Public Art and Architecture from Around the World

Category: Mission

  • Wall Art #1012 on Mission

    Wall Art #1012 on Mission

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    1400 Mission Street   This artwork is part of San Francisco’s 1% for Art Program. The piece covers the façade at the corner of 10th Street and Jessie Street and is the height of the ground story, and spans approximately 66 linear feet of the facade along 10th Street and 27 linear feet along Jessie…

  • Seven Dancing Stones and Seven Dancing Stars

    Seven Dancing Stones and Seven Dancing Stars

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    Mission Police Station 630 Valencia Street Seven Dancing Stones and Seven Dancing Stars is the creation of artist Gary Dwyer. Installed in 1984, Seven Dancing Stones and Seven Dancing Stars sits in the lobby of the police department.  Dwyer created this sculptural installation based on a legend of the Ohlone Indian tribes which originally inhabited…

  • Birds in the Mission

    Birds in the Mission

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    In Chan Kaajal Park 17th and Folsom Mission District There are two California birds represented in this Mission district park.  They are painted water-jet cut steel panels created by Carmen Lomas Garza. San Francisco-based artist was born in 1948 in Kingsville, Texas. She attended Texas Arts and Industry University (now Texas A&M) and received a BS in…

  • Woodward Garden

    Woodward Garden

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    Woodward Gardens Duboce and Woodward Street Mission/South of Market On January 19, 1873, 12,000 people showed up at Woodward’s Garden in the Mission District to watch Frenchman Gus Buislay and a small boy soar aloft in a hot air balloon. The man who made it happen was Robert B. Woodward. Woodward had made his fortune…

  • Aplique da Parete

    Aplique da Parete

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    535 Mission Aplique da Parete – Gordon Huether – 2014 This piece is a pattern of dichroic and mirrored glass mounted to a stone backing.  The piece extends through the lobby to the exterior. This and The Band are intended to enliven Shaw Alley.  Shaw Alley is a public right-of-way that has been closed to…

  • Jaques Overhoff and Margaret Mead

    Jaques Overhoff and Margaret Mead

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    150 Otis Street Mission/South of Market   This sculpture, by Jaques Overhoff, has sat on the side of 170 Otis Street, The Social Services Building, since 1977. The abstract sculpture is accompanied by a poem by Margaret Mead. At this time I am unable to determine whether or not this is part of Overhoff’s intent…

  • Handsignals

    Handsignals

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    McCoppin Plaza Market Street and Valencia Titled Handsignals, this piece sits in a small park made available after the tearing down of the Central Freeway that once bi-sected the area.  The McCoppin Hub Project was a joint project between SFMTA, SFAC and SFDPW. For this reason it was impossible for me to garner from the hundreds…

  • Abstract Sculpture in BART

    Abstract Sculpture in BART

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    16th and Mission 24th and Mission Bart Stations Mission District These abstract, cast stone, pieces can be found in both the 16th and Mission and 24th and Mission BART stations. The works are by William George Mitchell.  Mitchell (born 1925) is an English sculptor, artist and designer. He is best known for his large scale…

  • Mission Branch Library and Leo Lentelli

    Mission Branch Library and Leo Lentelli

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    Mission Branch Library 24th Between Bartlett and Orange Alley Mission District Leo Lentelli was one of San Francisco’s more prolific and well known sculptors during his time.  Sadly very little of his work survives inside of the city. There is a beautiful piece at  the Hunter Dunlin building downtown, and this sculpture over the original entry…

  • Engine Company #13

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    1458 Valencia Street Mission Built in 1883, this is the City’s oldest standing firehouse.  In the heart of the Mission District, this rare brick firehouse in the Victorian Italianate style has a front surface made entirely of cast iron detail.  Such buildings are very rare in San Francisco with most clustered in the Jackson Square…

  • Mission Dolores Mosaic

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    Mission Dolores 16th and Dolores The Mission District This mural is in the hallway between the Mission and the Basilica. The brass plaque that accompanies it reads: Guillermo Granizo 1923-1996 This ceramic mural is the work of Guillermo Granizo a native San Francisco Artist.  Shortly after Guillermo’s birth in 1923 the Granizo Family moved to…

  • Tekakwitha Lily of the Mohawk

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    Mission Dolores Cemetery 16th and Mission The Mission District Saint Kateri Tekakwitha  baptised as Catherine Tekakwitha and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks (1656 – April 17, 1680), is a Roman Catholic saint, who was an Algonquin–Mohawk virgin and religious laywoman. Born in Auriesville (now part of New York), she survived smallpox and was orphaned as a child, then baptized as a Roman Catholic and settled for the last years of…

  • Father Junipero Serra

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    Mission Dolores 16th and Dolores The Mission District This sculpture, found inside the cemetery is by Arthur Putnam.  The cast stone sculpture is one of a series of allegorical figures originally commissioned to depict the history of California for the estate of E. W. Scripps. This cast was funded by D. J. McQuarry at the cost…

  • Mission Dolores Cemetery

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    16th and Dolores The Mission District Mission Dolores is one of my favorite places in all of San Francisco.  I try to visit at least once every two months or so.  The history of the mission is well know to every Californian (we are required to study them in the 2nd grade), so I will…

