Jump to navigation

Mona Caron

Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube monacaron.com

Street menu

  • Home
  • Murals
  • Weeds
  • Collaborations
  • Artivism
  • Street
  • Studio

Street menu

  • Home
  • Murals
  • Weeds
  • Collaborations
  • Artivism

About menu

  • About

Main menu

  • Contact
  • Links

WEEDS series

FireweedMendrisioPlantago Lanceolata
SwinecressDandelion 1
Minhocão
EquatorRapunzel
Sonchus AsperAster in Asheville
Stinging Nettle
AhmedabadAthens

Narrative Murals

Outgrowing
OverviewPedal Revolution
TenderloinTaking Root
CorreoOverview
Market St.
OverviewOverview
DimitriBrisbane
Water War muralRainforest and City MuralBotanical
Duboce

Collaborations

EMER-GENTES : a collaboration by Mona Caron + LiqenMission ConditionMona+Apex at Trail HeadFMB4-zateliteSofT

Artivism

Mujeres Custodias QuitoArt at COP21 Climate Summit in Paris 2015mona at peoples climate march NYSalvando el Rio Mailanku
Bike Flower in Curitiba
POA bike-dandelionBurma
Art for CIW 2011CIW Mistica 2013
10th Anniversary of the Water War in Cochabamba, Bolivia
The Market St. Railway Mural

The Market Street Railway Mural

  • Overview
  • A closer look
  • The Making & Unveiling

The Market Street Railway mural shows a 180-degree trans-temporal bird's eye view of San Francisco's Market Street, divided vertically into sections corresponding to different decades and historic moments, from the 1920's to the present, and into an imaginary utopian future.

The mural celebrates the vital role of public space in our cities, and it contains lots of detailed references to local street art, activism, and various SF subcultures. 

It is a tribute to the urban center as a place uniquely conducive to collective expression, a place where history is made, and politics become physically felt.

It is also an homage to San Francisco in particular, as a place where people have kept inventing new ways of utilizing our shared space to communicate, provoke, and interact, which is what made this a vibrant and engaging place to live.

take a closer look right here! The details are many, and explained in this virtual tour.

This mural underwent a professional conservation effort in late 2017, and Mona is still fixing the last details on it in early 2018. Come by and say hi!

Location

300 Church St
San Francisco , CA
United States
See map: Google Maps
California US

Size:  38 x 12 feet
         11,6 x 3,6 meters

Completed: 2004

Funded by a grant from the San Francisco Neighborhood Beautification Fund, and by San Francisco Beautiful.

Nonprofit Fiscal Sponsors: SomArts, CounterPULSE

Design and painting by Mona Caron

Special thanks to:
David Hochschild (initiator)
Chris Carlsson (life inspiration)

Dedication in memory of Dave Pharr

Press

SF Bay Guardian - Jonathan Zwickel article

Market Street Railway Company comments on mural

Podcast tour on Bikescape

FoundSF tour of this mural

This mural was honored with:

  • Certificate of Honor by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors

  • California Legislature Assembly Certificate of Recognition

  • 2004 San Francisco Beautification Award from San Francisco Beautiful.

  • SF Bay Guardian's 2004 "Best Of The Bay" award

  • San Francisco Magazine "Best Of The Bay Area" 2005 award

  • 2005 Precita Eyes Special Recognition Mural Award

(c) Mona Caron All Rights Reserved

Website by Monkeys At Keyboards