San Francisco Arts Commission

Mayor Breed Awards $4.7 Million to AAPI and Latino Cultural Groups

March 1, 2022March 21, 2022 The Guardsman carnaval, Mayor London Breed, Bruce Lee, Chinese Historical Society of America, San Francisco Arts Commission, Julie Zigoris, chinatown, Justin Hoover, mission, Rodrigo Duran, Arts, Ralph Remington, funding

$400,00 will fund the “We Are Bruce Lee” exhibit at the Chinese Historical Society of America, with another $600,000 for an art gallery and welcome center adjacent to the exhibit. Other grantees include the Mission District’s Carnaval, the Chinatown Festival of Lights, and small businesses in Chinatown.

Frontpage Display Culture

Where are The Whales Now?

May 12, 2021 The Guardsman Smithsonian Archives of American Art, De Young Museum, facebook, San Francisco Arts Commission, Maria Iclea Kava, PG&E, SFAC, Jane Solis Schafgans, San Francisco Remembered, Maritime Museum, The Phoenix, Barbara Lass, Allison Cummings, Shayna Gee, Works of Art Committee, The Whales, Sunnyside History Project, Whale Sculpture, Golden Gate International Exposition, Robert Boardman Howard, Treasure Island, Steinhart Aquarium, Coit Tower, California Academy of Sciences, Power and Light

The Whales fountain sculpture by Robert Boardman Howard sat under tarps in a fenced lot for almost a decade and half at City College’s Ocean Campus. In 2019, it was moved off-campus where it remains in storage.