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35-609: Its permanent location is in Corona Heights Park , on a large hill between the Castro and Haight-Ashbury districts of San Francisco. The Corona Heights location features views of the city, downtown financial district and the San Francisco Bay . Originally named the "Junior Museum", the facility was established in 1937 in an old city jail on what is now the campus of City College of San Francisco . In 1947,

70-516: A $ 12 million bond was issued for the creation of recreation and park capital projects, one of which included a new museum. In 1951, the museum opened at its current location in a building designed by William Merchant with exhibits, a theater, classrooms, arts and crafts shops and studios, a live animal room and gardens overlooking the San Francisco Bay. The museum was formally dedicated by Mayor Elmer Robinson on September 23 of that year as

105-401: A $ 6 million makeover to double the space available for exhibits and programs, designed by Liz Ranieri of Kuth Ranieri Architects in a joint venture with Pfau Long Architecture. The Corona Heights location closed on June 1, 2015, to implement the planned renovations. During renovations, the museum relocated its live animal exhibit and programs to 745 Treat Ave, between 20th and 21st Street, at

140-545: Is at approximately 300 feet (91 m), while the peak extends to 520 feet (160 m) above sea level. Corona Heights Playground and the Randall Museum are located within the Corona Heights Park. The whole area is underlain by Franciscan chert bedrock, and a large percentage of the hill is barren. At the hilltop, the chert bedrock in terra cotta red is clearly visible. The steps leading up to

175-467: Is home to the performances of the Young People's Teen Musical Theatre Company , a Recreation and Parks Department program closely tied to the museum. The Golden Gate Model Rail Road Club (GGMRC) has been a tenant in the west basement wing since 1961. Children run HO-scale trains around the layout on "Junior Engineer Day," held on the third Saturday of every odd month. Prior to the 2015–18 renovation,

210-806: Is paid through the Arts Impact Endowment established by Proposition E in 2018, which allocates 1.5% of the city's hotel tax to arts and cultural services. This follows similar programs in Stockton , Oakland , and Marin County to support artists during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States . The commission is composed of fifteen commissioners, all of whom are appointed by the Mayor of San Francisco . While they operate independently from

245-690: The San Francisco Blues Festival and Precita Eyes Mural Center . They later became the Community Arts and Education Program. The program expanded under Commissioner Stephen Goldstine, who tapped into the federal funding during the 1970s to fund local artists. Intern John Kreidler, who would later head the philanthropic San Francisco Foundation , suggested using federal grants from the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act , or CETA. With federal funding,

280-521: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors , the Board has authority over the commission's budget and proposals. The commission was originally located at 165 Grove Street, but the building burned down in 1980 and was later demolished. It has moved its headquarters numerous times over the years, including for brief period at 25 Van Ness Avenue, and has since moved to its present location within

315-442: The anise swallowtail , red admiral and cabbage white can be seen flying in the park. Red-tailed hawks and common ravens can be seen over the park on most days. California scrub jays , mourning doves , downy woodpeckers , chestnut-backed chickadees , pygmy nuthatches , bushtits , American robins , California towhees , white-crowned sparrows , dark-eyed juncos , American goldfinches , and house finches nest in or near

350-399: The 'Josephine D. Randall Junior Museum' to honor its founder. Josephine Randall first visited Corona Heights in 1928. Prior to its acquisition and use for the namesake museum, it had been used as a rock quarry until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ; kilns on the slope of the hill exploded and collapsed in the wake of the earthquake, and the quarries were subsequently abandoned. In 2003,

385-485: The 16 acres of Rock Hill for recreation. In 1941, it was purchased for $ 27,333 and officially named Corona Heights. Corona Heights is prominently featured in the 1977 horror novel " Our Lady of Darkness " by Fritz Leiber . San Francisco Arts Commission The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) is the City agency that champions the arts as essential to daily life by investing in a vibrant arts community, enlivening

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420-758: The Arts Commission to evaluate which of the city's almost one hundred public memorials and monuments should be removed. The SFAC partnered with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts , San Francisco Grants for the Arts, and the San Francisco Human Rights Commission to launch a guaranteed income program in March 2021. The pilot program would give $ 1,000 a month to 130 artists below certain income levels for six months, beginning in May 2021. It

