|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
This Month
Month Archive
Recent Photos
RSS Newsfeeds
Main Page RSS
16th Avenue Tiled Steps RSS
|
Tuesday, December 13
San Francisco’s Tiled Steps
by
Tom Kennedy
on Tue 13 Dec 2005 01:09 PM PST
The 16th Avenue Tiled Steps, perhaps the world's longest mosaic staircase more »
Tuesday, August 30
The 16th Avenue Tiled Steps Project
by
Tom Kennedy
on Tue 30 Aug 2005 12:25 AM PDT
San
Francisco has joined the ranks of such cities as Caltagirone, Italy,
Sydney, Australia, Rio de Janeiro, and others in creating a work of art
on a stairway.
 Golden Gate Heights’ residents Jessie Audette and Alice Xavier started the grassroots project to beautify the neighborhood and connect neighbors in a community project.  Artists Aileen Barr and Colette Crutcher created the mosaic design, a colorful, flowing, sea-to-sky theme. The mosaic consists of 163 separate mosaic panels, one for each step riser. Community members were able to participate directly in creating the panels through a series of workshops  The 16th Avenue Tiled Steps Project was officially inaugurated on Saturday, September 27, 2005. Among the dignitaries at the ribbon cutting ceremony were Prof. Francesco Pignataro, Mayor of Caltagirone, Italy (location of the famous Scala Steps), the Italian Consul General, acting mayor Supervisor Sean Elsbernd. Supervisors Fiona Ma, and Assemblymember Leland Yee.  To celebrate the event Lion Dancing was performed by Sefu Dino Salvatera's "Hung Sing Gung Fu Club", and the Nguyen Dance Company executed a graceful dance on the stairway. For more about San Francisco’s many stairways, see Adah Bakalinsky's wonderfully informative guidebook, Stairway Walks in San Francisco. |
How to Help
Blogs
Sponsors
AFFILIATES
Login
Search
Recent Comments
Powered by BlogHarbor
 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
