This is a painting of Market Street guided by the imagination of randomly selected San Franciscans who contributed drawings and ideas about our cities main artery. This process can be seen in the "Market Street Project" topic gallery.

There were quite a few people who favored turning Market Street into a waterway and many more who wanted the street to be "greener" in a variety of ways.

I collaged these contributions onto the sides of the canvas and included some of the kiosk poster designs in the corners.

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This view shows the bottom left side of the "A More Green Market Street" canvas. You can see the drawing (by Lech Wierzynski) of the man on the rope swing that inspired the figure in the painting.

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"Whose Streets?" was first created using stop-motion animation on 16mm film with a bolex camera in Samara Halperin's community education class at the San Francisco Art Institute and later edited on Final Cut Pro.



This is the drawing of the week for July 31 - August 6, 2005.

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This is a painting in progress of San Francisco's Market Street. I'm incorporating various ideas from the imaginations of fellow San Francisans. Many people envisioned Market Street as a waterway. The F Line street cars become boats and the whole area becomes greener and more colorful.

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I spent a little time talking to some folks on Market Street on a Monday. Seville drew this picture and described his idea. He imagined a man stuck on a desert island. It's a beautiful island on a beautiful day. The man is relaxed and happy until he realizes that he is completely lost and the water is filled with sharks.

Seville's anonymous friend described his vision of money growing on trees. Unfortunately, the branches were too high and a poor person cannot reach the dangling bills.

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I have added more color and detail to the vision of Market Street created by Samy Spoon, Stella Maris, Liz, and others (the original is dated May 7).

This picture is part of my Market Street Project. I will continue to use collaborative drawing and brainstorming to collect images and ideas from San Franciscans to help me create a collectively informed painting of this city's principal artery. Keep visiting the 'Market Street Project' topic gallery on this site to watch how this experiment in art and group dialogue develops.

Email market@TheArtDontStop.org to contribute.

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Catherine Viernes sketches her ideas at Galileo Academy.

Answers to the question, "What's your favorite group of people you might find on Martket Street?":
protesters; chess players; street musicians; people with funny hats; people wearing pink leotards on unicycles!!; people smoking weed; dikes; Frank Chu – the 12 galaxies guy; the punks with cool hair and skateboards (Market/Church); tourists wearing shorts and sandals in the August fog; homeless people yelling at parking meters; tap dancers and Co.; shoe shiners; our friends from the religious rite; dudes that talk to garbage cans!; my friends

Thank you to Ajit and The Wendies for contributing.

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Marie Salamanca sketches her ideas to fill an empty Market Street kiosk.

Visit the "Market Street Project" topic gallery (click on the link below) to see other collaborations by Galileo students and fellow San Franciscans which I will use to develop a painting about Market Street.

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Nansamba Ssensalo with help from Lech Wiereyski (house) - both of the band Jug Free America - added a grassy riverbank to a picture of Market Street as I began collecting contributions for the Market Street Project at the Precita Eyes Mural festival.

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Antoni Lech Wierzynski added a river and rope swing to Market Street and turned the street car into a fishing boat.

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