Arrows, by Brenda and Flojo, public art near the 24th Street trolley station in National City.
Some very cool public art adds color to a sidewalk near the 24th Street trolley station in National City. You can find it at the east edge of the trolley station’s parking lot, next to Wilson Avenue.
Two small but colorful sculptures have been created by Youth Artists. One, titled Peace, is by Michelle. The other, titled Arrows, is by Brenda and Flojo.
I’ve done some searching on the internet and can find nothing about these public sculptures. I don’t recall seeing them during past visits to the South Bay, so I believe they are relatively new.
All I know for certain is that this artwork is really cool!
Peace, by Michelle, public art near the 24th Street trolley station in National City.Photo of two cool sculptures in National City. A lavender peace sign is framed by two red arrows!
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A colorful canvas in the window of James Watts’ studio on Seventh Avenue. I don’t recall seeing this artwork before.
This morning I walked south down Seventh Avenue, from the top of Cortez Hill to Petco Park.
I was happy to spot some new (and old) cool sights along this stretch of downtown San Diego. So I took photographs!
Some street art recently painted on a sidewalk utility box. I Love Downtown San Diego.Complex reflection in the windows of the building at 701 B Street, which has undergone some upgrades, including this west entrance.Looking north up Seventh Avenue through downtown San Diego’s Financial District.Crane swings a load above the Bosa Tower construction site, with the old Hotel Churchill sign in the background.Advertisements peeling from another construction site fence.A huge mural is now being painted on the rear of the Moxy San Diego Gaslamp Downtown! This cool new mural appears to depict part of the Gaslamp Quarter.Morning reflections on the shiny Sempra Energy building, with the historic old 1887 Clermont Hotel in the foreground.A new shirt with a West Coast State of Mind, in a window of the Padres Team Store, which is located in the Western Metal Supply Building.Palm trees reflected in the glassy, very modern Omni San Diego Hotel.
UPDATE!
I took a photo of the Moxy mural days later when it was finished…
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Stand at the corner of India Street and A Street in downtown San Diego, turn north, and you’ll probably notice an old brick wall on the other side of a parking lot. Approach the wall and you’ll see a complex mosaic of paint and mortar. Like the brushstrokes of a painting, they tell a unique story.
I’m under the impression this building was once a soda bottling plant. I posted a couple photographs of the Hires Root Beer graphics five years ago here.
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The final words of the famous poem Invictus, painted near the entrance to Invictus Fitness. I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.
I enjoyed an aimless walk around East Village on Saturday. My camera found a variety of cool sights! Some old and some new!
As you can see, there are all sorts of new high-rises under construction in this dynamic part of downtown San Diego.
I walked past the Quartyard at its new corner on Market Street. It’s a couple blocks east of where it used to be. I’ll be posting those fun photos shortly!
Colorful banners along the side of Urban Discovery Academy in East Village.Abstract cat on a sidewalk chalkboard.A cool new mural by Michael Brooks Chandler on the side of a building at 13th Street and J Street.The 23-story K1 San Diego luxury apartment building is currently under construction just east of the downtown Central Library.Mission Brewery has been located in the old Wonder Bread Building for years now.This unusual, humorous mural has been on the north wall of the building at 1400 L Street for many years, too. I know nothing about it!The recently completed Pinnacle on the Park rises above the south entrance to Fault Line Park.New residential buildings rise beyond reflections in one of the silvery spheres at Fault Line Park.A blonde peers out from a shop window in East Village!
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Here’s even more colorful street art in City Heights!
I took these photographs before, during and after my recent walking tour of San Diego’s rapidly growing outdoor art gallery. I spotted this artwork along University Avenue, between I-80 and I-15. It’s an extremely diverse neighborhood, where many languages are spoken and many life experiences move together down shared streets.
If you’re unaware that San Diego has a drive-through art gallery, I urge you to check it out here!
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Sign in a window of The Bell Marker on Broadway. 24 Hours In a Day. 24 Beers In a Case. Coincidence?
Walk randomly about San Diego and you’ll inevitably stumble upon a few odd, humorous sights…
If you’re driving an inverted car past Jack in the Box near Hazard Center, this stop sign might make sense.An unexpected Kiwi Crossing street sign in Little Italy.This might be the most dirty, decrepit, ramshackle house in downtown San Diego. One day it’ll likely vanish in a cloud of dust.A miniature garden in Tuna Harbor. One potted plant.A funny sight hanging out in Little Italy. Jay Leno!A very peculiar figure creeps along a downtown sidewalk.Another odd figure on the back of a vehicle.An East Village shop uses The Force to compel would-be shoppers.It’s over three months until Christmas, and I already see a candy cane in one window!
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A large, welcoming Love City Heights mural greets people along University Avenue near Interstate 15.
