My Role

Before commissioning or selecting the 40 artworks by 30 artists which lend the Southeast Community Center a truly distinctive character, we drafted an arts masterplan informed by our conversations with hundreds of individuals. These conversations served as our curatorial northstar. For Building a Better Bayview I built executive and project-team alignment, participated in artist selection, worked with the artist to establish site and project context, and provided creative review and approval throughout the development of the artwork.

The Artwork

Phillip Hua is a San Francisco-based artist known for his work which explores the relationship between nature and commerce by combining traditional Chinese icons, such as birds and trees, with the technique of Chinese brush painting, digital painting, and images of nature and newsprint. For the main lobby of the Southeast Community Center, Hua created Building a Better Bayview, a three-dimensional photo-collage mural that commemorates the six founders of the Southeast Community Center: Alex Pitcher, Elouise Westbrook, Espanola Jackson, Harold Madison, Ethel Garlington, and Shirley Jones.

Press

• SFPUC & Arts Commission Announce First Group of Selected Artists for Public Art in Bayview-Hunters Point

• The New Southeast Community Center Is Filled With Art and Promise

• Mayor London Breed Announces Opening of New Southeast Community Center

• Artwork for the new Southeast Community Center (Video)

Project Team

• Artwork Client Representative: Blair Randall, SFPUC

• Artwork Project Manager: Jackie von Treskow, SF Arts Commission

• Capital Project Manager: Shelby Campbell, SFPUC