Tour will start and end at the SFAC Main Gallery.

Join exhibiting artist Mansur Nurullah for a singular walking tour of San Francisco's Civic Center neighborhood. Central to Nurullah's artistic practice is looking at how people find connection through place.  For this event, he has invited historians, educators, students, and housing advocates to share their stories and other histories of the Civic Center neighborhood. Come and get to know the neighborhood through the people who live and work here!  

Participants include Brandon Butler, Stacy Farr, Maurice Harper, Kate House, Ben Kauffman, and Dave Vetrano.

Space is limited. Please register [2]. Proof of vaccination and masks required.
 

Mansur Nurullah was the 2020-21 SFAC Artist in Residence at SF Planning. During his residency he and SF Planning Senior Amnon Ben-Pazi took weekly bike rides in the Central, South, and Southeast corridors of San Francisco. The rides, which began during Shelter in Place, visited sites of past, proposed, and scheduled development. Nurullah and Ben-Pazi often engaged the residents of these spaces in conversation. One of the locations, a triangular parcel of land in Hunters Point, became the focus of Nurullah's project for his residency. The space has social significance to the people who use it but is under threat because of imminent development. Nurullah's elaborate textile works currently on view as part of Taking Place: Untold Stories of the City [3] consider the historic, current, and proposed land use of this space, informed by those most affected by change. The works in the exhibition represent the first reflections of his residency and the foundation of a long-term project about the promises (realized and broken) of urban development. 

Image: Civic Center Plaza and City Hall, 1915. Courtesy the SFPL History Center Archive.