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Take a Beautiful Tour of All the Public Art in the Bay Area
After learning the official records were incomplete, a citizen mapper started building a gorgeous guide to the megacity's street art.
You can live in a city all your life and only see about 1 percent of its hidden beauty. That's the message one could easily draw from this crowd-sourced caboodle of public art in the Bay Area, which includes everything from a 1930s beach-chalet mural to a bronze Willie Mays to "Kittenzillas" shooting lasers from their eyes to a tiny Statue of Liberty on Alcatraz.
The staggering work of cartography was assembled by local software whiz Nancy Milholland – art lover, ESRI enthusiast, ordained Episcopal priest, and proud owner of a hound. It was the latter facet of Milholland's life that pushed her to create the "San Francisco Public Art Map," a finalist in a recent mapping competition in Berkeley. She writes: