URBAN ARTWORKS

In this community art program, high school youth learn leadership skills as they work together to plan and implement art projects that celebrate youth voices and youth visions while including neighborhood youth and community residents in their creation. Participants receive professional training in the use of materials, tools and design fundamentals and work with local artists to incorporate new skills into their work. Urban ArtWORKS artists have created 8 public art installations in the Mission District:

• San Francisco Sidewalk Project
• The Future is in Your Hands,
• Youth Voices project at the 16th Street BART station
• Pollo Supremo ceramic mosaic tile commission
• Mission Cultural History Panels
• San Francisco Living Mural
• Multi-Generational Mural at Marshall Elementary
• Altamont Hotel Tree Planters

Through their community projects youth artists have an opportunity to be leaders and role models for their peers dispel youth stereotypes and engender a community that is more youth friendly and aware of youth issues. Former program youth artist Luis Salazar Hernandez currently leads Urban ArtWORKS.