Slow Down, Children at Play on Tehama Streeet

449 Tehama

SOMA

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This mural is on the Tehama Street side of the Cingular Wireless building at 951 Howard Street.  It was painted as a neighborhood beautification and community enhancement project. Cingular Wireless sponsored the mural entitled “Slow Down: Children at Play,” and features the faces of neighborhood children and pets intertwined with forms that reference the shadows from the trees and architecture of the street.

Supervised by Sharon Anderson, it was painted with the help of lots of people from the neighborhood.

According to the Fog City Journal July 30 2006 Article:

“Our network team is in this building,” Cingular director of public relations Lauren Garner told the Sentinel.

“We spent a lot time painting over the graffiti and when Sharon and Laura approached us to do the mural we knew it was a perfect solution because we really wanted to be a good corporate neighbor with the community because we work here as well.”

Sharon Anderson, a six-year resident of Tehama Street, related the mural history.
“My neighbor Laura Weil saw the wall and saw that it needed to have something here in this open space, so we’ve been talking for a couple of years about what to do and how to do it,” Anderson opened the press conference. “At some point I realized, ‘Hey, I’m an artist – I can do this.’ “But we needed a lot of help so between Laura and I… we just began slowly getting the Tehama Street Neighbors Association involved and we approached Cingular. “So between Cingular, Tehama Street Neighborhood Association, we came up with the mural which features shapes and forms from the neighborhood.