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RAW Nov 2024
Art Reports by or about SDVAN by local writers A+ Art Blog by Patricia Frischer: And the Pendulum Swings: How the election results of 2024 will affect the arts HURRAH! The San Diego City Council unanimously approved a recommendation to establish the City of San Diego Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) – the City’s first department to support and advance the arts, culture, and creative sectors. The programs of the office of the Commission for Arts and Culture will continue uninterrupted, providing nearly 200 annual funding awards, managing public art across the city, and providing research and technical assistance to the field. But this newly formed DCA will be implementing the new Creative City cultural plan in partnership with various departments and community partners. DCA’s mission is to support a creative economy by investing in the work of artists and the institutions and to cultivate local participation and access, and advance San Diego as a global art city. Please note: The DEPARTMENT of Cultural Affairs is a huge set up from an office of the Commission for Arts and Culture. We would be happy to see an Office of Arts and Culture at the COUNTY level and eventually a Department of Arts and Culture! Carol Rogers tells us that congratulation goes to the City of and Public Art Commission of Escondido. Their Strategic Public Art Plan just won an award of excellence from North County Economic Development. On December 19, 2024, more than 300 North County leaders will convene for a luncheon at The Seabird Resort in Oceanside to celebrate economic development achievements from throughout North County. These awards are called the Devvies! The San Diego City Council in November approved the transfer of property ownership for 1100 Kettner Boulevard in downtown San Diego from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) to University of California San Diego, marking a key milestone in a collaboration that envisions a major cultural center in downtown San Diego. UCSD has stated that the goal for the use of the former museum is to feature emerging artists. But they will first have to do extensive refit project before artists’ studios, and a community gathering place and an adaptable, multidisciplinary arts space can be established. Very topical…How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? An exhibition by Cog•nate Collective ends Jan 18 at The Front Arte & Cultura and Casa Familiar in San Ysidro. We love the Oceanside Cultural Arts Foundation sponsored Public Piano project. The latest one, "Laurel" , has recently landed at the Oceanside Civic Center Library. Artist Joanna Tawfilis and staff at Muramid Museum & Art Center spent countless hours turning this at risk piano into a community heirloom. Robert Parker, OCAF board members says it will supply hundreds of hours of “moments of inspiration”. Have you had a chance to see the plans for the new wing of the SDMA? The San Diego Museum of Art: A New Vision with Foster + Partners is the video which shows a building that is stunning in its function, but not in keeping with the visual culture of Balboa Park except as it relates to the mid-1960’s Timkin Museum. Kaz Maslanka ponders, “Could there be a compromise façade to the new wing, perhaps in the older style but made with new transparent materials? And what happened to the public input on this project?” On the occasion of the first exhibition of the SDMA Artist Guild exhibition at MOPA@SDMA, SDMA Artist Guild video has been created. It features work by Rosemary KimBal, Manuelita Brown, Kevin Inman, Scott Bruckner and Julianne Ricksecker among many others in the Guild. This show was juried by Hugh Davies and is on display until March 9, 2025. James Bliesner is the new chairman and we look forward to more new direction from the Guild. The San Diego History Center and the Women’s Museum of California are merging together, uniting two of San Diego’s premier nonprofits with a shared mission to preserve and celebrate the region’s history. The merger should be completed by the end of 2025, further solidifying their shared vision and mission for this region’s future. Ghosts in the Machine is another new Murals of La Jolla project. This time by Todd Gray and located at 1111 Prospect Street and no, it is not for Halloween! One for the new year: Madison Gallery presents the unique artistic journey of Ángel Ricardo Ricardo Ríos in his solo exhibition La Verdad Absoluta opening Jan 15 to March 15 with a reception on Jan 25. But don’t forget Santiago Parra for his solo exhibition Soaring Nature on view until then. Oceanside Museum of Art presents Marshall Toomey: Black Americana, the debut solo exhibition that showcases the life, history, and artistry of this former Disney animator. This exhibition is now open through April 13, 2025. Arts (A Reason to Survive) presents Recollections: Youth Arts Festival is a celebration of the creative experiences of all the young artists who participated in A Reason to Survive (ARTS) programs the Fall 2024 season, with the integral support of our community. Join them on Sat Dec 7, 2024 from noon to 3. The City of Carlsbad is in the process of commissioning Barrio Traffic Circle Public Art project. You can see the list of 9 short-listed artist, three of which will be asked to design the site specific work of art. Lightscape illuminates San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas with more than one million lights, tunnels, fire, sculptures, and artistic installations. See it all come to life after dark with color, imagination, and sound along a newly expanded trail including the Winter Cathedral shown above. Reserve your tickets here for dates beginning Nov. 15. Congratulation the ICA San Diego which raised $15K over it goal of $60K in its first ever art auction hosted by Sotheby’s. fundraising goal of $60,000 and raised just over $75,000! There was an online and live auction that took place at ICA San Diego / Central in Balboa Park. Art Reach has organized its own Artist Gallery at its new headquarters to show case artwork created by their staff, They are encouraging purchases for the holidays with a percentage, of course, going to Art Reach. Please email Laurie Evans for artwork inquiries or more information about the gallery. Valency Genis’s Tarnished Emporium is coming to Distinction Gallery in Escondido just in time for a holiday treat .Opening on Dec 14 from 6 to 10 pm. and on view until Jan 4, 2025. More info: Melissa Walker 760-781-5779 Holiday Afternoons with Art in Rancho Santa Fe hosted by Margot Wallace at her studio (Suite 5060-131 16950 Via de Santa Fe, RSF 92067) is the weekend Dec 7th and 8th from 2 to 5 pm. Art by local artist, music, bites and beverages. More info: art@watercolorsbywally.com Gracie Rhoads is teaching a Mini Charcuterie Boards workshop on Fri. Dec 6 at 6pm for ArtReach (1065 University Ave. SD, 92103). Craft the tiniest, tastiest-looking favorite foods using polymer clay and add them to a “wooden” board and/or make your creations into magnets or pendants. Take them home to bake. All ages: $30. We were thrilled to read that Matt Divine will be having his first solo museum show at the Oceanside Museum of Art coming up March 1, 2025. After reading A+ Art Blog by Patricia Frischer: And the Pendulum Swings: How the election results of 2024 will affect the arts presented by AFTA, if you want to know more specifics about California then The State of Funding and Legislation for Arts, Culture & Creativity in California is on Dec 11 at noon PT presented by Californian for the Arts. With the 2024 election, more than 25% of the CA legislature is new, Federal Funding resources are increasingly uncertain and the California state budget remains unstable. OPPORTUNITIES Heads up, the County Supervisors grants for some of the district that still have funds for the Community Enhancement grant, there is an opportunity for individual artists to get grants that are being matched by the Prebys Foundation. You still have to go through a non-profit organization to apply. The new County Commission for Arts and Culture will be part of the decision panel. To apply for funding starting Dec 1, organizations can: visit the County's Community Enhancement Grant portal. Check the designated box on your grant application to indicate interest. Application due Jan 31, 2025. Current grant applicants will be automatically reviewed for eligibility. Watch for a webinar to be announced. For questions about the matching program, contact arts@sdcounty.ca.gov . The Escondido Arts Partnership is pleased to announce the Fifteenth annual presentation of WOOD, A Furniture Show hosted by Brian Murphy of Murphy’s Fine Woodworking. Deadline to submit is Dec 14 for this January, 2025 exhibition. The fifth annual Teeny Tiny Art Mart at Oceanside Museum of Art starts in Feb 9 so start now to craft your own 5-inch by 5-inch miniature masterpiece. The deadline for Teeny Tiny Art submissions is Jan 12, 2025. Call for Artists: the Oceanside Transit Center Pedestrian Tunnel Public Art Project is a large-scale opportunity to impact thousands of residents and visitors on a daily basis in Oceanside's Cultural District! The budget is $165k. Open now, due Dec 6. Oceanside Museum of Art Artist Alliance submissions for the Annual Artist Alliance Gathering Light exhibition at Ashton Gallery @ Art on 30th are open until Dec 4th. Consider artworks that are luminous, bright, hopeful, reflective either literally or in concept, and reviving in spirit. $20 for first submission, $10 for each thereafter. Please contact katie@oma-online.org if you would like to be considered for a scholarship. Young Art 2025: Nurture and Nature at Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art. This is the first year of the merger of two youth exhibition programs: The San Diego Museum of Art’s Young Art and the Museum of Photographic Arts’ Youth Exhibition. Youth artists from grades K-12 in the San Diego and Tijuana regions are encouraged to submit from Dec 2-20, 2024. On View April 5–May 18, 2025. Studio Ace reminds us that they are looking for new art teachers and teaching artists for 2025 to round out their offerings in Oceanside. Contact info@studioace.org The City of San Diego has opened its arts and culture funding application cycle. The guidelines are now released and online applications for two organizational categories: the Organizational Support Program and Creative Communities San Diego. Both are due November 25 They are also making a call for panelist for application review taking place in March 2025. Applications due Tuesday, Dec 31, 2024. SDVAN has partnered with Artists Sunday Dec 1st to unite individual artists and organizations locally and nationwide and promote the purchase of art during the busiest shopping weekend of the year. Participating artists receive a comprehensive marketing toolkit that includes everything needed to create customized marketing materials for your storefront, website, and social media. And the best part is… it’s free! We hope you’ll join this movement of passionate and talented artists. Sign up at https://artistssunday.com/artists/ Prebys Sparx is a challenge that is focused on improving community health and well-being for San Diego youth. Managed by the Prebys Foundation in partnership with Carrot, the challenge seeks to recognize and support bold ideas that activate arts, culture, and/or nature to address growing mental health disparities and promote behavioral well-being among youth. Up to four honorable mentions will each receive $25,000 and one grand prize winner will receive $1 million. NOTE: Local SD county non-profit organizations with partners who have registered, you have until Dec 4 to apply. Complete the readiness quiz to determine eligibility. More info: questions@prebyssparx.org . Have you got tidbits or other bits of gossip that you want to broadcast. Contact info@sdvisualarts.net
The New Children's Museum's introduces the new Innovators Lab workshop, Cozy Creature Creations where visitors will be able to create their own soft, plush creature using felt, yarn, kid-safe plastic sewing needles, and loads of decorations. Mon + Wed-Sun from 10:30am + 2:30pm. David Zapf Collection at Phes Gallery from Jan 21 – Feb 17 Picked RAW Peeled by Patricia Frischer The Unveiling Impact of AEP6: A Morning of Arts and Culture at the Museum of Photographic Arts of the San Diego Museum of Art on Thurs. Jan 25 from 10am to 12:30 . ( 1649 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101). Join the celebration of unprecedented collaboration among seven municipalities and two cultural districts throughout San Diego County to give our region its first measure of the countywide economic impact of the Arts AEP6. Featuring a talk by Randy Cohen , Vice President of Research and Policy at Americans for the Arts (AFTA), and a lively panel discussion of arts, tourism, and economic development leaders Thurs. Jan 25 10 to 12:30. Free but .RSVP . Find time to visit David Zapf Collection at Phes Gallery until Feb 17, with a walk through Sat . Jan 27 at 5 pm to learn more about the work and put a bid on the art for sale. The closing reception and announcement of silent auction results on Sat. Feb 17th. World Design Capitol: San Diego/Tijuana 2024 has officially launch and it has a snazzy new website to check out where you can find programs and the events calendar. François Boucher: Between Fact & Fantasy with guest speaker Richard Rand, Associate Director of Collections, J. Paul Getty Museum at is an evening lecture and reception The Timken Museum of Art. The innovative project is a collaboration between the Timken and the Balboa Art Conservation Center (BACC) held on Feb 25 th from 4:30pm to 6pm. In The Magician Longs to See , at the Joseph Clayes III and Rotunda Galleries at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library , Peter Cochrane presents an alchemical tale about the natural world and humanity, using stories of life, death, and the human desire to preserve. On view until April 13. Artists Oriana Poindexter and Dwight Hwang are exhibiting Hold Fast at the Birch Aquarium opening Feb 8 th with an immersive art exhibition exploring local kelp forests and climate change. Mesa College Art Gallery presents Margaret Noble has a solo exhibition, Dark Loops . This will be a combination of sculptures, live-streaming videos, preserved insects, and technology-infused components opening on Feb. 8. We can’t wait to see the ambiguous shape of a large animal body subtly suggested through a sparkling mesh sculpture placed on a mechanized rotisserie. Rest in Peace - Alexis Smith , who passed away on Jan 2 age only 74. Alexis Smith: The American Way - Playful and Subversive i s our report on her show in 2022 at MCASD. Next at ICA North the SUPERFLEX art collective from Jan 20 - June 2 who will be considering the perspectives of plants and animals. Ethan Chan and David Peña have been chosen at the 2024 Artists in Residence. The each have a six-month in the Sherman Heights Good Faith studio space, a stipend, monthly materials budget, professional development opportunities, and the chance to present their work in a joint exhibition at ICA San Diego North in the 2025-2026 season focusing on healing. ICA San Diego is going to present Pinar Yoldas from Feb. 24- June 23. San Diego Book Art is collaborating with the Athenaeum Art Center on Julian Ave. to present a Link Structure in Paper for Accordion Book workshop for 2 or more volumes is taught by Sol Rébora This 2 day classes is Feb 16/17 from 9 am to 5 pm.. Register by Feb 7. Tiffany Bociek is having a solo show at Sparks Gallery until March 13. This is followed by solo shows by both Monty Montgomery and Alexander Arshansky on the upper level from March 1 but with a reception on March 23 . Opening on Jan 27 at the Mingei International Museum , the exhibition, La Frontera , explores the complexity of the U.S.