Diego Rivera Theater Archives

January 13, 2025January 14, 2025 The Guardsman

CCSF’s $190 million Performing Arts and Education Center Set to Transform Campus and Showcase Diego Rivera Mural

At the heart of the new Performing Arts and Education Center will be the Diego Rivera Theater, which will house the iconic “Pan-American Unity” mural by Diego Rivera. The mural will be displayed in the lobby with a glass wall, making it visible to both the center’s visitors and the pedestrians outside. “The uniqueness of the building will be the installation and display of the mural,” said Alberto Vasquez, associate vice chancellor of the CCSF facilities department.

News

May 20, 2023July 28, 2023 The Guardsman

Homecoming of Diego Rivera’s Mural Not Going Quite as Planned

They say history repeats itself. Diego Rivera completed a mural intended for a City College building that was never built, In 1941. Eighty years later, the mural was planned to be installed into the Performance Arts and Education Center which has still not been constructed.

Community News

March 29, 2022April 11, 2022 The Guardsman

Unanswered Questions Revolve Around the Return of Diego Rivera’s Masterpiece Mural to City College in 2024

Lots of unanswered questions exist around both the date of return of the mural back to City College and storage logistics while waiting for the much anticipated Diego Rivera Theater to be built.

Community News

November 24, 2021January 4, 2022 The Guardsman

Cyclone Bomb Causes Floods on Campus

Record rainfall last month in the Bay Area did not spare City College, causing flooding in several buildings at Ocean Campus, including the Diego Rivera Theater, and the parking lot of the John Adams campus.

News News Briefs

September 8, 2021September 26, 2021 The Guardsman

Work Under Way for Student Success Center

This facilities bond which provided CCSF with $845 million for new construction of sustainable and energy efficient buildings, was also expected to fund several environmental upgrades and seismic improvements intended to help put the community college on a path to a zero-carbon footprint.

Culture

August 28, 2019October 16, 2019 The Guardsman

Art Conservators Begin Preservation Work on Diego Rivera Mural

By Lisa Martin lisamartin.562@gmail.com A plywood partition divides the lobby of the Diego Rivera Theatre as art experts and

Culture

September 5, 2018September 7, 2018 The Guardsman

Actors bring James Baldwin to life during summer artist residency program

By Lisa Martin lisamartin.562@gmail.com For two weeks this summer, celebrated actors, Delroy Lindo and Carl Lumbly, developed a one-man play,