
The students for the Mural Elective at Flynn Elementary School, got together to design this mural. The students range from 4th graders to 5th graders. They agreed they wanted the mural to be representative of their community and where they grew up in the Mission and San Francisco. The students brainstormed some popular food places they grew up eating at like the Taqueria. A lot of them also included their favorite sports like soccer and their support for the San Francisco Giants. In addition they worked together to create a daytime scene and a night time scene with the solar system to represent their futures being limitless. The students’ favorite part of the mural was the Golden Gate Bridge, which they all took turns painting on the mural. At the end of the last paint day, they got to present their process to the other electives.     
"Mural De Imaginación Instant Mural Project"
© 2016 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK® paper
Directed Muralist: Lead Muralist Sarah Siskin and Assistant Muralist Francisco Franco
Designed and Painted: Students of Alvarado Elementary School Immersion Program
Description
“El Mural de Imaginación” or “The Imagination Mural” was completed by a group of 27 4th and 5thgraders in Alvarado Elementary’s Immersion program. The students had a wide range of ideas to incorporate sports, animals and nature. They settled on the theme of teamwork and creativity and how the two compliment each other. To show teamwork and good sportsmanship, they decided to put two hands shaking- like two teams or groups of people coming together. In the middle above the hands is the Warriors Bay Bridge logo, a symbol that we strongly identify with as a city. Above the bridge they put various sports balls- soccer, basketball, football, tennis, baseball, bowling ball and a hockey puck. This is to reflect that although our interests are diverse, in the end the sportsmanship values are the same. AT&T park is up on the top left and there are music notes drifting from the park. Below the hands is Imagination Park. It is supposed to be a happy, peaceful place with a bench, flowers, trees and many birds and animals running around. Because the theme was about imagination and creativity, the students also wanted to put in their own fantasies with unicorns, lucha libre fighters, an island in the middle of the ocean etc.
 ​“Sanchez Elementary School Participatory Chalk Pastel Mural Project ” STEAM Event
Freestyle Participatory Chalk Pastel Mural Project 
© 2016 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' ​Materials: TYVEK paper
Muralist: Sarah Siskin
Designed and Painted by: Sanchez Elementary School students
"Japanese Pacific Resource Network Mural"
© 2016 Precita Eyes Muralists
 
Size: 5’ x 8’  ​Materials: acrylic and tyvek
Mural Directors: Priya Handa.
In collaboration with: Students from Kinjyo Gakuen, Japan of Japanese Pacific Resource Network
Location: 348 Precita Ave., San Fransisco, CA
Description: ​
The girl from Japanese Pacific Resource Network (JPRN) wanted the mural to reflect their experiences in America and what they learned. They painted a sun with a happy and sad face to reflect the need for pain and happiness. The sun’s tears represent pain and how it helps the flower grow on earth. The earth is given resources to grow representing the girls being given resources to grow. The Earth is seen watering the plants, which defines the JPRN group wanting to use their growth to help others grow as well. The origami and the hands using nail polish represent the volunteer experience JPRN had in the Tenderloin with a women’s support group.
"Be Silly Be Honest Be Kind Mural"
© 2015 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5’ x 8’ Materials: acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural Directors: Max Marttila and Priya Handa. In collaboration with: Foothill Middle College
Location: 348 Precita Ave., San Francisco, CA
Description
A half human half tree meditates in front of a brick wall, sitting on top of an open book. It gives off a positive aura of yellows, greens and blues. The small branches that come from the head are tipped with leaves made by the student's fingerprints. The mural is named after their schools motto and seeks to provide the viewer with a sense of tranquility and warm hearted welcomeness.
"Our Unlimited Space"
© 2015 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Msterials: TYVEK® paper
Directed Muralist: Lead Muralist Cory Devereaux
Designed and Painted: Students of Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center (SNBC) After School Art Club
Location: A. P. Giannini Middle School, San Francisco, CA
Description
​“Our Unlimited Space” takes our imaginations on a journey that travels beyond our school, beyond our world, even beyond our universe, into the farthest reaches of infinite space. Krampus, who some say is a wicked “Santa Claus”, is front and center in our mural. Krampus is the multi-eyed humanoid figure with antlers, the face and ears of a dog, the tail of an ox, and the claws of a cat. Some say that Krampus punishes naughty children, however, here Krampus is the do-gooder who crushes a greedy world. This is a nasty planet where people torture plants, and money (as symbolized by dollar signs) is all-important.
 