–Mexico border as a physical location, politicized space, and personal experience through the medium of JEWELRY! Sophie’s Art Gallery artists present a weather-inspired collection of umbrellas embellished with original designs, papier mâché ́ sculptures, contemporary jewelry, heart prints, mosaics, and a Weaving Rainbow just in time for Valentine’s Day shopping. Love in the Forecast is opening Feb 9 and showing until March 31 st. More info: Wendy Morris 619-593-2205 MCASD received a grant from the Luce Foundation for the Sept 2024 exhibition For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability and its catalogue. This is the first historical survey of artistic responses to sickness, health, and medicine broadly organized as part of Pacific Standard Time, an initiative of the Getty Foundation. Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today will show first starting April 18 through July 28. revealing the Caribbean as a place defined by constant exchange, displacement, and movement rather than by geography, language, or ethnicity. The 2024 Russell Lecture, featuring LA-based artist Elliott Hundley is presented by MCASD with support from UC San Diego on Feb 9 at 6:30 pm at Jacobs Hall in La Jolla Oceanside Museum of Art announces a visionary new exhibition, Ving Simpson : Inside Out from February 17 – May 12. This multidimensional retrospective explores Simpson’s quest to comprehend the sublime mysteries of reality through the lens of symbolism and abstraction showcasing nearly three decades of works by this local artist. The San Diego Museum of Art received the Art Bridges Access for All grant for $1.6 million and has now introduced FREE admission to all visitors on the second Thursday of each month. Additionally, free general admission is extended daily to active and veteran military service members with a valid military ID, plus one guest, and all students with student ID. Read all about the other Access to Art programs at SDMA. There is a new exhibition space and coffee bar in Carlsbad: Hotwater Gallery (HTWTR). Right now, they are showing a collector of local music photographers. Opposites at Distinction Gallery in Escondido on Sat, February 10th, 6-10 pm is an art show by Divergence Artist Collective celebrating dichotomy and attraction - just in time for Valentine's day. The show is on view until March 2. More info: Melissa Walker 760-781-5779 Vanguard Culture is offering a virtual workshop on Wed. March 13 from noon to 1 pm for Financial Literacy for Artists . Join a dynamic conversation with finance and tourism leader, Dr. Brian S. Lesson about how to develop strong financial skills as a creative professional. This workshop is geared toward painters, musicians, sculptors, architects, poets, vocalists, dancers, actors, applied artists, potters, filmmakers, glassworkers, jewelry makers, photographers, and designers. Register for $10 The artist team, Greenmeme , is a collaboration between artists Freyja Bardell and Brian Howe. They have been selected to create the public art for the Carlsbad I-5 underpass on Chestnut between Harding Street and Pio Pico Drive to reflects the history, heritage and identity of Carlsbad’s Barrio and surrounding area. The Fairy-Tale World of Burgundian Art is part of an Art History Lecture Series—Dreams & Enchantment presented by Linda Blair at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla on Thurs, Feb15, 22 & 29. There is also an artist’s talk and reception by/for Michael Mercil on Wed, Feb 21 starting at 6 PM. Mr. Mercil is the creator of the 2023 mural ART IS GOOD FOR YOU, commissioned by Murals of La Jolla. Congratulations to Cathy Carey who is the new director of gallery programming at Front Porch Gallery . Congratulations to Alyson Benford Blum, the new Carlsbad Cannon Art Gallery Curator. Originally from Laguna Beach, Alyson was the Curatorial and Education Department of the San Diego Museum of Art, where she was the Manager of Art and Empathy Programs. The next exhibition at the gallery is Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Images of an Era The Photography of Baron Wolman on view until June 1, 2024. She has Karen McGuire’s big shoes to fill. Space 4 Art’s project Co-Creating A Community-Based Arts Center has been chosen as an Impact project by the World Design Capital 2024 . This is a yearlong effort to engage the community in the design of a large-scale, community-based Arts Center on Market Street. there is a free program Oceanside Museum of Art to virtually visit 3 cities around the world and zoom into the city’s art, architecture and culinary heritage. Each one is from 6:30pm-7:45pm starting with Honolulu, Hawaii on Jan 24, then Puebla, Mexico, July 17 and Vienna, Austria Nov 13. Check out Virtual Art Road Trips to sign up. California Center for the Arts, Escondido in association with the Escondido Art Association is offering $25 open studio art classes every Wednesday from 9:30 to noon. The classes are facilitated by Igor Koutsenko . There is a new 2024 CA Arts Advocacy Field Survey put out by Californians for the Arts. They would appreciate any data that you can supply to them about your needs. Also, they are a spiffy new logo! On Jan 27 from 3 - 4 pm Oolong Gallery is hosting the opening reception for Hiroshi McDonald Mori: [4: 画像 : Simulacrum] , a solo show of mixed media salt prints spanning the entire warehouse and foyer of this annex warehouse space. The exhibition runs through March 5. The San Diego Tourism Authority (SDTA) announced its 2024-2025 Tourism Accelerator cohort. The initiative, one of the first of its kind in the country, promotes diversity, equity and inclusion in the local tourism industry by providing free membership, mentoring, education and networking opportunities to businesses owned by women, veterans, people of color, people with disabilities and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Congratulation to Studio Door , the only art gallery and the only LGBTQIA+ company to receive this benefit. T he Bonita Museum & Cultural Center has announced it winter season with Susan J. Osborn Bonita: Neighborhood Impressions & Dream s Feb 10 to 24, Audi Lawson Jan 31 to March 3, Veterans Art Project starting March 9 and Microtonal Music , The Artistry of Johnny Rinehard on Sat. April 6curated by Vallo Riberto. OPPORTUNITIES (click to see a list of all current opportunities listed on SDVAN) Arts: A Reason to Survive (ARTS') Board of Directors is leading a search for the next Executive Director & CEO. James Halliday has left that position after a wonderful period of energizing the organization. Art on 30 th is making a call for artists for Red Hot Regional Show at the Ashton Gallery. Submit by Fri, Jan 26 th for this February show that celebrates red and is jurored by artist Jason Humphrey. Entry Fee: 2 for $35, 4 for $45. The World Capitol Design SD/TJ 2024 is hiring for an expanded team. Communications & Marketing Intern- Photographer , Videographer & Editor, and Project Manager . Deadline to apply is Feb 1 so submit your resume, portfolio, and a cover to wdc@wdc2024.org . It looks like the Hilton in Carlsbad is looking for a new Sales Gallery Coordinator . Art History is one of the skills required although the skills don’t seem all related to art galleries duties. It is full time, onsite employment. Size Matters is Medium Photo’s annual juried exhibition celebrating small works in photography including a $1000 Purchase Prize with additional awards up to $500. Works under 10” long with all 3D photo-based works to daguerreotypes, archival inkjet prints, cyanotypes welcome. Juried by Crista Dix of the Griffin Museum in Winchester, MA, on view April 2-30 at the Athenaeum Music and Arts Center in Barrio Logan. Submissions due Feb 11. The UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute (QI)’s Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) is now accepting proposals for its 2024 season to propose works that push the boundaries of their disciplines. Submission for the $1500 grant is due by Feb 15 but only open to UC San Diego faculty, alumni, and graduate and undergraduate students. More info: call for proposals online. San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild 2024 Spring Online Exhibition is now making a call for entries. Fee reanges from $25 -$65 with cash awards. Juror: Nancy Lim, Associate Curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Department of Painting & Sculpture. Showing March 25, 2024 – May 25, 2024.Submissions by Fri., March 3, More info: Angelika Villagrana 619 222-1034 The California Art Education Association (CAEA) is holding their Annual K-8 Student Exhibition from Feb 26 to Mar 26 at the Carmel Public Library. Delivery of art is due Feb 22. REMEMBER: San Diego Natural History Museum is looking for a new Volunteer Coordinator. This is a part-time on-site job that pays $21 - $23/hr. Studio Ace is looking for a Shop Manager at $18 - $22. This position will be responsible for the running of their community gift shop, working collaboratively with the Studio ACE Gallery and Education segments of the organization. AFROTURE is a photography and lens-based art event that amplifies Afro-Diasporan work. Submissions for I See You: Beauty Through The Black Len s are due Jan. 31. The exhibit is Feb. 24 at Luxe Gallery at City College. Calling all artist teachers! The new Pacific View Arts Center part of the City of Encinitas Art Program is asking for innovative and exciting new visual arts courses for their soft launch in the summer of 2024. Classes that speak to sustainability and inclusion and that include a variety of cultures would be welcome. Healing Arts, fiber arts, printing making, all painting mediums and genres are included plus whatever you can invent that can be accommodated! Lectures, workshops, series of studio classes are all possible. The center is for all the arts, so courses that cross over from dance, music, drama, spoken word are also considered. The application gives you more details and they have newly made it super easy to pay for inexpensive liability insurance. Get your application in by mid-January and start a discussion with the arts programming department. If your class is too large (approx. over 17) for Pacific View, they can fit you into another Encinitas class room facility. It could be a class on using natural materials to make your own watercolors, using thrift store find to make cosplay costumes, Classes/lectures could deal with upcycling, legacy, belonging, experimentation, commemoration, renewals, monetizing your art…if you have a theme suitable for Encinitas, go for it! More info: Jess Roberts 760633.2745 F1VEart Studio & Gallery at Liberty station is renting their front gallery space in Feb, April, June August and Oct in 2023 for two weeks each for a fee of $300 for Southern Californian artists. This generously includes a studio space for the two weeks with no commission on work sold. Contact: f1ve@f1veart.com The Studio Door is making a call for artwork that represents the many faces of the Crow in reality and fantasy. The Crow Show 2024 from March 1 - 30, 2024 is jurored by Patric Stillman with a deadline for applications of Jan 31, 2024. Other deadlines include Proud+ 2024 (7th national exhibition of LGBTQIA+ visual arts) July 2 - Aug 3, 2024 with application deadline: May 28 and Liberated Forms is seeking artwork that represents body and sex positive visual art and is a celebration of Diversity and Desire, 2024 from August 8 - 31, with applications deadline July 6, 2024. More info: forallweknow@thestudiodoor.com 619-255-2867 There were than 250 submissions to this cycle being reviewed by World Design Capitol 2024 Programs and San Diego Tijuana WDC Design Council which is composed of a diverse group of community members and leaders in design. They also announced their plans to launch a new opportunity called the WDC 2024 Community-Driven Design Grants Program. This program aims to support local organizations and businesses in delivering community-driven design activities that engage diverse communities across the city and align with the objectives and outcomes of WDC 2024. The grant opportunity guidelines and proposal applications are now available and due Jan 31, 2024. Submissions are now open until Jan 28th for OMA’s fourth Teeny Tiny Art Mart. is on! Create your 5" x 5" miniature masterpiece for a great cause. All works will be sold for $25 to help spread the word that art is for everyone with 100% of the proceeds helping to support OMA’s education initiatives.
