Transportation Mural Walking Tour
"Joel Pomerantz, coordinator of Mona Caron’s murals, including the Duboce Bike mural, gives an insider look at the murals’ themes of transportation’s past, present, and future."
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Sidewalk Thinktalk: The History of SF Mural Culture
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From Thinkwalks: For this free Thinkwalks event, Joel will be hanging out at the corner of Valencia Street and Clarion Alley bringing it to the people. He’ll make a series of short presentations covering various topics like Coit Tower murals, the “Mission School” of muraling, Ohlone murals in the Mission Dolores, Clarion and Balmy Alley […]
Thinkwalks Social Justice Mural Bike Ride
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Join other bicyclists for a survey of more than a dozen murals addressing a variety of social issues. We’ll look at the art, the politics and the neighborhood issues, and we’ll examine public art organizing techniques, stories from your favorite murals, and the complex issues of expressing justice themes through art. Meet at Mona Caron’s […]
Social Justice Mural Bike Tour
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Join other bicyclists for a survey of more than a dozen murals addressing a variety of social issues. We’ll look at the art, the politics and the neighborhood issues, and we’ll examine public art organizing techniques, stories from your favorite murals, and the complex issues of expressing justice themes through art. We’ll cover easy territory […]
Social Justice Murals Ride
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"A survey of a dozen murals addressing social issues. Ride will cover easy territory in the Mission & Castro (no steep hills)."
Eyes on the Street: Renewing a Symbol of a San Francisco Community
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On Saturday, twenty volunteers helped a San Francisco Bicycle Coalition effort to clean and renew the mural behind the Duboce Triangle Safeway, along the bike path between Market and Church Streets. From the Bike Coalition’s call for volunteers: In 1996, longtime member and SF Bicycle Coalition leader Joel Pomerantz invited Mona Caron, a young artist […]
Eyes on the Street: Scraper Bike Team Murals Unveiled
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This Thursday morning the Scraper Bike Team unveiled two murals under the BART tracks near the Coliseum BART station. “We wanted to bring greenery to the scenery,” said the Team’s Reginald “RB” Burnette. The murals were funded by a grant from the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, The murals, painted on the pillars holding up the BART tracks just […]