Public Art Projects
Art On Market Street
Art on Market Street Temporary Projects Program
Talking Market Street: If Market Street Could Talk... by Sixth Street Photography Workshop with A Home Within. Public screenings on October 20th and 22nd.
The Art on Market Street Temporary Projects Program currently presents two or three performances, installations, music concerts, outdoor film screenings and other art events by Bay Area artists on Market Street annually, all free of charge. Since 1992 this program has presented over 45 events, including:
- a dance performance on the face of the Ferry Building by Zaccho Dance Company,
- Food for Thought: Urban Apple Orchard, a temporary garden planted in used tires by Susan Liebowitz Steinman, working with homeless people,
- Cento, a book about the history of Market Street by Susan Schwartzenberg,
- Life on Market Street: An Audio Archive, a low-frequency radio broadcast and CD of interviews with retailers, residents, and visitors on Market Street,
- A Trip Down Market Street 1905/2005, a film screening co-sponsored with the Exploratorium, including a film made on Market Street in 1905 and six newly commissioned films about Market Street,
Please check this website on a regular basis for updates on the Art on Market Street Temporary Projects Program.