Yerba Buena Gardens Public Art Tour
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
This tour has been created at the request of and in conjunction with the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. The festival features amazing live performances from a diverse array of cultures. They’re all FREE and extremely worthwhile!
General Information
SF Art Commission web article on Yerba Buena Gardens art expansion
Overview of Art at Yerba Buena Gardens
2018 SF Chronicle article on YBG art expansion
Stops on Rodney’s YBG Art Tour
STOP 1: Yerba Buena Gardens Introduction and Overview
SOMA Historic Context prepared for SF Planning Commission
Yerba Buena Center: Redevelopment and a Working Class Community’s Resistance on FoundSF
SOMA Pilipinas (Filipino history)
Sa Amin documentary on Filipino community in SF
STOP 2: MLK Waterfall by Houston Conwill (sculptor) 1947-2016, Estella Majazo (poet),1949- and Joseph De Pace (architect), 1954
Houston Conwill Wikipedia entry
Houston Conwill NY Times obituary
STOP 3: Cityscape View (Discussion of architecture viewed from YBG including SFMOMA, Pacific Telephone Bldg, Salesforce Tower and Marriot Marquis)
Diego Rivera Mural Project website (Pan American Unity mural now at SFMOMA)
SF City Guides Downtown Deco tour
SF City Guides SOMA Architecture Stroll tour
STOP 4: Deep Gradient/Suspect Terrain (Seasons of the Sea Adrift) By John Roloff (1947-
John Roloff website
John Roloff Wikipedia entry
STOP 5: Dare We Dream in Concrete Poem by TODCO Writers Workshop
TODCO website
TODCO Wikipedia entry
STOP6: Oche Wat Te Ou by Jaune Quick-to-see Smith and James Luna
Jaune Quick-to-see Smith Wikipedia entry
James Luna Wikipedia entry
STOP8: Shaking Man
Terry Allen works at Oliver Ranch
Terry Allen Wikipedia entry
Amarillo Highway by Terry Allen (YouTube)
STOP 9: Point Cloud, Leo Villareal (1965-), Albuquerque
Leo Villareal website
Leo Villareal Wikipedia entry
Point Cloud video (YouTube)
STOP 10: Double Horizon Sarah Sze (1969-), Born Boston Lives NYC
art21 web page on Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze Wikipedia entry
STOP 11: LeRoy King Carousel
Five fast facts about the LeRoy King Carousel
LeRoy King obituary
Wikipedia Carousel entry
Information Sources
Sa Amin Film about the Filipino community in SOMA
Documentary tells the story of the impact of Redevelopment on the Filipino community, which saw many members displaced. The film’s webpage lists upcoming screenings includes ones on Fri., June 19 and Tues., June 21.