This is the mural that tells me I'm home. It indicates the driveway you walk down to get to our…read morehouse. I couldn't not love it.

this mural is alongside a driveway next to Xocolate Bar. against a black background, it shows a…read moresingle branch with 3 pods ready to sprout flowers. it overhangs a giant depiction of a blooming orange flower. many messages implied. imaging a tree in darkness surviving for 15 years. imagine a tree and flowers straining for water, nutrients during lean times. resilience, resourcefulness, community come to mind. this mural parallels the 15 years Xocolate Bar has survived, even during the Covid pandemic.

this mural isn't typical. it's how rural landscape looks like abstractly, genericly: sky,…read moremountains, moon, stars, lighthouse, ocean, land, plants, marshland,... the mural is viewable from the driveway, parking lot, not from the street. creator: Madeleleine Tonzi

This mural is on a utility box in a parking lot nearby an on ramp to Hwy. 80…read more Mural depicts any normal city when children are getting ready to go to school. Some go by bicycling, walking, skates or scooters. Some go with their parents who stops along the way to chat with other neighbors. A gentlemen is reading his newspaper, another one is getting ready to go to work. This mural depicts a normal day in any typical neighborhood. Creator: Hilda C. Robinson Sponsor: Alameda County Public Art Program.

I believe Mayor Dan Lurie's intention behind his daily Instagram feed is to encourage residents to…read moreget excited about what's new and/or relatively undiscovered in the city. It's working for me because I would've never known about this mural otherwise. In a city full of arresting public art, this one takes advantage of the retaining wall stairs at the end of Burnside Ave and artistically traces the history of Glen Park spotlighting neighborhood heroes and icons. The main facing wall depicts the evolving flora and fauna of the adjacent Glen Park Canyon. The Twin Walls Mural Company is responsible for the colorful mural, and the tile stairway reflects the uniquely stellar work of Aileen Barr and Colette Crutcher, the team responsible for the photogenically definitive SF stairway, the 16th Avenue Steps (review: https://yelp.to/sf6kW9Yg5_). The mural is only a year old, so take Dan's advice and go see it. RELATED - Exploring the Outer Mission? Here's a collection of places I've visited and reviewed: https://yelp.to/TKWsqhWbq0

Reclaiming Islais Creek is a beautiful mural with two main parts. Flowing from the top of the…read morestaircase like water, in a blue hue, is an engaging painting showcasing the history and people of Glen Park, the neighborhood in which this art piece is located. The other portion of the mural, along the wall at the bottom of the steps, portrays lovely colorful scenes in nature, representative of the land, with meaning behind individual creatures and plants shown in the artwork, such as the hummingbirds symbolizing the energy and spirit of the Glen Park community. The mosaic-tiled staircase, featuring legacy tiles, is a just as impressive element of this exhibit as a whole, and just recently opened last month (October 2024). Two flip charts are available on site, hanging from the staircase railing, one containing pictures and labels to help visitors identify the wildlife depicted in the mural, the other one sharing interesting details about the wonderful history of Glen Park and its residents, as shown through the art, including SF's first Americans, the Muwekma Ohlone, the first march for women's suffrage in America, Mission Zoo, railways, and noteworthy businesses. Great little read to learn about what you are seeing here. Also, street parking was free and easy right in front on a Sunday afternoon.

this mural is hiding in plain sight not far from Downtown Hayward. unknown how long it's been here…read more may have been in the last few years. the mural isn't easily seen. can only be seen on Foothill Blvd. leaving the downtown area. the mural has a few fruits pictured at the left (alluding to it's orchard days) and 2 roadsters roaring forward on a dirt road in a rural setting. creator: City of Hayward funded (to avoid graffitti)

Officially titled The Duboce Bikeway Mural: Gateway to the Wiggle, this 400' long piece of public…read moreart celebrates the fever dream of a safer San Francisco, illustrating the path to a safer city, protecting cyclists & pedestrians from the mean streets of San Francisco. Thank you to Safeway for donating their back wall, facing the entrance to the MUNI tunnel & U.S. Mint beyond. Props to fiscal sponsor SF Bicycle Coalition & the political powers that be.

Almost everyone I've ever asked about this mural doesn't like it, but I've always enjoyed it…read more I don't remember when it was, but the first time I saw this thing after emerging from the Market Street tunnel, I was very surprised. And since the N-Judah stops and starts quite a lot at that point, I was sitting there in that hard red plastic seat, eager to see how the "story" would "end." I got such a big kick out of it. Since then, I've ridden dozens, probably hundreds of N-Judahs past this mural, and I still like it. My favorite parts are the bird standing on the sand and how the snake turns into a tire track--or vice versa. I was saddened when Muni stopped using the old black bus shelters, because it meant that this mural, which has one of those bus shelters near the corner--right near the street corner it depicts--would officially become anachronistic. But as I said, I've ridden by this mural hundreds of times, and you know what? Besides the specific color scheme of the Duboce Street houses and said bus shelter, nothing else in this entire mural gives away when it was painted. Sure, the boots and socks on the cyclist look vaguely late-'90s, but artist Mona Caron went to great lengths to make the people's appearances as generic as possible so that they wouldn't look dated. Brava! I also think the skunk is cute, but then I find real-life skunks cute too. I've spent so much time around them at Costanoa that I'm no longer automatically afraid of them.

this mural isn't far from Downtown Oakland. 5 ish blocks from Swan Park, Kaiser Building @20th St…read more another unique sighting! the letters O-A-K-L-A-N-D have images of different races, genders, in colors of white black, green, yellow, red, brown... underneath the lettering is a orange-like flame. under that is a row of buildings imitating Oakland's architecture. then some blue hills underwritten by "CALIFORNIA" creator: unknown.

this mural is literally on the fence of the enclosure surrounding the parking lot on the corner…read more it shows the side view of a Black woman in deep thought or maybe mourning. 2 light turquoise flowers with blue ribbons are behind her head. the background is black. in front of her face are diamond shapes colors of blue, green, turquoise, & red. creator: Hazerdone