City College Public Art Walk

With Amy O’Hair, Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project
City College of San Francisco Ocean Campus was planned and built to include art works by WPA artists such as Herman Volz, Sargent Johnson, and Frederick Olmsted. Diego Rivera’s mural Pan-American Unity is only the most famous of the many public works on campus. See the numerous other works and hear stories of the artists who created them. We’ll visit all the major pieces and some hidden treasures that need restoration. Detailed histories bring to life this critical period in campus history, and tie it to the larger picture of San Francisco in the years before and after WWII.

Meet at street level at the bottom of hill below Science Hall, 50 Frida Kahlo Way, near St. Francis of the Guns statue in front of the Science Building. Ends at the Diego Rivera mural (which is being relocated to SFMOMA in May 2020) about 1:30 PM. Strenuous, with several stairways.

(Map: click to enlarge)