Walking this section of Mason street, I noticed a profound difference in its essence. It was far cleaner, and brighter than I remembered from the past. This is most definitely due to two new housing buildings that have recently gone up. This one is 125 Mason Street and is the GEDC Family housing. Glide Economic Developement Committee is part of the Glide Memorial Family. The front of the building is covered with these wonderful three dimensional sayings, that lend a sense of respect to the building.
The installation is by Mildred Howard. The Chronicle describes Howard thusly: Mildred Howard takes full advantage of the latitude that modernism won for artists in the use of materials and expressive idioms. She has used photographs, glass, architecture, housewares and other found objects of all kinds.
Because she maneuvers so freely within the conceptually soft borders of “installation” work, people tend to think of her as a sculptor, but she prefers the vaguer, more open term artist.
A native San Franciscan, Howard, began her adult creative life as a dancer before shifting her energies to visual art.
Her work has appeared in exhibitions around the world and has garnered numerous awards, including the San Francisco Art Institute’s Adaline Kent Award, and fellowships from the Flintridge and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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13 responses to “The Tenderloin – GEDC Family Housing”
very touching and beautiful. thank you for sharing this!
Every city has sections that at one time a person wouldn’t frequent, but then times change… I’ve been around Seattle more this summer than I have in years and have seen changes in neighborhoods that I thought never would… I like the inspiration of the sayings gracing the facade…
Wow that is an interesting shot for SOOC Sunday.
Howard is a multi-talented person!
Fabulous! Even without the meanings the visual presentation of the words works. Nice one.
This is great. The world needs a little more kindness these days.
I love the messages on the building. So nice and caring.
Lovely SOOC work!!
Have a great Sunday!! 🙂
A most impressive post. This is educational and leaves me in awe of artists who think out of the box.
Rosie
Lovely wall of great words!
Visiting from SOOC
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Wonderful building and art. Thanks for continuing the tour of SF.
[…] Mildred Howard has been in this site before. She is an artist that best uses words as her medium. The mixed cultures of this area are well represented in the poem. The neighborhood has a long history of struggle not only between cultures, but between the city and it’s residents as well as the visions that everyone has versus reality. There have been books written about this strife, suffice it to say I think the poem sums it up very, very well. […]
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