455-959: The Filipino Parol Lantern Festival, in different neighborhoods. The Commission oversees the city-owned cultural centers — such as the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts , the Bayview Opera House , and the African American Art and Culture Complex. The WritersCorps brings poets to the city's public schools. They used to service the city's Juvenile Probation Department 's Log Cabin Ranch, which closed in 2018. The commission has approval authority over designs for any proposed civic structures. The Arts Enrichment Ordinance allocates two percent of those construction costs towards

490-529: The Mission Art Center. The museum held a grand reopening for the remodeled space on February 11, 2018. Mister G was scheduled to provide live music at the reopening. The Randall Museum takes its name from Josephine Dows Randall , a Stanford University master's degree graduate in zoology in 1913. After graduating she traveled to the Midwest and organized one of the first Girl Scout troops in

525-716: The San Francisco International Airport is the only airport with a program accredited by the American Association of Museums . Its public art program is provided by the commission, with pieces of varying styles and mediums and is mostly funded with a portion of the construction costs for its terminals . A joint program between the National Endowment for the Arts and AmeriCorps brought the pilot WritersCorp program to San Francisco in 1994, where it continues to run under

560-710: The United States by funding low-cost concerts. This has led to a popular run of low-cost San Francisco Pops concerts by Arthur Fiedler . They created the Visual Arts commission in 1948. The Commission ran the San Francisco Arts Festival from 1946 to 1986. The festival was usually held in the Civic Center. The Commission created the Neighborhood Arts Program in 1967. They were early funders for local programs like

595-816: The United States as well as one of the first Camp Fire Girls troops. When she returned to California she became the first Superintendent of Recreation for San Francisco's Recreation Department, creating the Junior Museum and bringing national recognition to the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department for its outstanding services between the years 1926 and 1952. During her tenure as the San Francisco Recreation Department Superintendent she secured hundreds of acres of open space for playgrounds and consequently, sports and artistic programming for

630-688: The Veterans Building at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center . The San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery, located at 401 Van Ness Avenue, is the contemporary art exhibitions program of the commission. The Gallery commissions new works, collaborates with arts and community organizations and supports artist's projects. Admission to the gallery is free and is open Wednesdays-Sundays, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. The main gallery, entitled "Capricorn Asunder",

665-556: The acquisition of graphics, murals, and sculpture for public buildings and spaces. The Visual Arts Committee is the governing body responsible for approving new commissions of public art for San Francisco. San Francisco has been recognized with multiple awards by the Americans for the Arts Public Arts Network, the only national award for public art, which every year recognizes the best public artworks created in

700-534: The children and families of San Francisco. The museum charges no admission and offers events, workshops, plays, lectures, exhibits, and classes for ages 3–adult, but is geared mostly toward children and educational field trips. Child and adult classes are available in the wood shop, technology lab, art room and pottery studio. The museum has special topic days, such as Bug Day, Middle School Science Fair, Family Halloween Day and Winter Crafts Day, during which interested clubs and sponsors participate. The museum's theater

735-590: The commission's transparency when they failed to answer her questions and information requests via the city's freedom of information laws . The commission began their second search in January 2020 with a different set of criteria and a new budget of $ 250,000. Thomas declined to participate. In August 2020, the Commission apologized to Thomas in August 2020 for system failures. The commissioners then voted to pause

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770-826: The commission. The Commission removed the "Early Days" sculpture that was a part of the Pioneer Monument in Civic Center, San Francisco in 2018 and the Statue of Christopher Columbus in Pioneer Park in 2020 due to their controversial nature in relation to the country's colonial history . After protestors toppled several statues in the Golden Gate Park , including the Bust of Ulysses S. Grant and Statue of Junípero Serra , Mayor London Breed ordered

805-616: The country. The Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance requiring 30% of public artwork in the city depicting historical figures be women in October 2018, with a work honoring poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou planned to be erected outside the San Francisco Public Library's main branch by the end of 2020. The commission began looking for proposals in November 2018 with a budget of $ 180,000. Out of

