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Enjoy this digital journey through our history with the launch of our first online archive. Please reach out if you have intel to share that can help us build this archive!
Public Art
UNDO MEN
Sanctuary City Project
2023–2024
This work shines light on the power of the student-led pro-immigrant movement while examining the impact of policies on the lives of the undocumented community.
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Public Art
June Grant: WANDERLUST, A Joyful Noise
Presented by YBCA
2022–2023
A public artwork featuring colorful expressions that call attention to locations typically taken for granted.
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Public Art
On the Horizon: Bucket Brigade
Anna Teresa Fernandez presented by YBCA
Sunday, October 9, 2022, 11:30 AM
Join us as we carry ocean water from the Embarcadero waterfront to Mission St. in the historic SF tradition of bucket brigades.
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Public Art
Let’s Build from Here
Innosanto Nagara
2022-2025
A site-specific public artwork highlighting the power of collaborative future-building.
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Public Art
Now We Are Here
Fredericko Alvarado
July 15, 2021–September 11, 2022
A site-specific mural in YBCA’s Grand Lobby inspired by the Wiphala flag.
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Public Art
Tend Your Orchard
Cece Carpio and Miguel “Bounce” Perez of Trust Your Struggle
2021–2023
A new mural on YBCA’s glass passageway in collaboration with SOMA Pilipinas.
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Public Art
love @ first line
Anna Sergeeva
2021–2025
A new site-specific public artwork by Anna Sergeeva featuring the first lines of love poems.
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Public Art
The Monument as Living Memory
Presented by YBCA
October 12, 2020–April 18, 2022
This work illustrates the closure, dismantling, and restructuring of institutions, the toppling of monuments, and the uprising of a palpable collective spirit across our country.
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Public Art
Statement marquee from Escuela de Arte Útil (School of Useful Art)
Tania Bruguera
2017–2025
YBCA continues to activate the marquee with timely and responsive messages generated from artists and community partners.
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