Mission Pool and Playground Mural

 Posted by on January 28, 2013
Jan 282013
 

Mission District
Linda Street off of 19th

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This mural was done by Emmanuel C. Montoya, Sue Cervantes and Juana Alicia.  It sits on the side of the Mission Pool and Playground which houses the New World Tree Mural. These three artists were joined by Raul Martinez and others to create the mural in the playground in 1985. It is titled Balance of Power.

On the day of the inauguration of the World Tree Mural, a neighborhood organizer got Diane Feinstein, then San Francisco mayor, on tape, promising to fund murals for the neighborhood if it respected the walls and desisted from covering them with graffiti. .The artists, community organizers and two rival neighborhood gangs, Happy Homes and 19th Street, came together to create the mural.

Emmanuel is a descendent of Lipan Apache and Mexican heritage and was born in the small, south coastal town of Corpus Christi, Texas. Emmanuel is an enrolled member of the Lipan Apache Band of Texas.  For some forty-eight years Emmanuel has been a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area where he attended high school and went on to college and earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking at San Francisco State University.

Sue Cervantes has many murals around San Francisco that you can see here.

 

 

 

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  2 Responses to “Mission Pool and Playground Mural”

  1. RedPat says:
    January 28, 2013 at 12:01 pm

    You have sooo many great murals there!

  2. Gail O says:
    January 28, 2013 at 7:51 pm

    Love how you managed to make those lines in the mural line up with the lines in the street!….Great mural and great shot!

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