840-704: The hundreds of applications, the Public Art Selection Panel of the Visual Arts Committee selected three—Kenyatta Hinkle, Lava Thomas, and Jules Arthur—as the finalists and called for public comments on their proposals in July 2019. The panel recommended Thomas' Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman with Arthur's The Gift of Literature as the alternative to the Visual Arts Committee, however the committee tabled both proposals in August. In October 2019, Supervisor Catherine Stefani , one of

875-621: The museum dedicated its Outdoor Learning Environment, which replaced a parking lot and driveway. The museum's director, Amy Dawson, characterized the prior structures as "an asphalt moat". Sculptures by Beniamino Bufano were temporarily moved to the Randall Museum from 2004 to 2006 while their permanent home, the Valencia Gardens housing project in The Mission , was demolished and rebuilt. Plans were announced in 2013 for

910-602: The park. The property has been known as Rocky Hill or Rock Hill, and the Fist (from the upthrusting chert rock boulders at its 540 feet (160 m) peak). In the 1800s, Rock Hill was the site of a quarry and brick factory, which were closed by the 1920s. In 1928, Josephine Randall , the Superintendent of Recreation for the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department , proposed that the City buy

945-514: The peak are not supported by handrails. The peak of the hill is windy, but it offers an unobstructed panoramic view of the city of San Francisco from downtown to the Twin Peaks . Portions of Corona Heights park are made up of native plant communities protected under the natural areas program as well as non-local plants. The park is home to native reptiles, including northern and southern alligator lizards and garter snakes . Butterflies like

980-701: The program was able to provide monthly stipends for artists such as the Pickle Family Circus . Inspired by the Works Progress Administration 's employment of artists in the service to the community in the 1930s, this program was so successful that it became a model for similar programs throughout the US. They started the San Francisco International Airport art program in 1977. As of July 2019,

1015-498: The project sponsors, called for the commission to restart the selection process with clearer criteria for a monument that aligned with her legislative intent , which preferred a more figurative representation. In describing her justification for this decision, Stefani said, according to the San Francisco Examiner : “As I carried the legislation across the finish line to elevate women in monuments, I wanted to do it in

1050-567: The same way that men have been historically elevated in this city.” Thomas contested Stefani's statement, claiming that a more figurative, traditional design did not align with the design brief applicants were given, in which the word "statue is crossed out and artwork is replaced." She furthered critiqued the assertion for a "conservative, traditional statue in the manner of European figurative traditional monuments that confederate and colonial monuments are based on" in "San Francisco, that’s known for its progressive politics.” She has also criticized

1085-399: The second call for proposals prior to the announcement of the new finalists to engage "stakeholders in a meaningful way". The selection process officially ended on November 2, 2020, when the commissioners awarded Thomas $ 250,000 for her proposal. Thomas' Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman , a 9-foot bronze book with Angelou's image and quote etched onto it, will be the first monument dedicated to

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1120-510: The total track length exceeded 600 feet (180 m). Charles Sowers was commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) to create "Windswept", a kinetic sculpture installed on the facade of the Randall Museum in 2012. The piece took four years to create and test. During the 2015–18 renovation, artist Ben Trautman was commissioned by SFAC to create a mobile of a stylized bird entitled "Wingspan", which

1155-643: The urban environment and shaping innovative cultural policy in San Francisco , California. The commission oversees Civic Design Review, Community Investments, Public Art, SFAC Galleries, The Civic Art Collection, and the Art Vendor Program. The commission was established in 1932 as "The San Francisco Art Commission". It was primarily founded to keep the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony employed during Great Depression in

1190-571: Was founded in 1970 by visual arts director Elio Benvenuto at 155 Grove Street. It was renamed "S.F. Art Commission Gallery" in 1981. The gallery was relocated to its current location in the War Memorial Veterans Building in 2017. The Commission gave out about $ 4.5 million in funding in 2008, most of which came from the city's hotel tax . Their Community Arts and Education Program funds arts activities, such as programming for at-risk communities, and street festivals, such as

1225-403: Was installed in the lobby. Corona Heights Park Corona Heights Park is a park in the Castro and Corona Heights neighborhoods of San Francisco , California , United States . It is situated immediately to the south of Buena Vista Park . Corona Heights is bounded in part by Flint Street on the east, Roosevelt Way to the north, and 16th Street to the south. The base of the hill

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