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\"Mission<\/a>
Mission Station Police Capt. Dan Perea reiterates to Meeting of Styles 2016 organizer Lisa Jo Brewer (brown jacket) that her event has been cancelled at the 24th Street BART Plaza on Sept. 16. Photo: Alexis Terrazas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/b>Artists from across the globe who arrived in the Bay Area expecting to participate in a three-day street art festival were shocked to learn it had been abruptly cancelled.<\/p>\n

The Meeting of Styles Art Festival 2016, which was set to take place at various alleys and streets throughout the Mission District on Sept. 16-18, was unanimously denied the necessary permits by the Interdepartmental Staff Committee on Traffic and Transportation (ISCOTT) due to growing community concern about the event, and questionable actions involving the event\u2019s organizer, Lisa Jo Brewer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year something happened,\u201d Brewer told El Tecolote via telephone on Sept. 16. \u201cI can\u2019t really put my finger on it, but there\u2019s this small organization in town here in the Mission, and they were dead set against it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Artists<\/a>
Artists from across the globe congregate in Lilac Alley for the Meeting of Styles 2015 street art event. Community murals were damaged during the event resulting in this year\u2019s festival being cancelled. Photo: Shane Menez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The small organization Brewer referred to is the Calle 24 Latino Cultural District, which fielded a number of complaints from residents and organizations concerning property damage following last year\u2019s Meeting of Styles event.<\/p>\n

In May of 2014 the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Ed Lee designated the area between 22nd and 26th streets and Mission and Potrero streets as the Calle 24 Latino Cultural District; the intent was to preserve Latino culture and community on lower 24th Street and the area surrounding it. A nonprofit entity of the same name\u2014which includes residents, merchants and arts organizations\u2014was incorporated shortly after to oversee the district.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the issues from last year were never resolved,\u201d said Erick Arguello, president of Calle 24. \u201cIt\u2019s the responsibility of the producers of the event to make sure proper outreach is done. Unfortunately, none of that was done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite having her permit declined, Brewer went to Mission Station on Sept. 15 and informed SFPD Mission Station Captain Dan Perea that she was going to continue with the event.<\/p>\n

Perea responded to Brewer in an email later that evening, informing her in no uncertain terms that there would be no event.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf any vandalism occurs in these locations by individuals who attribute the legality of their actions to your event and\/or your authority and\/or direction,\u201d Perea wrote, \u201cI will be seeking an arrest warrant for you for conspiracy to commit a crime and vandalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perea urged Brewer to notify the artists involved that the event had been cancelled, but she didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel violated,\u201d said artist George Colon, a prominent old school New York graffiti artist who travelled to San Francisco for the event. \u201cIt was a disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conflict in the making<\/b><\/p>\n

A key conflict stemming from last year\u2019s event involved the defacement of certain murals in the Mission by some participating artists, who painted over art without permission.<\/p>\n

Two of these damaged murals belonged to the nonprofit muralist association, Precita Eyes, whose executive director and co-founder Susan Cervantes sits on the Calle 24 Council.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was all excited about it [the 2015 event], because I really do support street art and graffiti art. We\u2019ve been doing that since the 1980s,\u201d Cervantes said, noting that Precita Eyes initiated its Urban Youth Arts Program in 1987, and has hosted its Urban Youth Arts Festival for 20 years, building walls as canvases for street art.<\/p>\n

At the 2015 Meeting of Styles artists\u2019 panel at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA), an audience member representing a group of young women muralists said her group\u2019s mural had been painted over.<\/p>\n

Cervantes was disappointed to hear one of the panelists, a street artist who goes by \u201cCuba,\u201d tell the woman that an artist whose work is in an alley with a lot of graffiti art can expect to have their work painted over.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a thing about styles,\u201d Cervantes said. \u201cIt\u2019s about what\u2019s right and respect for each other\u2019s work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Precita<\/a>
Precita Eyes youth mural behind the McDonalds at the corner of 24th and Mission streets in its original state in 2014. Photo Google Maps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Precita<\/a>
Precita Eyes youth mural behind the McDonalds at the corner of 24th and Mission streets in 2016, after it was painted over. Photo Google Maps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was after the panel that Cervantes discovered two of her organization\u2019s<\/p>\n

murals had been painted over as well. Brewer blamed the defacement of one of these murals, which is behind the 24th Street\u00a0<\/span>McDonalds, on a Precita Eyes muralist.<\/p>\n

Cervantes said that wasn\u2019t the case, and that Brewer had agreed to pay for damages.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe promised to do that,\u201d Cervantes said. \u201cShe was not happy about that. But she promised that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brewer also swore she would not produce any similar events in the future. Neither of these promises were kept.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo here a year later, they still haven\u2019t done what they said they were going to do and pay for those damages,\u201d Cervantes said.<\/p>\n

Questionable business dealings<\/b><\/p>\n

Brewer hired Alistair Monroe, founder of the North Beach Jazz Festival, to help with the business development of Meeting of Styles 2016. Monroe\u2019s job was to find a sponsorship sales person or team and bring them to the table.<\/p>\n

