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Mission Bay School Opens for Without PreK to Kindergarten Students Arts San Francisco Will Lose its Heart V I E W S TA F F W R I T E R

On August 17, at 7:50 a.m., Mission Bay Elementary School will welcome its inaugural two pre- (PreK) and transitional (TK) kindergarten classes, three kindergarten classes, and one TK/K Special Day Class (SDC). SDC accommodates students with moderate to severe physical, emotional, cognitive, or developmental disabilities. In each succeeding academic year, the 1415 Owens Street campus will add a consecutive grade, growing into a preschool through fifth grade school by 2032. Mission Bay offers general education, with no magnet or language immersion programs. Total enrollment at Mission Bay School is estimated at 140 students in academic year 2026-2027. Graduates will ultimately be offered the opportunity to attend sixth grade at Everett or Francisco middle schools. Students from throughout the City applied for spots at Mission Bay School, with the greatest demand coming from Dogpatch, Mission Bay, the Mission, Potrero Hill, South Beach, and the southern part of the Financial District. Roughly 60 Mission Bay School pupils live in Dogpatch or Mission Bay. “We are excited to welcome the pioneer students, families, and staff who will help launch Mission Bay Elementary and Mission Bay School continues on page 14

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or odors. Woodworking, metalworking, encaustic and oil painting aren’t allowed. Photographers can’t use strobe lights. “Collective members help out by wearing headphones. That way whatever small sounds someone might be making lessens the impact on other people. If I think what I do might make noise, I plan to do that activity when most people have gone home, like after 6 p.m.,” said La Sala. “We…give a monthly internal talk series. We invite members of our collective and a few artists in another space down the hall. We share wine and pizza and talk about our work,” said Little. Some Dogpatch Collective members participate in San Francisco Open Studios. Others show work only with galleries. Janine Wilburn, a Collective member who lives in the Outer Sunset, said people

California College of the Arts will close at the end of this academic year. In anticipation of its shuttering, I was part of the first round of layoffs. As director of the Center for Art and Public Life, my role was to help nurture relationships between nonprofits and students. The Center offered mentoring, community, and civic love. I could have happily stayed there forever. Each year my team grew, touching more Bay Area residents. This momentum was abruptly severed by CCA’s impending demise. The ache is deep. But the true pain is knowing that many artistic souls are experiencing something similar. Designers, architects, creators came to San Francisco because of a deep, unyielding drive in their souls. The City pulled them here. The bug bit them. It bit me at thirteen. I was born in California but raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Seventh grade was brutal in that exquisitely excruciating way it is for kids who don’t quite fit: treacherous behavior of friends, the isolation of being different. That summer my mother put me on a plane alone to Los Angeles to visit her family, the ones I resembled, who felt like mine. Towards the end of the trip, my aunt/godmother packed up her boys and brought us to San Francisco. The sun was out; the wind was biting. She bought me new clothes at the Union Square Esprit, different from anything back home. Eighth grade was coming. But standing on the Golden Gate Bridge, something shifted. The golden light found me and lit me from within. I felt the beat of a drum that matched my heart. I knew I’d be back, and in the hard moments that followed, I held onto that knowing. If you grew up in San Francisco, you might recognize people like me. We’re like the Bay to Breakers salmon, those costumed runners who swim upstream through the City while everyone else heads in the opposite direction. Art school is where we find each other. So many of us spent years as the only salmon in our home rivers; the “odd” high school kid who had something to say, who felt a current coursing through them that no one else seemed to feel.

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Mission Bay School. PHOTO: Jessica Zimmer

Dogpatch Collective Offers Artists a Place to Work, Collaborate BY JESSICA ZIMMER

The Dogpatch Collective is an 18-member artist cooperative located in an 8,000-square-foot section of the top f loor of a mixed-use building at 1661 Tennessee Street. For 10 years, members have met at least monthly for artist talks and informal chats. “I secured the lease and commissioned the building of these studios in a suite of the building in 2016. I started this collective because I wanted an affordable studio of the right size. I also wanted to create community with other artists,” said Ellen Little, Dogpatch Collective founder. Dogpatch Collective comprises sculptors, sewers, mixed media artists, painters, writers, and photographers. According to Little, the studios’ advantages include their proximity to galleries and museums, 15-to-18-foot ceilings,

good lighting, freight elevators, and shared loading docks. They rent for between $600 and $1,700 a month. “I talked to a lot of other artists, in collectives at Hunters Point and on Minnesota Street. They gave me advice and ideas. Then I worked with an architect to draw up a plan. I designed a range of studios, large, small, with windows, and windowless. The contractor I hired built all of the studios within three months,” said Little. “People help one another out, as we have all had different trainings and experiences,” said Christina La Sala, a Hayes Valley-based Collective member. “Everybody brings a set of skills and perspectives. It’s very nice to work close to my peers.” Studio walls don’t connect with the building’s ceiling; all workshops share a common upper space. As a result, creative activities can’t produce extreme noise, dust,

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Universe It’s a message from the universe, people say, when something unexpected, fantastical, or insistent happens. Several individuals, who don’t know one another, make the same atypical observation to you over a handful of days. A hummingbird creates a nest right outside your window, lays her eggs, raises her young, and flies away, the entire cycle revealed as it unfolds. An old friend, who you haven’t thought of in years, pops into your head. Then calls moments later. Whether these communications come from God, the cosmos, or are entirely unconnected to anything larger, they present the opportunity to ask: is there something that needs my attention, or intention? One doesn’t need to be a mystic to believe examining such a query to be worthwhile. In its most recent communique to which I’m aware the universe first started

