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ONGOING INSTALLATIONS
Sculpture
Hayes Valley Art Works is intended as a creative home for our community, a neighborhood backyard, a home for native plants and flowers in the garden, for community art and sculpture garden, for murals, and for what emerges when community comes together.
 We recently unveiled a beautiful new piece, EMERGENCE, by sculptor Mark Baugh-Sasaki, who had his studio in Hayes Valley for 10 years, is our sculpture garden artist in residence for 2020-21. While most of that time we've been in lockdown, he was able to create and deliver an astonishing sculpture that beautifully captures elements of industrial structures merging with natural components of rocks and plants. The result is a stunningly beautiful piece. Stop by and see it in person!
(photo credit: Stephen Santmaria)
Sculpture by artists at The Arc of San Francisco
"....Gardens have been an ideal place for our community members to develop a relationship with a small ecosystem in which they can work and produce. .... We built the boat from scrap material. It is at once a multi-level planter box and seat with writing table. It is designed so that a vine can climb and inhabit the outer contours of the structure including the sail. This marriage of structure and vine has continued to intrigue." --David Duckworth, on The Arc of San Francisco staff.
Murals
You've seen amazing murals that artists have painted on boarded up storefronts. These murals emerged through the amazing efforts of artists, business owners, neighbors, the great work done by Paint the Void fundraising and connecting artists, and our HVAW site managers partnering with Paint the Void to connect artists to vacant spots needing murals, as well as our partnerships with HVNA the Lower Haight Neighbors and ArtTrailSF.
We are delighted to have two murals by artist Todd Kurnat now installed in our Parcel S garden! Please come by - you can see the mural that was formerly at Minimal on the fence from outside, and come inside to see the gorgeous mural on the back!
Displaced
Artist Ariel Ruiz sculpture represents displaced famili es that once called this area home.
Ariel started this project while a student at SFSU. The recently refurbished sculpture is on extended display in the garden. Each day, people contemplate this piece, reading the signage that recounts the history of communities displaced from San Francisco. This piece truly resonates with the Hayes Valley/Western addition community.
If All My Thoughts Were Spoken: I - V I
Rikki List's interactive panels in the garden
International media artist Rikki List's six interactive panels on dry-erase material allow visitors to write their own thought bubbles with dry erase pens. Stop by and watch this piece evolve - and participate!
Red Mean s Stop
Artist: Michael Goldman
Passersby find their attention arrested by this wonderful sculpture on Lot S. Michael Goldman's sculptures were recently exhibited in San Francisco, Denver, and Poughkeepsie. "Red Means Stop" is available for purchase. More info at http://www.consolidatedstudios.com/art.html
Totem and Second Wind  
Artist: Michelle Echenique
Michelle Echenique works with reclaimed material, including natural debris such as the trellis in Totem. She created these pieces specifically for HVAW's garden.
More info: michelleechenique.com
Honey Bear
Artist: fnnch
"Honey Bear" was fnnch's first sculpture, created for Burning Man 2016.
For more information, visit fnnch.com
U pon a TIme
Artist: Phillipe Jestin
"My work is inspired by the human figure and finding ways to create an object visually ambiguous, offering different lectures between the figurative and the abstract, going back and forth, open to the potential of a fluid perception."
More info at www.philippejestin.com
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We've got some lovely new garden furniture, so visitors can sit and enjoy music, art, and the pleasures of this urban garden. 
