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The OG Classic Mission Mural Walk
The OG Classic Mission Mural Walk (the original Mural Walk), is led by muralist and Mission resident Patricia Rose. Patricia Rose has worked with Precita Eyes for more than 40 years, as a mural painter and as a tour guide to the neighborhood. The OG tour includes murals both old and new, and also shares information about the neighborhood and the artists who paint here.

Precita Eyes
Precita Eyes is an inner-city, community-based, mural arts organization. Precita Eyes Muralists work to enrich and beautify urban environments and educate the public about the process and history of community mural art. Working with a wide variety of neighborhoods and communities, we nourish one’s inherent creativity and celebrate the beauty of their community. We maintain a deep commitment to collaboration. This dedication to the collaborative process ensures that the creative work produced is accessible, both physically and conceptually, to the people whose lives it impacts. We bring art into the daily lives of people through a process which allows them to celebrate their beauty, discover their creativity, and reflect their concerns, joys and triumphs.

Precita Eyes Muralists Association, Inc. was established in 1977, founded by Susan Cervantes and Luis Cervantes with other artists in San Francisco's Mission District. As an inner city non-profit community-based mural arts organization, Precita Eyes Muralists has played an integral role in the city's cultural heritage and arts education, to enrich and transform urban environments and educate communities locally and internationally about the process and the history of public community mural art, maintaining a deep commitment to collaborating with the various communities.

Max Marttila
Artist Statement Max Marttila is a fine artist/muralist born, living and working in San Francisco CA. His work examines urban folklore through a range of mediums engaging with satire, nostalgia, digitalism, street trauma, fashion, crime and resilience.

Safi Kolozsvari Regalado
Californian born and raised, has been an artist/muralist for 15 years. Coming from Santa Ana, she is now San Francisco based, where she graduated from the Academy of Art University with a BA in Fine Arts. Growing up, her artistic abilities were constantly nourished by her mother, a fellow artist, and her uncle, a master muralist. As an artist, she feels it to be her duty to reflect on the world she lives in, the result is a body of personal work fueled by satire and cynicism. Change and adaptation are a foundation to her art practice, rooted from an upbringing of constant movement, the results have been a constantly fluid and changing style. Her work focuses on culture, injustice and current events. Having art as a constant in her life since an early age has driven her to engage in community based art programs that empower the youth and give them an outlet, as her community did for her.

Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco’s journey as an artist is not only one of artistic mastery but of profound personal transformation. The fusion of his cultural heritage, deep philosophical exploration, and the psychological impacts of his life experiences created the unique and captivating art he produces today.

The turning point came with the tragic events of 9/11, an experience that starkly confronted Franco with the fragility of human existence. Witnessing such devastation, he experienced an existential crisis that shook him to his core—questioning the meaning and value of life itself. This psychological upheaval was a pivotal moment, prompting him to search for a way to cope, heal, and make sense of the trauma.

It was in his artistic exploration of the Día de los Muertos tradition that Franco found a cathartic outlet for his grief. Inspired by the concept of honoring the dead with celebration and remembrance, Franco began to create paintings that juxtaposed the inevitability of death with humor and playfulness. In many ways, his work is a visual conversation between life and death, inviting viewers to reflect on their own mortality in a way that is not filled with fear, but with a sense of humor and acceptance.

Through vibrant, almost surreal depictions, Franco transforms heavy themes into visual expressions of light, color, and wit. His artwork, although rooted in the memento mori tradition (which serves as a reminder of life’s brevity), is infused with elements of pop culture and irony that soften the sting of death. The use of stark lighting, anatomical accuracy, and vivid color choices pulls viewers into the deep, raw realism of human life, yet the humor in the work offers a way of disarming the anxiety surrounding our ultimate fate.

His approach to blending dark, human themes with playful visual elements challenges our societal tendency to avoid discussions about death. By bringing the topic into the light with humor and beauty, Franco’s paintings give us permission to laugh at what we all must face eventually. They offer a form of spiritual renewal—a way to come to terms with the unavoidable end through the playful, almost mischievous spirit of art.

Thus, Francisco Franco’s work becomes a symbol of healing and self-expression—both for himself and for his audience. His art speaks not just about death, but about the resilience of the human spirit in confronting it, making his pieces not only visually striking but emotionally transformative as well.