Clarion Alley Mural Project

Clarion Alley Mural Project Block Party

Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) is an artists' collective formed in October 1992 by a volunteer collective of six North Mission residents: Aaron Noble, Michael O'Connor, Sebastiana Pastor, Rigo 92, Mary Gail Snyder, and Aracely Soriano. The Mission of CAMP is to support and produce socially engaged and aesthetically diverse public art as a grassroots community-based, artist-run organization in San Francisco.

In June 2016 CAMP launched its first Website, www.ClarionAlleyMuralProject.org that includes an archive of its murals.^[1]

Clarion Alley Mural Projejct

Origins

Clarion Alley runs one block (560 ft long and 15 ft. wide) in San Francisco's inner Mission District between 17th & 18th and Mission and Valencia streets. Inspired by Balmy Alley and other murals and muralists of San Francisco's Mission District, CAMP came together to initiate a mural project on Clarion Alley. At the time, two of the founders were living on the alley, while another had helped found the Balmy Alley project.^[2]

While the Balmy Alley mural project focused on the theme of Central American struggle, the stated goals of CAMP were social inclusiveness and aesthetic variety. CAMP went on to organize projects off site at the ILWU Local 6 SF headquarters (1995), the Redstone Building (1997), Yogyakarta Indonesia (2003), and the Roxie Theater (2012), as well as gallery installations at San Francisco Art Institute, New Langton Arts, and Intersection for the Arts.

Organizers of CAMP and its annual Block Party over the years include Aaron Noble, Rigo 92, Sebastiana Pastor, Michael O’Connor, Mary Gail Snyder, Arcely Soriano, Diego Diaz, Vince Oresman, Carolyn Castaño, Permi Gill, Kate Ellis, Maya Hayuk, Andrew Schoultz, Megan Wilson, Jonathan Parra, Jen Bowman, Jet Martinez, Kelly Ording, Mary Scott, Tauba Auerbach, Ania Wasiutynski, CUBA, Ivy Jeanne McClelland, Antonio Roman-Alcala, K2, Daniel Doherty, Christopher Statton, Jose V. Guerra Awe, Mike Reger, David Petrelli, Erin Feller, Erin Amelia Ruch, Sara Jean Yaste, and Jamila Keba.

Jessica Miller, Clarion Alley Mural Project

Collaborations

CAMP has worked with many talented artists and the work represents a wide range of styles – from folk influenced to spray-can works to conceptual projects. In addition, CAMP has provided space for collaborative youth initiatives that include Oasis For Girls, Horizons Unlimited and the American Indian Movement Youth Council.

In 2003, CAMP collaborated with Apotik Komik, an artists collective in Indonesia, and Intersection for the Arts to organize and present the project Sama-sama/Together, an international collaboration and exchange between community arts organizations and artists from San Francisco (U.S.A.) and Yogyakarta (Indonesia). The project was designed to foster understanding of recent world events and Muslim and non-Muslim cultures between the two communities through the creation of new works, as well as through cross-cultural dialogue between participating artists and the public at large.^[3] Sama-sama/Together artists included: Aaron Noble, Alicia McCarthy, Andrew Schoultz, Carolyn Castaño, Ryder Cooley, and Megan Wilson from CAMP and Arie Dyanto, Arya Panjalu, Nano Warsono, and Samuel Indratama from Apotik Komik.

CAMP also frequently collaborates with community partners that include: Community Thrift, Intersection for the Arts, Redstone Labor Temple, Artists' Television Access (ATA), Project Artaud, LeBeau Market, Rainbow Grocery, the Roxie Theater, La Casa de las Madres, Poor Magazine, Creativity Explored, the San Francisco Print Collective, Horizons Unlimited, Oasis for Girls, American Indian Movement Youth Council, the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN), and Hospitality House.

List of Clarion Alley participating artists

Below are some of the artists who have been part of the Clarion Alley Mural Project.^[4]

