Mural Design Information Form

Home , De Young Museum, San Francisco City Hall

LEAD ARTIST

ADDRESS

CITY

STATE ZIP CODE

EMAIL PHONE

PROJECT COORDINATOR

ADDRESS

CITY

STATE ZIP CODE

EMAIL PHONE

SPONSORING ORGANIZATION

ADDRESS

CITY

STATE ZIP CODE

EMAIL PHONE

FUNDING SOURCES

PROPOSED SITE (address, cross street )

DISTRICT

District numbers can be found at http://sfgov.org/elections/district-citywide-maps MURAL TITLE

DIMENSIONS

ESTIMATED SCHEDULE (start and completion dates)

1. Proposal (describe proposed design, site and theme. Attach a separate document if needed).

2. Materials and processes to be used for wall preparation, mural creation and anti-graffiti treatment.

3. List individuals and groups involved in the mural design, preparation and implementation.

Attach the following documents to this form:

1. Lead artist's resume/qualifications and examples of previous work 2. Three (3) letters of community support 3. Letter or resolution approving proposal from city department or; 4. Letter of approval from private property owner along with Property Owner Authorization Form 5. Signed Artist Waiver of Property Rights for artwork placed upon city property or; 6. Signed Artist Waiver of Proprietary Rights financed in whole or in part by city funds for artwork placed upon private property 7. Maintenance Plan (including parties responsible for maintenance) 8. Color image of design 9. One image of the proposed site and indicate mural dimensions

DANA ALLISON ALBANY www.danaalbanyart.com

(415) 871-1261 [email protected]

Dana Albany produces and fabricates large-scale sculptures, museum exhibits and interactive installations of enterprising vision. Originating from a collage of recycled materials, Albany's work reclaims and reimagines our scraps and discarded objects into a reconciliation of the detritus of human life. Albany has created and exhibited for Burning Man, the de Young Museum of Art, the Exploratorium, The California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco Arts Commission, SOMAR Gallery and the San Francisco Airport.

Upcoming

Fall 2020 Bone Tree Permanent installation at Fly Ranch in Gerlach, Nevada Combined with land art initiative of the planting native trees with Mellisa Baron.

Fall 2020 The Monumental Mammoth Permanent installation at Tule Springs National State Park with Girl Scout Tahoe Mac, Luis Valeria- Rico, Sherri Groether and the Protectors of Tule Springs.

November 13-19, 2020 Creative Catalyst Group Workshop A Week of Immersive Art Making Dana Albany & Michael Flash Hopkins Esalen Institute. Big Sur, CA (We taught this in Spring and Fall of 2019 as well)

Summer 2020 Tara Mechani 2 year public art installation in Reno, Nevada

Public Sculpture & Installations Selected Commissions

2020

Passage – Paradise Ridge Winery, Santa Rosa, California

2019

Tara Mechani Installation in Patricia Greens/Hayes Valley San Francisco, CA – SF Arts Commission

Larry Harvey Shrine Memorial – Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, Nevada

Passage – Burning Man Commission, Black Rock City, NV & Healdsburg, CA

2019 continued

The Monumental Mammoth – Life is Beautiful, Las Vegas, Nevada

The Monumental Mammoth – Burning Man. Black Rock Desert, Nevada

2018

Tara Mechani – In Partnership with Burning Man Foundation Playa to the Paseo Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park, San Jose, CA

Passage – Private Commission, Healdsburg, CA

Passage – Burning Man , Black Rock City, NV

Coral Reef Recycled – Commission at California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA

2017

Pterosaur in the East Garden – Commission for Exhibit – California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA

2016

Heartbeat – Commission at Lifelong Medical Center, Berkeley, CA (2016 to present)

Laffing Sal – Exhibited at The Queen Mary Hotel & Attraction, Long Beach, CA

2015

Y.E.S. Youth Educational Spacecraft Project – permanent installation, Healdsberg, CA

2014

Y.E.S. Youth Educational Spacecraft Project – Las Vegas Learning Village, Downtown Project, Las Vegas, Nevada

Abundance – Commission at Silver Avenue Family Health Center, San Francisco, CA

2013

Y.E.S. Youth Educational Spacecraft Project – Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, Maker’s Faire, Redwood City, CA and Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada

2012

Mission Butterfly – Public Education Grant for South Van Ness, San Francisco, CA

Exhibition Work (Highlights only) Group Shows 2017 Reclaimed Room – Building Resources, San Francisco, CA 2014 What Tethers Us – The De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA 2013 Refined by Fire – Gallery Point Richmond, CA (and previously in 2012 and 2010) Recology – Celebrating 20 Years, San Francisco Airport, San Francisco, CA 2011 NOIR – Stinson Beach, CA 2009 Vignettes – Venus Gallery, San Francisco, CA Mariposa Bevelaqua – Trans-America Building, San Francisco, CA 2008 2nd Skin – Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA The Art of Recycling – San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA Detritus Chronicled – Varnish Gallery, San Francisco, CA Roadside Attraction – SomARTs Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Solo Shows 2009 Voyage – PG&E Building, San Francisco, CA 2007 Xina Neon – Women’s Building, San Francisco, CA Four – Norcal Corporate Headquarters, San Francisco, CA 2004 Voyage – Main Hall, Bioneers Convention, Marin, CA 2003 Stanley – Sony Metreon, San Francisco, CA

Prior to 2008, Albany actively exhibited in numerous San Francisco galleries and venues including: SomARTs Gallery, Minna Street Gallery, Exploratorium, San Francisco’s City Hall Grounds, John Wickett Museum, and S.F. Arts Commission Window Gallery solo show as part of larger exhibit.

Burning Man As a long-time Burning Man creator, Albany has been exhibiting large-scale installations in Black Rock City, Nevada for almost 20 years. Projects supported by the Burning Man Project include:

2019 – Larry Harvey Shrine Memorial 2019 – The Monumental Mammoth 2018 – Passage 2017 – Tara Mechani 2015 – Shrine Ozan & Laffing Sal (revisited) 2013 – Youth Educational Spacecraft Project

2011 – Griffins

Burning Man Projects continued

2005 – Laffing Sal 2003 – Great Temple Altars 2002 – Belly of the Whale 2000 – Body of Knowledge 1999 – The Bone Tree (1999-2014) 1996 – Avenue of the Arts Collaboration

Community Champion

2013 The Youth Educational Spacecraft Project – Healdsburg, CA (permanent home 2018) This mobile spaceship functions as an interactive classroom providing hands-on learning in the creative and technical spheres of art, science and history. Led by Albany and supported by her team, youth groups from the San Francisco’s Tenderloin and Hunter’s Bay areas designed and built the exterior mosaic from recycled materials. This magical time capsule of found objects has traveled since 2013 to engage the public at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, Maker Faire in San Mateo, Burning Man in Black Rock City and Fremont Street + Zappos in Las Vegas. As with many of Albany’s projects, Y.E.S. has been enthusiastically supported and funded by many community partners including: Burning Man, The Crucible, Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco, The Exploratorium, Maker Faire and private donors.

2005 Albany’s penchant towards community engagement and support has resulted in Daisy, The Recycled Dragon. Daisy is a 20 foot-long Chinese New Year Dragon made from recycled materials and LEDs and she was commissioned by Recology, San Francisco. She continues to appear in Chinese New Year celebrations in San Francisco.

2004 Albany was one of the initial 130 artists to participate in Hearts in SF, a successful fundraising initiative of the S.F. General Hospital. Albany took broken shards of Muni bus station glass and created Mariposa Bevelaqua, a piecing together of street debris to honour a friend who lost a limb in an accident. The original Mariposa Bevelaqua was purchased and now resides in England. Two further iterations were commissioned privately and one resides in the Trans-America Building in San Francisco.

2003 Artist-In-Residence Albany was selected as an Artist-in-Residence at Recology, a resource recovery company with over 100 years of collecting, sorting and re-distributing materials in California, Oregon and Washington states. As part of her residency Albany produced work while engaging with school and adult tours about the value of recycling, sparking ideas for innovative ways to reuse materials. Her resulting work Odyssey Recology was on public exhibit and became part of Recology’s permanent art and education collection.