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speaking to me through Brad, a college friend whom I hadn’t seen in ages. I bumped into him at a monthly senior lunch I go to with my 92-year-old dad. As we walked into the church auditorium where the luncheon was being held, there was Brad, sitting at a table. We gave each other man hugs – meaning not actual hugs, but gentle pats, like we were burping a baby – remarked at the coincidence of running into one another after so many years and fell into topical conversation. “AI,” said Brad, “It’s coming on like a tsunami! I’m encouraging everyone to grab their surfboards and learn how to surf.” I saw my dad looking for a table, told Brad how great it was to see him and excused myself to follow my father. The universe’s messages cascaded from there, a tsunami of dispatches. In less than a two-week period I published a Publisher’s View continues on page 14

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Here Comes Trouble BY MARK STEENSLAND

Tröuble is Mike Lin’s middle name; literally. He legally changed it at the end of 2025 during the initial stages of his campaign for District 10 Supervisor. He added an umlaut to the “o,” a gesture reminiscent of the excesses of Mötley Crüe – themselves inspired by the Löwenbräu beer they were drinking when the discovered their name – or Spinal Tap’s furious parody. Both could apply in Lin’s case, but neither of these extremes are the reason he now refers to his original appellation, “Michael James,” as his dead name. “I was inspired by Taylor Swift’s song ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’ and even named one of my kittens Trouble, whom I had to euthanize in September 2025 due to him being born with feline leukemia virus.” Lin’s leap from exaltation to tragedy in the space of a single sentence isn’t a bug, it’s a feature, a part of Lin’s personality that he pushes at you with unfiltered force even as he lists other reasons for the name change, including a preference for Mike over Michael, a desire to increase search engine results relating to him – too many people

are named Michael James Lin – and what he calls a transformation into a completely different person after surviving bouts of severe depression, suicide attempts, and manic episodes. Lin was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1972. He grew up in Youngstown and attended Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, near Cleveland. He graduated from Pomona College in 1994 with a B.A. in International Relations and moved to San Francisco three years later to attend the Academy of Art before dropping out after a semester. In 1998, the middle of the dot com boom, he found work as a web designer with Adjacency, whose office was at 17th and Kansas streets. From 2002 to 2006, Lin worked at Yahoo! and then became the second user interface designer at LinkedIn. He left in 2010, before the company went public, but stock he’d acquired during his time there made him a multi-millionaire when he sold his holdings. The good times were cut short in 2013 when Lin was laid off after three years Mike Lin continues on page 15

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The Painter on Kansas Street

Missiles — The Gulf War, 1991-1992. Mixed media o board. 58" x 35". PHOTO: Courtesy of Dana Pearlman.

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In August 1971, The Potrero View published “Artists and the Community,” which included Jean Halpert-Ryden, photographed by Bill Brinton seated in front of a large painting at an exhibit or in her 778 Kansas Street studio. She’d lived on the Hill for more than a decade, serving as a Potrero Hill Residents and Homeowners Council board member. “I believe that art occurs when content and form inter-penetrate so thoroughly that one can find neither end nor beginning,” she told the View, “…and that in this complete synthesis must lie the bittersweet quality of life itself.” Fifty-five years later, Jean HalpertRyden’s art has largely disappeared from public view. This is the story of it’s return.

Halpert-Ryden was born in Brooklyn in 1919. She studied art in New York in the 1940s under a private teacher, and in 1947 married Edward Ryden, a printmaker and sculptor. They arrived in San Francisco in the late 1940s and, in 1958, purchased a cottage on Kansas Street, which Ryden remodeled into a modern three-story home, studio, and workshop. Halpert-Ryden maintained the Kansas Street studio into the 1970s. She won prizes at the San Francisco Women Artists annual exhibitions; the organization that’d championed Georgia O’Keeffe and Dorothea Lange. She received an award from the Society of Motion Picture Art Directors, with the work exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, now known as LACMA. She showed collages and

paintings at the City of Paris, San Francisco’s Rotunda Gallery. She obtained a cash prize from the San Francisco Art Association, exhibiting alongside Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, El mer Bischof f, a nd Nathan Oliveira. In 1959, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor gave her a solo exhibition; 35 works. The catalog cover featured a painting of a child against a San Francisco cityscape. The curator’s note described a painter grappling with the human figure in an urban environment. In 1962, the inaugural issue of Artforum magazine

— launched in San Francisco before moving to New York — critically reviewed her work. She was being taken seriously. Thomas Albright, chronicler of Bay Area postwar art, included her in his 1985 survey Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–1980, published by UC Press. He compared her painting to Max Beckmann. Her work entered institutional collections: the San Francisco Arts Commission, IBM, Kaiser Center. A painting took third place — and a $750 prize — in an international competition, entering the permanent collection of the Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw, Poland. At the Kansas Street studio HalpertRyden painted a Holocaust memorial series which she first initiated in 1943, as the extent of the Nazi genocide was becoming known to the world. She continued that Jean Halpert-Ryden continues on page 15

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Community Calendar Now through 8/29 Saturday Art: 65th Annual Potrero Hill Artists’ Exhibition Featuring artwork by library patrons who live, learn, work, or worship on Potrero Hill and Dogpatch. The late Charles Farr hosted the first exhibit in 1955; the funds raised prevented the library from closing. San Francisco Public Library, Potrero Hill Branch, 1616 20th Street. For more information: bit.ly/4gE0VnO

8/1 Saturday and 8/2 Sunday Crafts: Renegade Craft Fair Browse more than 250 artists from the Bay and beyond. Indoors with some outdoor food trucks and features. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free; $5 suggested to help support Renegade Craft’s vision of an accessible, equitable, and inclusive creative economy. Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina Boulevard. For more information: bit.ly/3TFY8AQ

