From San Francisco’s iconic Coit Tower to its free-spirited festivals, San Francisco: Arts for the City—Civic Art and Urban Change, 1932-2012 celebrates the events, politics and creativity that have made the city the cultural icon it is today. Hear the book’s author Susan Wels recount some of the most important moments in the San Francisco Arts Commission’s eighty-year history of shaping the city’s cultural and physical landscape and from the Director of Cultural Affairs Tom DeCaigny and Commission President JD Beltran. A book sale by Readers Books follows the event.
Related Exhibitions and Events
- Woman King
- Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Main Library, Latino/Hispanic B - Islands of the Bay
- Saturday, June 8, 2013
Visitacion Valley - Peony poetry reading and book talk
- Saturday, June 8, 2013
Main Library, Latino/Hispanic Rms A & B - Bay Area Authors Speak Out
- Sunday, June 9, 2013
Main Library, Koret Auditorium - An Insider’s Guide to San Francisco’s Chinatown
- Monday, June 10, 2013
Sunset - Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
- Thursday, June 20, 2013
Main Library, Latino/Hispanic Rms A & B
