Evicted But Not Forgotten: A Favorite Local Artist Returns

When people talk about San Francisco's economic stratification and the growing exodus of artists because of eviction and rising rents, they're talking about people like Andrew Schoultz. For more than a decade, Schoultz worked from the Mission District, where his best-known street painting — an elaborate two-story collaboration called Generator that's filled with birdhouses, buildings, and swooping clouds — still looms on the side of an apartment complex at 18th and Lexington.