Our banner this month is in support of Octavia E. Butler: Seeding Futures at the New Children’s Museumis aroom-sized installation inspired by Butler’s story to imagine worldmaking in fantastical ways to adapt to and shape change in the future. Opens March 7th. See It Now: A Sensory Extravaganza in Escondido Picked RAW Peeled By Lonnie Burstein Hewitt. A+ Arts Blogs Why weren’t we asked? by Patricia Frischer and Silent Conversations by Patricia Frischer A tribute to Sandi Cottrell as she starts a new phase of her life. After almost 20 years with ArtWalk, Sandi Cottrell is beginning a new chapter. Sandi has been one of the long-time directors of ArtWalk, co-founder of Art Reach with her sister Judy Berman and without her vision, leadership, and passion, neither would not be the respected fixtures that that they are today. We worked with Sandi on the Business of Art Scholarships (soon to be announced for 2024) and on participation events at the ArtWalk. We would be excited to work with her in the future on anything she chooses. We wondered where the wonderful James Halliday would land after his ship steering of ARTS A Reason to Survive in National City. We are excited to see what he does in his new position of VP and Chief Advancement Officer at NTC Foundation and Arts District Liberty Station . We are so pleased to share this link about the fantastic exhibition for Becky Guttin at the CECUT. Coexistence, 2023. This was a retrospective exhibition of almost half a century in the Central Exhibition Hall of the Tijuana Cultural Center (Cecut), an institution of the federal Ministry of Culture. You can now see her worked installed in display cases right above the baggage claim in Terminal Two SD Airport. Marna Schindler, Sue Britt and Alejandro Martínez-Peña are three of the 12 Mission Fed ArtWalk featured artists who live in the San Diego region. Watch for them in Little Italy April 27 th and 28 th. Emily Knapp is the new President of Space 4 Art ’s Board of Directors. Having served as Vice President for four years already, and in her current role as Chief of Staff of the Berggruen Institute, Emily brings a wealth of knowledge and experience as she takes the helm for S4A during a critical juncture. She succeeds longtime President Bob Leathers, who co-founded S4A with Cheryl Nickel and Chris Warr in 2009. Space 4 Art is still committed to building permanent live/work spaces for artists. In this special year of design in SD/TJ, and the 15 th anniversary of S4A, resident featured artist Jonny Hoolko delivered a new logo. San Diego Made Factory had terrible water damage in the January floods and are trying to raise money for repair for their communal and artist studio spaces. Although they had insurance, it seems that the company is not willing to pay out. If you can help go to their GoFundMe page and donate to them. They are still hoping to have their April marketplace. Also affected World Beat Cultural Center ( donate ); Corner Frame Shop/Leucadia Art Gallery ; San Diego Black Arts and Culture District at the Jacobs Center. In response to the severe rain and flooding that affected San Diego the Balboa Art Conservation Center (BACC) , is making available resource guides to aid in the salvage of cultural heritage materials from flooding. It has developed educational tools and programs to assist with water emergency planning, preparedness, and response. Guides, printable pdfs, and links to national resources are available on BACC’s website and accessible to both cultural collecting institutions as well as individuals and families whose family heirlooms (photographs, textiles, documents, etc.) may have been affected by the rain. For more info: Elizabeth Salmon , Preventive Conservator at BACC. SD Unified School District VAPA Arts Organizations Meeting is being held on Feb 29 from 9 -11am at The Soap Factory (2995 Commercial Street, SD). This is a chance to spread the word about your arts organization’s educational programs. Save the date of Sat March 30 for the Oceanside Museum of Art Evening of Art and drinks to celebrate the opening of the following exhibitions: Allied Craftsmen of San Diego: Hands On Design, Coastal Exposure: 10 Years of Osider Photography , and Ving Simpson solo exhibition. Members free, Visitors $15. Remember the virtual sales for the 5: square.Teeny Tiny ArtFundraiser closes March 10.More than two years after the San Diego-Tijuana region was disignated World Design Capital 2024 , the man charged with leading the effort, Carlos de la Mora, was abruptly fired the first week of January as stated in an article in the Voice of San Diego . De la Mora became CEO in July 2022. A $1 million matching grant from the Conrad Prebys Foundation was announced in late Jan and there was also a $3 million investment from the city of SD plus more funding from the San Diego Tourism Authority and Qualcomm. Seven special events have been planned but these are still sketchy on the website. Save the Date: The San Diego Museum of Art is in full bloom this spring with an India inspiration for Art Alive . Floral designers interpreting works of art from the Museum’s collection into vibrant floral displays from April 25 - April 28 for the Museum’s signature annual fundraiser. There is an Art Alive 2024 Premiere Dinner on April 25, Members’ Preview Friday, April 26: 8a.m. – noon and the Bloom Bash that evening from 7 to midnight this year including work by Bay-Area graffiti artist Nisha Kaur Sethi, Garden of Activities with projects inspired by the art of India and the special Art Alive installation of the Museum’s renowned Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of South Asian Paintings on ages Sat/Sun 1 to 5 and finally four surprise location Petal Pop-Ups by Native Poppy two in March and two in April. Bloomberg Connect is free digital guide providing access to 200 works in the MCASD's collection. Distinction Gallery in Escondido presents Nectar by painter Mia Savage showing from March 9 (reception 6-10) to April 6. More info: Melissa Walker 760-781-5779. The Art & Vision of James Hubbell at San Diego Public Library Art Gallery opens Sat, March 9, from 5-7pm and runs until April 8. It will be showing concurrently at the following locations Architecture of Jubilation - Central Library; A Mountain Home & Studios - Scripps Miramar Ranch Library: Pacific Rim Project - Mission Valley Library: Lado a Lado - Otay Mesa-Nestor Library. James Hubbell builds a world he wants to live in - where the aesthetic is a reflection of nature - and philosophy and art are a way of life. More info Bonnie Domingos 6192365881 A short run for Visual Narratives: The Art of Observation, Photography ends March 3rd at the Fallbrook Art Center. Has anyone else notices a huge number of crows flying north and south at sunset? And that does not include the Crow Show at Studio Door showing March 1-30 with a RSVP reception March 16 . And many congratulations to Studio Door for being selected to join the prestigious 2024-2025 Tourism Accelerator cohort by the San Diego Tourism Authority. Hold Fast at Birch Aquarium is a show about the dangers of warming oceans for kelp forests. We enjoyed the video from KPBS showcasing the artists in the exhibition including Oriana Poindexter and Dwight Wong. Good news, it is on until September. UC San Diego’s The Murals and Public Art of San Diego Project wants you to take a photo of any public art you see with your phone and add it to a Google Form. Teresa Barth tells us about the Transportation Department delivering a December holiday gift: For the first time, federal guidelines explicitly include asphalt art projects as part of the roadway design tool kit that can be used on city streets to slow cars down at pedestrian crosswalks. At last, cities have been given permission from the federal government to unlock their creative potential and roll out streets that engage the eye — and work better. These works of art can cut pedestrian accidents by 50% and all traffic accidents by 17%. For 2024, 25 cities got grant money for these project from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards . They have funded 90 Asphalt Art projects since 2020. OPPORTUNITIES (click to see a list of all current opportunities listed on SDVAN) Art on 30 th is calling artists FreshRegional Exhibition jurored by artist and teacher Dot Renshaw at the Ashton Gallery in Hillcrest. Deadline for entry. March 1. Space4Art has two studios available for rent this March, a private live/work studio for $2,225 pm, plus a brightly-lit, windowed work-only studio $485 pm Applicants must be San Diego-based and committed to participating in the Space 4 Art community. Preference will begiven to artists with a demonstrated commitment to a life in the arts and a community-based practice, regardless of whether this work is their sole source of income. Please Read FAQs for all the details. It’s that time of year again for the 2024 Mission Trails Photo Contest . Adults plus categories for teens and even children 12 and younger with cash prizes. Entry deadline: April 1. This contest is for non-professional photographers only. Photos must be taken within Mission Trails Regional Park from an authorized trail. Selected photos on view at the Visitor Center from May 23 - July 7. Remember: Congratulation to Jim Bliesner who will become the new San Diego Museum of Art Artist Guild president on July 1st. Jim was previously vice president. Angelika Villagrana will continue to do a sterling job as interim president until then. She let us know that there is a new deadline for the first every SDMA Artist Guild exhibition Live at the Museum of Photographic Arts at MOPA@SDMA Community Gallery. The juror is Dr. Hugh Davies, the show runs Nov 9 – March 9 2025 and the new deadline for submissions has to move to a much earlier date: Fri, March 15. Escondido Community Foundation (part of the SD Foundation) has a new public art project ‘Art Speak: Escondido’. Part 1 of the proposal is the RFQs due Feb. 20. Organizations and artists that are moved forward through the RFQ process will be invited to submit a full proposal for art projects ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 by May 15. More info: Mike Peterson 619-732-0789 ext. 645 Calling all youth artists aged 5-18 for ArtReach’ s Dreams in Color for mini-masterpieces to exhibit at Mission Fed Artwalk April 27th-28th. Submissions are due by April 5th directly to the ArtReach office and all donated pieces will be sold at with 100% of the proceeds supporting their mission to ignite youth creativity. Creative Capital 2025 Grants open March 4. innovative and original new project proposals in visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms. The deadline for submitting is April 4, 2024 at 4PM ET. Join a live, virtual information session on Wednes. March 6, at 1PM ET tolearn more about the Creative Capital Award.
La Jolla in March: Deanne Sabeck and David Ivan Clark, Peter Cochrane, Manny Farber & Patricia Patterson, Robert Irwin Picked RAW Peeled by Patricia Frischer A+ Art Blog: Affordable Housing for Artists in your Cultural Districts and Patricia Frischer, Woman of Impact 2024 Art Resource Focus : Art Resource Focus: Thumbprint Gallery Preview 2024 by Paul Ecdoa The City of San Diego announced the 10 artists and organizations that will receive funding through the Impact pilot, a funding opportunity for arts-based heritage, sustainability and justice projects within San Diego Communities of Concern and the San Diego Promise Zone. The visual arts organization each of which will receive $100,000 over 18 month include: All for Logan , Kim Phillips Pea , Aja Project , and the World Beat Cultural Center. World Design City SD/TJ 2024 and The City of San Diego announce that 17 incredible organizations and businesses will receive a total of $550,000 in grant funding including in the visual arts: Insiteart , Art Produce , Outside the Lens and San Diego Craft Collective . If you have not taken the museum survey, there is still time. It includes questions about all museum, but this one is also from the Museum of Us . Or you prefer take the one from Museum of Contemporary Art SD . It is such a tragedy that the two adjacent building on Kettner that were occupied by downtown Museum of Contemporary Art SD are now being closed permanently. The smaller east building is the future site for a Navy Seal Museum. The large west building which was formerly the Santa Fe Depot and is owned by MCASD has an unknown future but will possibly be sold. Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today starts at MCASD La Jolla April 18 and runs to July 21. This exhibition is a rethinking of Caribbean art focusing on the diaspora and featuring an intergenerational group of over 20 artists who live and work across the Americas and Europe. Challenging conventional ideas about the region, It is set to reveals the Caribbean as a place defined not by geography, language, or ethnicity, but by constant exchange. Congratulations to Dr. Kara Felt the new Curator of Photography at The San Diego Museum of Art . Felt joins the institution from the Denver Botanic Gardens where she curated multiple exhibitions. She served as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Photographs from 2017 to 2021. She holds a B.A. with distinction in the history of art from Yale and her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. This appears to be a new position because of the merging of the MOPA with SDMA. The new Pacific View Art Center in Encinitas is will have a ribbon-cutting, grand opening event on June 4 or June 28, if all goes according to plan, and will open for public use the day after initially with a five-day-week, limited-hours schedule. The Word Design City SD/TJ Youth 2024 Club is a dynamic and forward-thinking youth group established to champion the voice and aspirations of the younger generations within the framework of WDC 2024. They are looking for students, youth leaders, mental health advocates, social media influencers, independent artists, technology leaders, climate activists, and among many more. Mesa College Art Gallery presents artwork by Jean Cornwell Wheat and Elizabeth Salaam is paired with 2014’s Beautiful, Brilliant and Brave: a Celebration of Black Women curated by Starla Lewis and Aisha Hollins for the Women's Museum of California. Presented by the in honor of Women’s History Month this exhibition will be on display from until April 18. Loom Stitch Beading with Steven Garcia is April 13 from 10 to 1 pm. We love free workshops and this one is produced by ArtReach brought to you by the California Arts Council Impact Grant. You'll learn the process of beading on a loom with tiny seed beads to create simple or intricate geometric patterns. Steven Garcia is based in Lemon Grove and part of the Tongva, Apache, Yaqui tribes. San Diego Regional Coalition for Arts and Culture is rebranding with a new name and an event to make the announcement on April 5, from 9 to 11 at UC San Diego Park & Market (1100 Market Street, SD 92101). The special guest speaker is Julie Baker, Chief Executive Officer - California Arts Advocates/California for the Arts. Trauma: Artists' Reflections on Healing and Resilience is showing at the Hyde Art Gallery at Grossmont College until April 18 th with a reception April 2 nd from 4 to 6pm and an artist panel on April 11 th at 2. Co-curated by artists Annie Claflin and Ted Meyer. Although the artists are expressing their pain, they are transforming it into beauty, order and hope and they are asking the audience into their healing process. Martha Pace Swift Gallery is now called Gallery 201 and is run by Liberty Station. They are showing Around the Way Girl by photographer, Delana Delgado , curated by Dinah Poellnitz of Hill Street County Club. The show started November 3 but is now extended until April 30 th. Hurrah for the Museum of US . Their CEO, Micah Parzen, stepped with help from the Conrad Prebys Foundation to rescue 20 sections of the TJ/SD wall when it was being destroyed. The wall has all sorts of community created art work on it and each section is 8 feet wide and more than 4000 pounds! They are now safely stored, but it will be up to the general community to decide where they should permanently reside. Read the whole article on KPBS. Kaleidoscope of Butterflies is beautiful mosaic is intended to make the park at 35th & Adams Avenue more family friendly and better utilized by community residents. The mural is on the Rec Center building walls, spanning 18 feet and reaching 9 feet high took 7 years of planning, 3 years of fundraising and now part of City of San Diego public art collection None of it could be done without artist Kim Emerson , Normal Heights Urban Arts & Adams Avenue Business Association & Normal Heights Community Development Corporation with Adams Elementary School . April is Arts, Culture and Creativity Month . CA for the Arts supports two opportunities for you to build relationships and advocate with your state representatives. Join them for Arts Advocacy Day at the Capitol in Sacramento on April 17th or organize your own Advocacy Week . Make sure you connect with your legislators in April to tell them Art Work Is Real Work and to invest in artists, culture bearers and cultural organizations to build California’s creative future.
