Maestrapeace: San Francisco's Monumental Feminist Mural
Twenty-nineteen marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Maestrapeace, the monumental and fabulously detailed mural that adorns two sides of the Women’s Building in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood. Weaving in myriad female figures, historical and sacred, this public art work highlights women’s accomplishments across time and continents, and envisions a world healed of injustices. This beautiful book allows readers to take an extended tour of the mural, revealing intricacies and nuances that may go unnoticed from a street-level view. Angela Davis’s foreword provides a rich history of the mural and the seven artists who collaboratively executed the work—a collective of women, itself a rarity in muralist tradition. Maestrapeace, the book, enriches readers’ appreciation for the groundbreaking mural, and it makes this deep sense of place accessible to viewers across the globe.
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Maestrapeace: San Francisco's Monumental Feminist Mural
Twenty-nineteen marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Maestrapeace, the monumental and fabulously detailed mural that adorns two sides of the Women’s Building in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood. Weaving in myriad female figures, historical and sacred, this public art work highlights women’s accomplishments across time and continents, and envisions a world healed of injustices. This beautiful book allows readers to take an extended tour of the mural, revealing intricacies and nuances that may go unnoticed from a street-level view. Angela Davis’s foreword provides a rich history of the mural and the seven artists who collaboratively executed the work—a collective of women, itself a rarity in muralist tradition. Maestrapeace, the book, enriches readers’ appreciation for the groundbreaking mural, and it makes this deep sense of place accessible to viewers across the globe.
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Maestrapeace: San Francisco's Monumental Feminist Mural

Maestrapeace: San Francisco's Monumental Feminist Mural

Maestrapeace: San Francisco's Monumental Feminist Mural

Maestrapeace: San Francisco's Monumental Feminist Mural

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Overview

Twenty-nineteen marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Maestrapeace, the monumental and fabulously detailed mural that adorns two sides of the Women’s Building in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood. Weaving in myriad female figures, historical and sacred, this public art work highlights women’s accomplishments across time and continents, and envisions a world healed of injustices. This beautiful book allows readers to take an extended tour of the mural, revealing intricacies and nuances that may go unnoticed from a street-level view. Angela Davis’s foreword provides a rich history of the mural and the seven artists who collaboratively executed the work—a collective of women, itself a rarity in muralist tradition. Maestrapeace, the book, enriches readers’ appreciation for the groundbreaking mural, and it makes this deep sense of place accessible to viewers across the globe.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781597144834
Publisher: Heyday
Publication date: 09/03/2019
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 11.10(w) x 12.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

The seven muralists who created Maestrapeace—Juana Alicia, Miranda Bergman, Edythe Boone, Susan Kelk Cervantes, Meera Desai, Yvonne Littleton, and Irene Pérez—collectively possess well over one hundred years of mural expertise and have played an active, often leading role in the Bay Area and national mural movement. Every member has been a community activist, organizer, or teacher, serving diverse communities and arts organizations from Harlem to the fields of the United Farm Workers, from Nicaragua to India, from Palestine to Native America.

Table of Contents

Contents

"And When the Time Comes" by Alice Walker
Foreword by Angela Y. Davis

I Touring the Mural
"El Ci´rculo del Cuento, the Story is a Circle" by Leticia Hernández-Linares
"Loose Women" by Sandra Cisneros

II Making a Monumental Mural
"women's work" by devorah major
"Maestrapeace" by Miranda Bergman

III Expanding and Restoring the Mural
"Persephone Unbound" by Genny Lim
"Passages" by Naomi Quiñonez

Epilogue
"we are this place" by devorah major
About the Muralists
Selected Bibliography
List of Names on Maestrapeace
Volunteers to Maestrapeace
Acknowledgments
About San Francisco Heritage
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