New Familia Santana Mural To Be Restored

San Francisco CA

05 June, 2022

6:53 PM

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By Eleni Balakrishnan, Mission Local June 3, 2022 Don't fret — the scratched-out faces on the Santana family mural at the 24th Street BART plaza aren't meant to forbode something horrible, although it may seem so at a glance. The Santanas are just preparing for a makeover. This week, muralist Wes Marks has been scraping off the original faces of the legendary music family off the wall, and will soon begin the process of hand painting each of the five Santana faces to look just as they did before. "With the naked eye, if you come back in two months, you wouldn't see any difference," said Lisa Brewer, a co-founder of Mission Art 415, which manages the mural project. But, she said the new mural will "shine through the Mission for as long as I'm alive." To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.