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San Francisco Women Artists (SFWA) is one of California's oldest arts organizations.Created in 1887 as the Sketch Club, the organization was created by local San Francisco Bay Area women to support and promote the talents of established and emerging Bay Area women artists.
Las Mujeres Muralistas ("The Muralist Women") were an all-female Latina artist collective based in the Mission District in San Francisco in the 1970s. They created a number of public murals throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, and are said to [by whom?] have sparked the beginning of the female muralist movement in the US and Mexico.
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-05193-5. "California Art Research". California Art Research Archives. University of California, Berkeley: The Bancroft Library
In 2015, in honor of its 25th anniversary, the AAWAA launched a campaign to create a large collective mural in San Francisco's Richmond District. [9] The mural is to honor the contributions of women artists in the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community.
Margaret Leisha Kilgallen (October 28, 1967 – June 26, 2001) was a San Francisco Bay Area artist who combined graffiti art, painting, and installation art. [2] Though a contemporary artist, her work showed a strong influence from folk art. She was considered a central figure in the Bay Area Mission School art movement. [3]
Miranda Bergman is an American contemporary muralist born in 1947 and grew up in grew up in the San Francisco Mission District where she attended Balboa High School. [1] Bergman is known for of the seven women artists who in 1994 created the MaestraPeace mural, [2] the largest mural in San Francisco, which covers The Women's Building. Most of ...
Juana Alicia's first big mural project in San Francisco was Las Lechugeras (The Women Lettuce Workers). It is located on the corner of York and 24th Street in Mission District, San Francisco. The mural is thirty by fifty feet and was begun in 1982. [4]
A recurring subject were cable car scenes. She was a member of the National Serigraph Society, the San Francisco Art Association, and the San Francisco Women Artists. [1] She died in 1948. [2] The Bakersfield Museum of Art's former name, Cunningham Memorial Art Gallery, had been in her namesake and was founded by her family after her death. [2]