8/5 Wednesday through 9/10 Thursday Art: 2 Journeys 2 Journeys is a two-person exhibition featuring married artists, Gugger Petter and John Torrey, who present distinct bodies of work shaped by the written word and experiences abroad. Petter creates female portraits from rolled newspaper tubes, transforming the printed word into richly textured tapestries. Torrey’s Lingua series features oil paintings inspired by his

travels through Europe and the Middle East, as well as his study of ancient languages, including Old Latin and Aramaic. Opening reception: Wednesday, August 5, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Admission: free. Andrea Schwartz Gallery, 545 Fourth Street. For more information: www.asgallery.com

8/5 Wednesday Wildlife: San Francisco Zoo Visit Northern California’s largest zoological park and conservation center at no cost with government-issued identification confirming San Francisco residency. One free admission per ID. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. San Francisco Zoo, Sloat Blvd and Upper Great Highway. For more information: bit.ly/4f4PfJE

8/8 Saturday Culinary: Tea & Chocolate Pairing Learn about tea; how to taste it, how it’s made, paired with chocolate. Participants will sample five different tea categories paired with three distinct single-origin chocolates from Dandelion Chocolate. 1:30 to 3 p.m. $70. Tap Twice Tea, 2822 22nd Street. For more information: bit.ly/4fq08od Community: Bernal Heights Hillwide Garage Sale An institution for more than 20 years, the Bernal Heights Hillside Garage Sale is arguably San Francisco’s largest single-day neighborhood-wide garage sale, with 100+ participants. Treasure hunters can search garage listings or category links at hillside.com to find

what they seek. Event benefits Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center programs. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information: hillwide.com

8/11 Tuesday Horticulture: San Francisco Botanical Garden The San Francisco Botanical Garden is a living museum within Golden Gate Park, offering 55 acres of landscaped commons and open spaces, with more than 9,000 different kinds of plants from around the world. Always free for San Francisco residents; visitors can enjoy this treasure at no cost on the second Tuesday of every month. 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. San Francisco Botanical Garden, 1199 9th Avenue. For more information: bit.ly/40g2lLL

8/12 Wednesday Dance: Seven Weeks to Dirty Dancing Get ready for the time of your life! Over seven consecutive weeks learn the sultry steps, iconic rhythm, and unforgettable routines that defined a generation. Shake, shimmy, and find your groove to “Do You Love Me”; master the romance and rhythm of “Love Man”; learn the legendary choreography of “Time of Our Lives.” Whether a beginner who usually gets put in the corner, or a seasoned dancer looking to add some spice to your steps, this class is for you. No partner? No problem. Seven Wednesdays (August 12 through September 23), 6 to 7:15 p.m. Studio-only option: $233.20; studio and Zoom option: $254.30 (live-streamed and recorded each week). Smuin Center for Dance, 1830 17th Street. For more information: bit.ly/4w7eJvL Fashion: “Switch & Stitch” Clothing Swap Market and Mending Counter Join Rethink the Runway for “Switch & Stitch,” an evening market to swap what you’re done with and fix what you love. Bring garments to trade or repair. Leave with new-to-you pieces, a mended favorite, and a fresh take on what’s hanging in your closet. Event highlights include: six expert menders on hand to revive a favorite garment; do-it-yourself fashion upcycle counter; curated clothing swap market, where up to five pieces you no longer want can be traded 1:1. Enjoy complimentary non-alcoholic beverages while connecting with the Bay Area’s sustainable fashion community. 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. $15. Studio Pass; $45 Atelier (VIP) Pass which includes a garment mending appointment. San Francisco Ferry Building, 1 Ferry Building. For more information: luma.com/92wh7yah

8/14 Friday Kids: Caterpillar Puppets Joe Leon’s menagerie of Caterpillar Puppets draws audiences of all ages into seemingly familiar stories that take unexpected turns, including his version of the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Bla-Bla-Blas and the shy • SUPPORT LOCAL JOURNALISM •

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artist mouse Amadeus who needs audience encouragement to fulfill his calling. 11 to 11:30 a.m. and 12 to 12:30 p.m. Free. Part of the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. Children’s Garden, Yerba Buena Gardens, 799 Howard Street. For more information: bit.ly/4waTZ6D

8/15 Saturday Art: Linocut for Beginners Instructor, Reese Dallas Bice, an award-wining illustrator and printmaker, will break down everything you need to know: techniques and design principles; the fundamentals of relief printing; how to ideate and design for relief printing; carving techniques; printing by hand. Students will use small soft-cut blocks, which are gentle on the wrists and easy to print with. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. $125. ARCH Art Supplies, 1490 17th Street. For more information: bit.ly/4fsL09C Music: “Sounds of Summer”: An Evening of A Cappella Music by Side Note SF An annual summer concert featuring longtime favorites, new additions, and plenty of harmonies for the whole family. All proceeds will help Side Note record their first album. 7 to 9 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.). $28.52. Randall Museum Theater, 199 Museum Way. For more information: bit.ly/4baRloU

8/16 Sunday Art: Stained Glass Workshop Learn to cut, shape, foil, and solder glass in this beginner-friendly, hands-on workshop. Tuition helps keep other Youth Art Exchange programs free. 12 p.m. $55.20. YAX Studios, 400 Geneva Avenue. For more information: bit.ly/4f8mvQh

