Muralist Dan Fontes is a fifth generation Bay Area resident, born in Oakland in 1958 and grew up about a mile from the Grand Lake theater near Lake Merritt. In 1981 he received a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Cal State Hayward. He is probably best known for his Giraffe murals beneath the 580 freeway at Oakland Avenue in Oakland. Or you might know his Bethany Senior Center mural, one of San Francisco’s tallest murals located in the Mission district at 21st & Capp Street. Still other people might only know his Playland not at the Beach murals in El Cerrito. As a public artist in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past forty three years Dan has worked on some of the most recognized murals in Northern California.
Dan FontesRandall Ann Homan2024-08-09T04:31:49+00:00