Murals: 2010-Present
“Everybody Belongs Here”–2017
Size/Medium:8' x 30'
Directed by: Bay Baes - Samantha Curl, Monica Magtoto, Sarah Siskin, Elaine Chu, Yukako Ezoe, Priya Handa
Location: Clarion Alley
Size/Medium:8' x 30'
Directed by: Bay Baes - Samantha Curl, Monica Magtoto, Sarah Siskin, Elaine Chu, Yukako Ezoe, Priya Handa
Location: Clarion Alley
"TNDC’s Tenderloin People’s Garden Mural Project"–2016
Size/Medium: 47’ x 275’, acrylic on stucco
Mural Director: Susan Cervantes, Max Marttila, Yukako Ezoe in collaboration with the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation and Tenderloin Community
Funding: The project was awarded a Community Challenge Grant.
Location: 272 McAllister Street, San Francisco CA. West wall of the MacAllister Hotel, which overlooks the Tenderloin People’s Garden at MacAllister and Larkin Streets
Size/Medium: 47’ x 275’, acrylic on stucco
Mural Director: Susan Cervantes, Max Marttila, Yukako Ezoe in collaboration with the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation and Tenderloin Community
Funding: The project was awarded a Community Challenge Grant.
Location: 272 McAllister Street, San Francisco CA. West wall of the MacAllister Hotel, which overlooks the Tenderloin People’s Garden at MacAllister and Larkin Streets
"We are All Streams Leading to the Same River/ Todos Somos Arroyos Del Mismo Rio Mural Project"–2016
Size: 25’ x 125’, acrylic on stucco
Mural Director: Directed by Susan Cervantes, Suaro Cervantes, Fredericko Alvarado and Elaine Chu in collaboration with the Latino/a Student Cultural Center and Northeastern University Students
Location: Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
Size: 25’ x 125’, acrylic on stucco
Mural Director: Directed by Susan Cervantes, Suaro Cervantes, Fredericko Alvarado and Elaine Chu in collaboration with the Latino/a Student Cultural Center and Northeastern University Students
Location: Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
“Mano a Mano”–2016
Size/Medium: 10’ x 132’
Designed by: Susan Cervantes, with Fred Alvarado
In collaboration with: Contemporary Jewish Museum, Yerba Buena Center, Bessie Carmichael School
Location: Galeria de la Raza, Mission and 3rd Street in Jessie Square.
Size/Medium: 10’ x 132’
Designed by: Susan Cervantes, with Fred Alvarado
In collaboration with: Contemporary Jewish Museum, Yerba Buena Center, Bessie Carmichael School
Location: Galeria de la Raza, Mission and 3rd Street in Jessie Square.
"Diversity is Power"–2016
Size/Medium: 12’ x 24’, acrylic on stucco
Mural Director: Susan Cervantes, Suaro Cervantes and Fred Alvarado
Location: Potrero Hill Health Center 1050 Wisconsin St. SF, CA
Size/Medium: 12’ x 24’, acrylic on stucco
Mural Director: Susan Cervantes, Suaro Cervantes and Fred Alvarado
Location: Potrero Hill Health Center 1050 Wisconsin St. SF, CA
“Recovery, Wellness and Health”–2015
Size/Medium: (3) 10’x 15 murals’, acrylic on stucco
Directed and painted by: Susan Cervantes, Yuka Ezoe, Elaine Chu
Assisted by: Suaro Cervantes in collaboration with the SFGH Psychiatric Dept. staff and patients.
Location: San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco
Size/Medium: (3) 10’x 15 murals’, acrylic on stucco
Directed and painted by: Susan Cervantes, Yuka Ezoe, Elaine Chu
Assisted by: Suaro Cervantes in collaboration with the SFGH Psychiatric Dept. staff and patients.
Location: San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco
"Bean Soup Literary Mural"–2013
Size/Medium: Acrylic on stucco
Mural Director: Susan Cervantes and renowned Poet Jorge Tetl Argueta
Location: Project Artaud fence on 17th St. between Alabama and Florida Streets
Size/Medium: Acrylic on stucco
Mural Director: Susan Cervantes and renowned Poet Jorge Tetl Argueta
Location: Project Artaud fence on 17th St. between Alabama and Florida Streets
DESCRIPTION:
Precita Eyes Master Muralist Susan Cervantes and renowned Poet Jorge Tetl Argueta conduct a 10 week workshop with Artists and Writers called the Bean Soup Literary Mural Project. The workshops are 10 weeks of hands on writing and mural painting where you can express your creative writing ideas into a community mural painting on 23rd Street.
"Center for Vulnerable Populations Mural"–2012
Size/Medium: Interior mural, 11’ x 22’, acrylic on wall board
Mural Directors: Susan Kelk Cervantes, Yukako Ezoe and Max Allbee
Contributing Artists: In collaboration with CVP staff, faculty and outpatients
Location: San Francisco General Hospital, 1001 Potrero Avenue, Building 90, San Francisco, CA
Size/Medium: Interior mural, 11’ x 22’, acrylic on wall board
Mural Directors: Susan Kelk Cervantes, Yukako Ezoe and Max Allbee
Contributing Artists: In collaboration with CVP staff, faculty and outpatients
Location: San Francisco General Hospital, 1001 Potrero Avenue, Building 90, San Francisco, CA
DESCRIPTION
Healthy urban living is the central theme captured among the dense imagery of the Precita Eyes mural design for the Center for Vulnerable Populations. San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate bridge with California’s golden hills provide a backdrop along with imagery of CVP’s immediate neighbors, Bernal Hill and the Potrero del Sol recreational park. The large “caring heart” including in it a DNA path, opened by a chain being broken by the Caduceus is a symbol of CVP’s goals to help citizens break free of disease and sickness, rising up the path of life through healthy eating, exercise and preventative care. The mural is also displaying a relationship of how natural food can be locally grown at our community farms and made accessible at our local markets. The large painting demonstrates how community members actively living a healthy lifestyle can create a better life for themselves in a easy and enjoyable way.