CK1 ' Keyvan Shovir '
Cuba
Brad K. Alder
Rene Amini
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
APEX
Tim Armstrong
Anthony G.
AQUA
ATOM
Tauba Auerbach
Jose Guerra Awe
Bahama Kangaroo
Georgina Barney
Helen Bayly
BEMS
David Benzler
Amy Berk
BIGFOOT
BLIS
James Bode
Mark Bode
Vichian Boonmeemak
Alex Braubach
Suzie Buchholz
CHAOS 938
Chor Boogie
Chuy Jesús Campusano
Carolyn Castaño
CECIL
Scott Cowgill
Carolyn Ryder Cooley
Andy Cox
George Crampton
Shaghayegh Cyrous
DAGON
Diana Cristales-David
Ethan Allen Davis
Bryan Dawson, Rogelio Martinez, and Sayaka Tagawa
Diamond Dave
Matt Day
Eric Derail
DESIE
DNO
Daniel Doherty
Emory Douglas
Christianne Dugan
DX
Arie Dyanto
Ezra Eismont
Emily (Butterfly)
EON 75
ESA
ESPO
ESTRIA
EURO
Yuka Ezoe
John Fadeff
Farhan Siki
Tom Farthing
Julio Flores and Luis Lule
Pablo Fonseca de Pinho
FREE
Friends' School
Amilca Fuentes/American Indian Movement Youth Council
J Garcia
C. Gazaleh
GIANT
Corrina Goldblatt
Danny Gotimer
Chris Granillo
Susan Greene
Ruben Guzman
QR Hand (poem)
Chad Hasegawa
Maya Hayuk
Heart 101
Cliff Hengst
Ron Hennegler
Marisa Hernandez
Crystal Hermman
Scott Hewicker
Horizons Unlimited (class taught by Carolyn Castaño and Amy Berk)
Horea
Hospitality House
Mia Houlberg
Scott Hove
Kenneth Huerta
Victor Hugo
Samuel Indratama
IVY
Marisa Jahn
Xylor Jane
Mario Joel
Chris Johanson
K2
Jamila Keba
Saroun Khan
Keith Knight
Mari Kono
Mei-Tsung Lee
LOCUST
LANGO
Vatos Revere Life
Michael Loggins and Jamie Morgan
Alice McGinn
America Meredith
Seija Metsola
LUCHA
LUNO
Chris Lux
MACE
Scott MacLeod
Carlos Madriz
Mark Martin
Jet Martinez
Alicia McCarthy
Barry McGee (TWIST)
Jessica Miller
Amilca Mouton-Fuentes (1978-2004)
Julie Murray
Natel
Victor Navarette
Ruby Neri (Reminisce)
Aaron Noble
Sirron Norris
Ivan Nunez
Oasis For Girls (Sierra Bloomer, Micaiah Caplong, Su Mei Mai, Sunum Mobin, Nancy Salcedo, Amber Sanchez, Jennifer Tse, Lily Zhen)
OKAE
Naoki Onodera
Onomy
OOPS
Kelly Ording
Arya Panjalu
PastTime
Sebastiana Pastor
Michaela Pavlátová; Ray Patlán/Eduardo Pineda (Fresco)
Hilary Pecis
Jesús Angel Perez
PEZ
Poor Magazine
Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center/Susan Cervantes
Texta Queen
Kyle Ranson
Mike Reger
Bunnie Reiss
Renos
Martin Revolo
Doug Rhodes
Rigo
Brooke Ripley
Ryan Rivadeneyra
Clarence Robbs (Cuba)
Isis Rodriguez
Cynthia Rojas
Al Rose (poem)
Jeff Roydson
Erin Ruch
Ron Salmeron
San Francisco Art Institute (class taught by Kristin Calabrese)
San Francisco Art Institute (class taught by Aaron Noble & Megan Wilson)
San Francisco Print Collective
Andrew Schoultz
Mary Scott
Stev Sechovec
Daniel Segoria
SESI
Steve Shada
Christine Shields
Aminah Slor
Greta Snider
SnoMonkey
Spenser
Spie
Christopher Statton
Mats Stromberg
Shilo Suleman
Alfonso Texidor
Gabriel Thormann
Sara Thustra
Kenshin Tomoshima
Brian and Jasper Tripp
TWICK
UFO
Smael Vagner
Lucena Valle
Vatos Mexicanos Locos
Josh Wallace
WARNED
Nano Warsono
Mel C. Waters
Scott Williams
Bradley Wilson
Megan Wilson
Tanya Wischerath
Lena Wolff
Nina Wrights
Rebecca Young
Daisy Zamora (poem)
Zore & Hyde
Zulah

Notes

↑ Hotchkiss, Sarah (15 June 2016). "Clarion Alley Mural Project's Decades of Dissident Artwork Now Online". KQED.
↑ Neumann, Erik (19 October 2012). "Clarion Alley Turns 20". Mission Local. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
↑ http://www.meganwilson.com/projects/118_Sama%20sama-Together/1_sama.php
↑ "Related Activities: Clarion Alley Mural Project". Megan Wilson. Retrieved 3 February 2015.

References

Murray, Julie. "Moving Stairway to Heaven" in Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo. Jacoby, Annice, ed. NY: Abrams, 2009. p. 126
Noble, Aaron. "The Clarion Alley Mural Project" p. 113 and "Vatos Mexicanos Locos" p. 122 in Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo. Jacoby, Annice, ed. New York: Abrams, 2009.
Wilson, Megan. "Sama-Sama: Mural Missionaries" p. 170 - 171 in Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo. Jacoby, Annice, ed. New York: Abrams, 2009.
Rapoport, Lynn. "Wall space: The Clarion Alley Mural Project uses public art to paint a home." San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 23, 2002.
Drescher, Timothy W. "Clarion Alley and Post-modernism."

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