Free Public Art Event Celebrating New Barry McGee Mural in Downtown SF
Organization:
Sites Unseen
Category:
Visual Arts
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
10/9/2016
End Date:
10/9/2016
Start Time:
3:00 PM
End Time:
6:00 PM
Event
Info:
Sites Unseen, a nonprofit public art organization, will present its first large scale public art project with a launch event on Sunday, October 9.
The event, free and open to all, will celebrate the installation of "Moscone Contemporary Art Centre & Garage," artist Barry McGee's large-scale, multi-colored painted artwork installed in several locations on the exterior of the Moscone Center Garage in downtown San Francisco. The event will also feature participatory programming by local artists Ramekon O'Arwisters and Leah Rosenberg, and by Los Angeles-based artist collective Fallen Fruit.
Sites Unseen enhances the Yerba Buena neighborhood's existing reputation as an arts hub by activating underutilized areas to foster social interaction, community pride, and economic opportunities. Through 2018, the organization will partner with public, private, nonprofit, and community sectors to program seven alleysAnnie, Clementina, Jessie East, Lapu Lapu, Minna, Natoma, and Shipley Streetswith public art that celebrates San Francisco and responds both to the specific conditions of the sites as well as artistic and cultural values that engage local, national, and international communities.
The alleys will provide a platform for both local and national artists at all career stages to showcase work, creating public spaces that are destinations for sustained collaborative discourse, innovation, and discovery for everyone, and offering opportunities for exciting performances and happenings that will bring people to the alleys again and again.
PROGRAM:
* 3-6PM: Open viewing of Barry McGee installation, participatory activities with artists Fallen Fruit, Ramekon O'Arwisters, and Leah Rosenberg
* 3:30PM: Opening remarks (southeast corner of garage)
- Dorka Keehn, Sites Unseen Co-Founder and SF Arts Commissioner - Cathy Maupin, Executive Director of YBCBD - Jonathan Moscone, Chief of Civic Engagement at YBCA - Jessica Shaefer, Sites Unseen Project Director
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