There’s a surprising, rapidly expanding outdoor art gallery in San Diego that anybody can freely enjoy. The huge canvases of this unique gallery are the walls of buildings in City Heights, on the stretch of University Avenue between I-805 and I-15.
Eye-catching works of art by noted San Diego and Southern California muralists have recently been painted all along this “drive-through” gallery. And many more will be appearing soon!
I recently enjoyed a walking tour of the colorful murals, led by Carlos Quezada and Edwin Lohr, two members of Love City Heights, an association affiliated with the City Heights Town Council. Carlos and Edwin are both visionaries who are working with local residents, community leaders and businesses to bring new life to this extraordinarily diverse San Diego neighborhood.
An important part of their effort is #theavenuemuralproject. The Avenue Mural Project is using the magic of art to transform University Avenue, which contains City Heights’ Business District, into a vibrant place full of culture, creativity and community pride.
I learned that Carlos has a definite goal. He’d like to have one new street mural painted every month. His hope is that eventually three works of public art will be easily seen from any random spot along “The Avenue”.
I also learned that Love City Heights is collaborating with the City Heights Development Corporation and Mid-City CAN (Community Advocacy Network) to create even more murals east of I-15 through their youth program.
In addition to filling the streets with cool art, Love City Heights is working with business and property owners to transform their historic San Diego neighborhood into a dynamic place where people from all over will come to dine, shop and enjoy themselves. City Heights is the most diverse community in all of San Diego, and is centrally located, with many unique ethnic restaurants that can be found nowhere else. City Heights is uniquely qualified to be an authentic cultural attraction in San Diego.
Would you like to learn more about San Diego’s colorful, rapidly growing “drive-through” art gallery?
Are you an artist, resident or local business owner who’d like to participate in the revitalization of City Heights?
Do you live in San Diego and want something fun to do? Hop in your car or put on your walking shoes, then embark on a voyage of discovery along University Avenue between I-805 and I-15, where you will enjoy an ever-growing gallery of murals!
Here are a few . . .
The first mural painted by The Avenue Mural Project in City Heights contains joyful swirls of many colors! Endless Summer was designed by artist Erin Bowman.The warm San Diego sun shines above stylized waves.The Endless Summer mural was painted by local school children, whose names appear in one corner, along with many positive messages.Earlier this year I posted a photo of this mural on my blog. I hadn’t realized it’s part of a cool outdoor drive-through art gallery in City Heights!Compassion in a City Heights alley. I was told this Amor mural, by @inkpaint and @fabianafoca, is a work in progress.The beautiful tile mosaic “A” is not quite completed.VISUAL painted the wall of a MetroPCS store with a cool image of kids communicating with tin cans and a string.One business along University Avenue had their building painted with a pleasing mural containing elements of nature.Another local store now has happy, inviting murals painted on a side of their building.This fun image depicts kids breaking open a piñata.A mural titled The Garden Party by artists Althea Rose Neff, Gilbert Cota and Alex Malone.A closer photo of The Garden Party mural, on the wall of popular Mexican restaurant Super Cocina.Los Angeles muralist Ruben Rojas, co-founder of Beautify Earth, painted LOVE on the side of 7-Eleven in City Heights.
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Today I enjoyed watching an action-packed game of stickball in Little Italy.
San Diego’s annual Labor Day weekend stickball tournament has become a big community event, with sponsors and media coverage and people on lawn chairs lining sidewalks watching players crush the spaldeen. A solid swing of the broom handle will launch the ball like a rubber rocket to the other end of the block!
When games are underway, I always make it a point to walk through Little Italy, so I can hang out for a bit and watch the stickball teams compete for fame and glory. The action is intense but it’s all in good fun.
I learned that this year the stickball teams are all local. The game I watched had a number of exciting plays.
Here come photos that capture a bit of the flavor…
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A funky face has been spray painted on a utility box on El Cajon Boulevard in City Heights.
I recently walked through several blocks of City Heights, along a short stretch of El Cajon Boulevard from 35th Street to Interstate 15. I remained on the south side of San Diego’s historic boulevard, where I saw many examples of colorful street art.
Enjoy these photos!
Another side of the cool box.And another!This utility box is decorated with unusual fast food street art. A lady with crossed out eyes speaks pizza.Drinking through a straw on a seemingly littered sidewalk.Bunches of odd, globular faces make for some unique street art.All sorts of humanish expressions.Now I’m walking east along El Cajon Boulevard approaching the Soda Bar.Fun emoji-like faces on the wall of the Soda Bar in City Heights.Cool art in a window of Allegory Tattoo.Bees in a hive on this eye-catching electrical box.Trashcans on the sidewalk feature iconic the Boulevard graphics.Beautiful flowers painted on a transformer box.A child reaches out to touch a bright green essence.Surprising street art on El Cajon Boulevard in City Heights.
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