8/20 Thursday Art: Hometown Heroes Release Party Meet the artists behind Hometown Heroes, volume two of the Shipyard Stories coloring book, and help color the exhibition panels. The book traces the intertwined histories of the Hunters Point Shipyard and surrounding community through the eyes of residents whose African American ancestors migrated here for shipyard work. Meet artist William Rhodes and historian Stacey Carter, view the original artwork, and join the hands-on coloring activity that’s been a hit at past Shipyard events. Light refreshments served. 6 to 8 p.m. Free, with options to support the book and future Hometown Heroes events. For more information: bit.ly/4vLJKoc

8/23 Sunday Community: Sunday Streets Festival and Block Party in Bayview Since 2008, Sunday Streets has transformed San Francisco’s roads into carfree community spaces, bringing neighbors together for a day of connection, movement, and fun. Sunday Streets was inspired by the Ciclovía in Bogotá, Colombia, launched by then Mayor Gavin Newsom, and has grown into one of North America’s premiere open street programs. 12 to 4 p.m. Free. 22nd Street and Carroll Avenue. For more information: sundaystreetssf.com

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Dogpatch Nonprofit Director Wins Prestigious Awards

Jessica Hansen named the 2026 Woman of the Year Award from Women Changing the World in Paris. PHOTO: Sara Louise Photography

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Growing up, Jessica Hansen’s father repeatedly told her, “Don’t waste energy complaining. Do something about it.” Following her father’s advice, Hansen put her money where her mouth is. As executive director and chief executive officer for Alliance for Smiles, she was recently honored with two awards at the 2026 Women Changing the World Global Summit in Paris: 2026 Woman of the Year and Humanitarian Impact. There were more than 1,500 nominations from 97 countries, including women who were their countries’ first female prime

ministers and those using innovative blood tests to detect breast cancer. The Dogpatch-based Alliance for Smiles has provided more than 9,000 free cleft surgeries to children in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, while training and equipping local medical teams to sustainably provide long-term cleft care and improve access to quality healthcare. “I don’t know how the judging system works but I’m flabbergasted and honored to receive the awards,” Hansen said. “It feels impossible to compare these women to one another, all of whom are contributing important things to the world. I’m deeply aware the awards belong to everyone who has been part of my work for the last 27 years. It’s board members, staff, volunteers, donors, partners, families, hospitals; it takes all of us.” Hansen studied at the University of Leicester and earned a degree from the University of New South Wales in Australia that combined international development and social work. “I really value my upbringing, and I left the Midwest because I wanted to learn what other perspectives and ideas were out there,” said Hansen, who grew up in Oklahoma. Having female cousins in Southeast Asia made her aware that, as an American, she had greater opportunities and faced fewer risks. Her mother, who is from Thailand, told her that females are treated differently in other countries; some aren’t allowed to finish their education, others are trafficked for sex or labor, many are survivors of gender-based violence.

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Jessica Hansen with Alliance for Smiles volunteers and local intern doctors in Gazipur, Bangladesh. PHOTO: Courtesy of Alliance for Smiles

Hansen interned at the Centre for “Each small thing matters, and it all Refugee Research, documenting rape and ladders up into the well-being of everygender-based violence at East African one,” she said. “The well-being of each and Southeast Asian refugee camps. She person we touch matters. It would all be worked for the United Nations High worse if we hadn’t done that one small Commissioner for Refugees for a decade, thing.” turning down an office job in Washington, Hansen lives in the Outer Sunset D.C. that offered good compensation. with her partner, Keven, and his chilInstead, she took an unpaid position in dren Milo and Ollie, along with her cats, rural Kenya to help address extreme pov- Ruthie Bader Ginsburg and Miss Maya erty. Then she worked with the microfiAngelou. nance organization Kiva, was part of social impact teams at Lyft and Twilio, before joining Alliance for Smiles, where she’s been since 2020. “I think there’s a tendency in this kind of work where you push yourself because you think, ‘If I just work the weekend, then a few more kids get a cleft-palate surgery, and then I can take a break,’ Hansen said. “What I’ve learned on this journey is that my life and well-being are also deeply important. I’m not as good at helping when I’m not rested and when my nervous system is not calm.” She added that her field can feel overwhelming and disheartening – especially in light of statistics indicating the lengthy time a refugee can remain in a displacement camp – but she’s buoyed by the thought about how, through her work, some- Jessica Hansen with with a cleft patient in Gazipur, Bangladesh. PHOTO: Courtesy of Alliance for Smiles one has a better future.

Last month hundreds protested development of powerful AI in front of OpenAI's Mission Bay office before marching to Anthropic and Google DeepMind South-of-Market. PHOTOS: Thomas Hunter II

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Potrero Hill resident Art Agnos was honored with a part of Connecticut Street now sporting his name. The July renaming ceremony attracted political dignitaries, along with long time fans of the former San Francisco mayor. Agnos is perhaps best known for his courageous decision to dismantle the Embarcadero freeway after it was damaged in the Loma Prieta earthquake. Unpopular at the time, the action may have cost Agnos reelection, though ultimately produced great benefits to San Franciscans, who enjoy a spectacular waterfront. PHOTOS: Ed Rudolph

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Created by Dashel Lu-Pearson, age 11, “Under the Sea,” is a two-piece, interactive artwork. The underwater scene is drawn using color markers on a transparency. The transparency is then mounted on a black sheet of paper, thus obscuring the colorful scene. The flashlight and its “beam” are drawn on a white sheet of paper (and cut out). When the paper “flashlight” is slid in between the transparency and the black paper background, it “illuminates” the colorful underwater scene. Dashel graduated from Chinese immersion school at De Avila last academic year. He starts sixth grade at Roosevelt Middle School in the fall of 2026. See a video demonstration of “Under the Sea” at tinyurl.com/4fxwhnwu

