Yerba Buena Gardens Public Art Tour

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival

This tour has been created at the request of and in conjunction with the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. The festival features amazing live performances from a diverse array of cultures. They’re all FREE and extremely worthwhile!

General Information

SF Art Commission web article on Yerba Buena Gardens art expansion
Overview of Art at Yerba Buena Gardens
2018 SF Chronicle article on YBG art expansion

Stops on Rodney’s YBG Art Tour

STOP 1: Yerba Buena Gardens Introduction and Overview

SOMA Historic Context prepared for SF Planning Commission
Yerba Buena Center: Redevelopment and a Working Class Community’s Resistance on FoundSF
SOMA Pilipinas (Filipino history)
Sa Amin documentary on Filipino community in SF

STOP 2: MLK Waterfall by Houston Conwill (sculptor) 1947-2016, Estella Majazo (poet),1949- and Joseph De Pace (architect), 1954

Houston Conwill Wikipedia entry
Houston Conwill NY Times obituary

STOP 3: Cityscape View (Discussion of architecture viewed from YBG including SFMOMA, Pacific Telephone Bldg, Salesforce Tower and Marriot Marquis)

Diego Rivera Mural Project website (Pan American Unity mural now at SFMOMA)
SF City Guides Downtown Deco tour
SF City Guides SOMA Architecture Stroll tour

STOP 4: Deep Gradient/Suspect Terrain (Seasons of the Sea Adrift) By John Roloff (1947-

John Roloff website
John Roloff Wikipedia entry

STOP 5: Dare We Dream in Concrete Poem by TODCO Writers Workshop

TODCO website
TODCO Wikipedia entry

STOP6: Oche Wat Te Ou by Jaune Quick-to-see Smith and James Luna

Jaune Quick-to-see Smith Wikipedia entry
James Luna Wikipedia entry

STOP8: Shaking Man

Terry Allen works at Oliver Ranch
Terry Allen Wikipedia entry
Amarillo Highway by Terry Allen (YouTube)

STOP 9: Point Cloud, Leo Villareal (1965-), Albuquerque

Leo Villareal website
Leo Villareal Wikipedia entry
Point Cloud video (YouTube)

STOP 10: Double Horizon Sarah Sze (1969-), Born Boston Lives NYC

art21 web page on Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze Wikipedia entry