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Who's Behind The Knitted Animals In Civic Center? | Bay Curious

4,013 views · Published 22 August 2018 · 2:50 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: KQED News · 2018 · News & Politics

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Art is all around us in San Francisco: Mission murals and the Bay Lights to video at the top of the new Salesforce Tower. It’s part of our everyday visual inventory. So it's easy to overlook it. Especially somewhere as busy as Civic Center.

But Bay Curious listener Robin Guryee “loves looking for unusual things when she’s walking around the city.” On a recent trek from BART, she spotted adorable knitted animals near City Hall: chameleons with leopard spots, brown fuzzy otters, and giraffes licking branches with long pink tongues.

Which brings us to Robin’s question: What’s the story behind the knitted creatures on the trees in Civic Center?

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