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Category: CCSF

  • Ocean Avenue History Staircase

    Ocean Avenue History Staircase

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    Unity Plaza Opened in 2016 Unity Plaza features a new pedestrian path that stretches from the north side of Ocean Avenue to the City College campus. The path, created in partnership with City College, features an integrated landscape and this stairway that features a collage of historic photographs of the neighborhood laid out on the…

  • Frederick Olmsted at CCSF

    Frederick Olmsted at CCSF

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    CCSF Phelan Campus Hall of Science The Theory of Science is the title of two murals at the west entrance stairs of the Science Hall.  The murals show students engaged in various branches of scientific research such as viewing bacteria through a microscope, conducting field research, and excavating dinosaur remains. These were painted in 1941…

  • Dudley Carter the GGIE and CCSF

    Dudley Carter the GGIE and CCSF

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    CCSF Campus Phelan Avenue Diego Rivera Theater and Conlan Hall During the second season (1940) of the Golden Gate International Exposition, organizers began the Art in Action program in the Hall of Fine and Decorative Arts.  During the 1939 season, the hall had housed the art collections of European and Pacific cultures.  The concept was…

  • Peter VandenBerge at CCSF

    Peter VandenBerge at CCSF

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    Childcare and Development Center CCSF Phelan Campus The building is now Closed This whimsical mural is by ceramic artist Peter VandenBerge.  It measures 8′ by 5′ and is made of ceramic tiles. Vandenberge has been on this site before. VandenBerge was part of the legendary group at University of California, Davis, during the 1960s. Working…

  • Edison and DaVinci by Olmsted

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    CCSF Ocean View Campus 50 Phelan Sunnyside * According to CCSF’s website “Archibald Cloud, the Chief Deputy Superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District, began in 1930 to vigorously articulate a long held educational dream: that the “premier” county in the State—San Francisco—must have the same educational “jewel” as did 38 of the State’s…

  • CCSF – Up Tight

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    Ingleside San Francisco City College Ocean Avenue This is titled Up-Tight #1 by Jaques Overhoff.  Mr. Overhoff has been in this blog before with a piece on SF City College campus.  Up-Tight #1 is painted concrete.  The name was to symbolize the stabilizing effects of the tension cables.  That made absolutely no sense to me…

  • CCSF – Sentinels

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    Ingleside San Francisco City College Ocean Avenue Campus * * Sentinels by Aristides Demetrios This one piece is titled Sentinels.  It is by Aristides Demetrios who has been in this site before with his aeolian harp.   This piece of welded bronze plates is titled sentinels and was done in 1973.   The piece is on…

  • William Wareham at SF City College

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    San Francisco City College Ocean Avenue Campus  This piece at City College San Francisco, Ocean campus, is titled “Wyoming Coup” by William Wareham.  It was installed in 1972 on the West Lawn of the Science Building. William Wareham graduated with an  MA and MFA from UC Berkeley in 1971, he did his undergraduate at the…

  • San Francisco City College Mosaics

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    Two polished marble mosaics stand at either end of the Science Hall on the City College of San Francisco Campus.  These mosaics are by the Swiss-born artist Herman Volz and represent fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics in tiny tiles. Completed on site, the mosaics took two years to install with a staff…

  • Olmec Heads in San Francisco

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    San Francisco City College Ocean Avenue Campus Frida Kahlo Garden   The giant Olmec head, “El Rey,” San Lorenzo #1 was carved by Ignacio Perez Solano, also know as “il Maestro.” The head is an accurate reproduction of the original piece from San Lorenzo in Veracruz, Mexico. The 3,000 year old original basalt head is…

  • Peace in San Francisco

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    This statue of “Pacifica” is in the courtyard of the Diego Rivera Theater on the City College of San Francisco Ocean Avenue Campus.  Originally, an 80 foot tall sculpture of Pacifica graced the Golden Gate International Exhibition on Treasure Island, she was destroyed by the Navy in 1941 when they took possession of the island. Sal…

  • The Art of Concrete at CCSF

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    San Francisco City College Ocean Avenue Campus This is called “Sculptural deck and Bicentennial Wings” by Jacques Overhoff.  It was done in 1979.  It is typical of Overhoff work, cast concrete with ceramic tile.  Jacques Overhoff was born in 1933 in the Netherlands and studied at the Graphics School of Design and the University of…

  • Guns and Roses

    Guns and Roses

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    San Francisco City College Ocean Avenue At the entrance to San Francisco City College is “St. Francis of the Guns” by Bufano.  Born in Italy, in 1898, Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano taught at the California School of Fine Arts, now the San Francisco Art Institute, (but was dismissed in 1923 because he was considered too modern), the…