This week the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to begin the process to confer landmark designation on Diego Rivera’s mural at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), which would prevent its future removal. The mural, which is titled
The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City– and which the SFAI has reportedly considered selling to help cover its debts – was commissioned by the school’s president, William Gerstle, in 1930. The subject of this fresco within a fresco is the building of a modern industrial city and it pays tribute to the workers behind such projects, with a giant figure of a worker in blue overalls and helmet at the centre of the composition. Also depicted are the artist and assistants in the act of making the fresco, and some capitalist patrons who stand below Rivera’s
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In San Francisco, city Supervisor Aaron Peskin introduced legislation Tuesday to landmark the San Francisco Art Institute’s massive Diego Rivera mural worth an estimated $50 million following reports that it could sold, according to the San Francisco Examiner. Mission Local first reported that SFAI's Depression-era mural celebrating art and labor, “The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City,” painted in 1931 by Rivera, may be sold to help solve the art school's financial issues, .
Solano to apply for grant to help Fairfield affordable housing project
FAIRFIELD Solano County supervisors authorized submission of a grant application Tuesday for $5.6 million from the No Place Like Home program.
This is the third round of funding and is in collaboration with EAH Housing and Fairfield for the development of a 67-unit affordable housing project, including 20 units of permanent supportive housing.
The location of the project would be 212 E. Tabor Ave. in Fairfield
“The No Place Like Home program dedicates up to $2 billion in bond proceeds to invest in the development of permanent supportive housing for people in need of mental health services and who are either experiencing homelessness, are chronically homeless, or at risk of chronic homelessness,” the staff report to the board states.