“If These Walls Could Talk”

Description: This mural, done in collaboration with Adopt-An-Alleyway youth volunteers, is a montage of images generated by interviews with local residents and the history of Wentworth Street. An accompanying audio installation intermingles excerpts from the interviews with distinct sounds from the neighborhood.

Artist: Robert Minervini works in painting, installation, sculpture and site-specific public art. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009, and BFA from Tyler School of Art in 2005. He has been awarded the Murphy/Cadogan Fellowship by the San Francisco Foundation and the Edwin Austin Abbey Mural Fellowship by the National Academy of Fine Arts in 2008. He has exhibited his work internationally including a solo show with Eleanor Harwood Gallery and group exhibitions with Verge Gallery, Manifest Gallery, The Brooklyn Historical Society, and the Philadelphia Arts Alliance, among others. He currently lives and works in San Francisco.

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