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The following year, it reopened the northern stretch, but continued to block cars from entering the western section of blacktop — between the Upper Reservoir Parking Lot and Mansell Street — which will become a permanent promenade if the legislation is approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is great and amazing and I think it would vastly improve the park,” said Myrna Melgar, who co-sponsored the legislation, which is backed by Mayor London Breed and appears likely to pass. “I spend a lot of time there because it’s closer to my house than Golden Gate. 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In November, city voters went on to approve the permanent road closure by a wide margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday morning, a handful of dog walkers — and their sizable canine packs — headed along the car-free section of Shelley Drive, en route to the dog-play area known as “the Field of Dogs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Amy Brown, one such dog walker who visits the park five days a week, permanently closing the road to cars would be a major safety improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11964701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people give treats to a cluster of several dogs in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Hunt and Kristen Narita walk their dogs on the car-free stretch of Shelley Drive in San Francisco’s McLaren Park on Oct. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s great for the park. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 4:30 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/b>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved legislation on Tuesday to permanently restrict cars on a nearly half-mile stretch of Shelley Drive in McLaren Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Original \u003c/b>\u003cb>story\u003c/b>\u003cb>, 7:30 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nThe San Francisco Board of Supervisors is set to vote Tuesday on a proposal to permanently ban cars on a nearly half-mile stretch of John Shelley Drive in McLaren Park, a sprawling green space in the southeastern part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2020, at the onset of the pandemic, the city closed much of the northern and western portions of the drive to private vehicles. The following year, it reopened the northern stretch, but continued to block cars from entering the western section of blacktop — between the Upper Reservoir Parking Lot and Mansell Street — which will become a permanent promenade if the legislation is approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is great and amazing and I think it would vastly improve the park,” said Myrna Melgar, who co-sponsored the legislation, which is backed by Mayor London Breed and appears likely to pass. “I spend a lot of time there because it’s closer to my house than Golden Gate. It’s overdue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964778\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11964778 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-800x646.jpeg\" alt=\"A map of San Francisco's McLaren Park, showing the stretch of Shelley Road that could be permanently closed to cars.\" width=\"800\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-800x646.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-1020x824.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-160x129.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-1536x1240.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-2048x1654.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-1920x1550.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map showing the section of Shelley Drive in San Francisco’s McLaren Park that is currently closed to cars and could become a permanent promenade.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, before the Land Use and Transportation Committee voted unanimously to advance the proposal to the full board, Brian Stokle, an urban planner with the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, urged supervisors to approve the permanent ban, arguing that doing so would “create a slower and more walkable park street that’s also safer, more accessible and improves mobility and equity.” At a community meeting on the issue earlier this year, he added, attendees expressed overwhelming support for permanently closing the section of road, which on sunny days offers expansive views of the city’s skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stokle also noted that an analysis by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency found that closing the stretch of road, which is part of a loop and doesn’t intersect major roadways, had little measurable impact on neighborhood traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the bid to make the car-free designation permanent has faced little vocal pushback, especially compared to \u003ca href=\"https://slate.com/business/2022/11/san-franciso-jfk-drive-cars-bicycles-proposition-j.html\">the fervor of last year’s ultimately unsuccessful effort\u003c/a> to get vehicles back onto Golden Gate Park’s John F. Kennedy Drive. The Board of Supervisors approved that permanent road closure in May 2022 by a vote of 7–4, despite several of its members arguing that doing so was unfair to people with disabilities and the elderly, and one even calling the ban\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/archives/closing-jfk-drive-is-recreational-redlining/article_e62404ef-4e23-54fa-86db-a1a2aa0b0c47.html\"> a form of “recreational redlining”\u003c/a> that disadvantaged communities of color who lived far from the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the board’s vote hardly settled the issue. A vociferous group of