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Finding aid to the Women of the resistance: mural and portfolio project in collaboration with San Francisco Poster Syndicate.
2019
SFH 656
SFH 656
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Title: Women of the resistance: mural and portfolio project in collaboration with San Francisco Poster Syndicate
Date: 2019 (issued)
Identifier/Call Number: SFH 656
Creator:
San Francisco Poster Syndicate
Creator:
Ippolito, Lucia
Creator:
Williams, Michelle
Creator:
Hazelwood, Art
Creator:
Sun Night Editions
Physical Description:
38 color screenprints
in 1 box
(sheets 51 cm x 34 cm ; box 53 cm x 35 cm)
Contributing Institution:
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
Abstract: Portraits of contemporary activists represented in the mural
Women of the Resistance in San Francisco's Balmy Alley.
Physical Location: The collection is stored onsite.
Language of Materials: Collection materials are in English.
The collection is available for use during San Francisco History Center hours, with photographs available during Photo Desk
hours. Collections that are stored offsite should be requested 48 hours in advance.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the City Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.
Women of the resistance: mural and portfolio project in collaboration with San Francisco Poster Syndicate (SFH 656), San Francisco
History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchase, 2019.
The
Women of the Resistance
mural in Balmy Alley, San Francisco, "was completed in 2018 under the leadership of Lucia Ippolito and Michelle Williams with
many contributing artists including Adrianna Adams and Fernanda Parker." The San Francisco Poster Syndicate and the mural
artists collaborated to produce this portfolio. The "project pays respect to all revolutionaries, but highlights this group
of women who are powerful beacons of hope during these dark times" quoted from the colophon.
The portfolio complements the mural by creating screenprints of the 38 women who are portrayed in the mural. Prints are by
numerous artists and designers, including mural directors Lucia Ippolito and Michelle Williams and San Francisco Poster Syndicate
founder Art Hazelwood. Printers include the San Francisco Poster Syndicate and Sun Night Editions (Oakland).
Arranged according to mural legend adhered to portfolio box cover.
Limited edition of 20. San Francisco Public Library set is numbered 18/20.
Title and date on colophon sheet adhered to inside base of portfolio box. Label on outside of box: Women of the resistance.
The screenprints were printed on Cougar Natural Smooth 100# Cover paper. Portfolio designed and built by Samantha Companatico
and Asa Nakata.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Government, Resistance to -- Pictorial works
Mural painting and decoration, American - California - San Francisco - 20th century.
Political posters -- California -- San Francisco
Screen prints
Street art - California - San Francisco.
Women political activists -- Portraits