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throughout the building treat each other with kindness and respect. Other tenants include LightSource, a fine art printing studio; The Gong Shop, a musical instrument store; Brickley Production Services, an equipment rental company for music and film-related businesses; Little Boxes Theater, a black box dance theater, as well as a production studio, caterers, commercial kitchens, real estate home staging companies, and a wine shop. “I feel safe in our studios, the building, and the neighborhood. It’s a great place to show work,” said Wilburn. Pat O’Connor, a Noe Valley resident and Collective member, likes that Dogpatch is lively and vibrant. She enjoys seeing rusted industrial factories being transformed into breweries and hangout spots. “I grew up in the Richmond District and remember this area from the 1960s and ‘70s. My family is Irish. I had an uncle who worked in the breweries surrounding and bordering Potrero Hill; Hamm’s and others,” said O’Connor. “I like that everyone here seems to be generous with their space, time, and constructive ideas.” Quite a few Dogpatch Collective members work in mixed media. They take walks in Dogpatch and nearby neighborhoods to see what’s beyond their building’s doors. O’Connor sources bits of rusted metal, twine, and burnt cardboard she finds outdoors. She utilizes shipping boxes gifted to her from nearby retail stores and materials she buys at Center Hardware & Supply Co., Inc. La Sala uses rust and metal pieces she finds to dye patterns into fabric and paper. She purchases recycled building and landscape materials at Building Resources of San Francisco and often visits exhibits at

the Museum of Craft and Design and the Letterform Archive, which is devoted to lettering and printing. Kathryn Page, a Collective member who lives near City College’s main campus, creates abstract works that relate to the natural world and underlying patterns, including wildfires and root systems. She’s a Golden State Valkyries season ticket holder and walks to Chase Center games to relax. “There are so many resources here. We need more studios and more artist collectives. I get emails daily from artists looking for studios and it’s heartbreaking to tell them we don’t have space available. I hope more people will build studios and collectives,” said Little. In 2023 and 2024, Little and the other Collective members received a $50,000 First Time Grantee Initiative grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. They used the funds to host six artists in two studios, one large and one small, for 18 months. “We gave these artists six months of free studio space and mentorship in the Collective’s space. The artists rotated in and out of their studios. We had to get a fiscal sponsor through a nonprofit to accomplish this,” said Little. “This brought a whole different perspective into the Collective. We did a lot of mentorship and informal teaching, It drew us closer together.” Wilburn is grateful for her Dogpatch Collective studio. She said working there is a world of difference from being in an isolated home studio. “Dogpatch Collective is truly the space where I can do whatever I want. I’ve set up my studio here to evoke hope and joy. That’s the gift that creating art and this space have been to me,” said Wilburn.

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The Best Gardener on Potrero Hill BY ANNE SUMERS , M.D.

Last Spring the front yard of a yellow cottage on Arkansas Street was decorated with a burst of roses, tended to by David Garcia. “David is the best gardener in Potrero Hill,” Jeanie Makanna, the cottage’s owner, said. “He’s been with us for thirty years. These roses – the Color Magic and Double Delight – were used in bouquets

when Obama came to Potrero Hill! That was April 9, 2016, at the home of Susan Sandler and Steven Philips.” Double Delight is a hybrid tea rose, creamy white with a red edge, especially suited to California’s climate. Jeanie’s husband, Phil, said he’s lived in the cottage since 1969. It’s one of 50 surviving “earthquake shacks” that were deployed after the 1906 earthquake and fire that destroyed roughly

28,000 buildings in San Francisco. It’s been renovated and expanded over the last 120 years. The couple co-founded and publishes the GHOSTS aviation calendars, first released in 1980, which feature aerial photographs of World War I and II combat airplanes. Phil captured the images from planes in flight throughout the world, including New Zealand, England, and the California coast.

Left: Jeanie and Phil Makanna. Center: David Garcia tends the garden. Right: The Double Delight Rose. PHOTOS: Anne Sumers, M.D.

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In our hometowns we’re the ones swimming the wrong way. When we arrive at art school and meet the rest of our species, we realize that while we aren’t cookie-cutter versions of each other, we’re in the same assortment package. This shared camaraderie becomes a safety net; artists look at the world through a lens of curiosity rather than judgment, seeing potential where others see decay. This mindset is visionary. It can transform a city. While at CCA, I founded Love Lives in SF in response to the relentless negative press San Francisco was receiving postCOVID. Students arriving here had to convince their terrified parents it was safe. Once they landed, they found the media narrative was a farce. Shreyas, a graduate architecture student from India, chuckled, “This is very nice here. The news has blown this completely out of proportion.” Katayoun, from Iran, completed a second and third master’s degrees, in part because staying in school meant she didn’t have to return to a country whose government would arrest her for her art and for not wearing a hijab. When I told her about Love Lives in SF, she welled up. “Let’s do it,” she said. Together we engaged fourth through 12th grade students through civic workshops about love and stewardship. We partnered with the Ferry Building and Union Square, inviting passersby to handbuild ceramic hearts and record audio messages about what they loved about the City. We fired those hearts at CCA, attached QR codes linked to each recording, and seeded more than 3,250 of them across San Francisco; small, unexpected moments of joy waiting to be found. Our artists went into public spaces sixteen weekends a year. We received an Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design grant and hosted two international film festivals celebrating the City’s spirit. This is what artists do when you give them a city and ask them to love it back. Working with CCA students was a gift. Angela, a brilliant visual artist, navigated

