Kristin Farr

The final lesson in a seven-part Learning Network series on the elements of art.

The fifth piece in our Seven Elements of Art series, in which we help students make connections between formal art instruction and our daily visual culture.

The on-the-ground mural, by Kristin Farr, is part of a new bicycle corral being installed in the former vehicle parking space outside of Madrone.

The fourth piece in our Seven Elements of Art series, which helps students make connections between formal art instruction and our daily visual culture.

This is the third in our Seven Elements of Art series that helps students make connections between formal art instruction and our daily visual culture.

This series helps students make connections between formal art instruction and our daily visual culture by showing them how to explore each element through art featured in The New York Times.

No walk or bike ride around San Francisco is complete without a bit of rubbernecking to scope out the many vibrant murals that brighten up our city’s streets. Learn the names of six of our favorite Bay Area artists who are awakening the streets of SF and beyond.Eddie Colla “Who the fuck is Eddie?” i…

Blocks of temporary construction walls play host to curated art exhibits, while the...

San Francisco is a city renowned for its street art. Now, Rocha Art is celebrating the scene’s feminine side with “Wander & Wayfare,” an exhibition of all women artists from around the world. When we think about male-dominated professions, we talk an awful lot about high tech. But art, too, is .…

Watch and learn about the proliferation and influence of the 1990s San Francisco “Mission School” art scene, which embodied street culture and young sensibilities during the first dot-com boom.

a collaboration with KQED Art School to explore one of the seven elements of visual art — shape — and suggest ways to apply the ideas to images and articles found in The New York Times.

For one week in 2011, North Philadelphia residents could see a windmill atop the roof of a formerly abandoned building. Test tubes of soil floated in the downstairs window of what was advertised as “Soil Kitchen,” a place where you could get your soil tested for free -- and eat soup. The pop-up shop…

By now you’ve seen them around the city, popping up in unexpected places to provide a welcome dose of vibrant color in the smile-inducing shape of a heart. For the 10th year in a row, the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation has selected top local artists from a talented pool of applicants to .…

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