Tiled Stairways to Heaven

 Posted by on January 9, 2014
Jan 092014
 

Golden Gate Heights
16th Avenue between Kirkham and Lawton

Stairways of San Francisco

This is the second project by Aileen Barr and Colette Crutcher covering stairways in the Golden Gate Heights area. You can read about both of them and their first project here.

Stairways of San Francisco

 

This project was made possible by a group called Hidden Garden Steps.  According to their website: The Hidden Garden Steps Project is a community-based, public art initiative to create mosaic steps, a public garden and a wall mural on 16th Avenue extending uphill from Kirkham to Lawton in the Golden Gate Heights/Inner Sunset neighborhood. Formal partners include the San Francisco Parks Alliance, the San Francisco Department of Public Works Street Parks program, and artists Colette Crutcher and Aileen Barr who designed the Moraga Mosaic Steps. Other collaborations include the Inner Sunset Park Neighbors, the Golden Gate Heights Neighborhood Association, Woodside International School, volunteers from Nature in the City’s Green Hairstreak (Butterfly) Ecosystem Corridor project, and individual local merchants.

Colette Crutcher and Aileen Barr

 

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Hidden Stairways of San Francisco*

16th Avenue Tile Stairs*

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16th Avenue Stairways*

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Tile Stairways of San Francisco*

Mosaic Stairways*

Mosaic Tile Stairway Art*

16th Street San Francisco Tile Work*

Tile Mosaics of San Francisco

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jun 302011
 
Golden Gate Heights - Mosaics in San Francisco

This amazing set of stairs is at 16th Avenue and Moraga in San Francisco.  The artists are Colette Crutcher and Aileen Barr.   This 163 step stairway was a collaboration of the Golden Gate Heights Neighborhood Association and the San Francisco Parks Trust.  Colette and Aileen led a group of over 300 volunteers in making 163 mosaic panels, with over 200 neighbors sponsoring handmade tiles that are embedded in the mosaic.  Colette and Aileen wrote an amazing book about the project, and you can buy it through a link on Colette’s website. I suggest you visit the stairs yourself, enjoy the mosaics and Continue Reading

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