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94: 120:, for more than 50 years. He was instrumental in organizing the first San Francisco outdoor art festival in 1938 as well as founding the Upper Grant Avenue Street Fair in 1954, an event that spawned similar artist-run festivals in the San Francisco Bay Area. 132:, on the Wohler Ranch in Sonoma County, on August 27, 1909. In 1923, when he was age thirteen, he and his family moved to the northwestern region of Italy, where he went on to study for four years at the 219:
On June 29, 2001, he was declared an official "San Francisco Legend" for his contributions to the local culture. A few days later on July 3, 2001, Peter Macchiarini died of pneumonia at the age of 91.
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In 1980, he was awarded a gold medal from the Association of the Lucchesi nel Mondo, which annually recognizes those who, as citizens abroad, bring honor to the Italian
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In 1954, he helped co-found the Upper Grant Street Festival, which later became the North Beach Festival, a local artisan street fair and sale.
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on Grant Street in San Francisco, nearby where his father Peter had his studio and his granddaughter Emma also works there.
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eviction of his apartment in North Beach. In 2000, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors renamed a portion of
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and sculptor, who was a pioneer in the field of avant-garde jewelry. He maintained an art studio and shop on
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and began his own jewelry studio. After studying art at the California School of Fine Art (now known as the
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worked from 1929 to 1935 as a stone carver, with several Bay Area firms; some of which were funded by the
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during the summer sessions from 1952 to 1955 as well as, in the same period, in his own studio.
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Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, with a New Preface
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Macchiarini returned to the United States in 1928 and, with the arrival of the
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Oral history interview with Peter Macchiarini, 1964 Oct. 18
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In 1936, following the suggestion of jeweler and artist
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In 1999, the 90 year old Macchiarini was subject to an
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Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara

jeweler
Grant Avenue
San Francisco
California
Santa Rosa, California
Art Academy
Pietrasanta
Great Depression
Federal Arts Project
Works Progress Administration
Beniamino Bufano
Ralph Stackpole
1934 West Coast waterfront strike
Margaret De Patta
art jewelry
San Francisco Art Institute
Mills College
province of Lucca
Ellis Act
Kearny Street
Telegraph Hill



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