OPPORTUNITIES (click to see a list of all current opportunities listed on SDVAN) The City of San Diego is seeking applications for a Program Administrator to administer arts and culture funding, manage funding award agreements and payment processes, and provide analysis on technical assistance to incubate and build capacity of artists and arts and culture organizations. This is labeled Public Art administrator but it is for funding. Application due April 15 th. The North Coastal Arts Gallery (NCAG)is making a call for young artist grade 1-12 as part of the Inspire Youth art program. NCAG is managed by the Carlsbad Oceanside Art League. The deadline is April 14 th. Brooks Theater Gallery in Oceanside continue to match art exhibition to theater performances. In April, the theme is mindful art, mental health support, love and understanding to go with the play Next to Normal. Submission only after April 13 to April 24th for showing May 3 to May 26. More info: Carol Naegele . The Bonita Museum & Cultural Center is making a call for artists for Beyond the Borders, a cross-border exhibition highlighting plein air painters in our region. The museum hosts a Plein air exhibition and paint outs in Bonita every year. This year there is a focus on celebrating painters and Plein air clubs in Baja, California and throughout Southern California. The juror for the exhibition is Jean Stern, Director Emeritus of the Irvine Museum. Exhibition dates are June 6 - June 24, 2024 with a deadline of May 31 st to submit. Submit by April 4 for the next Ashton Gallery exhibition at Art on 30 th. Confetti is the theme so bring on the color and sparkle. The juror is Thao Huynh French , co-founder of Mindful Murals. Mission Trails Photo Contest for non-professional photographers only is due by April 1 st. Winners will be on view at the Visitor Center from May 23 - July 7, 2024. All qualifying entries will be featured on the MTRP website beginning on May 23, 2024. Learn more about photo contest details or click here to upload your favorite MTRP photo . The San Diego Watercolor Society 8 th annual Plein Air Exhibition 2024 is making a current call for artist. The show is jurored by artist Suang Li and runs July 3 to July 31. Deadline for entry is April 26 th. The Imperial Beach Arts Bureau and Library invite South Bay Artists to submit to their Spring 2024 , Call for Art. Spring is rebirth, awakening, change. Guest juror is Galina Marcus , Artist & Founder of the San Diego Art Directory. Submission deadline: Fri., May 3rd. Exhibition June 1 st from1-3pm in the Community Room of the IB Library. More info: Dave Frink 858-761-4242. Want to win a chance to win a 30 minute 1:1 Art Portfolio Audit meeting with Sonya Sparks from Sparks Gallery (virtual; $140 value)? Contact her before March 31 st to get a list of questions about the biggest challenge you face working with galleries, answer and be entered into a draw. Oceanside Civic Center Public Library is proud to partner with NSDC NAACP to curate an art exhibition Juneteenth: Creative Freedom centered around the celebration of the local Black artist community and visibility for BIPOC artists in public facing art spaces. Artwork will be on display June 7th-July 5 th and opening reception June 14th from 4:30-6pm. Submit your online application by May 24th. Remember: The 32 nd Athenaeum Annual Juried Exhibition will open their call for artists online the first week of April. The Juror this year is Armando Pulido, Writer and Curatorial Assistant at Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. The show is on view from July 30 to Sept 28. For the first time The Oceanside Arts & Culture Grant Program allocates a total of $100,000 for arts and culture initiatives citywide. Grants are available in amounts of $1,000, $2,500, $5,000, or $10,000, supporting diverse programs across the city. Please review program guidelines and panel scoring rubric before beginning the application process. Application deadline is April 1. Oceanside Cultural Arts Foundation (OCAF) Scholarships are presented to graduating high school seniors seeking to further their education in the Visual Arts seeking to further their education in visual arts paintings, sculptures, stained glass, ceramics, fine jewelry, digital media, and photography. Applications are due on May1. San Diego Made Factory had terrible water damage in the January floods but they are still hoping to have their April marketplace. You can apply on their vendor page and help them to recover. Calling all youth artists aged 5-18 for ArtReach’ s Dreams in Color for mini-masterpieces to exhibit at Mission Fed Artwalk April 27th-28th. Submissions are due by April 5th directly to the ArtReach office and all donated pieces will be sold at with 100% of the proceeds supporting their mission to ignite youth creativity. Creative Capital 2025 Grants open March 4. innovative and original new project proposals in visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms. The deadline for submitting is April 4, 2024 at 4PM ET. Join a live, virtual information session on Wednes. March 6, at 1PM ET tolearn more about the Creative Capital Award.
Our banner this month is in support of The Studio Door’s 10 th Anniversary is celebrating with past and present artists Hyacinthe Baron, Patrick N. Brown, Brian Hicks, Maxx Moses, Nancy Plank, Chris Smith and Kenda Francis Also including: Miguel Camacho-Padilla, Andrea Overturf, Cassandra Schramm. Dedicated to Patric Stillman’s mother-in-law, the fused glass artist Evelyn Loss who recently passed, a cheerful face seen regularly at The Studio Door. Showing May 2 - 29, 2024. Save the date: North County Arts Network Networking Event on Thursday, May 30 from 9:30 to 11 am at the Brooks Theater (217 N Coast Hwy, Oceanside, CA 92054). It is time to gather and exchange ideas for the future of North County Arts and Culture. Information will be presented about AB812, the new Cultural District bill that allows affordable housing for artists. Summaries of the Arts and Economic Prosperity report and progress from the new SD County Commission for Arts and Culture and San Diego Art Matters will be hot topics. This meeting is for arts organization and local arts agencies leaders and their staff. Please RSVP . Art Report by or about SDVAN Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Picked RAW Peeled by Patricia Frischer A+ Art Blog: Public Art: A cry from the heart. by Patricia Frischer Remember: Ben Jay , the 2024 Professional Artist Scholarship Award sponsored by the San Diego Visual Arts Network andsupported by Mission Fed ArtWalk is in Little Italyon April 27/28 near the corner of India and Cedar Street. Ben Jay is a spray can portrait artist living with epilepsy, Ben’s art has evolved from being a bellwether for his own neurological healing, and grown through Blank Space Removal to provide portraiture plus artistic vision for local and nationwide agencies alike. MissionFed ArtWalk is sold out but you can still apply for ArtWalk @ Liberty Station, August 5 & 6, 2023 - Zapp Application and ArtWalk Carlsbad, September 9 & 10, 2023 - Zapp Application The San Diego County Arts and Culture Commission is launching its First Anniversary strategic plan on April 25 from 9 am to 10:30 at the Soap Factory (2995 Commercial Street, SD 92113) All are invited to RSVP . Oceanside Arts Commission, Oceanside Public Library, and Oceanside CA Cultural District invite you to attend the O’Arts: Creative Community Impact event on May 3, 2024, 3-5 pm at the Seabird Hotel. They will share the City of Oceanside's appreciation and recognition for the impact of local artists, advocates, and organizers within the arts & culture sector. ArtReach is going that extra mile and publishing a lesson plan for their call for young artists for ArtReach’ s Dreams in Color . Youth artists aged 5-18 will be exhibited at Mission Fed Artwalk April 27th-28 th. All donated pieces will be sold at with 100% of the proceeds supporting their mission to ignite youth creativity. You now can help nominate young artists in this Youth Art exhibition in five categories. Please do so by April 24. If you are downtown don’t forget the Barrio Logan Art Crawl which is every second Saturday of the month. This is one of three official state art districts in San Diego. The others are in Oceanside and Balboa Park . Every city should have a cultural district: read about Affordable Housing for Artists in Cultural Districts. There is a new community arts space in Golden Hill. Union Hall Gallery will open with its first exhibition on May 4 th. This is a memorial show featuring work created by sculptor Ted Berryman and the late Martha Moramay Cuevas at their home studio in Santa Ysabel over the past decade. The owners of Santa Ysabel Gallery helped to rehabilitate Union Hall Gallery. In recognition of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May 2024, the Bonita Museum & Cultural Center (BMCC) will showcase traditional attires representing more than a dozen countries and ethnic communities of Asia and the Pacific Islands. Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Culture Through Fashion and Stories opens on Sat. May 4, 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm with host Vanessa Paz, ABC Channel 10, and runs until May 26. Seven years after their first collaboration, So Say We All are teaming up again with Thumbprint Gallery this time where selected artists will be creating new work based on the written work. Showing until April 27 th in La Jolla, ten artists have been matched with ten writers. We are looking forward to seeing The Artist Speaks: CaraRomero (April 27 – October 20) at MOPA@SDMA Cara Romero is an enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe and was raised between the contrasting settings of the reservation in the Mojave Desert, California, and the urban sprawl of Houston, Texas. Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora is on view through July 21. at MCASD in La Jolla. Read the reports for both MOPA and MCASD in our Picked RAW Peeled blog. Lauren Lee McCarthy’s Bodily Autonomy presents two major works that spark conversation about bodily autonomy at the Mandeville Gallery at UCSD until May 25. In Surrogate, she offers herself as a remote-controlled surrogate for people who want to have a child. In Saliva, visitors can exchange saliva samples, bypassing the anonymity of medical and corporate data collection. Techne Art Center in Oceanside presents Afterburner, a group show curated by Chuck Thomas featuring some of our favorite artists including artists Tim Murdoch, Sasha Koozel Reibstein, Allison Renshaw amongst many more. Opening Sat April 27, 5 to 8 pm. and showing until July 20. More info: chuckthomas@techneartcenter.com 9179721752 Welcome Katarina Vo, the new director of learning and engagement for both Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) San Diego in Central (Balboa Park) and North (Encinitas). Vo comes to us from the Center for Photography in New York City. An update to our previous story about the downtown Museum of Contemporary Art SD . The smaller east building is the future site for a Navy Seal Museum. The large west building which was formerly the Santa Fe Depot and is owned by MCASD appears to be in the process of being sold to UCSD. The existing site-specific sculptures will be preserved. Cathy Carey, Gallery Director, welcomes Judy Berberian as the new program Manager at Front Porch Gallery Visions Museum of Textile Art unveils Latine Entretejida/Interwoven on May 11 with artists Irma Poeter, Marisa Raygoza, Mely Barragan, and Olivia Arreguin and their textile art. Complementing the exhibition, Latine features engaging programming for all ages, including artist-led workshops and a community art project. Rest in Peace Faith Ringgold who died at 93 glorious years of life. We are so glad to know that she lived to see a huge recognition of textile-based art works. We are looking forward to The Artist Speaks: Cara Romero . April 27 through Oct. 20, at MOPA@SDMA in Balboa Park…and it is free! He is also the keynote speaker at Medium Festival of Photography on April 26. The SMU Data Arts project results were a bit surprising for California which ended in the top ten for vibrancy of the arts (not surprisingly) but it is only ranked #6. With only 5.8% of our population rural shouldn’t we be earning a higher rating? Twenty percent is the average. With only slightly lower than average poverty rating (11.4) to the average of 11.5%, that should not reduce our ranking. We also have three very large cities which is more than most states. You can a look at their Utube explanation of the county wide results. It seems like California should be doing better. Could that be because of government funding? The city of San Diego gets $28 million. Los Angels get $31 million. The city of New York gets over $200 million and that state is ranked #1. Our thanks to Studio Ace for listing Valley Arts Festival (VAF) 2024 an annual celebration of Oceanside and its first peoples, today known as the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians, one of the seven tribes of the Luiseño nation. This year’s free family-friendly festival, themed “Kíicha Nights, Coyote Dreams©”, is November 16, but listing it on SDVAN means we all have a heads up. Thank you for listing early…please list often! OPPORTUNITIES (click to see a list of all current opportunities listed on SDVAN) Sparks Gallery in downtown San Diego in collaboration with Society of North American Goldsmiths’ (SNAG) 51st Conference has come up with a very interesting idea for an evening of fun and glamour. You can tell them about a special piece of jewelry, and if you are selected you will be invited to model that piece for one night on June 6 th from 5 to 8pm. Write up your story, take 3 photos of it and submit it by May 1 st. The better the story and the wearable art, the better your chances to participate in this Jewelry Show . (please note correction on the date, June 6 th) The Fallbrook School of Art is looking for a new Art Director with full responsibilities for running the entire school. This is a 30 hour a week job M-F from 9 to 3 that pays $30 an hour. More info: info@fallbrookschoolofthearts.org The California Arts Council Grant Season has started and there are three pages of grants to review. New for the 2024 grant season is the Grants Manual a 35-page document that helps you through the process. Grant application until June 4 th.
