Muni’s New Tickets: A Canvas for Muni Art

The tickets dispensed from Muni’s new fareboxes feature these four pieces of winning Muni Art.

If you’ve bought one of the tickets from one of our new Muni fareboxes, you may have noticed that the back sides feature some beautiful artwork.

These works are from the winners of the inaugural year of Muni Art, and were displayed on 50 Muni buses in 2016. As we roll out a new type of Muni ticket, we took the opportunity to double them as a canvas for local art.

With Muni Art, a collaboration with SF Beautiful, each year we turn Muni buses into rolling art galleries by displaying winning work from local artists selected through a competition (the submission deadline for Muni Art 2018 closed this month). This relationship lets us help make your transit ride more attractive and engage with our diverse communities.

While each round of winning art is only displayed on Muni buses from January to April, bringing them to Muni tickets allows Muni Art to be enjoyed in the other months (and years).

The first 6 million new Muni tickets will be printed with four designs created by first-round Muni Art winners Ariel Dunitz-Johnson, Phillip Hua, Reynaldo R. Cayeteno, Jr. and Andria Lo. Designs for future rounds of ticket printing haven’t been determined yet.

The new artistic Muni tickets can currently be found on 20 of our longer, 60-foot buses. After the initial test period, the new tickets and fareboxes will expand to the remaining 60-foot buses, and then to all Muni vehicles over the course of the year. For the full list of routes served by 60-foot buses, see our blog post about the new fareboxes.