Fern Street’s New Look

 Posted by on July 1, 2019
Jul 012019
 

Fern Street
Fern Street at Polk Street

Fern Street is part of the Polk Street Improvement Project

Beginning in 2011 the City of San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Authority  has worked with numerous residents, merchants and community groups to help create a safer streetsape design for Polk Street. The proposed conceptual design includes many improvements, the following three helping to explain the changes on Fern Street.

  • Pedestrian safety features such as corner “bulbouts”, daylighting, crosswalk upgrades and traffic signal improvements
  • Transit enhancement such as bus stop consolidation, relocation and bus bulbs
  • Public realm improvements such as landscaping, street lighting, and alley enhancements

Fern Street is part of the vibrant SF First Thusday Art Walk Project, so the improvements on Fern Street represent the streets place in this movement.

Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art and graffiti-like work grew out of the New York City street culture of the 1980s.

Angela Isadora Duncan Born in San Francisco on May 26, 1877 or May 27, 1878 (died September 14, 1927) was an American and French dancer who performed to acclaim throughout Europe.

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (October 1870 – July 1966) was a Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen (Chan) and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen and Shin (and Far Eastern philosophy in general) to the West.

Cesar A. Cruz is an internationally renowned poet, educator and human rights activist.

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher.

Shirin Neshat (born 1957) is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity and modernity, and bridging the spaces between these subjects

Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor emeritus at Princeton University.

William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film adaptation of his novel The Human Comedy.

NYCHOS

 Posted by on March 30, 2015
Mar 302015
 
NYCHOS

500 Geary Lower Nob Hill   Austrian street artist NYCHOS is in town for the opening his show “Street Anatomy” at Fifty24SF Gallery on April 18th. In conjunction with the show, he has been putting up a few pieces around town. According to his facebook page the Austrian urban art and graffiti illustrator Nychos was born in 1982 in Styria, Austria where he grew up in a hunting family. Getting confronted by the anatomy of dead animals at an early age and being an 80’s kid with an interest for cartoons and heavy metal ended up being some of the Continue Reading

Spring Valley Water Company

 Posted by on June 26, 2013
Jun 262013
 
Spring Valley Water Company

425 Mason Street Lower Nob Hill/Tenderloin This unassuming and yet intriguing little building has been sitting in my computer waiting to be written about since March of 2012.  My late husband, the architectural sculptor Michael H. Casey had driven me by to show me the wonderful detailed sculpture that covered the first floor.  I was unable to find out anything about it and so the post was left unwritten. In the past few months I had the privilege of hearing Gray Brechin, UC Berkeley lecturer and author, speak on the architecture of the UC campus.  I purchased his highly detailed Continue Reading

Dec 102012
 
Meagan Spendlove collaborates with Cavalier Design Studio

1035 Post Street Back of the Building on Cedar This mural sits on Cedar Street.  It was commissioned by Cavalier Design Studio which resides at 135 Post Street in San Francisco.  The artist is Meagan Spendlove, whose work can be found all around San Francisco. Meagan Spendlove, often artistically entitled as “Siloette”currently works in San Francisco, California as a conceptual artist and project coordinator. Her current endeavors include yet are not limited to achieving an MA in Integral Arts Therapy and teaching public artwork within the Bay Area. For the last decade Spendlove has painted or promoted at multicultural events in Continue Reading

San Francisco’s Fire Chiefs House

 Posted by on August 23, 2012
Aug 232012
 
San Francisco's Fire Chiefs House

870 Bush Street In Memorium Dennis T Sullivan 1838-1906 By fire shall hearts be proven, lest virtue’s gold grow dim, and his by fire was tested, in life’s ordeal of him. Now California renders the laurels that we won “dead on the field of Honor” her hero and her son. Dennis T. Sullivan was the revered chief engineer of the San Francisco Fire Department at the time of the Great Earthquake and Fire. He was at the Chief’s Quarters, 410 Bush Street, during the disaster, and was mortally injured when he fell through the floor and into the cellar. According Continue Reading

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