These mosaic portraits were created by Josef Norris and students from Gateway Charter High School and KIPP - San Francisco Bay Academy from Fall 2006 to Spring 2007.
"In the last few years I have been studying artists whose work illuminates invisible populations. My own work as the director of Kid Serve
has brought me face to face with San Francisco's urban youth. I believe the city's public school children suffer the disenfranchisement of most invisible cultures.
Our schools in San Francisco have become segregated along racial and economic lines. The Urban Portrait Project strives to make San Francisco youth more visible to the rest of our city."
Josef Norris, Kid Serve Director
Location: Geary Blvd. (between Scott & Steiner Streets(on the side of the old Ben Franklin Middle School Gymnasium)
San Francisco.
Dimensions: 14' high x 15' wide
Mural Supervised by Josef Norris
Sponsored by:
The San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Program
The Walter & Elise Haas Fund
The California Arts Council Youth Arts Education Grant Find it on the map!
