Glass Flowers

 Posted by on May 10, 2018
May 102018
 

Portola Branch Library
380 Bacon Street
Portola/Excelsior

California Wildflowers by Dana Zed

Dana Zed has been exhibiting her art nationally and internationally for over 30 years. She holds a BA from Brown University in Rhode Island.  She has works  in the permanent collections of The Corning Museum in New York and The Oakland Museum.  Zed owns and operates a glass studio in Oakland as well as teaching ceramics to kids in the East Bay. She also teaches adults at Esaeln Institute in Big Sur.

Dana Zed Portola Library

California Wildflowers is a set of four handmade glass and metal shutters installed in the front window of the Portola Branch Library. This set of 20 glass panels depict California indigenous wildflowers, such as chamomile, daisy, echinacea, lavender, morning glory, poppy, star flower and western dogwood. The artist was inspired by the many nurseries that once were located in the Portola neighborhood.

The glass pieces were commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission for an amount not to exceed $36,000.

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Windmills of Portola

 Posted by on January 14, 2014
Jan 142014
 
Windmills of Portola

Palega Park 500 Felton Portola District In November of 2013 eighty year old Palega Park underwent a $21.2 million Restoration. The Park’s new clubhouse features a mosaic mural by Kelly Ording commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission through the city’s two-percent-for-art ordinance. Located behind the clubhouse’s portico windows and visible from the street, Windmills pays homage to the Portola’s  past as the center of the city’s commercial flower industry.  The mural cost $127,400. According to Ording, “This mural contains four main elements that I found fascinating when researching this neighborhood; the wind, the windmills, the greenhouses and the fertile land.  I Continue Reading

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