She introduced Monroe to Mike Lin, a tech worker and art collector and former Potrero Hill community activist.<\/p>\n

Monroe coordinated a bridge loan from Lin in the amount of $25,000 to \u201ccommence the Meeting of Styles Art Festival 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the contract signed by Brewer, she would pay $30,000 (the loan plus 20 percent interest) to Lin by Sept. 15, 2016. The contract stipulated that the loan would be repaid by \u201cfirst money received from and by all sponsorship opportunities\u201d for Meeting of Styles 2016.<\/p>\n

According to documents, Lin also invested $45,000 in Brewer\u2019s Mission Art Gallery LLC, becoming a 40 percent owner.<\/p>\n

Lin was never paid back for the bridge loan. Brewer claims the reason is that she paid Monroe with loan money in February, and that Monroe disappeared.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never heard from him again,\u201d Brewer said. \u201cAnd that was in February. He did a tremendous amount of damage. I can\u2019t find him. He\u2019s so underground.\u201d<\/p>\n

When El Tecolote contacted Monroe, who lives in North Beach, on Sept. 17, he flatly denied Brewer\u2019s claims.\u00a0 <\/span>He explained that after he began working on the \u201cstructural part\u201d of Meeting of Styles he became aware of some questionable actions that Brewer was taking. He was particularly bothered by her negative history with Precita Eyes, and when in March 2016 he learned of the McDonald\u2019s mural, he called for an immediate meeting with Brewer and McDonald\u2019s manager Richard Jones, to discuss how to go forward.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Jones] was on the same page that said, \u2018How can you move forward when you haven\u2019t healed the past?\u2019 And I told [Brewer] that was a huge concern of mine,\u201d Monroe said.<\/p>\n

Monroe also said that Brewer had agreed to pay Cervantes $3,000 for the damaged mural. Brewer sent an email to Cervantes on March 23, 2016, saying that she was \u201cworking with due diligence to take care of the back fence of McDonald\u2019s. The situation will be rectified shortly.\u201d (As of press time the situation is still unresolved.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole financial aspect of it was, \u2018Let\u2019s use this $25,000 to heal the past and provide us services and resources so we can work smoothly through this entire process to pitch companies to help support this project,\u2019\u201d Monroe said. \u201cAnd we were on that path, but then the minute she [Brewer] got the funding, she wrote me a check and in two weeks, there was no money left.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lin, upon recently learning of the Precita Eyes youth mural defacement, personally donated $2,500 to Precita Eyes.<\/p>\n

Brewer bills her company as a \u201ccharitable organization that supports the arts and provides professional art-walks throughout the Mission District.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Mission Art415 LinkedIn page, the company is listed as a nonprofit.<\/p>\n

But according to government records, no nonprofit exists under that name. On the company\u2019s website, donations go to Mission Art Gallery, LLC.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s website also lists MCCLA as the fiscal sponsor. But when El Tecolote asked MCCLA Executive Director Jennie Emire Rodriguez if her organization was indeed the fiscal sponsor, Rodriguez replied, \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe extent of our collaboration was providing [Brewer] space for the tour and the panel,\u201d Rodriguez said, noting that MCCLA also provided Brewer with space for Meeting of Styles meetings, although MCCLA staff weren\u2019t part of the meetings.<\/p>\n

On June 30, Monroe sent an email to his colleagues informing them he had officially severed ties with Brewer. On July 1, Monroe sent Brewer an invoice for the work he had done on the Meeting of Styles 2016 event, totaling $11,300.<\/p>\n

Brewer\u2019s Criminal Past<\/b><\/p>\n

El Tecolote has learned that Brewer has a financial criminal history.<\/p>\n

Brewer was apprehended in San Francisco on March 17, 2009 and extradited to North Carolina on April 14, 2009 where she was served an indictment for two counts of financial identity theft, three counts of obtaining property by false pretense and an additional charge of embezzlement. The Sheriff\u2019s Office in Beaufort County North Carolina had received a report on June 2008 alleging that Brewer had taken money from a victim\u2019s bank account, taken out loans in the victim\u2019s name, and tried to take out a life insurance policy on the victim.<\/p>\n

Brewer said she served \u201cminimal\u201d jail time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a chief financial officer for a very small company in North Carolina, and my name was on everything,\u201d she said of her arrest. \u201cMy boss and I had a falling out and he set off to prove that there was libel\u2026 I said I want my day in court \u2026 And my attorney said to me, \u2018you\u2019ll never get out of this place. You need to take a plea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lin, Brewer\u2019s business partner, still hasn\u2019t been paid the $30,000 on the return investment from Meeting of Styles. Lin claims Brewer now owes him more than $60,000, stemming from the outstanding loan and another $30,000 he invested into Brewer\u2019s store. Lin informed El Tecolote that he is planning to take legal action against Brewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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