Balmy Alley

It is located in the south central portion of the Inner Mission District in Calle 24 between 24th Street and Garfield Square.

The earliest murals in the alley date to 1972, painted by Mia Galivez and children in a local child care center.

[2] In 1984, in a second significant wave of murals in the alley, Ray Patlan spearheaded the PLACA project to install murals throughout the alley featuring the common theme of a celebration of indigenous Central American cultures and a protest of US intervention in Central America.

Topics of the murals included the Nicaraguan revolution, Óscar Romero, and the Guatemalan civil war.

[6] Besides those listed above, artists who have produced murals in the alley include Juana Alicia, Susan Kelk Cervantes, Marta Ayala, Brooke Francher, Miranda Bergman, Osha Neuman, Neil Mackinnon, Carlos Loarca, Xochitl Nevel-Guerrero,[2] and Sirron Norris.