The Underground Art Crew is a collaborative of young artists who will work together to produce a multi-paneled mural with its foundations in painting combined with plaster sculpture, tile mosaic to be installed inside Mama’s Art Café in the Excelsior District of San Francisco. The mural will serve as a backdrop for public events and performances organized in conjunction with other youth organizations.

Our motivations behind this work are many. First and foremost, we are a group of young, passionate artists. We believe that art making has it’s greatest purpose when it serves to enhance, inspire and nurture a community of people. The Underground Art Crew is driven by the idea that human beings are one giant family. Another of our motivations is to create work that unites diverse backgrounds and inspires young, up and coming artists to do the same. This is one reason that we feel the need to incorporate painting, sculpture, mosaic, collage and spoken word into one piece, so that we can reach out to as many community members and artists as we can. Mama’s Art Café itself is another motivation that fuels our work. Mama’s Art Café embodies the elements that we view are essential for nurturing and encouraging artists to express themselves. Mama’s Art Café was founded on the philosophy that the youth need the arts and a venue to be able to grow together within any given community. We feel extremely motivated to create art for a location that will ultimately lead us to working with more and more young artists in marginalized San Francisco communities.