her life in San Francisco with grace and complexity. Her parents traveled from out of town for her SOMArts opening, full of pride for the daughter they knew, leaving just before her partner arrived, someone who would have loved to meet them but couldn’t just yet. Angela held those two worlds with care, never letting either diminish the other. Kaeli worked with me from her freshman year until after she graduated, her eighteen-year-old ideas transforming into twenty-two-year-old professional talent, with a now thriving illustration practice. Yuni came from Mongolia to absorb the life of this City. Lilah, daughter of a civil rights lawyer, carries that same relentless curiosity in her ever-turning creative brain. My trans students — whom I’ll not name but will forever hold — gave me the joy of watching someone be exactly who they are, at every stage. Anthony, a Master of Fine Arts writing student with autism, used his words to empower kids like him. They reminded me every day of the responsibility I had to them. They wouldn’t be welcome in much of this country. In San Francisco they can be themselves and share it with the rest of us. There’s something about being in the presence of young people — their urgency, belief that things can change, the way they haven’t yet learned to accept what is — that keeps you honest. It keeps you hungry. And without that hunger, even the most visionary institutions can lose their way. The San Francisco Art Institute — the oldest art school west of the Mississippi, founded in 1871 — is now scaffolding and silence. The people who paid the price for its collapse weren’t the executives at the top. They never are. At the national level, the organizations built to hold arts communities — to fight the forces that push artists and changemakers out — are being systematically defunded. The threads of the net are being severed. CCA will soon join them. When a city stops tolerating its imperfections, it starts requiring conformity. Conformity has an appetite. It finds imperfection everywhere: in the person who looks different, sounds different, loves differently, moves to a particular drum.

The artists are always the first to go. But they were the ones who told you the city had a heartbeat. I’m raising my daughter here. She’s about to enter eighth grade. Thea calls herself a cold weather enthusiast. We’ve traveled to 42 states and 13 countries, places so spectacular she could imagine living there, others so hot she didn’t want to leave the

hotel. No matter where we venture, when we return home to our cool summers, the fog, the grey, the golden light cutting through it all, we say the same thing: we live in the world’s most beautiful city. It fits us perfectly. I want it to still be here for her the way CCA continues on page 14

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it was for me. I want this city to remain the kind of place that can find a kid who doesn’t fit anywhere else and light her up from inside. I’m still here. Fighting to keep my space. So that the memories of these incredible lives, and the legacies of the institutions that held them, are not quietly erased. Tracy Tanner is an artist, arts mother, and Founder of Love Lives in SF. She joined the Center for Art and Public Life at California College of the Arts in 2018. Mission Bay School from front page

PreK,” said Principal Monette Benitez, who previously served as San Francisco Public Montessori School principal. “Together, we will create a school community grounded in inclusion, curiosity, and joy. As we begin this important work, we are collaborating with stakeholders across our community to develop a shared vision that reflects our collective hopes and aspirations for Mission Bay.” School staff will launch activities for students and families to get to know one another at the start of the academic year. A Parent-Teacher Association may be formed once all students are enrolled in collaboration with the San Francisco Unified School District. Tel Hi Neighborhood Center, a Lombard Street-based nonprofit, will offer an after-school program on campus from dismissal until 6 p.m. SFUSD’s Visual and Performing Arts program will also be available to teach students how to make music, act, dance, and art in their regular classroom. SFUSD determined acceptance to Mission Bay School through its regular enrollment process, in which students can request placement at any district campus. If there’s more demand than seats available, assignment is decided through “tiebreaker” factors, including where a student lives. Mission Bay School is in Daniel Webster Elementary School’s attendance area, which covers Dogpatch and Mission Bay. Students who live in those neighborhoods are generally eligible to be assigned to either school’s general or special education classes.

