Oakland Mural Festival 2018
@BayAreaMuralFestival
Mural by

• • Max Martilla
  • Max Albee
  • Francisco Franco
  • Margaret Marie

Seawolf Public House, 350 4th St, Oakland, CA 94607, 55'x25'

Image of Cheemah by Osprey Orielle Lake, The International Cheemah Monument Project Used with permission.
Photo by Billy Douglas

20th and Folsom, SF CA, Acrylic on Wood, 24 x 60 ft
Directed by Susan Greene
with
Jane Norling
Eduardo Pineda
Eddy Hippley
Quam Quach
Vincent Jackson
Melody Lima
Michael Loggins

Special thanks
Creativity Explored of San Francisco
Ray Patlan
Dan Dereszynski
Morey Fox

Restored in 2004
By Miranda Bergman

Zellerbach Family Fund, SF Arts Commission
With gratitude- Lester Jones, John Santos
Destroyed 2006

New Visions 1
Detail, Melody Lima with portrait by Susan Greene

Banners on West Grand Avenue, Oakland CA

Murals on the community center, Chestnut Court, West Grand Avenue and Linden

Project YIELD  was an after school program of MOCHA - The Museum of Children's Art
Susan Greene- inaugural director 1998-2000
Chestnut Court, public housing on West Grand and Filbert, Oakland CA.
Programming included:
Martial Arts
Dance
Music
Art
Academic Support
Advocacy
Public Events

La Lucha Continua / The Struggle Continues

a collaboration with Freedom Archives 

 "Call the Wall" at mural site
3260 23rd St - between Mission and Capp Streets in San Francisco.

At the mural site is a key of extension numbers.Dial 415.200.4587 followed by the
extension number OR download printable mural key here.

At Freedom Archive's Website you can interact with a photo of the mural above to learn more about each of the individuals portrayed and to hear an audio clip by or about them. Simply move your mouse over the desired individual and click. Or click on the name below.

About: The mural | Susan Greene, the artist
The portraits: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Aristide, Judi Bari, Soha Bechara, Maurice Bishop, Madame Binh,
Marilyn Buck, Sitting Bull, Cesar Chavez, Rachel Corrie, Bernadette Devlin, Franz Fanon, Ghandi,
Emma Goldman, Che Guevara, Handala, Joe Hill, Dolores Huerta, Frida Kahlo, Leila Khaled,
Martin Luther King Jr., Lolita Lebron, Audre Lorde, Patrice Lumumba, Rosa Luxemburg,
Farabundo Martí, José Martí, Rigoberta Menchu, Leonard Peltier, Archbishop Oscar Romero,
Edward Said, Augusto César Sandino, Assata Shakur, Harriet Tubman, Pancho Villa,
Malcolm X, Sofia Yamaika, Emiliano Zapata

Partial list of participating Artists include:

Pedro Olivari (phase 1), Meera Desai, John Fadeff

The Palestinian village of Silwan, East Jerusalem, struggles against unrelenting dispossession by the Israeli occupation. In the summer of 2015, the Wadi Hilweh Center of Silwan invited a group of international artists, Art Forces, to collaborate on murals that record and reinforce the enduring idea of ‘home’, samud (steadfast resistance) and joint struggle.

Bending Over Backwards (BOB) is a multi-site and multi-media permanent installation consisting of 2 dimensional murals of trapeze artists that each have an audio component and that are linked by audio/visual walking tours between the sites that reveal social, historical, political and environmental histories.Trapeze artists (painted on wood cut-outs and attached to the wall) are pictured in two neighborhoods of San Francisco, the Mission and SOMA, in an electrifying peak moment of their craft, embodying a mixture of whimsy, pathos and a sense of extraordinary possibility in their gravity-defying feat.

Bending Over Backwards explores the high wire act that thriving in today’s world can be, providing visual and audio metaphors for tenacious, exhilarating and daring flights made in the attempt to realize one’s dreams. The trapeze artists’ success is possible only with great discipline, communication, strength, teamwork, vision and humor; echoing some of the skills necessary for a viable life in late stage capitalism of the twenty first century. For example: there have been several installations of BOB which have not survived the onslaught of gentrification.  However, after a set of figures has been ‘disappeared’ another set of figures soon emerges.  The elements of time, history, memory and tenacity are embodied in these appearances and disappearances.