Diane di Prima

Diane di Prima

Selected poem: To a Student Former Poet Laureate of San Francisco Diane Di Prima has authored more than thirty collections of poetry, including The Poetry Deal (City Lights Publishers, 2014) as well as plays, short stories, novels, nonfiction, and more, and her work has been translated into more than twenty languages. View Artists’ Interpretations To […]

Charif Shanahan

Charif Shanahan

Selected poem: Love Poem Three Autumns Later Charif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (SIU Press, 2017), winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. He is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. View Artists’ Interpretations Love Poem Three Autumns Later […]

Brynn Saito

Brynn Saito

Selected poem: Traffic Brynn Saito is the author of two books of poetry, Power Made Us Swoon (2016) and The Palace of Contemplating Departure (2013), winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and finalist for the Northern California Book Award. View Artists’ Interpretations Traffic Woman warrior when stuck in trafficsings love […]

Janet Rumsey

Janet Rumsey

What If Poetry speaks often of the invisible, while art is able to paint the invisible- a feeling, a moment or a bond. This series visually communicates feelings otherwise unseen. The use of simple lines, familiar monuments and abstraction will hopefully spark conversation, inspire kindness or ignite self-reflection. See more of Janet’s work and experiences […]

Randi Pace

Randi Pace

Lyrical City Lyrical City is a series of watercolor/gouache paintings that explore emotion through portraits. Ranging from contemplative to exuberant, each portrait along with vibrant background colors seek to evoke memory. Some of the pieces include a collage of paintings to represent our journeys of growth, change, and an interweaving of the complexities within each […]

Tsungwei Moo

Tsungwei Moo

From macro to micro, of San Francisco San Francisco’s humanity informs my art. The diverse culture, and liberal thinking, has been my main inspiration since I first arrived here from my native Taiwan. From macro to micro is my view of San Francisco. I believe that together, through love, compassion, and hope, we can inspire […]

Mara Hernandez

Mara Hernandez

WORDS UNFOLD WORDS UNFOLD is a series of visual poems that looks beyond the meaning of words, and examines their topography. The way in which the words of a poem unfurl across a canvas reveal a layer of meaning beyond the literal. Using acrylic, watercolor, and digital painting each piece explores a visual interpretation of […]

Donavon Brutus

Donavon Brutus

Seven by Siete by 七 by Pito by Bảy by семь by Sept This series of geometric illustrations was created to show a sample of the diversity that exists in the Bay Area. The name is derived from the seven by seven square miles of the City, and the 7 most common languages spoken throughout […]

Christine Weibel

Christine Weibel

Proposal – Fairy Tale CityThe series I proposed is called “Fairy Tale City.” Images will be colorful, densely layered, and contain many playful details. They will depict things that seem too fabulous to be real, but are actual things you can see in San Francisco — public art, architecture, people, urban and natural landscapes. San Francisco […]

Bhavna Misra

Bhavna Misra

Proposal – Circle of CompassionFor this series, Bhavna intends to create artworks around the proposed theme of Compassion. To accomplish this, she plans to apply techniques of realism and abstraction via carefully chosen color schemes and effective use of compositions. Human faces & figures, elements of nature, wildlife, and their inter dependence will play a prominent […]