Giving Life to the Community
Artists
Dana Albany & Michael Flash Hopkins:
In 1994, Dana Albany began making sculptures out of salvaged materials found on the streets of San Francisco. Her art work emerges from a mixed palate of recycled and discarded materials that are either symbolically representative as a whole concept in an art piece or evoke new meaning by transforming materials out of their original context. Without any formal training, she has been very successful in her career and has exhibited for the San Francisco Arts Commission, SOMAR Gallery, Minna St., produced several large-scale scultputres for the Burning Arts Festival, completed and artist-in-residence at San Francisco's Sanitary Fill Co., and has been hired to assist and collaborate on numerous permanent public art installations in San Francisco, Sacramento, and Seattle.