will be able to walk their child to school Publisher’s View from page 2 and appreciate the new speed limit signs around the campus. column announcing my soon-retirement “We’ve discussed precautions and from the View; heard news that several Seeking Creative Youths! safety issues with other parents. It’s going prominent Potrero Hill residents were The View invites those under 18 to to be a high traffic area with a lot of kids,” going through difficult health challenges; submit any creative work suitable said Zhang, who was grateful to Sarah learned that a brother-in-law may have a for publication, including drawings, Bertram, Sarah Davis, Bruce Agid, and particularly dangerous form of cancer; and short stories (fewer than 150 words), other Mission Bay residents who helped accompanied a nephew to Kaiser’s emerphotographs, comic strips, jokes, before make the new school a reality. “We are gency room, waiting six hours for him to the 20th of the month. Winning entries the pioneer families for the school. We be released around midnight after receivwill receive a $20 prize. Please send will have a lot of opportunities to shape ing a hydration IV and medications to submissions to editor@potreroview.net the school along with the principal and quell food poisoning. Another old friend, teachers. Most of us care about the success whom I hadn’t seen in years, arrived from Write Your Own Obituary of the school and the neighborhood. We the Midwest for an unexpected visit, carwant to make Mission Bay a great place for rying stories of the deep upheaval with We're all going to die; why leave the families.” which her family was grappling. writing of your obit to someone else? Zuha Warraich, a Mission Bay resThe universe’s loudest knock was a Whether you believe the end is imminent ident, is frustrated that her TK-age child relative’s suicide, which had been teleor just something you contemplate idly wasn’t chosen for placement at Mission graphed to me in a more human form whilst taking a shower, you can control Bay School. when roughly a month prior, after a mildly your own destiny, or at least how it's “We waited almost a month on cranky email exchange, she’d closed by reported. Or, after examining your life SFUSD’s waitlist. Right now, we’re having telling me not to worry, she wouldn’t be story and finding it lacking, add to it! Up to six people in three two-hour sessions, our child start in TK at another school. bothering me again. $150. Interested parties should contact We may still apply to have them enroll editor@potreroview.net at Mission Bay School for the 2027-2028 The idea of the universe sending messchool year,” said Warraich. “It’s very dif- sages is viewed skeptically by the nonficult to drive or get transportation for spiritual. The concept isn’t too remote HELP! young children out of the neighborhood from a God directly answering an indifive days a week. This system of allocating vidual’s prayers, prompting the question: Im trapped in nwspaper factory need to be rescud by 9/26 to go to Portola Music parents a spot for their child so far from really, there’s an all-powerful entity that where they live is a concern.” pays careful attention to and specifically Festival at Pier 80 in San Francisco w Robins & Doog Blod & Sweeties House “I remember when the 2.5 acres were responds to each human? Who or what Mario & Lara Zarsson Im a raccoon btw set aside for an elementary school,” said is sending these communications? Are Dr. Harvey Brody, professor emeritus they trustworthy? How do I know they’re of dentistry and regent emeritus for the for me? Will AI eventually hack them for In August, before the 2026-2027 aca- University of California. “I was thrilled commercial reasons? demic year starts, roughly 100 students will to attend the groundbreaking in 2022 and For the analytically inclined the conparticipate in the Black Star Rising (BSR) moved to tears at a recent walk-through cept of “listening to the universe” might program as part of the African American of the new campus. I’m excited to see Hub be comparable to what political scientists Achievement and Leadership Initiative students currently working in research call a “policy window” or an entrepreneur (AAALI) on the fourth floor of the Mission labs and being exposed to healthcare a “window of opportunity;” a transient Bay School campus, in the Mission Bay careers. I’m thankful that so many kids period during which conditions synergisHub. AAALI was established in 2013 to and families will enjoy this new campus. tically align to grab attention and make CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO improve Black high school student perfor- The addition of an elementary school com- things happen. Through a confluence of Community Outreach Public Notice mance. While high school graduation rates pletes the vision of Mission Bay a true CITYasAND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO View continues on next page for Black students attending San Francisco community.” Prepared by The Office ofPublisher's the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors Community Outreach Public Notice Pursuant to Administrative Code, Section 2.81 public school have improved over the past Prepared by The Office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors decade, performance on standardized tests CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO Pursuant to Administrative Code, Section 2.81 Community Outreach Public Notice has generally stagnated at low levels. Prepared by The Office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors During the 2026-2027 academic Pursuant to Administrative Code, Section 2.81 school year, the Mission Bay Hub proSan Francisco Board of Supervisors Board or Commission Vacancies: gram at Mission Bay School will connect Participate on a Board or Commission! Sunshine Ordinance Task Force (SOTF) June Jordan, Thurgood Marshall, The The SOTF is currently looking for interested individuals to serve! They work to make sure operations and decisions in San Francisco government are kept transparent and public. Academy, Mission, SF International and Vacant Seats: Seat 1 - Must be nominated by the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and be an attorney. Raoul Wallenberg juniors and seniors with Seat 2 - Must be nominated by the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and be a journalist. Seat 3 - Must be a member from the press or electronic media. the University of California, San Francisco Seat 5 - Must be nominated by the local chapter of the League of Women Voters. and Kaiser Permanente of Northern Seat 6 - Must be a member of the public experienced in consumer advocacy. Seat 7 - Must be a member of the public experienced in consumer advocacy. California. 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events, circumstances, or perhaps a consciousness that arises from within, the universe provides an opening to carefully consider a new path or possibility. This might happen all the time; we just don’t notice. It’s also plausible that the universe’s message is delivered exactly when we need it; or that the “universe” is composed of each of us, individually cultivating greater awareness, connecting to the wider world, invisible or not. My favorite Hindu deity is Kali, the goddess of time, change, destruction, power, and freedom. I like her fierceness, inevitability, and capacity to usher in necessary transformation. Kali’s messages can be scary, conveyed through abrupt life stumbles, breakups, and closures, a kind of stinging cleansing that violently clears away obstacles to growth. Sickness, death, the past reemerging in the form of old friends bearing present distress or warnings about the future. And that hummingbird nest? It was outside my window. The universe was virtually shouting what amounted to a ham-fisted message: a period of life is ending, creating the opportunity for something else to hatch. This wasn’t exactly news to me; perhaps “the universe” was just a bad week. Still, the volume was hard to ignore. I started paying more attention. To my dad across the table, still finding his seat after ninety-two years of locating a place for himself. To Brad’s tsunami warning, which I’d waved off but not forgotten. To the email that ended with a sentence that should’ve prompted me to call instead of deleting it without much thought. The hummingbird didn’t leave instructions. She compiled twigs into a tight container, raised her two chicks, and flew away. The nest stayed where she’d left it. I can see it while I write this, empty, the tiny family replaced by cloudy mold, like a small mouth open, waiting to be fed. Short Cuts from page 2

$1,679.30 for him to attend a conference in Colorado…Last month a candidate to replace Walton, Theo Ellington, was endorsed by the San Francisco Democratic Party.

Vander-art Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive officer and the world’s seventh-richest man, gifted $75 million to create an art school within Vanderbilt University’s Design District campus. The Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design at Vanderbilt University–San Francisco will replace the California College of the Arts, which’ll close at the end of the 2026-27 academic year. The college plans to offer undergraduate and graduate programs, alongside community and precollegiate offerings. According to Vanderbilt, undergraduate degrees will be grounded in intensive studio practice, apprenticeships, and internships to connect the campus to San Francisco’s cultural and “innovation ecosystems;” graduate programs will be studio-centered and research-oriented.

