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A colorful mosaic mural on a curved concrete wall displays the word "OPPORTUNITY" in large, dark blue letters. The background consists of yellow sunflowers, green leaves, and a bright blue sky made of small tiles.

Sunflowers Soundwall Mural

Architectural Detailing ; Hand Lettered/Signage ; Mosaic/Relief ; Mural

A large outdoor steel sculpture of five silhouetted dogs jumping in a continuous circle. The rusty-brown metal figures are arranged in a ring, positioned on a dirt strip between a sidewalk and a road.

Bronze Dog Silhouettes

Outdoor Sculpture

A bronze sculpture shows a young girl with pigtails holding reins as she rides on the back of a flying bird. The piece is set outdoors against a backdrop of trees and a shopping plaza.

The Aviator

Outdoor Sculpture

Imagination Is The Pathway To Change

Mural ; Painting

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San Pablo Reservoir

Category: Digital ; Trash Bin

Medium(s): Digital ; Paper

In 2020, Kath Balamuth created San Pablo Reservoir as part of the Artify Orinda project. The work is a digital wrap on a Bigbelly waste receptacle that depicts the San Pablo Dam Reservoir with a border of Ceanothus blooms. Contributors include...

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Sandy The Giant Octopus

Category: Painting ; Utility Box

Medium(s): Paint

Artist Lorin Baeta’s Sandy The Giant Octopus utility box was created in 2018 and is located at Sand Creek Road and Sand Creek Crossing in Brentwood. Her art practice includes type-based murals and other signage. Her mission is to produce vibrant...

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Secret Ocean

Category: Utility Box

Medium(s): Digital ; Mixed Media ; Paper

Tim Hancock created Secret Ocean as part of the Artify Orinda public art program. The work is a mural/illustration on a trash bin, by the Orinda Community Foundation. The piece depicts an underwater scene with a human figure and anthropomorphic sea...

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Seed Sower

Category: Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Bronze

In 2012, Bill Weber created Seed Sower funded by the city of Brentwood Municipal Art Fund. The work is a bronze sculpture of a man wearing a hat and carrying a shoulder bag while walking. The piece is located at the entrance of City Park in...

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Seeing Red

Date created: 2020

Category: Painting

Medium(s): Paint

These 6 paintings by artist Steven Bradley Falk are located at the Lafayette Library and Learning Center. They were a gift to the city.

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Shadelands Sports Complex Mural

Date created: 2019

Category: Architectural Detailing ; Installation ; Mural

Medium(s): Ceramic

This 1500 square foot (139.35 sq. m) ceramic tile sports-themed mural by artist Jos Sances features a gymnast; martial arts athlete; basketball player; swimmers; baseball player; soccer player; and volleyball players; at the Shadeland’s Sports Mall...

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Shawu

Category: Outdoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

Medium(s): Iron ; Metal

Shawu was one of the Magnificent Seven, a group of elephant bulls in Kruger National Park (South Africa) with impressively large tusks. The public artwork is created by artist Danie de Jager. He was a South African Postwar & Contemporary sculptor...

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Shift

Category: Panel

Medium(s): Aluminum ; Metal

The work refers to humanity’s shift into raised awareness and to the new reality that Toki feels all of us are experiencing. The metal-backed art print came about through a revision of a clay monoprint completed in 2009. The print’s photographed...

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Signals

Category: Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Ceramic

Jeff Downing: “Some of my sculpture alludes to the ancient practice of depicting dogs for their formal and spiritual qualities. As in many mythologies, dogs, brave and sympathetic are seen as guides and protectors from the perils of danger, negative...

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Silence

Artist: Gyöngy Laky

Medium(s): Fiber/Fabric ; Fiber/Thread ; Paint ; Wood

Gyöngy Laky created Silence as part of her larger body of linear wall sculptures that incorporate natural materials. Laky known for her sculptural forms built from natural materials and text-based constructions. According to her website, “Gyöngy...

