A year and a half ago, a talented mural artist located in San Francisco, visited the school i taught at in the Tenderloin. She was preparing to create a beautiful mural just down the street from the school and City Impact. She asked the kids questions about their lives; things they see in the community every day. Things they wish they saw,and things they wish they did not have to see. She spent some time with other people other than our school, in order to gather plenty of information about the Tenderloin community. Though I feel like from what i have read, her deepest and most meaningful bits of information came from the many days she spent on the side walk, being engrossed in the daily happenings of the Tenderloin,while working on her mural. She was so deeply touched that you can even find specific "regulars" she became friends with during the year, in her mural.
I appreciate the beauty she brought to the Tenderloin through her mural, which she calls "Windows Into the Tenderloin".
After an entire year, Its finally complete! She will also be having a mural dedication on March 5th.
Check it out to read more about what she says about this project and to see the before and after pictures of the building she used as her canvas. www.monacaron.com