2019 Beautification Award Winners
![Hayes Valley Art Works](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Hayes-Valley-Art-Works.jpg)
Activation Award: Recognizes nominees who convert under-utilized spaces into vibrant useful spaces that are open to the community.
![Winter Walk](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/winter-walk.jpg)
Activation Award:Recognizes a project that has had a seasonal and significant impact that has beautified and positively impacted public space enjoyed by all in San Francisco
![](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Golden-Gate-Park-Oak-Woodland-Trail-Improvement-District.jpg)
Best Public Program: Recognizes an individual or group that has partnered with the City of San Francisco and made a significant contribution to the beauty and livability of San Francisco.
![](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Moscone-Expansion-Public-Realm-.jpg)
Best Public Realm Project: Recognizes the outstanding achievement of several organizations that have collaborated to enhance existing space in the public realm and create community connection.
![Supervisor Vallie Brown](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Supervisor-Vallie-Brown.jpg)
City Award: Recognizes a project or person in a city department or elected official who has had a significant impact on the City as a whole.
![](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Amy-Cohen.jpg)
City Partner Award: Recognizes an individual or group in a city department that has supported a project resulting in a positive community impact.
![](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Susan-Strolis.jpg)
Clean Coalition Award: Recognizes an individual whose contributions have maintained and improved the cleanliness of the community street experience in a neighborhood.
![Cole Valley Improvement Association](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Cole-Valley-Improvement-Association.jpg)
Community Award: Recognizes a neighborhood group that has taken action and significantly added to the beauty and livability of neighborhood.
![The Demonstration Gardens, Kasey Asberry](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Demonstration-Gardens-Kasey-Asberry.jpg)
Community Garden Award: Recognizes a neighborhood garden project that has enhanced the livability and beauty in a San Francisco neighborhood community.
![](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/clarion-alley.jpg)
Community Mural Award: Recognizes a community art group that has created and maintained a public mural project providing beauty over blight.
![](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Creativity-Explored.jpg)
Community Program Award Recognizes a community group that has created a program that has encouraged community connection through art.
![Jim Jackson](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Jim-Jackson.jpg)
Creative Service Award: Recognizes nominees who have contributed to the promotion of San Francisco parks through the media or entertainment industry.
![](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Adda-Dadda.jpg)
Friedel Klussman Award: Recognizes an individual who has taken inspirational grassroots action benefitting City livability.
![Andrea Combet In Chan Kaajal Garden](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Andrea-Combet-In-Chan-Kaajal-Garden.jpg)
The Golden Gate Award: Recognizes nominees who have made a significant contribution to the union of nature and the built environment.
![](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Betty-Louie.jpg)
Innovator Award: Recognizes an individual who has brought together a novel idea that has significantly transformed San Francisco.
![Donna Miller Casey](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Donna-Miller-Casey.jpg)
Legacy Award: Recognizes an individual for extraordinary contributions to keeping San Francisco Beautiful.
![Lisa Bransten](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Lisa-Bransten.jpg)
Muni Art Award: Recognizes an individual or group that has made a significant contribution to enhance playgrounds that serve all children of San Francisco.
![Muni Art](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/muni_art-1024x495.jpg)
Muni Art Award: Recognizes the five winning Muni Art 2019 winners.
Winners: Wendy Ackrell, Shannon Bodrogi, Vanessa Fajardo, Skooter Fein and Jocelyn Li Legrand.
![](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Michael-Krouse.jpg)
Mural Award: Recognizes an individual who has created a new public mural in a previously unused space.
![](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Guerrero-Park.jpg)
The Neighborhood Park Award: Recognizes the extraordinary efforts of a neighborhood to enhance and improve a neighborhood park.
![Bayview Community Parks Project](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Bayview-Community-Parks-Project.jpg)
Park Vision Award Recognizes a project by an organization or group that has created a vision to create, enlarge or enhance public green space in San Francisco.
![Tompkins Stairway Garden](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Tompkins-Stairway-Garden.jpg)
Placemaking Award: Recognizes nominees whose contributions have created a sense of place or identity in a public space.
![The Manimal Project / RikkilistMural](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Manimal-Project-RikkilistMural.jpg)
Pop Up Art Award: Recognizes a temporary, pop up art installation.
![Mike Ritch, The Clean Avenue Murals](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Mike-Ritch-The-Clean-Avenue-Murals.jpg)
Public Art Award: Recognizes an individual or group that has created public art and eliminated blight by adding beauty.
![City Art Gallery](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/City-Art-Gallery.jpg)
The Seven Hills Award: Recognizes nominees who have made a significant contribution to the creation of unique neighborhood character.
![North Beach Citizens](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/North-Beach-Citizens-1.jpg)
Street Beautification Award: Recognizes a project that enhances the beauty and livability of a neighborhood street.
![PALETTE](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/PALETTE.jpg)
Temporary Community Space Award: Recognizes an individual or group that has repurposed an underutilized space and transformed it into a vibrant addition enhancing community connection.
![](https://sfbeautiful.org/wp-content/uploads/Diane-Balter_Don-Graulich.jpg)
Unsung Hero Award: Recognizes an individual or team that has provided a service to the City that is largely unrecognized but makes a significant contribution to creating, enhancing, and protecting the beauty and livability of San Francisco.