"True Colors"–2012
Size/Medium: 22’ x 28’, acrylic on stucco
Mural Director: Susan Cervantes
Contributing Artists: Ariana Terrence, Kristine Keller, and Chelsey Ramirez in collaboration with the students from the Canal Alliance ForWods Program.
Location: Canal Alliance Office. 91 Larkspur Street, San Rafael
Size/Medium: 22’ x 28’, acrylic on stucco
Mural Director: Susan Cervantes
Contributing Artists: Ariana Terrence, Kristine Keller, and Chelsey Ramirez in collaboration with the students from the Canal Alliance ForWods Program.
Location: Canal Alliance Office. 91 Larkspur Street, San Rafael
"Mission Celebrations"–2010
Size/Medium: 8’ x 45’, acrylic on stucco
Mural Director: Susan Kelk Cervantes
Contributing Artists: Cory Devereaux, Patricia Rose, Yukako Ezoe, Henry Sultan, and Laura Campos
Location: Cesar Chavez & Mission Streets. San Francisco
Size/Medium: 8’ x 45’, acrylic on stucco
Mural Director: Susan Kelk Cervantes
Contributing Artists: Cory Devereaux, Patricia Rose, Yukako Ezoe, Henry Sultan, and Laura Campos
Location: Cesar Chavez & Mission Streets. San Francisco
DESCRIPTION
"Celebraciones de la Mission" is a mural that honors Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers Union, and celebrates all the things we love the most about our beautiful Mission District. At the top, center, is a smiling milagro of the sun, on a bright, beautiful Mission day. The sky is full of light refracting into all the colors of the rainbow, shining over a huge Mission celebration.
We also honor our neighborhood's history in this mural: at the far left is the old Mission Dolores, as it looked 200 years ago, and at the lower left we see the "precita" or little dam, from which Precita Park, Precita Avenue, Precita Valley, and the Precita Eyes Muralists all get their names. From the door of the old Mission, we see Ohlone people, the original inhabitants of the neighborhood, walking through the palm trees toward the central celebration. They join bicyclists, a low rider, and costumed figures celebrating Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and Carnaval (Mardi Gras), as well as everyday people and workers from the community. One celebrant, with a painted face, holds a poster of Cesar Chavez.
From the right side of the mural, we see a monumental portrait of Cesar Chavez, community leader and organizer, and behind him the fertile farms of California with farm workers laboring in the fields. "El Volado" (the Mexican Bus) makes its way toward the central celebration, right behind a diverse group of marchers playing drums and demonstrating their solidarity with farm workers, in support of Cesar Chavez. A "paletero" is there too, with a cart full of popsicles (paletas), and musicians [one of the musicians is Berta's father, including some Mission District mariachis. Above the mariachis, hanging on a ladder, wall dancers perform acrobatics.
The Victorian building at the center of the mural is a depiction of the building that once stood at this intersection, where the mural is painted. In front of the building Aztec dancers greet the four directions and perform a dance of blessing for the community.
The decorated frame that surrounds the mural features milagros, both traditional and innovative. Milagros are small devotional offerings that are used in prayer, and they represent the substance of our prayers. Some of the traditional milagros that we've included show hearts, hands, feet, the sun, the moon; we also include milagros of non-traditional shapes: our artists' palettes, a paintbrush, a shooting star, a spray can, and even a taco.
We also honor our neighborhood's history in this mural: at the far left is the old Mission Dolores, as it looked 200 years ago, and at the lower left we see the "precita" or little dam, from which Precita Park, Precita Avenue, Precita Valley, and the Precita Eyes Muralists all get their names. From the door of the old Mission, we see Ohlone people, the original inhabitants of the neighborhood, walking through the palm trees toward the central celebration. They join bicyclists, a low rider, and costumed figures celebrating Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and Carnaval (Mardi Gras), as well as everyday people and workers from the community. One celebrant, with a painted face, holds a poster of Cesar Chavez.
From the right side of the mural, we see a monumental portrait of Cesar Chavez, community leader and organizer, and behind him the fertile farms of California with farm workers laboring in the fields. "El Volado" (the Mexican Bus) makes its way toward the central celebration, right behind a diverse group of marchers playing drums and demonstrating their solidarity with farm workers, in support of Cesar Chavez. A "paletero" is there too, with a cart full of popsicles (paletas), and musicians [one of the musicians is Berta's father, including some Mission District mariachis. Above the mariachis, hanging on a ladder, wall dancers perform acrobatics.
The Victorian building at the center of the mural is a depiction of the building that once stood at this intersection, where the mural is painted. In front of the building Aztec dancers greet the four directions and perform a dance of blessing for the community.
The decorated frame that surrounds the mural features milagros, both traditional and innovative. Milagros are small devotional offerings that are used in prayer, and they represent the substance of our prayers. Some of the traditional milagros that we've included show hearts, hands, feet, the sun, the moon; we also include milagros of non-traditional shapes: our artists' palettes, a paintbrush, a shooting star, a spray can, and even a taco.
"Beautifull Mural"–2010
Size/Medium: 8’x8’ portable mural.
Location: Beautifull Restaurant at 9th and Irving Streets, SF
Private Commission
Size/Medium: 8’x8’ portable mural.
Location: Beautifull Restaurant at 9th and Irving Streets, SF
Private Commission