Bay Area Public Art and Visual Institutions Face Threats While Civic Commissions Expand

Clarion Alley, Berkeley’s Sinbad Voyage and “Berkeley...Is” murals, and Benicia’s Together We Rise works highlight the vulnerability of community memory to painting-over, defacement, and redevelopment. Haines Gallery’s “250 Years, Indigenous Futures,” featuring eight Native artists and an Alcatraz connection, adds a timely local exhibition as civic commissions and regional public-art activity continue.