Chinatown Metro Station
A Sense of Community by Clare Rojas
This arched ceramic tile mural (14 feet high by 35 feet wide) is one of my favorites of the new BART station art installations. Embedded in this colorful array of tiles are small tiles meant to evoke the cultural exchange of the ancient Silk Road trade route where different fabrics, patterns, and ideas intersected. Individual tile patterns were sourced from art and design institutions, fashion designers, and local fabric stores.
Rojas lives in San Francisco and is considered a key artist of the Bay Area’s Mission School movement. This is her third public commission in San Francisco, following “Hummingbirds” at UCSF Children’s Hospital Amphitheater and “Blue Deer” at San Francisco International Airport. Rojas has been recognized with a Project Space Residency and Tournesol Award from Headlands Center for the Arts and a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation, among other awards.
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