California College of the Arts Expanding its Canvas
Nikolas Zelinski California College of the Arts (CCA) students will soon get a respite from San Francisco’s high-priced housing market. The Panoramic, located at 1321 Mission Street, is set to open in…
Gurdjieff Society Mounts Exhibitions on Harmonics
Rebekah Moan The “Harmonics of Unity” exhibition by the San Francisco Gurdjieff Society, held this month at two Potrero Hill locations, presents an overview of the interactions of art, science, and religion…
Project Artaud: An Artists’ Village in San Francisco
Project Artaud – pronounced Ar-toe – on 499 Alabama Street is an artists’ village/cooperative/collective. Technically, the project is a nonprofit, but “nonprofit” doesn’t capture the undertaking’s essence, which is hard…
Workshop Cooperates to Make Prints
Sasha Lekach Behind a set of bright yellow doors on the third floor of the American Industrial Center (AIC) is a room filled with printmaking equipment: four etching presses, two litho presses,…
Creativity Explored in Potrero Hill
Kimberly Gomes In a neighborhood known for its concentration of artists Creativity Explored fits right in. The fine art studio, located on Arkansas and 16th streets, works with artists who have developmental…
Fused Space Shows Designed Art
Ben Taylor Occupying fuseproject’s lobby, the Fused Space gallery, now in its second year, hosts new art shows every two to four months, with a focus on exploring the overlap between art…
Curiosity Drives Artist Wanxin Zhang
Wanxin Zhang considers his art to be a question, not an answer. That quiet curiosity is evident not only in his sculptures, but his demeanor. Zhang’s personality and artist sensibility…
Artist Robert Bechtle Makes the Hill his Home
Jessica Nemire Born in San Francisco in 1932, raised in Alameda, artist Robert Bechtle has lived most of his 82 years in the Bay Area. He received his Bachelor and Master of…
Art Part of Healing, Design at UCSF Medical Center
With the opening of the $1.5 billion UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay earlier this year came hundreds of art installations throughout and outside the facility’s three buildings. Complementing the…
Hill Collector Curates Provocative Art
Steven J. Moss You never know what might be behind a front door or garden gate in Potrero Hill. Indoor swimming pools, high-tech lighting arrays, lavish tropical gardens, elevators, dungeons, and hand-hewn homes…
Hill Fosters Generations of Artists
Ryan Bergmann Jan Padover grew-up in the Potero Hill of the 1960’s, a close-knit, creative community. The neighborhood was a magnet for bohemians and artists drawn by its affordability. Padover was raised…
Sailor and Mermaid: A Siren Song Silenced
Carol Peterson The perplexing question of what happened to sculptor Henri Marie-Rose’s infamous public statue, Sailor and Mermaid, remains unanswered after 44 years. Marie-Rose, a 58 year Potrero Hill resident who died…
Common Soldiers: 1976
Janet Richards Ten years ago Charles and I bought a house on Potrero Hill, not far from Ferlinghetti’s. We were led here by a need we didn’t know we had for seclusion,…
Library News
Jenny Scholten Programs for Adults Digital Drop In: Have questions about how to download eBooks to your device or how to use the library’s databases to read magazines, research genealogy, and more?…
Potrero Hill Exhibit Marks 60 Years of Art
Jim Van Buskirk This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Potrero Hill Artists’ Exhibition, reputedly the oldest annual art show in San Francisco. Various news accounts suggest that the show emerged sometime…
Community Calendar
PV Staff Saturdays in April, Family: Drop In Activities at Randall Museum The Randall’s exhibitions are open all day, with special hours for the Golden Gate Model Railroad exhibit, from 10 a.m.…
Homeless Man’s Attorneys Demand More Deputies Be Prosecuted in Beating Case
Keith Burbank A legal team for a homeless man allegedly beaten at San Francisco General Hospital by a San Francisco Sheriff’s deputy is demanding that three more deputies be prosecuted for the…
Ruth Goldhammer March 25, 1944 to January 19, 2014
On her way to becoming a spectacular educator Ruth Goldhammer took to heart a mentor’s advice: paint your life in vivid colors, laugh mostly at yourself, and always keep learning.…
Susan Bruce O’Malley, 1976 to 2015
Susan Bruce O’Malley passed away on February 25th. She was just 38 years old. The Berkeley resident was nine months pregnant with baby girls, Lucy and Reyna, when she died.…
M. Joseph Schaller February 2, 1944 to March 15, 2015
Joseph was an iconoclast who loved Potrero Hill, where he lived since 1988. He was actively involved in the Potrero Hill Garden Club, and showed his photography at the Potrero…
University of California, San Francisco-Mission Bay Medical Center Opens
Just as the huge lettering on the glass tower at the end of 16th Street had promised for months, the University of California San Francisco-Mission Bay’s newest Medical Center opened…
Metal Workers on Strike at Trayer Engineering
Jessica Zimmer Since January 19, 2015, 22 members of Sheet Metal Workers’ (SMW) Local 104 have been on strike, forming a picket line outside Trayer Engineer-ing Corporation’s shop and offices at 898…
Car Sharing Programs Need to Share Public Parking Spaces, Say Merchants
As car sharing programs experi-ence an increase in demand, Potrero Hill and Dogpatch merchants are concerned that the public parking spots set aside for the services are negatively impacting their…
Short Cuts
View Changes Jennifer Durrant, who has been producing the View, and managing advertisements, for more than the past three years, has moved on to new creative challenges. Durrant’s talented eye…
Op-Ed: Mission Bay Loop Deserves Another Look
Aaron Gavic Despite multiple rounds of discussions with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), citizens’ concerns about the proposed location for the T-Line turn-around – Mission Bay Loop – have been…
