Application deadline: Monday, September 28, 2009, 11:00 pm PST
Budget: $300,000 and $400,000
Eligibility: Professional artist residing in the nine SF Bay Area counties and …
Mayor Gavin Newsom and Luis R. Cancel, Director of Cultural Affairs for the San Francisco Arts Commission, are pleased to announce the completion of “Language of the Birds,” a permanent site-specific sculpture by San Francsico artists Brian Goggin with Dorka Keehn.
The first permanent artwork in San Francisco by Maya Lin was accepted into the Civic Art Collection during the October 6, 2008 meeting of the Full Arts Commission.
The new sculpture by Maya Lin will be a permanent part of the City’s Civic Art Collection. The dedication will take place on Friday, October 24, at 4:00 p.m. on the West Terrace of the California Academy of Sciences.
The San Francisco Arts Commission is continuing to commission new public artworks for ten new or renovated San Francisco Public Library branches as part of the San Francisco Public Library’s Branch Library Improvement Program (BLIP).
Announcing the installation of a new public art project, Sun Spheres, three mosaic sculptures by artist Laurel True, at the intersection of Ocean and Granada Avenues in the OMI District of San Francisco.
Announcing the installation of “Noe Valley Natives,” six steel sculptures by California artist Troy Corliss, at the Upper Noe Recreation Center in San Francisco.
The statue of San Francisco’s first gay Supervisor, Harvey Milk, was unveiled during a gala party at San Francisco’s City Hall on Thursday, May 22, 2008.
San Francisco Arts Commission is sponsoring an outdoor exhibition of eight sculptures by internationally renowned artist Manolo Valdés.
Louise Bourgeois’s monumental bronze sculpture titled Crouching Spider, on loan to the City by the artist, is currently installed on the Embarcadero at Mission Street – Entry Plaza at Pier 14.