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Category: Hayes Valley

  • John Park WPA Murals

    John Park WPA Murals

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    John Muir Elementary 380 Webster Hayes Valley As you enter John Muir Elementary school you are greeted with three lunettes.  In the lunettes are WPA murals by artist David Park.  These murals were done in 1934, the same year that park joined the WPA.  These three are painted in the Socialist Realism style. The three…

  • John Muir Elementary School

    John Muir Elementary School

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    John Muir Elementary School 380 Webster Hayes Valley In the ten years between 1920 and 1930 San Francisco erected 49 new school buildings, with a 50th approved in 1931. This was all accomplished just 80 years after the birth of the San Francisco School System. These 50 school buildings represented an investment, at that time,…

  • Abstract Sculpture at 100 Buchannan

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    100 Buchanan UCSF Dental Center Market Street/Hayes Valley These two abstract sculptures are by Andrew Harader.  Harader attended Cal State University in Long Beach and then received an MFA in 1976 at the Maryland Institute’s  Rhinehart School of Sculpture.  He is presently the coach at Andy’s Tennis Camp in Palo Alto. The piece is owned…

  • Future’s Past by Kate Raudenbush

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    Hayes Valley Patricia’s Green  This photo is courtesy of the Black Rock Arts Website and was taken at Burning Man.  Future’s Past by Kate Raudenbush The Hayes Valley Art Coalition explains the piece like this: Futures Past is a sculptural environment of two contrasting worlds. The 12-foot pyramid reflects the architectural temples of the renowned collapsed…

  • Kenzo’s Octopus on Fell Street

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    Civic Center/Hayes Valley  * 155 Fell Street  This is titled Big Octopus and is by Kenzo. Kenzo, (Aleix Gordo Hostau)  is from Barcelona, you can see his other work around San Francisco here or his own flicker photo stream here.

  • Hayes Valley – Picasso’s Family

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    Hayes Valley/Western Addition Haight and Buchanan * * This is titled Picasso’s Family and City Life.  It is by Laura Campos, who is known for her work depicting aliens around San Francisco. I thought this to be especially poignant.

  • Hayes Valley – Ghinlon/Transcope

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    Hayes Valley/Western Addition Octavia Boulevard between Market and Hayes * * * Ghinlon/Transcope by Po Shu Wang 2005 Commissioned by the SF Arts Commission for the Octavia Boulevard Streetscape Project, these transcopes invite you to observe the comings and goings along Octavia Boulevard and Patricia’s Green. There are twelve of these installed along the medians…

  • Hayes Valley – Great Adventure

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    Hayes Valley/Western Addition Octavia and Page * This is Growing Home’s Community Garden, their mission is to provide a community garden where both homeless and housed San Franciscans work side-by-side to grow nutritious food, access green space, and build community. The mural on the back wall is by Ben Eine, he has several murals around…

  • Hayes Valley

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    Hayes  Valley – San Francisco 580 Hayes Street On the side of Hayes & Kabob – a terrific Mediterranean restaurant – there are these bright and happy dog murals. In front of the restaurant is a parking lot that used to be an “Elder Art Park”  Fortunately, at least these pieces remain. Because it is…

  • Hayes Valley Farm

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    Hayes Valley – San Francisco Hayes  Valley Farm Thanks to the efforts of Colonel Thomas Hayes, Hayes Valley became the first outlying area of the vast Western Addition to develop. Hayes was born in 1823 in Ireland.  Afflicted by gold fever, Hayes and his two brothers set sail for San Francisco, and acquired a 160-acre…

  • Hayes Valley – Ethereal Art

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    Hayes Valley – San Francisco Hayes Valley came to prominence when film director Erich von Stroheim chose the corner of Hayes and Laguna for the filming of his 1924 film “Greed.” His affections were for a 19th-century Victorian that had been built in the early 1880s by Col. Michael Hayes as an amusement pavilion, though…

  • Hayes Valley – Pop Up Art

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    Hayes Valley – San Francisco I had the privilege of catching Andy Vogt in the process of making this piece.  We chatted for awhile, as he worked putting lath into the chain link fence.  This space surrounds a temporary landing spot for the Museum of Craft and Art.  The museum is presently in a storage…

  • Oddities in San Francisco

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    915 Fulton Street This is Ron Henggeler’s Tower at 915 Fulton Street in San Francisco.  Ron is a collector, he started building this 45 foot tower after the Loma Prieta Earthquake.  He wandered down to where they were tearing up the Fell Street Freeway exit and scavenged the rebar, the tower grew from there.  Ron…