Krampus finds help in his earth-destroying mission from the creature in the upper left corner of the mural. He is a time drifter who has the ability to create life by shooting radioactive venom through the stars. As the venom heats, it creates new life. The red heat consumes the vile world, however, in its wake, a rainbow appears. 
 
The rainbow travels from the chaos of destruction, and lights the utopia that we imagine in unlimited space. In this happy place, an octopus rides a spaceship through a starry sky. There is a floating village where you can find a home, make friends, and even take a swim in a floating pool. Magical cats fly through the air, a big bow signifies that anything is possible, and the Swiss cheese moon rises over a chocolate bar. Ordinary things become real as a pencil and eraser (holding a book) run to the other side of the rainbow. At the end there is time, and as time ends, we ask, does it still exist?
 
In reality, we are still in the Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center (SNBC). Our imaginations, however, can take us on a tour through unlimited space. There we can have unlimited experiences every day – from meeting wacky aliens to reading books.
​"Los Mariposas Instant Mural Project"
© 2015 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8'  Materials: TYVEK® paper
Directed Muralist: Lead Muralist Fred Alvarado
Designed and Drawn: Students of Mariposa Summer Program
Description
 This instant mural was created by students aged 7 to 10 years old. The theme of the mural was “spontaneous art” Students brainstormed ideas to create images that make up the mural.  ​
"OMI Excelsior Beacon Center Summer Chalk Murals"
© 2015 Precita Eyes Muralists

Two 5’ x 8’ chalk on tyvek
Mural Directors:  Elaine Chu in collaboration with 40 Balboa High School After School students.
Location:  348 Precita Ave, San Francisco, CA
Description: ​
40 OMI Excelsior Beacon Center/ Balboa High school students created 2 portable chalk murals related to their 2015 Project Summer program. The first mural focused on “Positivity is Key” and San Francisco. The students wanted to integrate city landmarks with imaginary elements from their favorite shows and movies. The Golden Gate Bridge is in the middle with downtown buildings in the background. In the foreground are cards from the students favorite cartoons with one that says “Positivity is Key”. San Francisco also has lots of parks and food trucks which are depicted on the bottom right. Above the palm tree is a beautiful girl singing and across from her is a smiling sun. The second mural is titled “BALieve”. In the center of the mural is a ship with flags that represent Balboa High School. The students call themselves the Balboa Buccaneers which is why the students depicted the pirate ship. The two hands lifting the ship up represent the students who believe in each other while the circle is the world and the diverse people that make it beautiful through friendship and respect. In the background is San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge. The Sun at the top right also includes the GS Warriors logo to show the students pride in their favorite basketball team winning the championship. On the bottom right are hands doing printmaking, woodshop and sanding, all activities the students like to do at school.
"S.I Mission Immersion Mural"
© 2015 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5’ x 8’ Materials: acrylic on tyvek
Mural Directors: Sarah Sisken in collaboration with St. Ignatius Mission Immersion Students.
Location: 348 Precita Ave, San Francisco, CA
Description: ​
This mural was completed with 9 students from St. Ignatius College prep, who were participating in the Mission Immersion summer program.  They had been doing several projects in the mission in the mast week such as construction and cultural exploration activities, and discussing topics such as gentrification. Because this mural was a part of their course, they used themes that they had been focused on in the past week. They chose the theme of “New” vs. “Old” mission and explored the changes the mission district has seen in the past several years especially in regards to tech development in the Bay Area. They illustrated this theme with two paths to represent the new and old mission, each path showing different cultures that have distinct priorities and life styles. They used images such as Muni bus and Google bus to highlight the different ways people commute. The two paths come from City Hall where people are protesting the housing market and calling for moratorium. They also include their personal growth and bonding as a group over the past week with an image of them sharing a plate of nachos at a taquería on Calle 24.
"My Path Mural"
© 2015 Precita Eyes Muralists

