Queseda Gardens

Queseda and Newcomb
Bayview/Hunters Point

The Quesada Gardens Community Mural & Gathering Space emerged with leadership from QGI Co-Founders Sharon Bliss and Mike Aisenfeld. Neighbors wanted to express the magic of the garden and spirit of community. In the end, a gritty urban space was transformed  when community-based artist Deirdre DeFranceaux, with fellow artist Santie Huckaby,  breathed life into a potent symbol of hope and unity.  The mural was dedicated in 2004.

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Santie Huckaby’s work has been in this site before. According to his website: Born in Ohio, I have spent the past 40 years in San Francisco working as a professional musician, sign painter and muralist. My mural career includes over 15 interior and 12 exterior murals painted over a span of 14 years. Included in my resume is the Rosa Parks mural, awarded best mural of 1997. My work-in-progress is the Tribute to jazz: mural at What a Grind cafe at Fillmore and Eddy. St. in San Francisco. I am currently the artist in residence at Hunter’s Point Shipyard, artist in residence at the Bayview Opera House, an art teacher with the Carver Mural Program in San Francisco and continuing my vocation as a sign painter.

Dierdre De Franceaux is a painter and sculptor residing in San Francisco, California. She received her AA from the Maryland College of Art and Design, her BFA from Skidmore College and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her additional studies included the Ecole des Beaux Arts, in Paris, France and the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. Her large scale public sculptures have graced the Playa at the Burning Man Festival, in Black Rock City, Nevada. Deidre has taught at such schools as the San Francisco Art Institute, UC Berkeley, The College of Marin, and the San Francisco Waldorf High School. She has also taught numerous years with various non-profits, working with at risk youth, and creating large scale murals with groups of school children throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

This project was funded by the Mayor’s Neighborhood Beautification Fund and approved by the Visual Arts Commission.