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SF’s Toppled Statues Give Rise to New Monuments

Instead of bronze statues, San Francisco is erecting temporary monuments of ordinary people.
 (Photo courtesy of Kaleb Duarte)

In 2020, San Franciscans began reckoning with the city’s monuments — many of which honored violent figures and fraught histories. In the years since, the San Francisco Arts Commission has been reimagining what public memory could look like. Now, temporary monuments celebrating everyday people are popping up all around us.

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Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.

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