5’ x 8’, acrylic on tyvek
Mural Directors: Yuka Ezoe, assisted by Sarah Sisken in collaboration with 9 My Path Youth.
Location: 2430 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
"Bayview Opera House Mural"
© 2015 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 10’ x 15’ ​Materials: acrylic on tyvek
Mural Directors: Directed by Suaro Cervantes
"Youth Allies Mural"
© 2015 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5’ x 8’  Materials: acrylic on Tyvek
Mural Directors: Directed by Elaine Chu in collaboration with 20 Visitation Valley Middle School Students
Location: Visitation Valley Middle School, 450 Raymond Ave, SF CA 94134
Description: ​
Teachers in Visitation Valley selected 20 students to participate in this instant mural project led by Franque Bains along with the Visitacion Valley Middle School art teacher. Franque Bains teaches Peer Resources, and the focus this semester was Be An Ally. The students drew images and wrote ideas that reflected that theme, and sent positive messages such as treating others the way you want to be treated. At the center of the mural is a hand supporting another hand, with “No Bully” and “No Fear” signs. The bottom of the mural shows San Francisco buildings with positive messages in the windows. On the left of the mural is the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge with two figures, one is black and one is white. The student ‘s message is “don’t hide your feelings inside”. On the right of the mural are two hands standing up to a bully, and saying, “Don’t Hurt me”. Lastly, on the bottom right is the Flash Super Hero declaring, “Be an Ally” and “Be Brave”.
"Our San Francisco Mural"

5’ x 8’, Acrylic on Tyvek
Mural Directors: Elaine Chu and assisted by Sarah Sisken in collaboration with 23 Town School
Description: ​
The theme of the mural is San Francisco landmarks and neighborhoods. Each student drew something that he felt represented his city. Starting from the top left, we have a sun shining on our city and the Golden Gate Bridge. On the bottom left, there is the Palace of Fine Arts. The center top of the mural finds a San Francisco hill with Victorian houses and trees. In the center is the Town Boys School with a cartoon caption that says, “Town School Boys Rule”, while below we see Lombard Street. On the right-hand top corner of the mural is the Trans America building next to the Bay Bridge with AT&T Park and Chinatown pictured underneath.
"Our World 2015 Mural"
©2015 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5’ x 8’ ​Materials: Chalk Pastel on Tyvek
Mural Directors:  Cory Devereaux assisted by Sarah Sisken
Location:  Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center (SNBC)A.P. Giannini Middle School, 3151 Ortega Street, SF, CA
Description: ​
For this mural, “Our World 2015” we turned our thoughts inward and examined who we are, and what we want to contribute to the world. We created three main areas: the world itself, peace (indicated by the peace symbol), and a giant heart (love) connecting the world and peace. All three subjects rest on an oversized “Book of Life”, and in and around these spaces we drew what is important to us. Our world holds a mysterious smiling face. Nature with its branches, flowers and grapes (one of our favorite things) travels from the world across our heart, and then enters peace. At this point, nature flies over the dove of peace and transforms into a musical score. On the right side of the peace symbol it declares, “People are Life.” What we like about the world is people, family and home, music, art (even “sneaky” art) and color, math, reading and books, electronics, food, and birds. In 2015, a volleyball sun lights our families, world, hearts, and lives. We want to help others by offering food to Africa. We want people to find peace as they to merge art and cooking to make new creations and interesting flavor combos. We want to stop fracking, expand our borders, and give love to all countries. We can announce to all that “We Love Life,” and we want peace and love in our world and our lives. Yet as we contemplate existence, sometimes we face confusing and scary moments. We represent these ambiguous times with a dark figure holding happy and tragic masks. Sometimes we do not know how to describe our thoughts and feelings. We wonder if we will ever know who controls us, and who creates or controls our emotions.
"Seabury High School Mural"
©2015 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5’ x 8’ ​Materials: acrylic on tyvek
Mural Directors: Directed by Yukako Ezoe with students from Hawaii, Seabury High School
"Seven Hills School"
© 2015 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK® paper
Directed Muralist: Yukako Ezoe
Last photo project directed by: Max Martilla
Designed and Painted: Students of  Seven Hills School
Location: Seven Hills School, 975 N San Carlos Dr, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
"I think! I Have a Dream!"
©2015 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5’ x 8’ Materials: Acrylic on Tyvek
Mural Directors: Directed by Yukako Ezoe and college students from Japan, JPRN Kinjyougakuin.
Location: Precita Eyes Muralists Studio, 348 Precita Ave., San Francisco,  CA
"Painting of Sun"
© 2014 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials:TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: Lead Muralist by Christy Mojano and Assisant Muralist by Andres Wamiz
Designed and Painted: Students from Alvarado Elementary
"Wonder From The Heart Mural"
© 2014 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5’ x 8’ ​Materials: acrylic paint on tyvek
Mural Directors: Eli Lippert. In Collaboration with: Foothill Middle College
Location: 348 Precita Ave., San Francisco, CA
Description
This project touches on the idea of community. In the center are silhouettes of people with only their hearts showing, representing that all people are the same.In the areas surrounding, are each students individual personalities and interests popping out showing how different people can come together and find common ground to create.
​"Pursuit of Happiness"
© 2014 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: Eli Lippert
Designed and Painted: Students of Lake Tahoe School
Description
This instant mural project depicted the pursuit of happiness for the 8th grade graduating class of lake tahoe school. The mural shows a brick wall with the shape of lake tahoe breaking through, signifying breaking through the wall to their next level in life. On the other side of the wall is a landscape of lake tahoe in which the students find happiness and inspiration.
Northern Light School Instant Mural
© 2014 Precita Eyes Muralists