Note: New Deadline - Brooks Theater Gallery in Oceanside continue to match art exhibition to theater performances. In April, the theme is Mindful art: Mental Health Illuminated to show support, love and understanding to go with the play Next to Normal. Submission only until April 11 for showing May 3 to May 26. More info: Carol Naegele . The Studio Door is seeking artwork that expresses authentic, diverse viewpoints from the LGBTQIA+ experience. Show them what your Pride looks like. The juror Michael Swank is the mastermind behind Mexico City’s Art Gallery Studio and producer of Bureau of Queer Art. 7 th Annual Pride+ deadline: May 28 and showing July 2 - August 3. A reminder from Patric Stillman: Pride Festival Art Booth and Installation Pride Art in the Park . San Diego Pride Dates: July 20 th/21 st. A brand new posting for a full time job as Arts Program Coordinator for the City of Encinitas Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts. The Arts Coordinator's duties include but are not limited to customer service, opening/closing events, answering phones, daily shipping, billing, data entry, checking-in and tagging inventory, coordinating with artists, performers and vendors, hanging artwork, gallery errands and all aspects of inventory and supply management. There is a salary between $56,929.60 - $80,121.60 annually but do note: applications are due May 5. The City of Encinitas Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts is calling for two in house staff teachers that can create some basic curriculum and run classes in any gaps that are not filled by contract instructors. Visuals Arts Staff Teaching Artists $18.37 - $23.39 Hourly. Applications will be reviewed starting April 15. More info: Collette Murphy 760-633-2767 And note that he ongoing call for teaching artists from the City of Encinitas Art Program is still active and asking for innovative and exciting new visual arts courses for their soft launch this year. Classes that speak to sustainability and inclusion and that include a variety of cultures would be welcome. Lectures, workshops, series of studio classes are all possible. It could be a class on using natural materials to make your own watercolors or using thrift store find to make cosplay costumes for example. The center is for all the arts, so courses that cross over from dance, music, drama, spoken word are also considered. The application gives you more details. Start a discussion with the arts programming department and go for it! More info: Collette Murphy 760-633-2767 Two new posted we saw on KPBS: Submissions are open for a Mother's Day-inspired pop-up art show, Lo Que Me Dijo Mi Amá at Athenaeum Art Center. Submit your work by May 3 for the May 11 exhibition. ArtReach , the educational nonprofit co-founded by ArtWalk’s Sandi Cottrell and her sister Judy Burman is seeking new board members to help guide this dynamic, growing organization, into the future. If interested, fill out the ArtReach Board Interest Form by May 31st.More info: info@artreachsandiego.org . NTC Foundation at Arts District Liberty Station is seeking emerging visual artists from the San Diego/Northern Baja region to complete a 6-month residency at a rent-free studio within ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station. More info: info@ntcfoundation.org 619.573.9300 Remember: The 32 nd Athenaeum Annual Juried Exhibition will open their call for artists online the first week of April. The Juror this year is Armando Pulido, Writer and Curatorial Assistant at Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. The show is on view from July 30 to Sept 28. Oceanside Cultural Arts Foundation (OCAF) Scholarships are presented to graduating high school seniors seeking to further their education in the Visual Arts seeking to further their education in visual arts paintings, sculptures, stained glass, ceramics, fine jewelry, digital media, and photography. Applications are due on May1. The San Diego Watercolor Society 8 th annual Plein Air Exhibition 2024 is making a current call for artist. The show is jurored by artist Suang Li and runs July 3 to July 31. Deadline for entry is April 26th. The Imperial Beach Arts Bureau and Library invite South Bay Artists to submit to their Spring 2024 , Call for Art. Spring is rebirth, awakening, change. Guest juror is Galina Marcus , Artist & Founder of the San Diego Art Directory. Submission deadline: Fri., May 3rd. Exhibition June 1 st from1-3pm in the Community Room of the IB Library. More info: Dave Frink 858-761-4242. Oceanside Civic Center Public Library is proud to partner with NSDC NAACP to curate an art exhibition Juneteenth: Creative Freedom centered around the celebration of the local Black artist community and visibility for BIPOC artists in public facing art spaces. Artwork will be on display June 7th-July 5 th and opening reception June 14th from 4:30-6pm. Submit your online application by May 24th. The Bonita Museum & Cultural Center is making a call for artists for Beyond the Borders , a cross-border exhibition highlighting plein air painters in our region. The museum hosts a Plein air exhibition and paint outs in Bonita every year. This year there is a focus on celebrating painters and Plein air clubs in Baja, California and throughout Southern California. The juror for the exhibition is Jean Stern, Director Emeritus of the Irvine Museum. Exhibition dates are June 6 - June 24, 2024 with a deadline of May 31 st to submit. Special notice Change of date: Our banner this month is in support of North County Arts Network Networking Event on Thursday, June 6 from 9:30 to 11 am at the Sunshine Brooks Theater (217 N Coast Hwy, Oceanside, CA 92054). It is time to gather and exchange ideas for the future of North County Arts and Culture. Information will be presented about AB812 by Tracy Hudak of CA for the Arts, the new Cultural District bill that allows affordable housing for artists. Summaries of the Arts and Economic Prosperity report and progress from the new SD County Commission for Arts and Culture and San Diego Art Matters will be hot topics. This meeting is for arts organization and local arts agencies leaders and their staff. Please RSVP . CA for the Arts is making a call for us to rally against the 58% cut to the CA Arts Council budget. Please follow the instructions in the link and add your name to the advocacy letter. Read more about this A+ Art Blog: State Funding Proposed Cut for the Arts by Patricia Frischer Art Report by or about SDVAN A+ Art Blog: State Funding Proposed Cut for the Arts by Patricia Frischer Art Resource Focus: SDVAN New Grant by Patricia Frischer Congratulations to Patric Stillman who is the recipient of this year’s San Diego PrideLarry T. Baza Arts & Culture Award . Patric has been a volunteer, activist, and artist for most of his life, and in 2014, he founded the Studio Door, a hub for local artists - particularly those from the LGBTQIA+ community - to showcase their work and forge meaningful connections. They are celebrating their 10 th anniversary. Deanna Barahona, Santiago Diaz, Celeste Hernández, JAX, Marinta Skupin, Chanell Stone and Nathan Storey are all artists selected by the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) San Diego for their 2024 NextGen cohort , an annual juried exhibition showcasing the work of regional art graduates from July 13 through Sept. 1 in Balboa Park. Vision Museum of Textile Arts at Liberty Station is accepting donation for their Veranda Sale on Sat Aug 3. Donation accepted May 18 & 20, July 13th,15 th, & 29th. Only the following items: Textiles of at least ¼ yard, Quilt tops, blocks, and kits, Jewelry, embellishments, beads, and buttons, Threads, lace, and trims, Working sewing machines and sewing tools. Art Produce announced it schedule for Make It Yourself , the free multigenerational Community Art Classes in 2024. They are Sat, 11am-1pm June 1st through August 24 th. These are taught by professional artists and educators from their Artist in Residence program. Drop in – all ages. Held in the garden so bring a picnic! We love collaborations like the generous funding from the Linda Brandes Foundation, ArtBusXpress and the Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego (ICA) who all worked together this school year to connect 687 K-12 students to in-depth tours of the galleries and a hands-on project led by a teaching artist at either the Balboa Park or Encinitas ICA location. San Diego Made currently has three studios for rent from 120 square feet to 295 square feet. Get in quick! In collaboration with the 2024 Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) conference, Taboo Studio will be hosting a bracelet show for a SNAG gallery crawl on Thurs., June 6th from 5-8 p.m. or come to the reception Friday, June 7th from 5-8 p.m. Enjoy light refreshments as you view a fantastic show featuring work from an incredible selection of jewelry artists. More info: Julie@Taboostudio.com Dave Knopp is the new Encinitas Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department director. The department has a team of 22 full-time staff, 40 part-time, seasonal staff, but only 3 of them are currently in the arts. However, new staff for the arts is on the way to help staff the new Pacific View Arts Center. Previously Knopp headed the north operations for San Diego County's Department of Parks and Recreation. There is no information about his background in the arts. Oceanside Museum of Art will present a new juried exhibition, More Disruption: Representational Art in Flux from June 8 – September 15, 2024. This mind-bending exhibition, juried by John Seed, Aleah Chapin, and Timothy Robert Smith, explores the dynamic shifts in representational art that has been “disrupted” by abstraction, web-based imagery, and socio-political concerns with 50 works showcasing on how contemporary issues influence artistic expression. Jasper Johns: Drawings and Prints , a new exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art that invites you to explore works on paper by one of the most renowned and enduring American artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Running from May 18 to October 27, 2024, this carefully focused exhibition features 14 significant works on paper dating from 1960 to 2021, including six drawings on loan from the artist. Read our report: Jasper Johns: Drawings and Prints at San Diego Museum of Art Picked RAW Peeled by Patricia Frischer We understand that the exhibition open until June 14 at QI Gallery at UCSD is worth a visit. Fabio Esteban Amador’s Lienzo de Piedras / Canvas of Stone is a photographic journey through the Pool Tunich cave system of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Photographs of cave features intermingle with a navigable projection of LIDAR point clouds that recreate the system in 3D. The Maya viewed the cave as an entrance or portal to the Underworld. (Gallery QI is led by an interdisciplinary committee of UCSD faculty. Located on the first floor of Atkinson Hall, Qualcomm Institute, UC San Diego Campus, Gallery QI (formerly gallery@calit2) opened in 2008 and has a broad, international audience in addition to the UCSD community.) In April, the Spring Kaleidoscope in Carlsbad Village was bursting with new art painted and displayed in shop windows. This was a successful temporary art initiative in partnership with the Carlsbad Village Association. Their next event is Art in the Village, Sun.June 23rd,as downtown Carlsbad prepares to host the 26th Annual Art in the Village from 9 am to 5 pm, Grand Avenue and State Streets showcasing the talents of 130 fine artists from across the region and Mexico. In June there are several World Design Capitol SD/TJ events including: Proyecto ReCREA – Repurposing Waste for Coastal Resilience consists of a collaboration between A Su Futuro/Advancing Students Forward (ASF), Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve (TRNERR), Waste for Life (WFL), and Centro de Comunidad Tecolote. On Sat, 08 Jun 2024 in TJ; Borders Are Imaginary: Co-creating the Future of Innovative Education in San Diego-Tijuana. Co-creating a future of Innovative Education in a transformative one-day workshop in San Diego, blending Design Thinking and play frameworks. Jun 9, 2024 • 9 am - 3 pm; The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), in partnership with Good Faith and Mortis Studio an art book fair, a celebration of publishing, design, music and fashion. The free EXPO Design Market will showcase local markers, publishers, and creatives from all across San Diego, Tijuana and neighboring communities on June 8 and 9. More about WDC World Design Capitol 2024 SD/TJ Demystified Picked RAW Peeled by Patricia Frischer On July 16 from 10 to 11 a.m. Director of Curatorial Affairs, Derrick Cartwright, Ph.D. and artist in residence, Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio are together to discuss the Timken’s summer exhibition In Blue Time on view July 19 - September 1, 2024. Level of Service Not Required (LOS/NR) is a new gallery in La Jolla presenting their first exhibition: room in a room in a room . A group exhibition featuring eight local artists including Suda House, Linda Litteral and Margaret Noble. There will be an opening reception with a ribbon cutting ceremony and an ice cream truck onsite offering free soft serve cones on Thurs, June 6, from 6-8 pm. Cuéntame is a Far South Border North campaign created by Yvette Roman and Natalia Ventura to capture the oral history of elders in San Ysidro. This final exhibition of the series displays artwork, documentation and audio captured throughout 2023-2024. Nine emerging artists will display artwork at The Front Arte y Cultura. Six of the artists were selected through a call for entry, one is their Cuentame intern, and two are FS/BN grantees. Opening Reception Jun 1 at 5 pm – 7 pm. Show closes June 7 th. We are deeply sorry to hear of the passing of the San Diego icon James Hubbell. He left us on May 17 after 92 glorious years spreading light and joy and love. He will be missed but his legacy is strong for all those who were encouraged by him and by the wonderful art and architecture he leaves. You can leave your message to the family if you wish. Joan Jacobs will be so missed in the arts community. She passed away at 91 years young on Monday May 6 th. She with husband Irwin (Qualcomm co-founder) donated million especially in the visual arts to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the Athenaeum. Rest in Peace Frank Stella (born May 12, 1936, Malden, Massachusetts, U.S.—died May 4, 2024, New York, New York). He went from minimalist to maximalist daring to change from paintings to painted sculptures. We should all be allowed such freedom. OPPORTUNITIES (click to see a list of all current opportunities listed on SDVAN) MainStreet Oceanside and North County Transit District are seeking an Art Coordinator to lead the transformation of the Oceanside Transit Center pedestrian tunnel into a public art landmark, with a $10,000 compensation. Established in 2016, the Art that Excites public art initiative aims to transform Downtown Oceanside into a public art destination through the creation of unique, visually captivating large-scale art. Submission due date Fri. June 14. The City of Vista’s Public Arts Commission invites artists to participate in a special PRIDE Exhibit at the Civic Center Art Gallery to celebrate Pride Month 2024. This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your original 2D and 3D artwork in the vibrant community of Vista. Submission deadline: Friday, May 31 with exhibition dates: June 10-June 28, 2024 Submission for World Design Experience - San Diego Design Week 2024 are open through June 17. They are looking for ideas for exhibitions, presentations, launches, talks, workshop, events or more in the theme of #Belonging, exploring our duty, and desire, to carve meaningful moments and spaces for radical inclusion, to bring people together and empower our community. The event is held September 18-25, 2024. June 27 is the deadline for Flora and Fauna: Artist Alliance at TECHNE Art Center in Oceansidejuried by gallery owner Charles Thomas. The exhibition is Sept 7–Oct 5, 2024. Submit 20 images for $30 application fee. The July Small Image Show at the Off Track Gallery owned and operated by the San Dieguito Art Guild in Encinitasis open to all Southern California artists including non-members. Cash awards will be awarded for Best of Show and 1st place in each of 5 categories with a reception on Sat. June 29. Submission deadline is June 19 th, or once they reach 100 entries, so enter now. More info: OffTrackMonthlyShow@gmail.com Art on 30 th is celebrating 10 years with a very down-home theme: BARNYARD . Help them honor over 100 juried art shows, 10 national shows, two books, and art classes for hundreds of growing artists with anything that pays tribute to the farm or any animals that may be on or near the farm. Juror is Katie McCloskey and due date is June14 for the exhibition 10th Anniversary Party + Opening Reception on Sat June 22nd, 4pm-7pm. Exhibit closing date July 19 The City of San Diego is seeking applications from artists to participate in Public Art/Public Sphere , a free three-day intensive for 25 selected artists interested in working in the