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Rigo 23 (born Ricardo Gouveia, 1966) is a Portuguese-born American muralist, painter, and political artist.He is known in the San Francisco community for having painted a number of large, graphic "sign" murals including: One Tree next to the U.S. Route 101 on-ramp at 10th and Bryant Street, Innercity Home on a large public housing structure, Sky/Ground on a tall abandoned building at 3rd and ...
Berggruen was born June 18, 1943 in San Francisco, California to Heinz Berggruen, a noted German-born art collector and dealer, and Lillian Zellerbach, a scion of the prominent San Francisco family. [2] His maternal grandfather was Isadore Zellerbach (1866-1941), who was the president of Crown Zellerbach Paper Company, and a devoted philanthropist.
[3] [4] [5] William Haas (1849–1916) was born in Reckendorf, Bavaria from a Jewish family and came to San Francisco in October 1868, rapidly establishing himself as a successful businessman. In 1880 he married Bertha Greenebaum (1861–1927), whose father Herman, owner of a prosperous mercantile company in California, was also from Bavaria.
Southern Exposure (SoEx) is a not-for-profit arts organization and alternative art space founded in 1974 in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was originally founded as a grassroots, cooperative art gallery in conjunction with Project Artaud which was a live/work artist community.
Minnesota Street Project was founded in 2016 by venture capitalist Andy Rappaport, and Deborah Rappaport. [2] The Minnesota Street Project Foundation (founded in 2019), and the California Black Voices Project and Grants for Arts Equity (founded in 2021), are two grant programs born from this project, created to “begin addressing the systemic racism in the art world”.
63 Bluxome was an artist run space created by John Behanna, Brian McPartlon, Bill Quinlan, Katherine Quinlan, Doug Gower, and Alex Buys and located in the South of Market area of San Francisco that emerged in the mid 1970s, [1] which became recognized as an “alternative space” that presented works of various mediums of art from neighboring artists in a casual and social environment.
Wattis was born in 1905 and contributed more than $150 million to cultural institutions in California. [5] The art center was originally located on the San Francisco campus of the California College of the Arts, in a refurbished 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m 2) former Greyhound Bus maintenance facility designed in 1951 by Skidmore, Owings and ...
Wormser-Coleman House, also known as the Isaac Wormser House and John C. Coleman House, is a historical building built in 1876, located at 1834 California Street in San Francisco, California. [2] [3] It has been listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark since 1973. [2] As of 2022, the building is a private residence.