San Francisco Public Works Annual Report - Fiscal Year 2017-18 | Page 48

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Trash Can Murals
Tenderloin neighborhood
Commissioned artists used creativity and paint to transform 22 of our public garbage cans in the Tenderloin
into unconventional canvases to highlight the culture and diversity of the neighborhood. The project,
sponsored by the Central City SRO Collaborative, Tenderloin Museum and the Tenderloin Housing Clinic,
was part of an effort to improve the Tenderloin with murals and other public artwork. The neighborhood is
at once gritty and vibrant – and always buzzing. The Public Works garbage cans, made out of concrete and
metal, weigh 900 pounds apiece and normally are assigned a dark green paint job.