Mission Mission

(photo by pagedesign at the Altered Barbie Exhibit)

The 2009 Día de los Muertos poster: a work in progress / Kiriko Moth

Kiriko Moth, a local artist who is designing the poster for this year’s Día de los Muertos celebration, alerts us to some troubling financial news:

The Marigold Project is a nonprofit organization who, for 30 years has been dedicated to preserving, promoting, and sharing the traditional Meso-American rituals surrounding the Dia de los Muertos. And now they need your help! The city has raised permit fees and the organization is in a funding crisis. Visit their website at www.dayofthedeadsf.org to learn more and donate to their organization, because without the support of the community this amazing event cannot continue!

Donate Here

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This art car was found all over the Bay Area in 2005/2006,* including the best street in the entire Mission District, but is merely now a rarely viewed set of Flickr images.  Does anyone know whatever happened to this Lego art car?

* maybe earlier?  Flickr did not exist prior to then.  Mega tears.

(Photo 1 / Photo 2 by gleemie | More Photos at Pt. Reyes)

Have you seen this painting?

Because someone stole it off the wall at Mission: Comics and Art yesterday. Link.

Photo by ladycartoonist.

Previously:

Mr. Pickle Found Safe and Sound!

This seems to be less subconscious and more art. Or maybe it performs some other kind of function I don’t understand.

Peep this: tomorrow night from 6-9pm is the opening of Brian Willmont‘s show, “Skinwalker,” at Receiver Gallery.  I’m no art critic, but there are lots of pieces featuring cacti and rifles, and I love cacti and rifles, so check it out.

The Receiver website is a broken mess, but you can see more pictures from this completely-unrelated-yet-functioning site.

(Photo by westbymidwest)

Everybody’s talking about these sheep. Tricia from noe valley *buzz* sent us the above pic and hipped us to the story: They have something to do with an organization called Albion Street Mural Project.

Albion resident Daniel B. sent us the below pic and said, “It’s starting to make me  feel uncomfy.”

If you like art and walking into stranger’s homes, then this event is for you:

Home is something I carry with me features over forty local artists whose work interrogates the concept of home. For one weekend, two homes in San Francisco’s Mission District will transform into exhibition spaces and the backyard of a third home will be used for an outdoor film screening. By reinventing three homes as art venues and opening them to the public, Home is something I carry with me exercises the rights of renters to use private residences for what we deem public good; an action that can be considered a resistance to the current housing crisis and the lack of economic sustainability for artists. Individual rooms within the homes will act as galleries organizing the work around themes of shelter, migrations, domestic space and memory, mapping, borders and neighborhoods.

Opening: Friday, September 4, 4-8 p.m. @ 3352 24th Street and 951 Shotwell Street
Film screening: Friday, September 4, 9 p.m. @ 348 Shotwell Street
Open Houses: Saturday, September 5, 12-5 p.m. @ 3352 24th Street and 951 Shotwell Street

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