STREET ART SAN FRANCISCO: Mission Muralismo

STREET ART SAN FRANCISCO: Mission Muralismo showcases more than three decades of street art in San Francisco's legendary Mission District. Beginning in the early 1970s, a provocative street-art movement combining elements of Mexican mural painting, surrealism, pop art, urban punk, eco-warrior, cartoon, and graffiti has flourished in this dynamic, multicultural community. Rigo, Las Mujeres Muralistas, Gronk, Barry McGee (Twist), R. Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, the Billboard Liberation Front, Swoon, Sam Flores, Neckface, Shepard Fairey, Juana Alicia, Os Gemeos, Reminesce, and Andrew Schoultz are among the many artists who have made the streets of the Mission their public gallery. Essays and commentaries by insiders involved with the movement document the artistic, social, and political forces that have shaped Mission Muralismo.

Reviews, Interviews & Critical Response

MISSION MURALS GET MUSEUM TREATMENT 
San Francisco Examiner​

In between and all around San Francisco's Mission District are posters and poetry and political calls to action. There are tribal graffiti and Gothic lettering, traditional murals and lattices of tags. Now, a new book, "Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo," has captured and honored the varied artists and activists of the street. Read more.

Street Art San Francisco:
​Interview with Annice Jacoby
Twitch

"What is the difference between the public eradication of identity and a community deciding what's right for its walls?" At the core of that argument was this condescension you're referencing of high art/low art, which I hope Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo will blow out of the water. " Read more.
This staggeringly beautiful monograph, might be the most important book ever compiled on San Francisco art. - Silke Tudor, SF Weekly 

The VIBRANT MURALISMO OF SAN FRANCISCO'S MISSION DISTRICT 
Hana Baba, KALW

Street art has long been at the heart of San Francisco's Mission District. With its colorful wall murals, it has been called the largest concentration of public painting in the world, embodying culture, passion, and activism. It would be quite a treat if you could see hundreds of the Mission's murals in one place - well, now you can. KALW's Hana Baba sat down the editor of the book, artist Annice Jacoby.

STREET ART & ARTISTS in the MISSION
 San Francisco Chronicle

“The Mission has largest concentration of murals in the world,” says writer Annice Jacoby. Since the 1970s, artists in the San Francisco neighborhood have been painting assertions of their thoughts, politics and identities on walls and in alleys.   ​Read more.
Like the breath-taking visions it documents this book is monumental, yet filled with secret knowledge and histories.  Who would have guessed that these mean streets could be the home for such luscious beauty and such aesthetic transcendence? - Craig Baldwin, Other Cinema

Evening Class Interview with Annice Jacoby
 Michael Guillen

As the book's website attests, Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo showcases the vibrant street art of San Francisco's Mission District through over 500 full-color photographs and 30 in-depth essays by either the artists who produced them or Mission-savvy writers, including a foreword by Grammy® Award Winner Carlos Santana. Read more.
"Street Art San Francisco shows not only how these artists used the streets to engage their community but also how their art can still, to this day, illuminate the time and place in which it was created." - Shepard Fairey

This Week: Mission Street Art
 KQED

You can also watch video interview "This Week: Mission Street Art." on KQED's
"This beautiful book calls 40 years of startlingly vivacious wall painting Mission Muralismo."
- Time Out London

RHAPSODY in NAVY BLUE: An American Family in War and Peace

Mothers carry the ultimate motivation to work for peace, to protect their precious children and prevent them from doing harm to themselves or others. Annice Jacoby has marched and organized for peace since the 1960s. She raised her son and daughter with anti-war values, yet one day her beloved son announced he was applying to the U.S. Naval Academy. This began a fiercely impassioned dialogue about the perilous wars and moral dilemmas of the last decades. Unafraid to confront each other, their conversations are thought provoking and inspirational.

Ignited by and his grandfather’s tales of World War II and Israel’s fight to exist, as well as his obsession with Top Gun, Jacoby’s son dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot. She never imagined she would raise a man who would become a Navy SEAL exposed to the harshest situations of 21st-century warfare. In the course of time spent in hotspots, including Korea, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, the Philippines, Colombia, Mali, Somalia, Jacoby’s son, Kaj Larsen, begins to integrate his mother’s influences and his military service. Recruited by Al Gore for CurrentTV, he eventually establishes a career as a journalist, covering such topics as torture, drug wars, forgotten wars, forgotten soldiers.
   
As our country has become consumed by waves of discontent, and war drums are continuously beaten, Annice Jacoby has written a book that addresses how we fight and what we fight for. Rhapsody in Navy Blue is charged with the beauty and chaos that follows family and country into war. 

Her son, Kaj Larsen, is now an influential journalist
www.kajlarsen.com
​For inquiries contact Lyn DelliQuadri Lahr & Partners New York, New York lyn.delliquadri@gmail.com