public realm and competing for public art commissions. The intensive includes a particular focus on humanity-centered design related to place-based projects. The workshop is Saturdays: July 27 and August 3 and 10. Deadline to apply Friday, June 14 Remember: The City of Carlsbad is seeking an artist(s) for a new permanent public art piece for a traffic circle located in the Barrio , the city’s first residential neighborhood, dating back to the early 1900s. Look at the public art summary and the call for artists qualifications , which is now open until June 24, 2024. To stay in the loop, sign up for email updates . The California Arts Council Grant Season has started and there are three pages of grants to review. New for the 2024 grant season is the Grants Manual a 35-page document that helps you through the process. Grant application until June 4 th. North Coastal Art Gallery in Carlsbad is making a call for its 72nd Fine Art Open Awards show . Open to all California artist to apply. Submission deadline July 17, Open Aug 4 th. Reception Sun. Aug 11 from 3-5pm. More info: Cheryl Ehlers 760-434-8497 The Studio Door is seeking artwork that expresses authentic, diverse viewpoints from the LGBTQIA+ experience. Show them what your Pride looks like. The juror Michael Swank is the mastermind behind Mexico City’s Art Gallery Studio and producer of Bureau of Queer Art. 7 th Annual Pride+ deadline: May 28 and showing July 2 - August 3. A reminder from Patric Stillman: Pride Festival Art Booth and Installation Pride Art in the Park . San Diego Pride Dates: July 20 th/21 st. The City of Encinitas Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts is calling for two in house staff teachers that can create some basic curriculum and run classes in any gaps that are not filled by contract instructors. Visuals Arts Staff Teaching Artists $18.37 - $23.39 Hourly. Applications will be reviewed starting April 15. More info: Collette Murphy 760-633-2767 The ongoing call for teaching artists from the City of Encinitas Art Program is still active and asking for innovative and exciting new visual arts courses for their soft launch this year. Classes that speak to sustainability and inclusion and that include a variety of cultures would be welcome. Lectures, workshops, series of studio classes are all possible. It could be a class on using natural materials to make your own watercolors or using thrift store find to make cosplay costumes for example. The center is for all the arts, so courses that cross over from dance, music, drama, spoken word are also considered. The application gives you more details. Start a discussion with the arts programming department and go for it! More info: Collette Murphy 760-633-2767 ArtReach , the educational nonprofit co-founded by ArtWalk’s Sandi Cottrell and her sister Judy Burman is seeking new board members to help guide this dynamic, growing organization, into the future. If interested, fill out the ArtReach Board Interest Form by May 31st. More info: info@artreachsandiego.org . NTC Foundation at Arts District Liberty Station is seeking emerging visual artists from the San Diego/Northern Baja region to complete a 6-month residency at a rent-free studio within ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station. More info: info@ntcfoundation.org 619.573.9300 The 32 nd Athenaeum Annual Juried Exhibition will open their call for artists online the first week of April. The Juror this year is Armando Pulido, Writer and Curatorial Assistant at Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. The show is on view from July 30 to Sept 28. Deadline for applications is June 14. The Bonita Museum & Cultural Center is making a call for artists for Beyond the Borders , a cross-border exhibition highlighting plein air painters in our region. The museum hosts a Plein air exhibition and paint outs in Bonita every year. This year there is a focus on celebrating painters and Plein air clubs in Baja, California and throughout Southern California. The juror for the exhibition is Jean Stern, Director Emeritus of the Irvine Museum. Exhibition dates are June 6 - June 24, 2024 with a deadline of May 31 st to submit. We are delighted to announced theSD Art Prize Award Recipients for 2024 ,Gabriel Boils , Francisco Eme , Marisol Rendón . These artists of excellence will be showing their work at the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park starting in Oct until the Spring of 2025. Our banner is in support of the Chris Trueman’s Echo at R.B. Stevenson Gallery in La Jolla with new paintings by California based artist. The title Echo refers to the reflective quality of abstract painting. The show continues until July 13. Art Report by or about SDVAN A+ Art Blog: Patricia Frischer State of the Arts Advocacy, LIFE Lecture Patricia Frischer coordinator/founder of the San Diego Visual Arts Network and Interim Chairman of North County Arts Network was recorded at a lecture at MiraCosta College in Oceanside by the LIFE. You can learn about all the Advocacy issues that are currently affecting the arts in the county of San Diego. There is also a presentation of some of the visual arts exhibitions on view in SD for the summer and fall of 2024. Advocacy issues covered are: Civic Arts, Public Arts, Affordable Housing for Arts through Cultural District, Government Funding. Exhibitions areas covered are: In North County Now, In Central San Diego Now, In the whole county for the summer, Future exhibitions to watch for in the fall. There is a particularly interesting question and answer period at the end of the lecture not to be missed. Patricia Frischer State of the Arts Advocacy, LIFE Lecture North County Networking Event: Affordable Housing for Artists through Cultural Districts is a report on the event with a special video record of the presentation by Tracy Hudak of CA for the Arts. We clawed back some money!!! CA Arts Advocates released the following statements after the legislature agreed to restore 75 percent of the recent cuts announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Speaker Rivas and Pro Tem McGuire announced an agreement on a legislative budget that restores $12.5 million in funding for the Equitable Payroll Fund and $5 million to the CAC. Newsom had announced fully cutting the state’s innovative Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund ($12.5 million), plus a reduction of 38% in state grant funding for small arts nonprofits through the California Arts Council (CAC) on May 10 when he released his May Revised budget proposal. Thanks to all those 9000 that signed the letter and rallied for this cause! How fun is Summer Camp for Adults at the Japanese Friendship Garden. July 8th-July 12th | 1:00pm-4:00pm and you can go for just a single day for $80-$100. Kintsugi, also known as kintsukuroi, is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum and is offered on Day 2 July 9. Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) announced it received a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support their upcoming exhibition, Transformative Currents: Art and Action in the Pacific Ocean . This exhibition is part of the largest art project in the United States, Pacific Standard Time ART: Art & Science Collide, and examines the historical causes and ongoing effects of the cultural and environmental devastation of the Pacific Ocean, and harnesses art’s potential to enact positive ecological change, both local and planetary. Curated by Cassandra Coblentz with assistant curators Aaron Katzeman and Ziying Duan. August 17 in part, Sept 7 in full, through Jan 19, 2025. Luis Ituarte will be exhibiting his artworks in the show Took a While curated by Roberto Rosique starting June 21 at the Centro Cultural Tijuana. Gordon Huether Studio was selected by an advisory committee made up of Carlsbad veterans, family members of veterans, an arts professional and two members of the city’s Arts Commission to create the public art for the future Carlsbad Veterans Memorial Park. Shrouds: Nuances of a body / Sudarios: Matices de un cuerpo by Carolina Betancourt will be on display from July 24th through October 5th in the Spotlight Gallery at the Vision Museum of Textile Art at Liberty Station. . Make sure to view Tapestry of Hues by Olivia Arreguin in the Spotlight Gallery before July 20th! Ellen Speert will be teaching a Surrealist Collage class on Aug 17 form 9 am to 5 pm at her California Center for Creative Renewal in Encinitas. Come learn how to create small collages which take us deeper into the world of the unconscious. Similar to “Soul Collage” originated by Seen Frost, this process deepens our trust in our own intuitive knowing by weaving together visual imagery and personal responses. No artistic skill necessary. Andrew Utt has announced the new strategic plan for the Institute of Contemporary Art . We loved his statement, “ …we realized that we exist not for what we do, but for why we do it.” The new vision is that the “… ICA San Diego is a living laboratory for expanding the transformational power of art to build vibrant communities” To do this they plan to spark curiosity, open their doors for free and help people to connect art in their everyday lives. We see this as a true blending of the old Lux Art Institute (Cardiff) and the San Diego Art Institute (Balboa Park). Save the date August 5 for the lecture by Joe Nalven Who is the Artist in the AI World? . Held at the Central San Diego Library from 6 to 8 pm, there will be an open discussion included. Art Night Encinitas is June 29, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. at Encinitas City Hall (art, music and film), Library (art, music, workshops, poetry), Community & Senior Center (art, workshops, music and meet new Pacific View teachers), and various partner sites in Encinitas. There is a free shuttle between venues. The city-wide event is free to the public. OPPORTUNITIES (click to see a list of all current opportunities listed on SDVAN) Prebys Foundation is excited to share an opportunity for Healing Through Arts that is now open. They will accept grant applications through July 29 th. This initiative funds organizations using the arts to promote physical and mental/emotional well-being by addressing specific community health issues. It embraces the concept of “social prescription,” where nonclinical services, including community arts and cultural activities, are used to prevent or treat health issues. Artists in Solidarity invites all interested artists to submit artwork to donate to their Fifth Annual Auction for Migrant Families, benefiting TJ's Al Otro Lado and Border Kindness . Ends June 29 th. Auction July 13-28. Lemon Grove Art & Photo Contest is now accepting entries at the Lemon Grove Library until mid-August. The theme of the contest is What does Lemon Grove mean to you? Entered works of art and photographs will be displayed inside San Diego County's Lemon Grove Branch Library through August 31, 2024, and winners will receive a gift cards. Remember: The 50th anniversary of Temporary Paradise? (1974), is the inspiration for Vision 2074 . This is a call upon our designers of the region to boldly envision what our region can become in the next 50 years and beyond. A collaborative exhibition hosted by World Design Capital San Diego Tijuana 2024, San Diego State University, The San Diego Architectural Foundation and The American Institute of Architects San Diego Chapter. Multinational teams are encouraged but not required. Project submission deadline is July 31 st. Submissions to vision2074@wdc2024.org KPBS is in search of a full time Arts Editor to oversee their incredible KPBS Arts team and lead the creation of Arts content projects with a digital first and multimedia lens. Learn more and apply San Diego International Airport's Arts Program invites artists, curators, and cultural, community, or educational organizations working in all media to submit proposals that connect to the theme of Mirror Mirror. Proposals that contain existing, in-process and/or new work are welcome. All work must be completed in advance of December 2024. Installation is expected first quarter 2025 for the lucky 20 selected who will each get $1250. An online information session will be held on Thursday, June 13, 5 p.m. PDT to answer any questions for interested submitters. The deadline for submission is June 30. Please direct any additional questions to arts@san.org. Call for Artists from the Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA)’s Artist Alliance for Spirited: Artist Alliance at Brooks Theatre. Explore the holiday spirit in any form that may take. Consider subjects related to the winter-season holidays, traditions, or natural scenes, or abstract expressions of joy, comfort, celebration, or nostalgia. Submission July 15 to Sept 19 for a show Nov 15 to Jan 5, 2025. San Diego Made and their advisory committee is making a call for four artists to get a free residency. Each artist must have worked in the promise zone communities (East Village and Barrio Logan east to Encanto) with a strong preference towards artists who have grown up within this area. They must be able to mentor other in the community and have an aspect of their work or history embodying traditional art practices and cultural insights. This artist cannot have an annual operating budget over $500,000. Guidelines and a first Info session: June 4, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. (Virtual) and second Info session: June 13, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. (San Diego Made Factory, 2031 Commercial St.) Applications close: June 28 June 27 is the deadline for Flora and Fauna: Artist Alliance at TECHNE Art Center in Oceansidejuried by gallery owner Charles Thomas. The exhibition is Sept 7–Oct 5, 2024. Submit 20 images for $30 application fee. North Coastal Art Gallery in Carlsbad is making a call for its 72nd Fine Art Open Awards show . Open to all California artist to apply. Submission deadline July 17, Open Aug 4 th. Reception Sun. Aug 11 from 3-5pm. More info: Cheryl Ehlers 760-434-8497 The City of Encinitas Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts is calling for two in house staff teachers that can create some basic curriculum and run classes in any gaps that are not filled by contract instructors. Visuals Arts Staff Teaching Artists $18.37 - $23.39 Hourly. More info: Collette Murphy 760-633-2767 NTC Foundation at Arts District Liberty Station is seeking emerging visual artists from the San Diego/Northern Baja region to complete a 6-month residency at a rent-free studio within ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station. More info: info@ntcfoundation.org 619.573.930 RAW July 2024 We love a good party and the Sparks Gallery 1920’s Deco Art Party sounds like a great night on Sept 19 from 6-9pm. Tickets are $99.00 – $190.00. For SDVAN readers use the code SDVAN and get $20 off the tickets…plus, they will give us a donation! Our banner this month is in support of the Athenaeum’s 32nd Annual Juried Exhibition now open until Sept 28. Nearly 300 artists entered 900 works for consideration. Juror Armando Pulido, Writer and Curatorial Assistant, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, selected the final 52 artists and 51 works to exhibit. Great Looking: The Athenaeum’s 32nd Annual Juried Exhibition Picked RAW Peeled by Lonnie Burstein Hewitt. Photos by Maurice Hewitt. Art Reports by or about SDVAN A+ Art Blog: What is your vision? What is your passion? by Patricia Frischer We love a good party and the Sparks Gallery 1920’s Deco Art Party sounds like a great night on Sept 19 from 6-9pm. Tickets are $99.00 – $190.00. For SDVAN readers use the code SDVAN and get $20 off the tickets…plus, they will give us a donation! The official opening of the new Pacific View Arts Center in Encinitas is August 6 at 9:30 am. Woo Woo, years in the making. The Pacific View Arts Center will begin offering cultural art classes to help people be inspired and to be expressive. There is a ribbon cutting on Tuesday, August 6, starting at 9:30am. This a community celebration. An open house will follow the ribbon cutting and will also be happening on Sat, August 10. A public memorial to honor the life of the iconic artist, James Hubbell, will be held on Sat, Aug 24th from 2 – 4 pm at his Pearl of the PacificPacific Rim Park on Shelter Island in San Diego. The tribute will begin with a Friendship Walk starting at Hubbell’s Pacific Portal gazebo ending at Pacific Rim Park. The community is then invited to gather to honor Hubbell’s life’s works and passions. The celebration will feature music, dance, and tributes to James Hubbell. Hosted by the non-profit Ilan-Lael Foundation , housed in his organic “habitable sculptures” in Santa Ysabel, this is a community-wide opportunity to share memories, reflect on Hubbell’s contributions and celebrate the enduring legacy of a truly remarkable individual. