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Tag: Colette Crutcher

  • Dahlias at Cabrillo

    Dahlias at Cabrillo

    Cabrillo Playground 853 38th Avenue Outer Richmond Cabrillo Playground, and its attached club house were completely renovated with $45 million dollars from the 2008 Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks Bond. The budget for the art was $35,970. These lacy flowers are by Colette Crutcher and were inspired by the Dahlia Garden that is attached to the park.…

  • Arelious Walker Stairway

    Arelious Walker Stairway

    Innes Avenue Bay View / Hunters Point This was the proposal that was written for the Call for Artists by the SFAC: The Arelious Walker Drive Stair replacement is a dynamic community project in partnership with the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and the Department of Public Works to create ceramic tile mosaic steps on the…

  • La Madre Tonantsin

    3495 16th Between Sanchez and Dehon Castro District Colette Crutcher is a multi discipline artist. Her career began with painting and printmaking, but now covers a broad spectrum, from very large to very small, from public to intensely personal, from abstract to figurative, and across a range of media: painting and drawing, collage, assemblage, paper mache,…

  • Playthings of the Wind

    1199 Mason at Washington Chinatown Betty Ong Chinese Recreation Center * Colette Crutcher’s mosaic mural, titled Playthings of the Wind, located in the playground of the new center, honors China’s 2000-year tradition of kite making. The mural depicts a young child, in traditional dress, holding a string attached to a butterfly kite, which is joined…

  • Ocean View Branch Library

    Ocean View Public Library 345 Randolph, San Francisco The front of the Ocean View library is adorned with two marvelous sculptures on either side of the door.  It was done out of cast Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete with integral color. The left panel shows a young tree, with landmarks of the old Oceanview District, some…

  • Mission District – 24th Street Mini Park, San Francisco

    24th and York This is another mosaic by  Colette Crutcher, this time, in collaboration with her husband, Mark Roller and friend Aileen Barr.   The park is at 24th and York in San Francisco.  It is a wonderful little mini park in a terrific part of the Mission District. This giant mosaic statue of the Mesoamerican…