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June 26, 2002
Contact: Judy Moran 415-252-2586
New Booklet Features Youth Art Along Future Third Street Light Rail
A team of 14 neighborhood youth have helped to create vibrant new art for San Francisco’s future Third Street Light Rail. The 40 works will be permanently installed at different boarding platforms serving Potrero Hill, Bayview/Hunter’s Point, and Visitacion Valley. A full-color booklet, titled Third Street Light Rail Youth Arts Program and published by the San Francisco Arts Commission, highlights examples of work by all the young artists, aged 9 to 16. For further information, please call Judy Moran, 415-252-2586.
The youth worked in smaller groups with local artist Sheila Ghidini during a five-month period last year at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, Bayview Opera House, and Visitacion Valley Community Beacon Center.
Under Ghidini’s guidance, they explored themes relating to transit, neighborhoods and personal journeys as a basis for their photographs, drawings, paintings and prints. The Arts Commission will adapt the selected designs for reproduction on fiberglass panels to be installed on platform windscreens.
The young artists contributing work to the Third Street Light Rail are: Brianna Beasley, 9, Markeda Cottonham, 10, Shonna Green, 13, Whitney Gregory, 10, David Houston, 14, Leandra Houston, 11, Amber Huesso, 13, Alfredo Hurtado, 16, Alisha Miller, 11, Laura Moreno, 14, Marcus Anthony Ramirez, 15, Roberto Salazar, 13, Shayisha Warr, 12, and Ryan Watt, 9.
The Third Street Light Rail Youth Arts Program was initiated by the Arts Commission as part of a larger art enrichment project to enhance the transit experience for passengers on the new line.
The Third Street Light Rail is scheduled for completion in late 2004.
Potrero Hill participants were Amber Huesso, 13, Afredo Hurtado, 16, Laura Moreno, 14, and Marcus Anthony Ramirez, 15.
Participants working with Ghidini at the Bayview Opera House were Brianna Beasley, 9, Shonna Green, 13, Whitney Gregory, 10, David Houston, 14, Leandra Houston, 11, and Ryan Watt, 9.
Visitacion Valley participants were Markeda Cottonham, 10, Alisha Miller, 11, Roberto Salazar, 13, and Shayisha Warr, 12.