Clarion Alley Block Party

Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) is an artists' collective formed in October 1992 by a volunteer collective of six residents of the North Mission District, San Francisco: Aaron Noble, Michael O'Connor, Sebastiana Pastor, Rigo 92, Mary Gail Snyder, and Aracely Soriano. The mission of CAMP is to support and produce socially engaged and aesthetically diverse public art as a grassroots community-based, artist-run organization in San Francisco.

In June 2016 CAMP launched its first website, which includes an archive of its murals.

Clarion Alley runs one block (560 ft long and 15 ft. wide) in San Francisco's inner Mission District between 17th and 18th streets and Mission and Valencia streets. Inspired by Balmy Alley and other murals and muralists of San Francisco's Mission District, CAMP came together to initiate a mural project on Clarion Alley. At the time, two of the founders were living on the alley, while another had helped found the Balmy Alley project.

While the Balmy Alley mural project focused on the theme of Central American struggle, the stated goals of CAMP were social inclusiveness and aesthetic variety. CAMP went on to organize projects off site at the ILWU Local 6 SF headquarters (1995), the Redstone Building (1997), Yogyakarta Indonesia (2003), and the Roxie Theater (2012), as well as gallery installations at San Francisco Art Institute, New Langton Arts, and Intersection for the Arts.

Organizers of CAMP and its annual Block Party over the years include Aaron Noble, Rigo 92, Sebastiana Pastor, Michael O’Connor, Mary Gail Snyder, Arcely Soriano, Diego Diaz, Vince Oresman, Carolyn Castaño, Permi Gill, Kate Ellis, Maya Hayuk, Andrew Schoultz, Megan Wilson, Jonathan Parra, Jen Bowman, Jet Martinez, Kelly Ording, Mary Scott, Tauba Auerbach, Ania Wasiutynski, CUBA, Ivy Jeanne McClelland, Antonio Roman-Alcala, K2, Daniel Doherty, Christopher Statton, Jose V. Guerra Awe, Mike Reger, David Petrelli, Erin Feller, Erin Amelia Ruch, Sara Jean Yaste, and Jamila Keba.

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