Ms.Teriosa by Kelly Ording and Jetro Martinez
A New Museum by Abner Nolan
We Built This City by Tahiti Pehrson
Strong Women, Precious Pearls by Kristine Mays
Living Room by Elisheva Biernoff
Working Artist I Artist Working by ART 94124
Marking Birds by Bayview Hunter’s Point YMCA & Malik Seneferu
Our Busy Lives by Central City Hospitality House
Fight for Your Neighborhood by Chris Treggiari & Billy Mitchell
Thingamajig: Nguyen is Nguyen by Betty Nguyen
INFINITESIMAL INFINITY by Drone Dungeon Collective
Giant Ghosts by Paul Hayes
No One Seems To Care That I Want Roots by Liz Maher
“Don’t Give Up the Ship” by Alexis Amann and Jonathan Burstein
Consider It by Phillip Hua
Comforting Connections by Rachel Beth Egenhoefer
“Everything is OK” by Christopher Simmons & Tim Belonax
Celebrate Film in San Francisco by San Francisco Film Museum and Archive
Find Yourself in Natural History by Helen Bayly & Leanne Miller
The Color Therapy of Perception by Chor Boogie
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some questions that people have asked us so that they could start their own vacant storefront program.
Chor has graciously requested that 20 percent of sales from his LTL PRINTS wall graphics go towards the Community Arts and Education Program at the San Francisco Arts Commission.
One of the Art in Storefronts installations that created quite a buzz in the community is the installation at 3135 24th Street created by Kelly Ording and Jet Martinez. Community members ask questions of “Ms. Teriosa,” a wise fortune teller, who then publically shares the questions and responses.
The November episode of Culture Wire has aired including features on Wonderland and Christina Seely’s photography exhibition, Lux. It also includes a feature on Art in Storefronts, which you can view here.
“We know that there is a broken window phenomenon that when things begin to fall in disrepair in our communities, they only go downhill. If we can catch it as it happens and take a step further by bringing the gift of life through art into these vacant storefronts, we’re going to save neighborhoods as we do it,” said State Senator Mark Leno at the Bayview launch event.
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On Friday, October 23, Mayor Gavin Newsom joined business people, artists, and community members to launch the Art and Storefronts pilot program. The program engages San Francisco-based artists to reinvigorate neighborhoods that have been hard-hit by the economic downturn.
ABC 7 News covered the launch of Art in Storefronts in Central Market and the Tenderloin, noting that “the San Francisco Arts Commission came up with a creative idea to cover a common blight.”
Mayor Gavin Newsom today launched the Art and Storefronts pilot program, a new economic development initiative in Central Market and the Tenderloin. The program engages San Francisco-based artists to reinvigorate neighborhoods that have been hard-hit by the economic downturn.
Friday, October 30, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
WHAT: Third Street will come alive for the Art in Storefronts Bayview launch event, featuring an art walk, jazz by youth group Pop Lyfe, and light refreshments. The community celebration will kick off with an unveiling of the four storefront windows designed by San Francisco artists at 4900 Third Street.
Central Market and the Tenderloin will come alive for the launch of the highly-anticipated Art in Storefronts pilot program, which kicks off with eleven original window installations and two large-scale murals by San Francisco artists.
Art in Storefronts will launch at the end of October, but we’ve already stirred up media interest!
Barbara Kivat with Time wrote “The ‘Vacancy’ Blight: Finding New Uses for Empty Stores” where she explores the creative ways people are responding to a “bad recession and commercial real estate bust.”
The Tenderloin is San Francisco’s most central neighborhood, positioned between Civic Center and Downtown. Adjacent to Union Square’s many hotels, Powell Street and Civic Center BART, shops and Theater District, the Tenderloin is a historic neighborhood with a diverse and international community of residents and businesses.
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Lined with historic buildings, the Central Market area is home to neighborhood shops, restaurants and other retail, while its residential community and office workers add vitality to the district. A dense and urban neighborhood, Central Market is part of a larger downtown district referred to as South of Market, or SoMa. Concentrated along Market Street, the community includes beloved neighborhood gems, hidden treasures, and new and historical landmarks.
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This mural is a work in progress that explores the healing aspect that colors have on the subconscious and their conscious effects on modern-day society. Boogie’s mural is part of the Department of Public Works and the San Francisco Arts Commission’s “Street smARTS” pilot program.
This mural features two landscapes layered atop one another. One layer depicts the bustling Market Street, rendered with loose gestural brushwork. The second landscape includes delicately painted, brightly colored cutouts of native flora and fauna that previously thrived on Market Street.
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