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George Crampton-Glassanos is a Mission District resident and muralist. Crampton-Glassanos started painting murals as a child through Precita Eyes, a non-profit mural arts organization. Today, Crampton-Glassanos has completed several murals throughout The Mission and says that murals done by residents like Galvez and Gonzalez are necessary and relevant to the neighborhood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThose people that have a mural company downtown and paint spray paint murals; I can guarantee you they don’t know half of that history or the significance that it has to our neighborhood and a voice that was in a time where a lot of people’s voices weren’t being heard,\u201d Crampton-Glassanos said. \u201cThat was a way to put it in people’s faces, this what’s happening to our people back home. It [Painting murals] was a form of protest, it has always been a form of protest.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou see so many of these commercialized street art walls around the city that are being called murals, it’s like someone drew it up on a laptop or whatever,\u201d Crampton-Glassanos added. \u201cIt doesn’t have any relevance to the city or neighborhood and doesn’t have any true flavor to it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking to the preservation of culture in the Mission, Gonzalez added: \u201cSo what’s left now is the tenacious few that are still fighting to preserve all of that, you know, the culture and the food, the smells, the music, and all that stuff. So it’s still there. It’s still vibrant, hanging on tight, but the murals are part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two historic murals \u2014 both located at 24th Street and South Van Ness Avenue \u2014 were unanimously approved for Landmark Status by San Francisco\u2019s Historic Preservation Commission on Sept. 20, 2023. The murals \u2014 the iconic Carnaval mural painted in 1983 by Daniel Galvez and the Chata Gutierrez mural painted by Carlos \u201cKookie\u201d Gonzalez in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":57868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[765,24628,4017,24630],"coauthors":[23967],"class_list":["post-57864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-24th-street","tag-city-landmarks","tag-murals","tag-south-van-ness-avenue","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n