opponents\u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/vehicles-jfk-drive-golden-gate-park-and-great-highway\"> sponsored a referendum to reverse the legislation\u003c/a>, only to have supervisors qualify\u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/recreational-use-jfk-drive-golden-gate-park\"> a competing ballot measure\u003c/a> to affirm their decision. In November, city voters went on to approve the permanent road closure by a wide margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday morning, a handful of dog walkers — and their sizable canine packs — headed along the car-free section of Shelley Drive, en route to the dog-play area known as “the Field of Dogs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Amy Brown, one such dog walker who visits the park five days a week, permanently closing the road to cars would be a major safety improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11964701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people give treats to a cluster of several dogs in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Hunt and Kristen Narita walk their dogs on the car-free stretch of Shelley Drive in San Francisco’s McLaren Park on Oct. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s great for the park. I think we get to use all the trails more,” said Brown, who noted that drivers in the park used to throw garbage out of their windows, and sometimes even used the road to do donuts. And motorcyclists often sped through the park and tore across walking trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the closure, we’ve seen a lot less of that,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while park visitor Maria da Costa said she supports a vehicle-free stretch of road in the park, she questions the location of the promenade. The section between the blue water tower and the picnic areas, she said, “would have been a better option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am for the closure being permanent,” she said. “I just think they should have made the closure in a different area because people speed down these streets in the park and they go by the playground and the picnic areas driving too fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Matthew Green contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s a sunny afternoon in McLaren Park in San Francisco’s Excelsior District. Throngs of people are gathered on either side of a roadway that snakes down a steep hill. As they watch, a person riding what looks like a giant black Converse sneaker whooshes past. Coming up close behind it, a cast-iron bathtub whizzes by on what could’ve been the frame of a lawn mower. Then another driver — this one clinging for dear life onto what looks like a torpedo — hurtles by, inches off the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the first Artists’ Soapbox Derby held by the San Francisco Museum of Art — what we now know as SFMOMA — on May 18, 1975. It was a race for homemade cars. No engines! You just needed to be able to roll, steer and stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/2022-soapbox-derby-at-mclaren-park/\">On April 10, SFMOMA is reviving its Soapbox Derby in McLaren Park.\u003c/a> Homemade cars that can coast under the power of their own gravity will have their turn in the spotlight, careening down an 800-foot hill. It’s free and open to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFMOMA/status/1502125212581576708\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Soapbox Derby is a revival of the 1975 event, which is now an institutional legend at SFMOMA. Then, as now, the country was in transition. The war in Vietnam had just ended and San Franciscans were looking for a bit of fun in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was playful. It was joyous,” said Amanda Pope, a professor of cinematic arts at the University of Southern California. “It wasn’t about advertising. It was just the artists getting out of their studios, doing something fun, a little outrageous, which is very much in the style of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spring of 1975, Pope was living in San Francisco and got tipped off about the event by a friend with ties to the museum. She borrowed a camera and recruited her friend, Lisa Fruchtman, to help her with sound. (Fruchtman would go on to win an Oscar for editing “The Right Stuff” and was nominated again for her work on “The Godfather Part III.”) The footage they captured became Pope’s first documentary: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/2022-soapbox-derby-at-mclaren-park/#doc\">The Incredible San Francisco Artists’ Soapbox Derby\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/9069815\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first derby was the brainchild of late Bay Area artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.fletcherbenton.com/test\">Fletcher Benton\u003c/a>. Benton wanted to bring local artists together to have fun and raise money for the museum at the same time. He hoped the museum would use any money raised to acquire more work from local artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Soapbox Derby started out as a whimsical statement that I made in the studio one day,” Benton told Pope’s documentary crew. “I said, ‘Why don’t we get the artists to build cars that would reflect their art or reflect their feelings or their fun? And we’d all get together and coast down the hill.