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StreetSmARTS covers the History of Bayview

 Posted by on December 6, 2012
Dec 062012
 

Palou and 3rd Street
Bayview

Titled the History of Bayview this is a 2011 Street SmArts mural by Bryana Fleming.

Panel 1 and 3: Originally dominated by grassland and tidal marshland, Bayview-Hunters Point has a unique history for its transformation into an urban industrial neighborhood while segregated from the metropolitan area. Slaughterhouses and their associated industries in the 1800s and shipbuilding in the 1900s drove its urbanization.

Panel 2: Constructed in 1888, the Bayview Opera House Ruth Williams Memorial Theatre (known affectionately as “the Opera House” or the “BVOH”) is located at 4705 Third Street in the heart of the Bayview Hunters Point district.  The Opera House is San Francisco’s oldest theater and a registered historical landmark.

Mr. Sam Jordan was born in Diboll, Texas, and served in the U.S. Navy before coming to San Francisco. Soon after his arrival here in 1947, Mr. Jordan became a regular on the city’s boxing scene. He grew popular as “Singing Sam” because he sang the national anthem and other songs before and after his fights. His first year in the city, he fought in the light heavyweight championships of the San Francisco Golden Gloves Tournament, winning the diamond belt.

In 1959, he opened his bar on Third Street, known to most as Sam’s or Sam Jordan’s, a popular spot for more than four decades where neighborhood regulars, politicians and city leaders dropped by before or after a trip to nearby Candlestick Park.

Sam Jordan died in 2003, the bar is up for SF Landmark status.

If you lived on Quesada Avenue in Bayview Hunters Point before the Queseda Gardens Initiative, you would have pulled down the blinds and dreaded the inevitable dash to the bus stop or your car. But that changed in 2002 when Annette Smith and Karl Paige started planting flowers and vegetables here and there around the block.  Other residents jumped in to help them, and to create art, share history, organize block events, and commit to working together to strengthen the community where they live.  Together, they formed the Quesada Gardens Initiative, changed their world, and inspired all those around them.

Street SmArts Mural in Bayview

 Posted by on December 3, 2012
Dec 032012
 

Palou and 3rd Streets
Bayview

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This mural (done in 2010) by Briana Fleming is part of the Street SmArts program of San Francisco. A collaboration between the San Francisco Arts Commission and SF Department of Public Works started in 2010, the program connects established urban artists with private property owners who own buildings with walls that are graffiti hot spots. Artists create vibrant murals on the walls and buildings become a canvas for art enjoyed by all. The outcome is a phenomenon of reduced incidences of graffiti tagging on the properties.

Like many artists, Bryana Fleming is a product of her surroundings. Growing up in a household that place a high value on art, Bryana was encouraged to follow her creative passions. She credits her mother and father for directing her towards a life as an artist and for giving her first drawing lessons. She attended the California College of Arts and Crafts and graduated with high honors and was the in-store artist at Trader Joe’s in Emeryville from 2002 to 2005.

 In 2005, she was commissioned to paint a 300-square foot mural in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Her 2006 painting, Spinning Lesson, won second prize in the nationwide competition for the 70th Anniversary of American Artist Magazine in 2007, and was featured in the December issue. After a brief hiatus, she returned to painting murals in 2008 as the lead muralist/educator for the Mural Music and Art Project in the Bay Area. She also returned to Trader Joe’s to paint murals at various locations. To date she is credited with ten murals

Lenora LeVon Riley Struts her Stuff

 Posted by on December 1, 2012
Dec 012012
 

Palou and 3rd Streets
Bayview

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Lenora LeVon Riley was a fashion designer from San Francisco whose work was prominently displayed in Ebony and Jet Magazine.

Bryana Fleming is a native to the Bay Area who resides in Mill Valley, California. Both of her parents were working artists, and she instantly became interested in art from a young age. (Her father was a storyboard artist and her mother, a fine art painter.) Bryana attended the California College of the Arts from 2000-2004, receiving a BFA in illustration

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