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Ric Todd the art activist, artist and curator at St Paul’s Cathedral and former Chula Vista director of cultural events. Rest in Peace Hyacinthe Kuller Baron, known for her contributions to art and fashion, who passed away at the age of 88. Kuller Baron was a fixture at the Studio Door Gallery in Hillcrest. Becky Guttin is now being featured in one of the permanent displays at the San Diego Museum of Art Art of Americas Gallery (First Floor, Galleries 1-3: Edwin S. and Carol Dempster Larsen Memorial Gallery). These galleries have changing exhibitions from the over 4000 items in this category. Guttin shares space with great artists such as David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo, Sergio Hernández and others. Rest in Peace, Becky’s lovely father, also an artist himself. Great news from Carlsbad as a new Cultural Arts Manager has been hired and it is the remarkable Craddock Stropes, longtime supporter of the arts who will start Aug 5th. Also in Carlsbad, Alyson Benford, Curator of Exhibitions of the William D. Cannon Art Gallery, at the Dove Library complex, presents Fiber in 3D , open now but with a reception on August 17 th.3 – 5. It will feature over 25 national fiber artists juried by Fiber Art Now Magazine. Fiber in 3D at The William D. Cannon Art Gallery in CarlsbadPicked RAW Peeled by Patricia Frischer We also got news that there will be a one-day Fashion Show at Front Porch Gallery in Carlsbad on Sat Sept 7 th from 3-5pm . See opportunities below to join in. This one is for stylish creative older adults FOUR WDCevents coming up. The official World Design Capital (WDC) San Diego Tijuana 2024 “Exchange” Pavilion is opening in Balboa Park with a day of connection and dialogue, celebrating the theme “Powered by Community, Connected by Design”. Sat August 10, from11:30 AM - 4 PM at the Plaza de Panamá, Balboa Park, El Prado. This is a free event but do RSVP . There is also Beyond Boundaries is a two-day conference on Nov 12/13 offering a global platform for the exchange and evolution of ideas, insights, and best practices from various countries, regions, and cities actively engaged in developing, launching, and maintaining effective design-led urban policies. Cost for early bird tickets if $495. Experience an exquisite binational fashion show/exhibit that fosters collaboration and cultural exchange through the medium of fashion. Vagary by Eclectique incorporates elements of Art Deco and Art Nouveau and is inspired by vintage, technicolor, and independent film. This show is endorsed by World Design Capital and will showcase at Visual Museum of Textile Art from September 11th through October 5th. Word Design Capitol 2024 also presents Binational Poster Exhibition, a collection of 16 designs created by young people from our region. Hosted by the WDC 2024 Club , this exhibition is on display at UCSD Park and Market (San Diego) and Casa de la Cultura (Tijuana) on exhibit through August 30. This transformative and impactful youth showcase features posters addressing challenges facing our region. There is a new La Jolla Mural, Claudia Comte’s, The Deep, Impenetrable and Mysterious Jungle, 2024 is on display at 7766 Fay Avenue. Guided walking tours leave from the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library at 5:30 PM. Tours are free and online registration is required. Tours are limited to a maximum of 35 guests and last for approximately 90 minutes. Upcoming tours with space available: July 31 and August 14. Three cheers for Kira Corser and the ladies who went to her Compassionate Art retreat in June. This was covered by the Village News in a lovely article describing not only the event, but contributions made by Corser over the years to the arts community. What's Your Type at the Athenaeum Art Center in the East Village opens on Aug 8 (ending Sept 25 th). Part of World Design Capital for 2024 celebrating the area's rich design heritage and innovative spirit with sign painters, muralists, block printers, and traditional letterpress and graphic designers. More info: Jocelyn Saucedo 858-454-5872 There is a new exterior video display at Mandeville Art Gallery (UCSD). LaJuné McMillian: The Portal's Keeper builds on the artist's interest in stewarding spaces for liberated Black realities and the Black imagination, McMillian conducted a movement and meditation workshop with UC San Diego students using extended reality and physical computing to translate participants' movement data into visuals for this new artwork. On view until Sept 28 6h . William Gropper: American Agitator is on display from July 27, 2024 - Jan 26, 2025 at the San Diego Museum of Art. He satirized the absurdities and injustices of American political life as a political cartoonist and painter. Very timely! The latest in the NTC FoundationInstallations at the Station program, is SD Art Prize recipient Paola Villaseñor, aka PANCA . No Soy Marinero, Soy Capitan is located between The LOT and the Dorothea Laub Music & Arts Center (Building 176) in ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station. The San Dieguito Art Guild which usually shows at the Off Track Gallery in Encinitas is having an exhibition of 16 of its member at the Solana Beach City Hall. The show is on until August 28 th. Disco Rainbow Cave, a new toddler space at The New Children's Museum has spinning "lava lamps" and a special dance studio. This unique installation for ages 4 and under is brought to life by award-winning artist Tanya Aguiñiga . Misti Washington Gourd & Basket Guild holds their Annual Basket Class Day on Sun, August 4, with 5 classes from 9 to 5. Held at San Dieguito Heritage Museum in Encinitas, classes range from $30 to $60. We don't give enough attention to the Museum of Us . There exhibitions don’t change that often, but they have revamped all the displays in the last 10 years. They are open daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There is a new and expanded California Tower Tour offered hourly on Friday through Sunday. They offer free admission on the fourth Tuesday of the month to residents of the City and County of San Diego, and to active military personnel and their dependents. On Location is a plein air show at Sip Art Space in San Marcos on view until August 16 by appointment (858) 336-6678. Guest curator Ann Olsen is one of the artists also including Lisa Croner, Kevin Inman (SD Art Prize recipient), Margaret Larlham , Phelan Sykes and Toni Williams. Border Blasters is on at the Bonita Museum until Aug 17 after which it travels to IMAC TJ Aug 22 to Sept 14. The exhibition explores the impact of TJ/SD radio/television/music in the region and was curated by Diana Benavídez, Bill Perrine and Itza Vilaboy. Joe Nalven has written and interesting article in The Times of San Diego about the controversary over Artificial Intelligence software being used in digital art at the Del Mar County Fair. County Fair’s Popular Annual Photo Exhibit Is New Front in Battle Over Artificial Intelligence . For the foreseeable future, the fair will exclude such works.Joe is giving a lecture at the San Diego Central Public Library on how to understand the artist using generative AI on August 5 from 6 to 8 pm. Who is the Artist in the AI World? A very interesting series of seminars presented by CA for the Arts on how the arts can improve your health is being held on Wed, August 7, 2024 at 12PM - 1:30 PM PT. This first webinar is Health Benefits of Arts Engagement and the Importance of Involving Community Organizations in Research . Other seminars are August 21st: Strategies for Innovative Funding & Partnerships in Arts & Health Initiatives, September 4th: Exploring Workforce Development for Arts & Health Initiatives, September 18th: Advocacy and Public Policy for Arts and Health Initiatives Remember Liberty Station Art Walk is Sat/Sun, August 3 and 4 th and there is a Parrot Head themed preview party on Friday Aug 2 from 4 to 7:30 as well. Art Walk is free and the Friday party is $25 but kids under 12 are FREE. Pacific Standard Time: Art and Science Collide projects ( an initiative of the Getty Foundation ) are launching in San Diego with the following exhibitions announced this month. There are more than 60 exhibitions on this year’s theme in southern California and 818 artists participating. (Of course, you know SDVAN did it first in SD with the DNA of Creativity back in 2014!) Looking again to the fall: The only US venue for Prix Pictet Human, the latest exhibition from the world’s leading award for photography and sustainability, is at the Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art on view from September 27 through Dec. 15, 2024. Richard Renaldi the only US artist featured of the 12 artists shortlisted. His work focuses on the garden. This is the third of 10 times that the show has come to the museum. Indian photographer Gauri Gill was announced as the cash award winner. The NTC Foundation announced the four visual artists awarded studio space at ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station through the ARTS DISTRICT Emerging Artist program. These artists will earn free space for 6-months in ARTS DISTRICT, allowing them to hone their artistic talents and patron base for future success. Gracie Moon and Sean Sarmiento were awarded the space from July to December 2024, while Amanda DiGiovanni and Helena Westra will take over from January to June 2025. INSITE LAB: The Exhibition , the culmination of the first two years of INSITE LAB activities, will open on Sat, Sept 14 at Best Practice in Logan Heights Neighborhood. Insite Lab is a roving platform for artists on both sides of the border (San Diego, US-Baja California, MX) designed to instigate conversations and experiences around process and research in art making. Hooland Partner Group has unveiled a new art program at West , the newly opened multi mixed-use tower in downtown San Diego. The art program at West represents $1,500,000 in direct investment to artists and was curated by PARADE , a female-led art advisory firm based in Seattle. Of the 20 original commissioned works for the building, 25% of are from San Diego-based artists and 50% from Mexican Artists. SD artists include Patrick DeAngelis, Sean Hnedak , Janie Rochfort , Jennifer McHugh , Parker Heath and from Tijuana the muralist Alonso Delgadillo . ArtReach is moving to what appears to be a fabulous new home at 1065 University Avenue in Hillcrest, 92103. Lots of space for classes, a new mural outside and loads of parking. Congratulation and well done to their team for all their hard work. OPPORTUNITIES (click to see a list of all current opportunities listed on SDVAN) There will be a one-day Fashion Show at Front Porch Gallery in Carlsbad on Sat Sept 7th from 3-5pm but you need to apply by July 31st if you are an older adult. They intend to celebrates the fashion and creativity of older adults, redefining aging through bold and stylish self-expression as creativity knows no age limits and fashion can be a powerful form of art and personal expression at any stage of life. They are looking for individuals who are interested in showcasing their work, whether it's fashion designs, accessories, or any wearable art. Mail to Judy Another quick deadline of July 31st: The City of San Diego, in collaboration with The Nonprofit Institute (NPI), have designed a program to support small to mid-sized arts and culture nonprofit organizations - the Arts & Culture Lab Series . There is are two information sessions Wed, July 17th 9:00–9:45 am and Thurs, July 18th 12:00-12:45 pm on zoom and then those accepted will have four session Aug 15 and 22 and Sept 5 and 12 (all 2-5pm). this is all about how to seek funding. However, you need to have a budget under $1 million and be based in the lowest quartile of the California Healthy Places Index which include only these zip codes: 91906, 91910-11, 91917, 91945, 91950, 92004, 92020-21, 92025, 92027-28, 92054, 92057-58, 92060-61, 92069-70, 92078, 92084, 92102, 92104-05, 92111-14, 92124, 92154, 92173. New Children’s Museum is hiring again and looking for the next Development + Events Coordinator or their next Birthday Party Coordinator . The Solana Beach Public Arts Commission is now accepting applications for the five sculptures in the City's 2024-2026 Temporary Public Arts Program rotation. Showcase your art in a high-traffic urban and ocean-view environment, attracting both residents and tourists. Submit for this two-year exhibition. Selected artists will receive a $3,000 stipend for a two-year loan. The deadline to apply is Monday, September 16 th, at 5:30 PM. Please direct all questions to Kayla Moshki , Management Analyst. There are two calls for artist from The Front Arte y cultura. The FRONT´s Art docent program is an intensive paid apprenticeship for youth, focused on ages 14 – 24 to learn about art, gallery management, community engagement, digital photography and digital video making, The participants develop an art project that is relevant to their transborder community. The final project is exhibited or presented at the gallery. The Environmental Justice Arts-based Storytelling activity is a paid apprenticeship program targeted at San Diego transborder youth also between 14 and 24. A group of 13 youth will participate in a 35-hour paid internship ($1000 in two parts) over the course of Sept 3rd to Nov 12th to gain skills in digital photography, videography, advocacy and storytelling with a focus on environmental concerns in the border region. Their work will be showcased at two community events and will also be used as a tool for Casa Familiar’s advocacy efforts. The project will take place in District 8th neighborhood of San Ysidro. All project activities will be situated at Casa Familiar’s community spaces: The Front Arte y cultura, The San Ysidro Recreation Center and El Salon Theatre. More info: elizabethb@casafamiliar.org There is a contest to design a logo for South Bay Water and if selected win $1,000 or $250. August 28 deadline for anyone who lives or owns a business in South Bay Water’s service area. Confirm that you are eligible by using the Director Division map and confirming you live in a division represented by a South Bay Water (SBW) Director. Please note that National City is not one of the South Bay Water divisions, and therefore not eligible for entry in this contest. REMEMBER: The Phes Gallery is calling for artists with 2- and 3-dimensional work that responds to portraits as masks, and masks as portraits for FACE : OFF showing from Oct 13 - Dec 1. The Deadline for entries Sept 14. Information and application: info@PhesGallery.com put “Face:Off” in the subject line. ArtReach is announcing a youth exhibition (ages 4 – 18) Dreams in Color . All mini artworks (6” by 6” only) must be received by August 2nd to be displayed and sold at Liberty Station Artwalk August 3-4, with 100% of the proceeds supporting our mission to ignite youth creativity through visual arts expression and community connection. Submissions mailed to P.O. Box 3999, SD, 92163, please . It is time again for artists to apply for Juried Exhibitions in Encinitas. There are no fees, but you have to apply by Sept 15 for shows that will be on view for approximately 4 months in 2025 in a variety of City venues. Happy 6th Birthday to Studio Ace in Oceanside. They are having their first juried show at ACE Gallery called Small Art, Big Impact . The exhibition is jurored by Julie Weaverling, former Director and Curator at Front Porch Gallery and runs from Sept 3, to Oct. 26. Work should measure no larger than 20 inches in any direction and the deadline to submit is Aug 8th . Arts (A Reason to Survive) is looking for a volunteer coordinator (part time in person in National city, 10-20 hours a week, $22 - $26) as well as teaching artists (also part time and in person, 8-10 hours a week, $25 - $30 an hour) The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) seeks a Senior Director, Development for $156,500 – $174,400 per annum for advancement initiatives and fundraising strategy. There are also opportunities for Visitor Experience Ambassador (Part-Time $17.90 -$18.80 per hour) KPBS is in search of a full time Arts Editor to oversee their incredible KPBS Arts team and lead the creation of Arts content projects with a digital first and multimedia lens. Learn more and apply Lemon Grove Art & Photo Contest is now accepting entries at the Lemon Grove Library until mid-August. The theme of the contest is What does Lemon Grove mean to you? Entered works of art and photographs will be displayed inside San Diego County's Lemon Grove Branch Library through August 31, 2024, and winners will receive a gift cards. The 50th anniversary of Temporary Paradise? (1974), is the inspiration for Vision 2074 . This is a call upon our designers of the region to boldly envision what our region can become in the next 50 years and beyond. A collaborative exhibition hosted by World Design Capital San Diego Tijuana 2024, San Diego State University, The San Diego Architectural Foundation and The American Institute of Architects San Diego Chapter. Multinational teams are encouraged but not required. Project submission deadline is July 31 st. Submissions to vision2074@wdc2024.org Call for Artists from the Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA)’s Artist Alliance for Spirited: Artist Alliance at Brooks Theatre. Explore the holiday spirit in any form that may take. Consider subjects related to the winter-season holidays, traditions, or natural scenes, or abstract expressions of joy, comfort, celebration, or nostalgia. Submission July 15 to Sept 19 for a show Nov 15 to Jan 5, 2025.