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The flag is up on the first Artists’ Soapbox Derby’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Benton and his fellow planners got the go-ahead from the museum and started recruiting local artists to make cars and trophies for the derby. Artists got up to $100 per project to put toward expenses. Some of the more notable contributors who signed up included \u003ca href=\"https://ruthasawa.com/\">Ruth Asawa\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.violafrey.org/\">Viola Frey\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-carlos-villa-5561\">Carlos Villa\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1058px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11910376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian.jpeg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of a woman posing in a long white dress with a colorful cape and a crown shaped like a hat.\" width=\"1058\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian.jpeg 1058w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian-800x983.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian-1020x1253.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian-160x197.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1058px) 100vw, 1058px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florence ‘Flo’ Allen, a beloved artists’ model, played the role of Derby Queen at the first Artists’ Soapbox Derby in 1975. \u003ccite>(Courtesy \u003ca href=\"https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/items/detail/florence-allen-san-francisco-artists-soap-box-derby-16644\">Unidentified photographer. Florence Allen papers, 1920-1997. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to artists, there were community icons like the late Florence “Flo” Allen. A legend among artists’ models in San Francisco, Allen was sketched by the likes of Diego Rivera and Mark Rothko. She was Derby Queen, with a car-themed headdress that looked like a mini-version of something from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878995/preserving-the-legacy-of-beach-blanket-babylon-one-hat-at-a-time\">Beach Blanket Babylon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the cars were more direct in concept, like a giant No. 2 pencil from renowned ceramicist \u003ca href=\"http://www.richardshawart.com/bio.html\">Richard Shaw\u003c/a>. Pope interviewed him about his creation back in 1975.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really nervous about the pencil impaling somebody, so we flipped coins [about who would drive],” Shaw said. “And we just tried to tell the people to get back so that they wouldn’t get wiped out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cars were more conceptual. There was a giant hand holding a pen by artist \u003ca href=\"https://jamespatrickfinnegan.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=44253&Akey=BQTA3L7A&ajx=1\">Jim Finnegan\u003c/a> that Amanda Pope remembers as “The Mark of the Artist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 799px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11910371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/06_1975-First-Artists-Soap-Box-Derby_SFMOMA.jpg\" alt=\"What looks like a giant hand holding a pen rolls down a hill. Spectators stand in the background\" width=\"799\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/06_1975-First-Artists-Soap-Box-Derby_SFMOMA.jpg 799w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/06_1975-First-Artists-Soap-Box-Derby_SFMOMA-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soapbox car by Jim Finnegan, at the first Artists’ Soapbox Derby, May 18, 1975. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Rudy Bender/ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ingenious. At a certain point, he release[d] ink from inside the hand,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An artist known as Meadow created “52 Vibrations” — a mishmash of sculpted anatomy that included a row of hands clutching working vibrators jutting out like spikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was definitely a dimension of eroticism in some of the designs of the cars. Just a celebration. I mean, you’re talking ’70s. It was, you know, feminism, women’s rights,” Pope said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the car that is probably the most recognizable from the event — and which continues to capture the imaginations of people who are only just learning about the 1975 race — is “Moulton’s Edible Special,” created by artist Dorcas Moulton. The whole frame of the car was made from real bread — even the hubcaps, which looked like giant English muffins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11910369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/SoapboxDerby-BreadCar.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman in a car entirely made out of bread comes speeding down a hill. A crowd of spectators look on with trees behind them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/SoapboxDerby-BreadCar.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/SoapboxDerby-BreadCar-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/SoapboxDerby-BreadCar-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/SoapboxDerby-BreadCar-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/SoapboxDerby-BreadCar-1536x864.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moulton’s Edible Special, by Dorcas Moulton, at the first Artists’ Soapbox\u003cbr>Derby, May 18, 1975. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Fannie Farmer had a hot roll mix, and I figured rolls were appropriate, so I did that for the white bread. And then the black bread was a Russian rye or pumpernickel,” Moulton said. “It was a plywood and chicken-wire frame on top of four bicycle wheels. We had axles. We had a steering wheel somehow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She miraculously stayed upright all the way down the hill, despite pieces of bread flying in every direction. When she reached the finish line, eager admirers swarmed the bread car, prying off pieces of the frame — either as souvenirs or snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made this little quip about, if you get stuck in a traffic jam, you can just, you know, break off a piece of the fender and have a snack while you’re stuck,” Moulton said. Legendary San Francisco columnist Herb Caen printed the remark along with an Associated Press photo that ran in newspapers around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sense of humor and ephemeral nature of Moulton’s Edible Special echoed one big idea put forward by the derby: that art didn’t need to be inside a museum — or even permanent — to be worthwhile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess I am a ‘lifestyle artist,’ working in whatever medium I was currently playing with, like bread or, now, [in] my garden here in El Sobrante,” Moulton said, “Not every artist wants to be in museums.