  • Herakut #7

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    McCoppin Between Gough and Valencia Mission / SOMA This mura, by Herakut is on the walls of the Flax Art Store on Market Street.  Herakut has been in this website before with a piece in the Tenderloin. According to Flax’s website: In 2004 Herakut came together, finding a magic synthesis between the artistic skills and specialties of…

  • Open Book at the Library

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    960 4th Street Mission Bay This piece, by Vince Koloski, is in the Mission Bay Branch Library. The artwork is an illuminated book sculpture with quotes about reading and text from a variety of ancient and contemporary cultures. Vince Koloski was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1953. In 1977 he attended New College in Sarasota, Florida…

  • Precita Eyes covers McDonald’s in Paint

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    2801 Mission Street Mission District This mural, titled Culture of the Crossroads, was done in 1998 by Precita Eyes.  It covers the 24th Street side of the McDonalds Restaurant. * * * * * Precita Eyes  is a multipurpose community based arts organization that has played an integral role in the city’s cultural heritage and arts education.…

  • The Tanforan Cottages

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    214-220 Dolores Mission District Not far from Mission Dolores are a pair of homes considered to be the oldest in the Mission District and among some of the oldest in San Francisco: 214 and 220 Dolores Street. The Mission District, originally Mission San Francisco de Asis, was the sixteenth in a chain of  twenty missions stretching from San…

  • Carnaval on 24th

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    3195 24th Street The Mission This badly faded mural is titled Carnaval and was done in 1983.  The artist was Daniel Galves with help from Dan Fontes, James Morgan, Jay Shield and Keith Sklar. Daniel Galvez is an Oakland-based muralist.  He studied at the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland (BFA in painting in…

  • Zio Ziegler Paints the Mission

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    Bartlett and 24th Mission and Sycamore * * Zio Ziegler has several murals around San Francisco. According to his website:  For me painting is balance. Within this balance there is consciousness, instinct and distraction. My work is a constant fusion of all three. Torn between the classical and the contemporary in my inspirations, but constantly…

  • The Movie Palaces of Mission Street

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    The Mission District Before Netflix, streaming videos and television, most people got their entertainment at a vaudeville/movie theater. These “palaces” were places to see and be seen. The Mission district was the home to at least five theaters whose marquees still can be seen amongst the graffiti and signage that marks the street. Of these…

  • CCSF Mission Campus

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    1125 Valencia Mission District Said to be the biggest Tonalmachiotl in the world, this version of the Aztec Calendar sits at the entry way to the City College of San Francisco Mission Campus. Tonalmachiotl is called the Aztec Calendar, the Sunstone or Piedra del Sol. Scholars believe that pre-conquest Mesoamerican cultures conceived of time as circular….…

  • Mission Pool and Playground Mural

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    Mission District Linda Street off of 19th * * 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…

  • Nico Berry on York Street

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    1354 York Street Mission/Potrero This mural is part of the San Francisco StreetSmARTS program and was done by Nico Berry. Nico Berry’s cultural perspective is shaped by his encounters with hip-hop, skateboarding, and urban youth culture while growing up on the South Side of Chicago. Over the years he has also become interested in exploring…

  • Shapes and Letters

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    751 and 780 Valencia at 19th The Mission This mural, consisting of shapes, numbers and letters, is by 24 year old SF resident, Jonathan Matas. In 2012 Jonathan did an interview with a group in Atlanta while participating in a show called Living Walls. Here is a few interesting excerpts from the article: I have…

  • Where the Wild Things Gnar

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    20th and Mission The Mission This mural by Nosego is titled “Where the Wild Things Gnar”. Yis “Nosego” Goodwin is a Philadelphia-based artist with a passion for illustration and media arts.  He mixes fine art with a contemporary style to deliver highly energetic work. His designs feature an assemblage of patterns, vibrant colors and characters derived…

  • Kinetic Sculpture in Dolores Park

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    Mission Dolores Park The Mission District Mission Dolores underwent a $17+ million, much-needed and beautiful transformation in 2011 and 2012.  Part of the renovation was this kinetic sculpture. The sculpture, by Lymon Whitaker is 23 feet tall. Lyman has been a practicing sculptor for over 40 years, with a unique knowledge of materials and their…

  • April Berger paints the Mission

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    3300 Block of 18th Mission District *   April Berger is an artist who has been living and creating art in San Francisco for thirty years. Her work is primarily non-figurative, which allows the viewer to have an immediate response to the color, texture, pattern, and forms that they are seeing. Her love of color…

  • Bufano in Valencia Gardens

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    Valencia Gardens Housing Project Corner of Maxwell Court and Rosa Parks Way These animal sculptures at Valencia Gardens were sculpted by Beniamino (Benny) Bufano. They were done in the 1930s for the Work Progress Administration Project at Aquatic Park.  In the 1940s, when the federal government pulled out of  San Francisco the sculptures were given to…

  • The Coast Miwok and California History

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    350 16th Street and Albion Mission District * * * The Coast Miwok “We lived in harmony with the planet for thousands of years. We respected the earth and were thankful fo all the gifts it gave us With the invasion of the outsiders our lives were shattered. We were imprisoned, forced into slave labor…