Arelious Walker Stairway

 Posted by on May 5, 2014
May 052014
 

Innes Avenue
Bay View / Hunters Point

Arelious Walker Stairway

This was the proposal that was written for the Call for Artists by the SFAC:

The Arelious Walker Drive Stair replacement is a dynamic community project in partnership with the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and the Department of Public Works to create ceramic tile mosaic steps on the Arelious Walker Drive extending uphill from Innes Avenue to Northridge Road in the Bay View Hunters Point neighborhood. The stairway provides a vital connection from an isolated low-income community to the India Basin Shoreline, the Bay Trail, Herons Head Park, and future development at Hunters Point Shipyard. The mosaic steps project will enhance the character and livability of the surrounding area so that it becomes a gathering place consistent with the nature and spirit of the neighborhood. The project will also beautify the site by landscaping it with California native plants, succulents, and other drought tolerant species to attract birds, butterflies, and other wildlife.

Stairways of San Francisco

The new stair comprises 87 equal steps, each measuring four feet wide (4’) and seven inches high (7”). Each riser will be faced in ceramic tile mosaic ½ inch thick.

Stairways of San Francisco

The artists chosen are the same lovely ladies that are responsible for two tiled stairways in Golden Gate HeightsColette Crutcher and Aileen Barr.  Both ladies have been in this website many times before.  The cost for the installation was slated to be $90,000.

Arelious Walker Stairway

 

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Tile Stairs in Hunters Point*

Aileen Bar, Colette Crutcher*

Bayview hunters point tile stairway*

Collette Crutcher Aileen Bar Stairways

 

 

 

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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Aileen Barr and Collette Crutcher*

Tile Stairways of San Francisco*

Mosaic Stairways*

Mosaic Tile Stairway Art*

16th Street San Francisco Tile Work*

Tile Mosaics of San Francisco

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aileen Barr’s work at West Portal Playground

 Posted by on September 16, 2012
Sep 162012
 

West Portal Playground
131 Lenox Way

A $1.5 million renovation project in 2005 saw the West Portal Park’s original clubhouse expanded and upgraded. The park includes a picnic area, playground and large play field. The building also features artwork commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission Public Art Program.

“The Secret Garden,” a series of hand-carved tiles by artist Aileen Barr, depicts various flora and fauna native to the area, including leaves, flowers, plants, insects and birds.

Aileen has tile work in many places throughout San Francisco. Aileen Barr studied Ceramic Design at the National College of Art and Design In Dublin, Ireland, graduating in 1985. She worked in New York for a number of years and it was here that she discovered her fascination with handmade tile.

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