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So much more than cars\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You didn’t have to make a car to participate in the Soapbox Derby. Some artists made trophies instead. Categories included: “Most Amorphous,” “Most Macabre,” “Most Biodegradable,” “Most Illusory” and “\u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/232915\">The Booby Prize.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moulton’s Edible Special won the “Most Endearing” prize, but Moulton didn’t remember what her trophy looked like or where it ended up. I had to break the news to her that, according to SFMOMA’s records, the world-renowned sculptor, Ruth Asawa, made it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, dear. What have I done? A priceless Ruth Asawa slipped through my fingers!” Moulton moaned.[emailsignup newslettername=\"baycurious\" align=\"right\"]SFMOMA also confirmed it has no photographic record or description of the trophy, and even Asawa’s daughter, Aiko Cuneo, a working artist who still lives in the Bay Area, doesn’t have a recollection of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish I could remember what the trophy looked like because I’m sure I saw it at some point,” she said. Cuneo was 25 when the first derby happened, and remembers it fondly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had never been to McLaren Park before, so it was a great sort of field trip to go there. The location was so perfect because it had these really wide roadways that weren’t too steep,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Moulton, Cuneo appreciated that the derby was a chance to get away from the formality — even pretension — that often surrounds museums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Soapbox Derby brought the museum outdoors and did make it so much more accessible to anybody. I thought it was so great that these artists could relive their childhood and be outrageous and uncensored and just have a lot of fun,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A changing museum\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in 1975, the San Francisco Museum of Art \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/press/release/sfmoma-rose-to-international-prominence-under-lea/\">had a new director named Henry Hopkins\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had a background as an educator, and so I think he really saw the value of community engagement,” said Tomoko Kanamitsu, the director of public engagement at SFMOMA today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Hopkins took the helm of the museum, it was much smaller and less distinguished. It originally took up just one floor of the War Memorial Veterans Building on Van Ness Avenue. But during Hopkins’s tenure, the stature of the museum would shift dramatically. It would become the San Francisco Museum of \u003cem>Modern\u003c/em> Art, and Hopkins would help chart its rise to international prominence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kanamitsu noted a shift in focus at the museum in the decades following the first Soapbox Derby that coincided with that period of growth for the museum. She said the ’70s were a unique, inward-looking time for the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that if I was to kind of project about what happened later, I think there was a lot of outward looking later on in the ’80s and ’90s and 2000s about being a museum at a world-class-museum scale,” Kanamitsu said. “And I think that has, in many ways, created a separation with the local art community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within SFMOMA, Kanamitsu said, the derby is seen as a touchstone that encapsulates what a museum can be to its community. So reviving the event this year is a gesture of community recognition — and also a galvanizing force inside the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic has been so devastating, obviously to the whole world, but to arts institutions in particular. We suffered many layoffs,” Kanamitsu said. “Then there was the whole public reckoning around \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881257/sfmoma-faces-censorship-racism-accusations-over-george-floyd-response\">the censoring of Taylor Brandon\u003c/a>, and as SFMOMA staff, we’ve had a hard time, and we really need something to kind of get us excited about why we do what we do and to kind of show that art isn’t just something that’s on the walls at the museum. Art is everywhere. And what better way to do that than to revive the 2022 Soapbox Derby?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The first derby was the brainchild of late Bay Area artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.fletcherbenton.com/test\">Fletcher Benton\u003c/a>. Benton wanted to bring local artists together to have fun and raise money for the museum at the same time. He hoped the museum would use any money raised to acquire more work from local artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Soapbox Derby started out as a whimsical statement that I made in the studio one day,” Benton told Pope’s documentary crew. “I said, ‘Why don’t we get the artists to build cars that would reflect their art or reflect their feelings or their fun? And we’d all get together and coast down the hill.