5'x8', acrylic on wood
Directed Muralist: Yukako Ezoe 
Designed and Painted: Students of Northern Light School 
​"San Leandro Library Instant Mural"
© 2014 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: Yukako Ezoe 
Designed and Painted: Participants of San Leandro Library
"Where We’ve Been & Where We’re Going" 
© 2014 Precita Eyes Muralists

5'x8', TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: Cory Devereaux
Designed and drawn by: Xtreme Summer Days Participants, San Mateo, CA 
Description
Our pastel chalk mural depicts our love of travel, and the food, animals and landmarks that we see in the places “Where We’ve Been & Where We’re Going”. In the center of the mural, we placed the world with sunrays radiating from it, then spreading into the blue-sky background. Surrounding the world, we see the seven continents, each represented by a different “flag”. Beginning in the upper right (and proceeding clockwise), we have flags for Europe, North America, Antarctica, Australia, Asia, South America, and Africa.
 
Each flag contains items from various countries symbolizing that continent. For example, both the French colors (in the foreground) and the Italian colors (surrounding them) combine to create an area representing Europe. In this French/Italian flag, we visit the Eiffel Tower and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. We feast on a baguette, and a plate of spaghetti and meatballs.
 
The North America flag focuses on the United States. The Stars and Stripes is at the top, the Statue of Liberty and the New York skyline to the right, and the Golden Gate Bridge on the left. In the midst of this scene is a flying hot dog on a bun. In the next flag, a “frozen” landscape encapsulates Antarctica. The scene is complete with a snowman, “Olaf” (from the movie, “Frozen”), a penguin, and naturally, an ice cream cone.
 
The Australian flag appears at the bottom center of the mural. There a kangaroo leaps over the Sydney Opera House while a koala bear happily munches Eucalyptus leaves. Below them roll the green hills of the countryside. The Asia flag to the left shows the Great Wall of China resting on that country’s flag. An Indian elephant rides on top the Indian flag. Lastly, to complete Asia, Japan’s Mount Fuji soars in the lower left corner.
 
Above Asia, there is South America with the flag of its largest country, and recent site of the 2014 World Cup, Brazil. The famous landmark of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro drifts above it all. Next to South America is the final continent, Africa, encased in the South African flag. Here we see safari animals, such as a giraffe and a lion.

In the background of the mural, a Boeing airplane approaches from the upper left corner. The jet carries us to and from our various destinations. It also packs our travel necessities that we find throughout the mural: a passport, suitcase, sunglasses, hat, and even a tropical shirt and treasure map, both perfect for a palm tree covered island.  We are ready to go – happy travels!
"Friends Discovering Historic Buildings"
© 2014 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: Yukako Ezoe
Designed and Painted: Students of St. Bridig School
Location: 2250 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94109
Description
The mural is designed by 6th grade students of St. Brigid School.  The students created a mural around the schools theme, ‘Friendship’. It portrays a pair of friends on an adventure discovering historic landmarks around the world, and encountering creatures from folk tales. 
"Temple Isaiah Camp Kefli Instan Mural"
© 2014 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: Yukako Ezoe
Designed and Painted: Students of Temple Isaiah Camp Kefli
"North Beach Public Library Chalk Mural"
©2014 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: Two ’5’ x 5’ ​Materials: chalk on tyvek
Mural Directors: Elaine Chu and Xavier Schmidt in collaboration with 30 4-5 year old children
Location: North Beach Public Library 850 Columbus Ave, SF CA
"SF School House", 2014
© 2014 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' ​Materials: TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: Fred Alvarado
Designed and Painted: Students of SF School House
"Can You See Yourself Mural"
©2014 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5’ x 8’ ​Materials: acrylic on tyvek
Mural Directors: Elaine Chu with 6 students from the 2014 Instant Mural Workshop for Artists and Educators.
Location: 348 Precita Ave, SF, CA 94110
​Description:
Art educators and artists who were interested in learning the Precita Eyes mural process attended this instant mural workshop. The attendants were lead through idea and theme development and designed this instant mural while also learning how to paint collaboratively. The class was attended by all women and they decided the theme would reflect the feminine energy of the group. The mural starts in the center with the question “Can you see yourself?” The mermaid is holding a mirror in one hand aimed at the viewer and in her other hand holding a baby mermaid. She represents every woman, mother and daughter reflecting the goddess and inner/outer beauty in every woman. The mermaid divides the mural in half, one side is night and the other is day. The sun radiates energy throughout the sky while a blooming rose rotates in the core of the sun. The humming bird in the top center represents the woman’s spirit soaring to the stars.
"Our San Francisco Mural"