Press Highlights only – Visit danaalbanyart.com to review all Press

- Whiting, Sam: “Throughline: The Future of the Arts, SFChronicle, July 2020 - Olaf-Jones, Finn. “The Art of Burning Man is Given a Second Life” New York Times, November 2019 – Cronin, Brenda: “At Burning Man, The Art Scene is on Fire”, The Wall Street Journal, March 2018 – Blanco, Lina: “7 Most Instagrammable Public Art Spots in the Bay Area”, KQED Arts, May 2018 – Pizarro, Sal: “Burning Man Art Gets an Extended Stay in San Jose”, San Jose Mercury News, June, 2017 – Chun, Kimberly: “A Kid’s Space Travels to Burning Man and Beyond”, SFGate, August 2014

Books – Harvey, Stewart, Playa Fire Spirit and Soul at Burning Man, HarperCollins 2018, pages 59,123,134,135 – Guy, NK, Art of Burning Man, TASCHEN Books 2015, page 41 – Recology Artist in Residence Program: Art at the Dump: The Artist in Residence Program and Environmental Learning Center at Recology, May 2015 – Raiser, Jennifer, Burning Man Art on Fire, Race Point Publishing 2014, pages 12,13 – Kuhn, Alyson, Hearts in San Francisco, 2004, page 105 – Krueter, Holly and Harvey, Larry, Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man, Raised Barn Pr; Har/DVD edition 2002, Cover and pages 50,107

Updated August 2020 Dana Albany Sample Work

Tara Mechani

Tara Mechani by Dana Albany is a figurative sculpture that entwines aspects of the ancient female Buddha, Tara, with characteristics of a futuristic female robot.

Playing with the contemporary fascination with technology, the artwork infuses the mechanical with the compassion and empathy associated with the ancient deity. Tara Mechani challenges us to embrace the future without losing sight of past beauty and ancient wisdom.

There is a custom-built chandelier inside of her, made out of repurposed brass chandelier arms that have been bent and reworked to extend from within which wrap elegantly around her sides forming her rib cage. She emanates a soft warm candelabra glow. It is her heart and soul...shining from within. Her lighting hearkens back to a different era that feels exquisite and timeless.

Tara is a composite of recycled machine parts, hinges, hardware, keys, locks, door handles, stainless steel, cable, chain, gears, cogs, copper, brass, hints of glass, tools and old artifacts immaculately blended. She is a medley of non-traditional materials which were all collected from local San Francisco businesses that have either vanished or changed hands. 80% of the materials used for Tara were recycled.

Dimensions: 14’ tall, metal pedestal 3’ tall Tara’s total height: 17 feet Dana Albany Sample Work

Y.E.S. Youth Educational Spacecraft Project

This project is the brainchild of artist Dana Albany and Burning Man Project co-founder Harley Dubois, began with the construction of a beautifully crafted steel frame, 12’ in diameter and 11’ tall with an acrylic observation dome on top.

Over 100 children from the Tenderloin, Bayview Hunter’s Point Boys & Girls Club of San Francisco were given the opportunity to help create a mobile spacecraft under the guidance of many artists skilled in several disciplines. The kids worked side by side with experts in model making, mosaics, robotics and lighting.

This collaborative art program for youth gave them time and space to create, participate, and then exhibit their work, while engaging children in hands-on experience focusing on art and technology. While working on the spaceship, the kids were engaged in discussions about recycling, creative reuse, environmentalism, solar energy, LED lighting, photography, soundscape creation, robotics, space travel and astronomy.

Materials: Recycled glass, tiles, mirror and traffic lights collected from Recology and Building Resource, broken dishes, plates and china, bicycle gears and chain, spoons, porcelain handles, records, red and orange plastic broken from car lights, car mirrors, old 50’s style TV monitor, robotics made from motors from old appliances, recycled push bottoms from children’s toys and a hand built interactive space control panel.

Dimensions- 12’ in diameter, 11’ tall with an acrylic observation dome on top Dana Albany Sample Work

Various Community Mosaic Murals

Over the years, Dana has spent her time perfecting her passion: breaking down the walls for creativity with people of all ages to create public art. A theme throughout all of her work is that making art can be a community activity. She has led mosaic mural projects in health clinics, schools and transformed walls in Las Vegas, San Francisco and Berkeley, California.

"MARIPOSA" MISSION KIDS CO-OP

October 22, 2020

To Whom it May Concern,

Family Connections Centers is a family resource center serving children and families in the Portola neighborhood for 26 years. We are writing in support of the mosaic bench project that the Portola Neighborhood Association is planning for the entrance to the Felton Street public parking lot. The planned piece by Portola artist Dana Albany reflects the vibrancy of our unique community as well as our historic designation as San Francisco’s Garden District with the floral theme. Bounded by austere gray retail structures, we hope this piece will set a new tone for the surrounding area.

This city owned parking lot has been a source of concern for the community for several decades. Over the years, we have witnessed crime, graffiti and garbage dumping as rampant issues that have been largely left unaddressed. Despite this reality, the parking lot is heavily relied on by San Bruno Ave small businesses, shoppers, and many of our program participants. The unfortunate state of this area provides an unwelcoming first experience to many visiting and working on the corridor and we are hopeful that this project will be the catalyst for more positive change.

