2019-Present
Chispa means “spark” in Spanish and Oscar chose that name because we want to spark connections between neighborhoods in Southeast San Francisco. We bring Chispa to events in the Bayview/Hunters Point, Excelsior, Portola and Visitation Valley. It’s  a mobile multi media gallery of artwork and music made by artists living and/or working in the Southeast. All the art is available for trade! 
Trade your art for art by Southeast SF artists at our public events or through the mail:

We trade your art for our art! If you make us a drawing, poem, story, song lyrics or recipe, you can trade us for any of the prints in the Southeast San Francisco Artists Portfolio. Choose prints by Juan Fuentes, Amy Diaz-Infante, George Harry Crampton Glassanos, Kaiya Canja Wong Jones, Sarah A. Smith, Charles Dabo or Anne Seeman, who are just some of the multi-generational artists whose work is ready for trade. We’ve just added new work by SE SF visual artists. We’ve also commissioned a two hour musical track by Southeast SF musicians, come listen while you draw or write. We want to build a collective cultural life in Southeast San Francisco with you! 

Trade with us!

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Illustration by Oscar Melara for the 2019 Chispa Autumn Moon Celebration, showing the Chispa cart with related activities and phases of the moon.

Funders: Chispa and the Chispa pivot project, We Trade, were generously funded by Southern Exposure/Alternative Exposure, the Fleishhacker Foundation, The Zellerbach Family Foundation and private donors.

Photographs by Sibila Savage.