Mosaic Bench Project Parking Lot on Felton Street

The Portola Neighborhood Association has partnered with local mosaic artist Dana Albany to give the Felton / San Bruno Parking Lot a facelift.

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Portola artist Dana Albany will create glass & ceramic mosaics on the benches, using the community selected design concept:

“Portola Petals of Growth”  

Community Selection - Portola Petals of Growth  

Lotus bench design in vivid, playful colors with foliage. Mosaic of rebirth, blooming flowers and enlightenment.

Project Funding & Timeline  

This beautification project has been entirely funded through the generosity of community over the course of three Drag Queen Bingo fundraisers. Thank you!   

Anticipated installation: Spring 2021

About the Artist

Dana Albany is a mixed-media visual artist, specializing in metal sculpture and mosaic murals. She has created and exhibited for the de Young Museum, the Exploratorium, California Academy of Sciences, Burning Man, San Francisco and San Jose Arts Commission, SOMAR Gallery and the San Francisco Airport. She has made mosaic murals in health clinics, schools and transformed walls in Las Vegas, San Francisco and Berkeley, California. A theme throughout most of her work is that making art can be a community activity. She has lived in the Portola Garden District for over 17 years, appreciating all this neighborhood has to offer in diversity and nature. Excited by the Portola Neighborhood Association’s work activating gorgeous gardens, murals and community engagement over the recent years, she is thrilled to be able to have the opportunity to create a mosaic mural here as well! Particularly in this time of history, she is excited to create a beautiful mosaic for the community as people are emerging from Shelter-in-Place, and navigating through social unrest  towards a better, more unified future.