The Mission of Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) is to support and produce socially engaged and aesthetically innovative public art, locally and globally as a grassroots artist-run organization based in San Francisco’s Mission District. CAMP is a community, a public space, and an organizing force that uses public art (murals, street art, performance art, dance, poster projects, literary events) as a means for supporting social, economic, racial, and environmental justice messaging and storytelling.

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CAMP is a fiscally-sponsored project of Independent Arts & Media, a 501c3 not-for-profit organization

 

The evolution of CAMP since its beginnings has been one of incredible successes:

  • The initial transformation of Clarion Alley to a space filled with murals
  • Over 900 murals created since 1992
  • The Labor Temple Project in the Redstone Building at 16th and Capp Streets in 1997
  • The international exchange and residency project Sama-Sama/Together with Apotik Komik of Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 2003
  • The international exchange and residency project Bangkit/Arise with Desa Panggungharjo and Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 2018
  • Manifest Differently, a multifaceted project featuring 38 multigenerational artists and poets interrogating the expansionist ideology of Manifest Destiny, its legacies of inherited and perpetuated violence, trauma, and addiction, and the outgrowth of resistance and resilience – giving fire to movements for social change.
  • CAMP’s support of over 900 artists
  • CAMP receives over 200,000 visitors annually
  • CAMP’s ongoing collaborations with our many neighbors and community partners
  • CAMP’s active work in support of social, economic, and environmental justice