Robot Square Amazon Robotics has leased a 250,000-square-foot space at 650 Tow nsend St reet f rom proper t y owner Beacon Capital Partners. The Massachusetts-based division develops autonomous robots and automation systems for Amazon’s warehouse network. Amazon Robotics is located next door

The Pier 70 Time Machine, a 4,000 square foot Potrero Hill and Dogpatch history museum, hosted a soft opening last month. Left: Archives director Peter Linenthal next to a dentist’s x-ray machine from the 1930’s removed from a Potrero Hill house. Right: Former District 10 Supervisor Sophie Maxwell. PHOTOS: Mike Lin

to Scale AI, with 180,000 square feet in the same building, formerly occupied by Airbnb. Showplace Square is emerging as an AI hub, with Together AI at 2 Henry Adams Street, Physical Intelligence nearing 60,000 square feet at 808 Brannan Street, and Sam Altman’s Tools for Humanity occupying 82,000 square feet at 600 Townsend Street East.

More Berths Brookfield Properties wants to increase Pier 70’s density and height on its 28-acre enclave by roughly 28 percent, from 2,150 to 2,750 residences. The new plan, which includes adding two stories on multiple residential buildings, raising the structures’ height from 70 to 90 feet, the maximum allowed under a 2015 ballot initiative, must be approved by the Port Commission and the Board of Supervisors. According to Tim Bacon, Brookfield Properties’ vice president of development, the changes could allow the company to break ground next year on the first housing complex, a 350-unit apartment building slated for the evocatively named, “Lot E2.” Mike Lin from page 4

with Zynga, a video game developer. Less than two months later, he was admitted to the Kaiser Psychiatric Health Facility in Santa Clara on an involuntary hold and diagnosed with major depressive disorder. After a week, he was treated for five days at a step-down residential center, Casa Phoenix. He was again admitted to the hospital on a 5150 order when he threatened to kill himself, along with his wife and children. This cycle continued for nearly four years. A summary he provided to the View reads like a rollercoaster of nothing but downward spirals. He got divorced. He lost custody of his children. An extended stay with his in-laws in Taiwan ended in an assault on his father-in-law and another lengthy hospital stint. In the middle of it all, he engaged in such expensive and newsworthy activities as filing for trademarks on popular cultural catchphrases like “Nasty Woman.” Some of them led to legal battles, such as one with Kobe Bryant when Lin trademarked “The Black Mamba” three weeks before Number 24 did. The case was settled out of court. Lin is proud to have a signed check from Bryant to him in the amount of $4,500.

For the last year Lin has managed his mental health with a combination of medication and regular workout sessions at a local gym. Getting his life back on track enabled him to see the possibility for others to do the same. Watching Andrew Yang run for president in 2016 helped Lin recognize the power of participation in the political process to raise awareness of important issues. Unlike the other candidates competing for the D10 Supervisor seat, Lin isn’t in it to win it. “I would be delusional to think I have any chance of defeating a candidate backed by billionaire money like Theo Ellington,” he said. Instead, Lin hopes to educate people about mental health by being the first supervisor candidate who has publicly made known they have bipolar disorder. He also wants to convince Taylor Swift to host her Lover Fest West Festival in San Francisco so he can thank her in person for writing songs that helped get him through periods of severe depression. “It would make a great chapter in the memoir I’m working on.” The View agrees. Jean Halpert-Ryden from page 4

collection, not with context, nor with any indication of who Halpert-Ryden was or what her work represented. Several buyers purchased pieces simultaneously without realizing some of the works belonged together. Two triptychs separated. I purchased forty of those works. Over the next three years I built an archival record from scratch: Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Museum of Modern Art Library in New York Legion of Honor catalog, San Francisco Art Association newsletters at the Internet Archive, Artforum archives, University of California, Berkeley Bancroft Library. The picture that emerged was of a painter who’d been present in the Bay Area art world for thirty years — reviewed, exhibited, collected, compared to Beckmann — and who’d been left behind when the canonical narratives of that period were written. I acquired two additional works from Calabi Gallery in Sebastopol. One more turned up at Rick Petteford’s antique shop on Gravenstein Highway; an unsigned urban pastel from 1953, with HalpertRyden’s catalog notation on the verso. The collection now stands at forty-four pieces, spanning 1948 to 1998; the full arc of her documented practice. There may be people on Potrero Hill — or those who knew the Hill in those decades — who remember Halpert-Ryden, who have a piece of her work on a wall, who know something about 778 Kansas Street that the archives don’t record. I’d be glad to hear from you. The research portal is at jeanhalpertrydenart.com. Dana Pearlman is the cultural steward of the Jean Halpert-Ryden collection. She lives in Sebastopol, California.

series for more than three decades, completing it in 1976 with a large mixed-media collage titled Memorial for the Unfulfilled. In 1963, Halpert-Ryden gave a public talk titled “A Place for the Artist in a World of Crisis?” which was noted in an FBI domestic surveillance file as part of its investigations into the peace movement. In 1985, Jean and Ed moved to Israel. She continued to paint there; large canvases of the Israeli landscape, crowd scenes, imagery. She was living in Israel when the 1991 Gulf War began. She painted that too: a large mixed-media work, Missiles — The Gulf War, that brought the human figure back to center after years of spatial abstraction. She returned to California in 2002, when Alzheimer’s had taken hold. She died in Santa Rosa in March 2011. There was no estate, no gallery advocacy, no archive readily accessible to the public. In 2022, dozens of works from Halpert-Ryden’s personal collection surfaced at a sale at the Sebastopol Center for the This photo of Jean Halpert-Ryden, photographed by Bill Brinton, was Arts. They were sold as part of a published alongside "Artists and Community," in the August 1971 issue of broader estate dispersal; not as a The Potrero View. PHOTO: Bill Brinton

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