Size: 5’ x 16’  Materials: acrylic on tyvek
Mural Directors: Cory Devereaux and Elaine Chu
Location: Town School for Boys, 380 Folsom St., #3 Folsom St., SF, CA 94110
Description:
“Our San Francisco” depicts everything we love about our city from the sun shining on the Golden Gate Bridge (GGB) in the upper left-hand corner to the waves lapping around the Bay Bridge on the lower right side. There is a tunnel leading to the GGB, and the waters (surrounding both bridges) team with fish, including a Mohawk headed shark and a giant whale. A tanker from China lumbers towards the land at the center of the mural where we see our neighborhoods and their many famous landmarks. Here the Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina, Downtown buildings, and the colorful houses and churches of Potrero Hill, the Castro, the Richman and Sunset, and the Mission, and other districts, share space with parks, trees, and people. Roads congested with cars, trucks and other vehicles crisscross the scene, and the “crookedest” street makes an appearance slightly right of center. Moving further to the right, we encounter Coit Tower, Alcatraz, a firehouse, Chinatown (complete with dragon), Sutro Tower and the San Francisco Zoo and Botanical Gardens. All of this activity takes place beneath the blue San Francisco sky that explodes with crackling fireworks.
"ExplOratorium Pre-Opening Festival”
© 2013 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK paper
Muralists: Elaine Chu and Yukako Ezoe
Designed and Painted by: Participants of Exploratorium Pre-Opening Festival  
Description
The boy is looking through the magnifying glass into a San Francisco native Monarch butterfly. The ray of light represents the child's discovery of science, math, music and art by observing the insect. The ray of light hits the golden ratio and it is emanating the ray's complementary color like a prism. One of the ray also includes hands in multi color to represents diversity of community. The frame is from a picture of a sculpture work that is part of the Exploritorium. The butterfly flutters in air and exposed to the light machine creating overlaps of color shadows. ​
"Mission Beacon Neighborhood Center Chalk Pastel Project”
© 2013 Precita Eyes Muralists

​Size: ​5'x8' Materials: TYVEK paper
Muralists: Yukako Ezoe
Designed and Drawn by: Mission Beacon After School program students from Everett Middle School
​"Music-n-Nature", "Fantasy Rocks", and "Ice Crem City"
© 2013 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: THREE 5'x8's Materials:TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: Max Martilla
Designed and Painted: Summer Beacon Center Students from AP Ginniani MiddleSchool 
Description
​"Music-n-Nature" is a painted landscape with animals that are being serenaded by the divine tunes of mother nature. While some animals have embraced the gift of music not all of them seem to be complacent with their surroundings, leading the viewer to ask do these animals prefer amore silent and tranquil environment? Maybe this music is actually the intervention of man and a fore shadowing to the destruction and metropilizationalism of what they once called home. 

"Fantasy Rocks" depicts night time club scene on an uncharted island. A dragon jams out on his iPod while a mermaid entertains her fellow mermaiden with a flute. The islands security, Agnipe the Merciless Pegasus Lady watches over the island with a pink bow and arrow while the devil himself spins the ones and twos. 

