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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.
The Women's Building is a women-led non-profit arts and education community center located in San Francisco, California. The center advocates self-determination, gender equality and social justice. [2] The four-story building rents to multiple tenants and serves more than 20,000 women a year.
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
The San Francisco Bay Area is highly invested in the street art scene because of its prevalence in its community. Areas such as the Mission District of San Francisco have developed a wide public fan base because of its large murals. This area of San Francisco is home to one of the most famous pieces of street art, the Women's Building mural. [2]
San Francisco Women's Building. Miranda Bergman is an American contemporary muralist born in 1947 and 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 ...
Pages in category "Artists from the San Francisco Bay Area" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 244 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Although she did travel to the East Coast of the United States, Italy and France to study and exhibit during her life, her career was rooted in San Francisco [8] [14] where she was considered the "Grand Dame" of Nineteenth Century San Francisco women artists, [15] who was said to have "evinces a powerful genius" through the "magic of her brush ...