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A large-scale tile mural on a beige wall featuring several monarch butterflies in various stages of flight. A large tree trunk stands in the center, and the background includes green park-like scenery with milkweed plants and a subtle, faint outline of a dodo bird.

Monarchs
Mural; Painting

Pelican Mural - Richmond Annex
Mural; Painting

Untitled mural Martinez Mural
Mural; Painting

Utility Box (Flowers)
Painting; Utility Box

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  • A painted utility box showing a dark highway roadway split by a dotted white line, receding into a horizon beneath a large green highway sign that reads "EXIT 26" and "Railroad Ave".
    Railroad Ave
    Category: Utility Box
    Medium(s): Paint
    The Railroad Ave artwork was created by an unknown artist. It is a painted utility box highlighting its location. Sources: pittsburgca.gov pittsburgrec.com/services/parks-and-recreation/beyond-the-box
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  • Rangoli
    Rangoli
    Category: Utility Box
    The Utility Box Public Art Program enables artists to create works of art that contribute to the vitality and attractiveness of the streetscape and community, foster civic pride and community identity, and bring art to unexpected places. Utility Box...
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  • A large, faceted, green and yellow metal dinosaur-shaped seat for a children's playground.
    RAWR
    Artist: Joyce Hsu
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture; Street Furniture
    Medium(s): Aluminum; Plastic; Steel
    Rawr is a series of sculptures by Oakland artist Joyce Hsu. Tall tales and fantasies help us learn and mature into adults, though somewhere along the way, we sacrifice our imagination and belief in magic. About these Sculptures With her eclectic and...
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  • Red Stripe, a ceramic sculpture by John Toki outside of a building's front door.
    Red Stripe
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Ceramic
    John Natsoulas Gallery: “John Toki is a Japanese-American ceramic artist born and raised in the Bay Area. He received a BFA from California State University, Hayward, CA and a MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA. His...
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  • "Refraction" by Liz Hickok. ARTSCCC photo.
    Refraction
    Category: Utility Box
    Refraction from the Ground Waters series where photography and hand-crafted models create miniature worlds overtaken by vibrant crystal formations. Through controlled yet unpredictable crystal growth, the artwork plays with scale and explores themes...
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  • A large-scale mural on the side of a commercial building featuring bold, colorful portraiture blended with geometric shapes and flora. The composition uses a warm palette of oranges and teals to highlight the intersection of the city's industrial heritage and its community growth.
    Resilience
    Category: Mural; Painting
    Medium(s): Paint
    In 2024, Luciano Roque created Resilience, also referred to as the Iron Triangle Mural funded by the City of Pittsburg Public Art Initiative. The work is a mural of a woman under a physical arch. Sources: www.pittsburgca.gov/our-city/art-about-town...
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  • Revisionist History of San Pablo Avenue
    Revisionist History of San Pablo Avenue
    Category: Mural
    Medium(s): Paint
    Artist John Wehrle: “The painting creates a facsimile of the street scene that existed before the freeway was there, peopled with the different cultural groups who lived in the area during the last 500 years or so. The storefront business evolved...
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  • 'RICHMOND' mural. ARTSCCC photo.
    RICHMOND
    Category: Mural
    Medium(s): Paint
    From the Richmond Standard: “The mural, an artistic rendering of ‘Richmond,’ features the works of eight artists, each of whom were tasked with painting one letter of the word, according to The Factory Bar owner Tom Lyons. Contributors included...
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  • Richmond BART Center
    Richmond BART Center
    Date created: 1972
    Category: Bas Relief
    Medium(s): Fiberglass; Natural Materials
    Although the work, which covers one wall, appears to be ceramic it actually is fiberglass with natural materials inlaid. The work was commissioned by the architect, Maher-Martins who designed the Richmond station. William Mitchell designed the wall...
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  • “Richmond Industrial City” by Victor Arnautoff. ARTSCCC photo.
    Richmond Industrial City
    Category: Mural
    In 2014, the staff at the Richmond Museum of History learned from longtime member Fran Cappelletti that a mural had once graced the post office lobby. “Richmond: Industrial City,” created by Victor Arnautoff commissioned by the U.S. Treasury Section...
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  • Richmond Rosie
    Richmond Rosie
    Category: Mural; Painting
    Medium(s): Paint
    In 2021, Andre Jahmora designed Richmond Rosie as part of the Bay Area Mural Program. The work is a paint mural that highlights a young girl reading a We Can Do It! book, the Red Oak Victory, the Richmond Shipyards, and the Richmond-San Rafael...
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  • A sculpture made of brown metal and green glass that resembles a mountain range.
    River of Light & Mountain Range
    Category: Installation; Water Feature/Fountain
    Medium(s): Glass; Light/Neon; Metal
    “Gordon Huether was born in Rochester, NY in 1959, to German immigrant parents. Having dual citizenship in Germany and the U.S., Huether has spent much time traveling between both countries. Huether learned art composition and appreciation at an...
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  • Rosie the Riveter Memorial
    Rosie the Riveter Memorial
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Metal
    From the National Park Service: “Designed by visual artist Susan Schwartzenberg and landscape architect/environmental sculptor Cheryl Barton, the Rosie the Riveter Memorial: Honoring American Women’s Labor During WWII is the first in the nation to...
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  • Rwenzori
    Rwenzori
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Metal
    The “Rwenzori” is a painted, welded steel, and resin sculpture created by artist Stan Huncilman. It is part of a series inspired by the abstracted human form. Huncilman: “All art is an abstraction. I think more about the act of creation than the...
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