In addition, the funding for this project has been raised almost entirely from the community. The Portola Neighborhood Association has raised $10,000 to fund this project through its Drag Queen Bingo fundraising event. Over three years of this event has raised funds from residents to bring more attention to the arts in the Portola.

In closing, over 200 people showed their support for this mosaic project by participating in an online voting process to select the winning concept. An overwhelming majority selected this concept to add beauty and creativity to an otherwise forgotten space. Please vote to approve this piece and uphold the community’s vision for a more artistic Portola.

Sincerely,

Tina Tam Education Director

Family Connections Centers • Portola (Headquarters) 2565 San Bruno Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94134 • 415.715.6746

Family Connections Center • Excelsior 5016 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94112 • 415.333.3845 fccenters.org

To Whom it May Concern,

I am writing in support of the mosaic bench project that the Portola Neighborhood Association is planning for the entrance to the Felton St public parking lot. The planned piece by Portola artist Dana Albany reflects the vibrancy of our unique community as well as our historic designation as San Francisco’s Garden District with the floral theme. Bounded by austere gray retail structures, we hope this piece will set a new tone for the surrounding area.

This city owned parking lot has been a source of concern for the community for several decades. Crime, graffiti and garbage dumping are rampant issues that have been largely left unaddressed. Despite this reality, the parking lot is heavily relied on by San Bruno Ave small businesses and shoppers. The unfortunate state of this area provides an unwelcoming first experience to many visiting and working on the corridor and we are hopeful that this project will be the catalyst for more positive change.

Sincerely,

Lisa Magruder FrameArt Studio 156 Girard St San Francisco, CA 94134

2/12/2021

To Whom It May Concern:

The SFMTA has received notification of a proposed project to beautify the short exterior walls and attached street-facing benches at the entrance to the SFMTA-owned surface parking lot at Felton Street & San Bruno Avenue, with a mosaic mural on both sides of the walls and on the benches to be designed and created by local artist Dana Albany. SFMTA staff have reviewed the proposed project, and by this letter wish to show strong support for this effort by the Portola Neighborhood Association to enhance the appearance of this property. We note, too, that the PNA has provided assurances that access to the lot should not be hampered during installation of the artwork and has committed resources to maintaining the mosaic after its installation. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding this endorsement.

David Dunham, CPP Principal Administrative Analyst Parking & Curb Mgmt, Streets Division

Office: 415.701.4604 Email: [email protected]

San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency 1 South Van Ness Avenue, 8th floor San Francisco, CA 94103

San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency 1 South Van Ness Avenue, 7th Floor San Francisco, CA 94103 SFMTA.com

San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) Rob Malone, Sr. Manager, Off-Street Parking

1 So. Van Ness Ave., 8th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94103

[email protected] 415.646.4528

2/16/2021

2555 San Bruno Avenue San Francisco, CA 94134 Phone: 628.221.9258 E-Mail: [email protected] Web: www.portolasf.org

Felton Street Mosaic Bench Maintenance Plan:

The PNA and our dedicated groups of community volunteers have over a decade of experience in caring for public art and spaces. We currently maintain six gardens, seven wall murals and over 48 individual mural panels. We regularly coordinate volunteers and artists to perform maintenance, including touch-ups, graffiti removal and new coats of protective varnish. In fall of 2020, we replaced our oldest mural from 2010 with a completely new piece, delivering on our promise to merchants and the community to maintain our projects.

The Felton St. benches' current painted surface is frequently a target for garbage and graffiti due to its prominent location and monochromatic surface. The proposed glass & ceramic mosaic surface finish was selected by the PNA as a natural deterrent since colorful, textured surfaces are not appealing to taggers and other vandals. Should something happen, the durable glass/ceramic surface will be easier to clean when compared to a painted surface.

The PNA commits to a minimum of 5 years maintenance of the tiled benches for any graffiti removal or vandalism repair, the cost of such repairs accounted for in its annual budget.

Portola Petals of Growth by Dana Albany Lotus bench design in vivid, playful colors with foliage. Mosaic of rebirth, blooming flowers and enlightenment.

Bench #1:

Bench #2:

Site Image w/ Dimensions:

Bench #1

Bench #2

Bench 1

Bench 2

Felton St. Parking Lot - 25 Felton St, San Francsico, CA 94134