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 project creates and facilitates other artists creating murals on Clarion Alley, between Valencia and Mission Streets and surrounding areas.

Clarion Alley Mural Projejct

Origins

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, also the source of the collective's name. At the time, two of the founders were living on the alley, while another had helped found the Balmy Alley project.^[1]

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 Redstone Building (in 1997), and the ILWU Building, as well as gallery installations at San Francisco Art Institute, New Langton Arts, and Intersection for the Arts. Members of CAMP over the years include Diego Diaz, Kate Ellis, Permi Gill, Maya Hayuk, Andrew Schoultz, Megan Wilson, Jet Martinez, CUBA, Ivy Jeanne McClelland, Antonio Roman-Alcala, Daniel Doherty, Sara Jean Yaste, Mike Reger and Bunnie Reiss.

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.^[2] Sama-sama/Together artists included: Aaron Noble, Alicia McCarthy, Andrew Schoultz, Carolyn Castaño, Carolyn 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, Project Artaud, the Luggage Store Gallery, the Roxie Theater, the San Francisco Art Institute, the California College of Arts, Poor Magazine, the San Francisco Print Collective, and Oasis for Girls.

List of Clarion Alley participating artists

Below are some of the artists who have been part of the Clarion Alley Mural Project.^[3]

See also

• Mission School

Notes

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.
• 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."

External links

• Clarion Alley Mural Project Official Website
• Flicker Photo Pool
• Clarion Alley Gallery on Found SF
• Photos from the 2006 Clarion Alley Block Party