My love of street art is well documented (obvs), so you could imagine my squealing schoolgirl excitement when I learned that a massive community mural had been commissioned in my very own neighborhood, mere steps from my front door. The Lower Haight Mural Collective, a group of local artists, galleries, merchants, sponsors, and residents organized the project to “emphasize the Lower Haight’s identity as an artistic hub and [to] welcome visitors to the neighborhood as they come up Haight Street from the east.
About a dozen artists, many of whom live in the neighborhood, were selected to each design 10-foot sections of the mural. They include:
- Doze Green, a New York-based artist whose work you may have already seen on the Steiner side of Lower Haters Gallery
- Mars Martinez, an artist who lives on the 400 block of Haight
- Sonya Genel, whose work was recently featured at Revolver
- Romanowski, a local artist who painted the mural outside the Vapor Room
- David Choong Lee, author of several art books and teacher at the Academy of Art University
- Jeremy Fish, whose work has been shown around the world, as well as right here in SF at Fecal Face and FIFTY24SF
- Liane C. Miller
- Erica Il Cane, an Italian artist whose work can currently be seen at Fifty24SF
- Jeremy Novy, friend of Sidewalk Surprises and ubiquitous San Francisco street artist.
*swoon* *swoon* *swoon*
Check out photos of the mural in progress:
And recent shots of the completed artwork:
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