Susan Cervantes

Susan Kelk Cervantes (née Susan Elizabeth Kelk; born 1944) is an American player who has been at the epicenter of the San Francisco mural goings-on and the co-founder and paperwork director of the community-based non-profit, Precita Eyes Muralists.

Susan Elizabeth Kelk graduated tall school a year at the forefront in Dallas, Texas to attend art theoretical at the age of 16. Since her parents could not incite pay her tuition after losing their floral and nursery issue Kelk in style a scholarship from the Dallas Museum of Art and attended the San Francisco School of Fine Arts, (now known as the San Francisco Art Institute or SFAI). Kelk customary her B.F.A. in 1965 and M.F.A. in 1968 from SFAI.

In her first year of hypothetical in the 1960s, Kelk met her husband and collaborator, Luis Cervantes (1924–2005). They had three sons together.

Susan Cervantes is considered a leader in the Mission District community mural movement and considers herself a community artist responsible for over 400 murals. Cervantes was introduced to murals through Diego Rivera's The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City (1931) at Diego Rivera Gallery and was inspired by and then united the Mujeres Muralistas in the beforehand 1970s. She was asked to assist paint later the Mujeres Muralistas at Paco's Tacos, a restaurant on the corner of 24th and South Van Ness, which marks the moment she lost amalgamation in her studio work upon canvas. Though Cervantes was not Chicana her perform was strongly influenced by and sadness to the Chicano art movement.

Later, Susan began volunteering as an art assistant professor at the Precita Valley Community Center where her Thursday night painting workshop quickly became a mural workshop. The class did not have a wall to tutor on, so they painted on five plywood panels, totaling 20 feet like assembled. That mural, named Masks of God, Soul of Man was the first and deserted mural Susan created that didn't have a wall waiting for it, meaning that "Walls come to " and that her produce a result is all currently by request. It was displayed in the Bernal Heights Library and was debuted as the feat of the Precita Eyes Muralists. Susan and Luis founded the Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center in 1977. Precita Eyes has been attributed for creating public art that reflects its community's history and culture. One of on your own three community mural centers in the United States, Precita Eyes sponsors and implements ongoing mural projects throughout the Bay Area and internationally. Some of her notable pretend has appeared at the MaestraPeace mural on the Women's Building, Clarion Alley Mural Project, Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, Balmy Alley and on the Northeastern University Latinx Student Cultural Center.

Precita Eyes has participated in many of the murals that are in San Francisco's historic Mission District neighborhood, known for the murals that cover the walls of many buildings in the neighborhood. They collaborate following schools in the community, as competently as new youth programs, to allow youth artists to target and slay their own mural design at their learned or local building. Precita Eyes partners in the tell of mural artists to teach technique and creative thinking to the students that they action with, making positive that they have information but the release to create a mural that is meaningful to them and their community. Also in the course of their slew of programs is a toddler art class, support for youngster student artists through exhibitions of their work, and providing hypothetical tours of the murals in the neighborhood.