Introducing the 2026 Hearts in San Francisco

VASU: Vibrance Within, Amaura Arts

Amaura Arts offers a variety of artwork, including landscape paintings, abstract and more recently alcohol ink art, that range in size and style.

Flower Child, ARTifact Studio

Founder and Creative Director of ARTifact in San Francisco since 2010, Lauren Sharp has built an award-winning program that blurs the line between art class and art as lived storytelling.

Everyone’s Invited, Suzanne Baxter

Suzanne Baxter’s lifelong relationships with visual art, numbers, and incessant doodling have led her to create beautiful abstract paintings that she describes as a meeting of the minds.

Castro Neon, Nathaniel J. Bice

Nathaniel J. Bice is a muralist, plein air painter, scale model builder, and craftsman whose works encourage their viewer to celebrate the beauty of the San Francisco Bay Area.

A Handful of Dust (Heart), Melissa Dickenson

Melissa Dickenson is a San Francisco–based artist whose work explores the intersection of material, memory, and place through abstract landscapes rooted in the natural world.

Where the Bay Meets My Heart, Taiko Fujimura

Influenced by Japanese aesthetics—particularly wabi-sabi and traditional calligraphy—Fujimura’s art reflects a balance between tradition and contemporary expression.

Pixel Love*, Charles Gadeken, Sam Broccini, Brian Bulkowski

Charles Gadeken is an industrial artist working in the Bay Area for over 25 years. Skilled in the manipulation of metals, Charles makes copper, bronze, and steel pieces of varying dimensions and functionalities.

*This Heart features an LED light show.

SF Kiss, Nala Kun

Nala Kun creates vivid, kinetic spirals in high-contrast oils. Each painting unites the precision of her Siberian roots with the inventive energy of her adopted home.

Porcelain Blooms, Millie Kwong & Carmen Wong

Together, this mother-and-daughter team merges experience and youthful imagination to create art that bridges generations, cultures, and the unique spirit of San Francisco.

FOMO, Leyla Nobatova

Leyla was born in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, into a family of two artists, where creativity was part of daily life. Her passion lies in abstract contemporary art.

Florescence, Laura Shieh

Laura creates her work traditionally, with color pencil or acrylic paint on paper. She also enjoys exploring other mediums including ink, fiber/fabric, beads, cardboard, and clay.

Sunsets on Ocean Beach, Kalani Ware

Born and raised in Oakland with roots in Hawai‘i, Kalani incorporates influences from both cultures to create vibrant and thought-provoking works of art.

Te Amo SF, Ana Bianchi

Ana Bianchi’s lifelong love of color is what connects it all and helps her comfortably move from one discipline to another and from one technique to another.

My Heart’s Cut Out For San Francisco, Barbara Bussler

Barbara Bussler’s mosaic work incorporates mixed media, including discarded, collected, or recycled materials as well as precious glass or gold smalti.

Only Separated by Glass, Sadie Ehrlich

Sadie Ehrlich is a seventeen-year-old student from San Francisco. Working primarily with acrylic and oil paints, her creative practice also extends to drawing, crocheting, and sewing.

Ice Plant, Gigi Huie

Gigi Huie is a self-taught watercolor artist specializing in botanicals, landscapes, and abstract designs.

The Heart of Town, Dana Kornfeld

Dana Kornfeld is a Bay Area artist whose work seeks to capture the resilience and beauty of the human experience.

Kind Heart, Natasha Kramskaya

Working with acrylic, oil, and mixed media, Natasha has developed a distinctive technique that features wide, visceral brushstrokes and the direct application of paint from the tube.

A Piece of My Heart, Eluterio Lopez

Eluterio Lopez’s work hopes to inspire those around them to give oneself a chance to fall in love with their passions over their vices.

“Puso ng Mangga”: Heart of the Mango, Nika Mariano

Nika Mariano is a Filipina-American and a first-generation nursing student, Health Advocate at San Francisco General Hospital, and novice artist eager to give back to her community through creativity and service.

Fog City, Jeni Paltiel

Jeni Paltiel is a visual artist, graphic artist, illustrator and educator inspired by urban environments, the natural world, and the interface between the two, from city birds to sidewalk weeds.