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The flag is up on the first Artists’ Soapbox Derby’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Benton and his fellow planners got the go-ahead from the museum and started recruiting local artists to make cars and trophies for the derby. Artists got up to $100 per project to put toward expenses. Some of the more notable contributors who signed up included \u003ca href=\"https://ruthasawa.com/\">Ruth Asawa\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.violafrey.org/\">Viola Frey\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-carlos-villa-5561\">Carlos Villa\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1058px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11910376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian.jpeg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of a woman posing in a long white dress with a colorful cape and a crown shaped like a hat.\" width=\"1058\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian.jpeg 1058w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian-800x983.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian-1020x1253.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian-160x197.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1058px) 100vw, 1058px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florence ‘Flo’ Allen, a beloved artists’ model, played the role of Derby Queen at the first Artists’ Soapbox Derby in 1975. \u003ccite>(Courtesy \u003ca href=\"https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/items/detail/florence-allen-san-francisco-artists-soap-box-derby-16644\">Unidentified photographer. Florence Allen papers, 1920-1997. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to artists, there were community icons like the late Florence “Flo” Allen. A legend among artists’ models in San Francisco, Allen was sketched by the likes of Diego Rivera and Mark Rothko. She was Derby Queen, with a car-themed headdress that looked like a mini-version of something from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878995/preserving-the-legacy-of-beach-blanket-babylon-one-hat-at-a-time\">Beach Blanket Babylon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the cars were more direct in concept, like a giant No. 2 pencil from renowned ceramicist \u003ca href=\"http://www.richardshawart.com/bio.html\">Richard Shaw\u003c/a>. Pope interviewed him about his creation back in 1975.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really nervous about the pencil impaling somebody, so we flipped coins [about who would drive],” Shaw said. “And we just tried to tell the people to get back so that they wouldn’t get wiped out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cars were more conceptual. There was a giant hand holding a pen by artist \u003ca href=\"https://jamespatrickfinnegan.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=44253&Akey=BQTA3L7A&ajx=1\">Jim Finnegan\u003c/a> that Amanda Pope remembers as “The Mark of the Artist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 799px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11910371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/06_1975-First-Artists-Soap-Box-Derby_SFMOMA.jpg\" alt=\"What looks like a giant hand holding a pen rolls down a hill. 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I mean, you’re talking ’70s. It was, you know, feminism, women’s rights,” Pope said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the car that is probably the most recognizable from the event — and which continues to capture the imaginations of people who are only just learning about the 1975 race — is “Moulton’s Edible Special,” created by artist Dorcas Moulton. The whole frame of the car was made from real bread — even the hubcaps, which looked like giant English muffins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11910369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/SoapboxDerby-BreadCar.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman in a car entirely made out of bread comes speeding down a hill. 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And then the black bread was a Russian rye or pumpernickel,” Moulton said. “It was a plywood and chicken-wire frame on top of four bicycle wheels. We had axles. We had a steering wheel somehow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She miraculously stayed upright all the way down the hill, despite pieces of bread flying in every direction. When she reached the finish line, eager admirers swarmed the bread car, prying off pieces of the frame — either as souvenirs or snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made this little quip about, if you get stuck in a traffic jam, you can just, you know, break off a piece of the fender and have a snack while you’re stuck,” Moulton said. Legendary San Francisco columnist Herb Caen printed the remark along with an Associated Press photo that ran in newspapers around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sense of humor and ephemeral nature of Moulton’s Edible Special echoed one big idea put forward by the derby: that art didn’t need to be inside a museum — or even permanent — to be worthwhile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess I am a ‘lifestyle artist,’ working in whatever medium I was currently playing with, like bread or, now, [in] my garden here in El Sobrante,” Moulton said, “Not every artist wants to be in museums.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So much more than cars\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You didn’t have to make a car to participate in the Soapbox Derby. Some artists made trophies instead. 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