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Snapshots in History

Category: Mural ; Painting

Medium(s): Paint

Dorrie Bosley Langley, Paul Craig, Dee Djajadi, Leeann Lorono & San, A.J., Cathy Riggs, and Troy Riggs created Snapshots in History funded by the Main Street Martinez mural project. The work is a painted mural of the city’s development and local...

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Sound Explosion

Category: Installation ; Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Metal ; Steel

Danielle Satinover created the public artwork Sound Explosion as a permanent installation at the Orinda Library. From Art Space Orinda: “San Francisco-based sculptor and art educator Danielle Satinover works primarily with metals and industrial...

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Space Box

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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Speechless

Date created: 2008

Category: Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Bronze

A giant wavering bronze stack of paper rises. Had one taken a page from every book in the library collection, stacking one on top of the other, a stack of paper equivalent in height to this sculpture would result. The towering sculpture bends and...

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Sphere 90

Category: Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Metal ; Steel

Ivan McLean’s Sphere and Disc sculptures appear to have grown on their own, assembling themselves from large numbers of individual steel elements, which magically organize into intricate, chaotic patterns like the cells of a complex organism. Of...

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Spring Garden

Category: Utility Box

Lamorinda Arts Council: “Artify Orinda is the idea of Maggie Boscoe, a longtime Orinda resident and co-curator of the Lamorinda Art Council’s Art Gallery at the Orinda Library. The program utilizes the talents of local professional artists to paint...

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Springtime Spirit and Blue Black #2

Category: Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Ceramic

John Toki is known as the creator of two ceramic sculptures in front of the Orinda Community Center: Springtime Spirit and Blue Black #2. John Toki has maintained a studio in Richmond, California, since 1974. His public commissions include a mural...

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Strawberries

Category: Painting ; Utility Box

Medium(s): Paint

Liberty High School (PADA) Public Design Academy created Strawberries in Brentwood, CA. The artwork is a painted utility box of a pattern of red strawberries with green stems. Source:...

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String of Pearls

Category: Indoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Paper ; Steel

Ann Weber has exhibited throughout Northern California. She was an artist in residence at de Young Museum in San Francisco and at Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga. She was featured on Spark!, KQED’s program about Bay Area artists. She has public...

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String Quartet

Category: Utility Box

Long time fine artists Renaye Johnson and Thea Jue collaborated on this winning design. Using acrylic paint, they created a celebration of music. Their composition includes guitars, violins, a mandolin and a banjo with a timely reference to a major...

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Sundance II

Category: Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Metal ; Steel

In 1991, Roger Barr created a 2-ton polished steel sculpture titled Sundance Spring for a commercial development called Pacific Springs in Santa Fe Springs, CA. Sundance II resembles that sculpture. Source:...

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Sunflowers Soundwall Mural

Category: Architectural Detailing ; Hand Lettered/Signage ; Mosaic/Relief ; Mural

Medium(s): Ceramic ; Glass ; Tile

In 2014, Liberty HS (PADA) Public Art Design Academy created the Sunflowers Soundwall Mural at the Liberty Adult Education building. The artwork is a glass and tile mosaic mural of the words HERITAGE, VISION, and OPPORTUNITY surrounded by colorful...

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Surfboard Seat

Category: Functional ; Outdoor Sculpture ; Street Furniture

Medium(s): Cement ; Ceramic ; Tile

In 2015, Wes Horn created Surfboard Seat for the city of Orinda’s Art in Public Places program. The work is a precast concrete and mosaic tile bench of a functional surfboard shape. Sources: http://weshornart.com/...

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Surveillance

Category: Indoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

Medium(s): Fiber/Fabric ; Found Objects ; Metal ; Wood

Kent Roberts created Surveillance as part of the City of Orinda’s Art in Public Places program. The work is a suspended mixed-media sculpture/installation that depicts a retro-futuristic flying machine. Constructed with a cage-like wooden fuselage,...

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