"Ice Cream City" manifest the affinity that thirteen pre-teen girls have for ice cream, San Francisco and music. The mural depicts a downtown scene that has been flooded with showers of music notes and bright toxic lactose love in a very expressionistic manner. 
"California Academy of Science: Earth Day Event”
© 2013 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK paper
Designed by: Suaro Cervantes and Yukako Ezoe
Painted by: Participants at California Academy of Science: Earth Day Event
"Instant Mural for Artists and Educators" 
© 2013 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: 1st lead by Elaine Chu and 2nd mural lead by Christina Mojano 
Designed and Painted: Teachers and Artists
"Cragmont Elementary"
© 2013 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK® paper
Directed Muralist: Yukako Ezoe 
Designed and Painted: Students of Cragmont Elementary School
Location: Cragmont Elementary School, 830 Regal Rd, Berkeley, CA 94708
Description
Peace promotion is the theme of this mural. The dragon in the middle is Cragmont Elementary school’s mascot. Transformed as school, it is blowing fire of peace that wraps around the mural and shoots back into the school. The two doves holds a chain of signs: a peace sign, a quote from Martin Luther King Jr, ‘I have a dream’, and a shovel to represent the farming activist, Cesar Chavez.   The bus on the left symbolize the civil activist, Rosa Parks. 
"De Young Museum Ambassador Instant Mural"
© 2013 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: Lead Muralist by Eli Lippert and Yukako Ezoe and Assistant Muralist by Andres Wemiz
Designed and Painted: Students of De Young Museum Ambassador
"Alta Loma Elementary and Middle School Instant Mural"
© 2013 Precita Eyes Muralists

5'x8', TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: 1st project by Yukako Ezoe and 2nd project by Max Marttila
Designed and Painted: Students of Alta Loma Elementary and Middle School
"Arroyo High School Instant Mural" 
© 2013 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: First mural by Yukako Ezoe and second mural by Eli Lippert
Designed and Painted: Students of Arroyo High School 
"Upward Bound Instant Mural"
© 2013 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: Yukako Ezoe
Designed and Painted: Students of Upward Bound 
​"National Community Schools Conference"
© 2012 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK® paper
Directed Muralist: Suaro Cervantes
Designed and Painted: Youth participants from National Community Schools Conference
​"Mission Library Participatory Chalk Pastel Mural"
© 2012 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x5' ​Materials: TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: Yukako Ezoe
Designed and Painted: Children participants from Mission Library
Location: 300 Bartlett St, San Francisco, CA 94110
"Mental Health Association Instant Murals"
© 2012 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: First project by Yukako Ezoe and second by Eli Lippert
Designed and Painted: Employees of Mental Health Association
​"A Monstrous Day at the Little School"
© 2012 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8'  Materials: TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: Max Martilla
Designed and Painted: Students from The Little School
​"Katherine Delmar Burke School Instant Murals"
© 2012 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: Yukako Ezoe
Designed and Painted: Katherine Delmar Burke School
"Flynn Elementary Instant Murals"
© 2012 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8'  Materials: TYVEK® paper
Directed Muralist: Fist mural by Fred Alvarado, second mural Alima Catillacci, 3rd mural by Max Allbee
Designed and Painted: Flynn Elementary School
"Town School For Boys Instant Murals"
© 2012 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' ​Materials: TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: First project by Yukako Ezoe and second by Max Martilla
Designed and Painted: Students from Town School For Boys
"Fairytale"
© 2011 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK paper
Director/Muralist: Yukako Ezoe
Designed and Painted: Students from Fairmount Elementary School
Location: Fairmount Elementary School, 65 Chenery st., San Francisco,  CA 94131
Description
This collaborative mural has a fairy-tail narrative which all the students created together. Here goes the story...
'Once  upon a time lived a dragon who lived in a cave and loved to paint.  One day he was lonely so he decided to capture the princess. The nights came to rescue her but they decided to guard the door and all ate jelly beans and happily ever after.'
​"Instant Mural for Artists and Educators"
© 2011 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8'  Materials: TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: Elaine Chu 
Designed and Painted: Teachers and Artists
"Summer Camp"
© 2010 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: Yukako Ezoe
Designed and Painted: Students from Precita Eyes Muralists' Summer Kids Progra
​"Garfield Park Youth Instant Mural"
© 2008 Precita Eyes Muralists

5'x8', TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: Eli Lippert
Designed and Painted: Students from Garfield Park Youth
"Little School Instant Mural", 2007
© 2007 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK paper
Directed Muralist: Brenda Miller
Designed and Painted: Students from Little School
"Susan and Luis Cervantes Day Event" - April 6th, 2005
© 2005 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 4'x16' Materials: TYVEK paper
Location: City Hall, San Francisco, CA 
Description
Mayor Gavin Newsom proclaimed April 6 "Luis and Susan Cervantes Day," and May is Mural Awareness Month in the Bay Area. Students designed the mural prior and painted the mural at the event with the Mayor. In addition, art works from the Precita Eyes muralists were displayed at the event.
​"Precita Eyes Kids Art Program Instant Mural"
© 2004 Precita Eyes Muralists

Size: 5'x8' Materials: TYVEK paper 
Designed and Painted: Students from Precita Eyes Kids Art Program

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