Our banner this month is in support of Patricia Frischer In Record Time Part 2 at the Rancho Santa Fe Library Sept 3rd to Sept 27 th. This was a chance for the artist to continue a series started in 2022 and displayed at the Cardiff by the Sea Library. These are all new images, many inspired by the actual library in Rancho Santa Fe and painted and collaged on vinyl records.
Our Go Fund Me SD Art Prize, 2024 is now live. Please give generously! San Diego Arts Prize 2024 at San Diego History Center Oct 24, 2024 to March 30, 2025 featuring Gabriel Boils , Francisco Eme , and Marisol Rendón. Art Reports by or about SDVAN A+ Art Blog: Arts Prescriptions by Patricia Frischer A World Design Capitol exhibition that looks interesting: Low VOC at City College Gallery asked artists to use engineered wood composite panels referred to as Naturally Bonded Boards (NB boards). Curated by Christine Lee artists were advised to consider how the types of adhesives and finishes that would be applied could have a positive or negative impact. Reception Aug 29 Two classes are being offered by Alessandra Colfi at the new Pacific View Art Center: Expressive Art: Re-define yourself as you cope with cancer , starting Tuesday, Sept 17 and Expressive Art: Transforming grief into meaningful creativity starting Thursday, Sept 19, Both classes are 10 am to 1 pm, for 6 week. Alessandra is putting both of these blogs in action: Pacific View Art Center Opening – Lost and Found and Arts Prescriptions . We love a good party and the Sparks Gallery 1920’s Deco Art Party sounds like a great night on Sept 19 from 6-9pm. Tickets are $99.00 – $190.00. For SDVAN readers use the code SDVAN and get $20 off the tickets…plus, they will give us a donation! Culinary spread, signature cocktails, Professional dancers, Silent Auction, Period attire encouraged. Huge congratulations to Wendy Maruyama who will be receiving the American Craft Council's Gold Medal Consummate Craftmanship award on Thurs. Sept 19 th at 1 pm. You can join the public celebration by Zoom if you register. Einar and Jamex de la Torre are also honored as Fellows of the Council. Joe Nalven gave an illustrated talk Who is the Artist in the AI World? at the San Diego Public Library at the beginning of August. He covered AGI (artificial generative intelligence) to GAI (generative artificial intelligence, which is text to image.) to CGI (Computer-generated imagery). Technology can turn words into images, raising questions about human involvement and trust. These technologies are tools, and/or collaborators in art which produce hybrid images. We are excited to see Jeanne Dunn’s latest paintings Forest Bathing at RB Stevenson Gallery in La Jolla reception Sept 7, 5 to 8 and on view until Oct 5. Take a walk in the woods with her. More info: rbstevensongallery@sbcglobal.net Robert Parker of the Oceanside Cultural Arts Foundation tells us that Joanne Tawfilis owner of the Muramid Art and Cultural Center is busy adorning their next Oceanside public piano to be placed out in the wild for residents as well as visitors wishing to share a moment of creative whimsy. We can wait to see the result! We are so very sad to hear of the passing of SD Art Prize recipient Arline Fisch . She had a long and very rich life and as an amazing jeweler, left us with many treasures. Matthew Strauss, a passionate art advocate and generous philanthropist for the visual arts has also passed. While former president of the board of MCASD, Strauss with his wife amassed a collection of world-class contemporary art including many local artists. SipArtSpace presents All that Glitters opening Sat. August 31 from 4 - 7:00 pm. Showing from until Oct 4 by appointment only after the artists reception with work by Paige Blair-Hubert, Marianela de la Hoz, Robert Ginder, Tim Murdoch, Sasha Reibstein, Jill Sykes, and Marque Todd. More info Vicki Walsh . (858) 336-6678 ART AFTER DARK is the Oceanside Museum of Art Epic Party and Costume Contest. This year it is October 26 is inspired by our exhibition, Transformative Currents: Art and Action in the Pacific Ocean. (early, early bird discount is $95 until Sept 27). More info; Wanda Wease 760.435.3720 The Deported Veterans Diaspora by Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana , is a new mural project which will feature portraits and interactive storytelling. The subject is the ongoing global deportation and exile of us. From Aug 18 it can be viewed on the both sides of the border at the western most point at Playas de Tijuana, Mexico. The Fallbrook Art Center glass exhibition 27th Annual Galaxy of Glass Exhibition: Capturing Light - Art & Nature is this year from August 31st to Oct 4 th in the Janice Griffiths Gallery and it promises to be as lively and lovely as ever. The opening night reception is Aug 30 from 4:30 - 6:30PM. We loved hearing about the new Hugo Fernando Fiero mural in City Heights. Carlos Quezada of Love City Heights told Richard Schulte of Cool San Diego (Reader) about this one and we are grateful he did. It is a show stopper at Inscriptu: Custom Printing and Laser Engraving Services. Coming up Oct 5, Oceanside Museum of Art is set to unveil My Intimate Partner , a compelling multi-media exhibition that examines the complex intersection of intimacy, power, and control that often underlies intimate partner violence (IPV). Curated and designed by Smadar Samson, will feature fil work by The Roisin Box Project Dance Studio , stop-motion animation by Hugo Crosthwaite , and 2- and 3-D works by Carlos Castro Arias , Mely Barragan , Patrick N. Brown , Lisa Bryson , Fatima Jamil Franks , Trinh Mai , Marco Miranda , Tatiana Oritz-Rubio , Irma Sofia Poeter , and Valya . The Prebys Grants were announced as part of their Arts Ecosystem" initiative. Many of these organizations work collaboratively, advocate for arts causes, and support local governments, aligning closely with the Prebys mission to build countywide arts capacity. A total of $5,776,000 was awarded. The visual arts grantees include: SD Art Matters ($260K), SDMA ($350K) The Front Arte y Cultura at Casa Familiar Inc .($125K) Imperial Beach Arts Bureau ($195K), INSITE ($75K) ICA ($130K), Mingei International Museum ($150), Museum of Us ($250), and San Diego Museum Council Inc ($150). The City of San Diego announced 179 arts and culture funding awards for fiscal year 2025. Over $12.2 million will be distributed to the vital nonprofits that drive creativity in the city. These are fund distributed through the SD Commission for Arts and Culture from Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) collected from visitors staying in hotels, motels and other accommodations, through the Organization Support Program (OSP) to 116 organizations . and Creative Communities San Diego (CCSD) to 63 organizations. This last category includes $5000 for the SD ART PRIZE. THANK YOU SO MUCH! This includes both visual and performing arts. Next year’s application will be available in the fall. The City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture’s Public Impact Day is September 19, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at both the Museum of Photographic Arts at SDMA and the Mingei International Museum. It will concentrate on today’s most pressing issues, from public health to social justice, civic engagement, and climate mitigation through their program Far South/Border North . There will be panels, live performances and an interactive expo. Free but registration is required. Light in Darkness is an exhibition produced by Mental Wellness for Artists (MWA) is to honor the creativity and diverse stories of local mental health advocates by promoting mental health conversations, strategies, resources, and the mental health benefits of the arts. Reception Sat. Sept. 14, 4-7 and then by appointment until Oct 25. More info: Blanca Lucia Bergman 6195400310 Just a few more days to see LibeRated Forms just until August 31, at The Studio Door Art Gallery in Hillcrest. Why not go to the closing reception on Aug 29 from 6 to 9. Next show: Focus on San Diego Artists started Aug 20 th. Flora & Fauna opens Sept 7 at Techne Art Center in Oceanside and runs until Oct 12. It featured artists from the Oceanside Museum of Art Artists Alliance We are so proud of Becky Guttin . Read about the three exhibitions on right now at the SD Airport, SD Museum of Art and in Mexico City at Nina Menocal Gallery. News from the New Children’s Museum : Sat, Sept 21 at 9am, they will unveil their latest cutting-edge installation, Miraj by SOSO . This is an interactive journey that invites you to collaborate, create, and "paint" your imagination onto a mesmerizing digital canvas. Join Hill Street County Club who is hosting the Annual Oceanside Printmaking & Zine Fest in partnership with Lunchtime Printhouse and the Oceanside Public Library on September 28th & 29th. More info: There is a free public opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art of For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability , the first exhibition to survey themes of illness and impairment in American art from the 1960s up to the COVID-19 era. Remember this is part of Pacific Standard Time. Free third Thursday, is Sept 19, 11AM – 8PM Pop surrealist Brady Willmott’s exhibition Change the F***ing Channel will debut Sept 14 from 6-10pm. Willmott is a Southern CA artist based who combines unique characters and situations with traditional surroundings, reflecting his unusual life experience. This show ruins until October 5th. at Distinction Gallery in Escondido. I am excited to report that Dr Who, the longest running sci-fi on TV in the UK is coming to an exhibition at the Comic Con Museum in Balboa Park next year. Worlds of Wonder where science meets fiction runs March 15 2025 until March 14, 2026. If only we could take the Tardis and time travel there today! Beth Smith does it again in San Diego, this time at Vision Museum of Textile Arts which she used to direct when it was Vision Quilt Museum. Fiber Art Now magazine, where she is editor, is responsible for the Fiber in 3D Show at the Cannon Gallery (on until Nov 30 th). The next show ArtWear at VMOTA will be Oct18, 2025 through Jan 10, 2026. Yes, it is a year away but promised to be top notch with all sorts of wearable art on display. If you are a fiber artist, check out Fiber Art Now for calls for artists. We are very impressed with the quality and creativity they present. American for the Arts announced in its newsletter that in the congress, the House brought the FY2025 Interior Appropriations bill to the floor with an allocation of $203.895 million each for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). On the Senate side, the Senate Appropriations Committee allocated a higher funding level of $209 million each to the NEA and NEH, representing a $2 million increase from current levels. They are now in recess….we will have to wait to see what the final numbers are.
OPPORTUNITIES (click to see a list of all current opportunities listed on SDVAN) SDVAN has partnered with Artists Sunday Dec 1st to unite individual artists and organizations locally and nationwide and promote the purchase of art during the busiest shopping weekend of the year. Participating artists receive a comprehensive marketing toolkit that includes everything needed to create customized marketing materials for your storefront, website, and social media. And the best part is… it’s free! We hope you’ll join this movement of passionate and talented artists. Sign up at https://artistssunday.com/artists/ The san Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild is calling for new and exisiting members for thier 2024 Membership Exhibition at Gallery 21, Spanish Village, Balboa Park from Nov 19 to Dec 2. The juror is Alex DeCosta, Gallery Director, Hyde Art Gallery, Grossmont College. The deadline to enter is Oct 4. REMEMBER: The Front Porch Gallery in Carlsbad is making a call for artists for the Journey of Life. This is an art and poetry exhibit that delves into the profound power of storytelling as a means to preserve, understand, and celebrate our diverse personal and cultural narratives. Applications are due Oct 13 for Nov 6, 2024 – Jan 3, 2025 show dates. More info: Cathy Carey The Museum of Contemporary Arts San Diego closes applications for this session of the Teen Art Collective (TAC) on Aug 30 th. This Free Program is open to 11 th grade high school student to learn about contemporary art, explore art collections, meet artists and art professionals, create art, and plan a museum exhibition. The cycle run Sept 2024 to June 2025 and meets the 2 nd and 4 th Tuesday of every month from 5 to 7 pm. Apply for FREE today. The Solana Beach Public Arts Commission is now accepting applications for the five sculptures in the City's 2024-2026 Temporary Public Arts Program rotation. Showcase your art in a high-traffic urban and ocean-view environment, attracting both residents and tourists. Submit for this two-year exhibition. Selected artists will receive a $3,000 stipend for a two-year loan. The deadline to apply is Monday, September 16 th, at 5:30 PM. Please direct all questions to Kayla Moshki , Management Analyst. There are two calls for student from The Front Arte y Cultura. The FRONT´s Art docent program is an intensive paid apprenticeship for youth, focused on ages 14 – 24 to learn about art, gallery management, community engagement, digital photography and digital video making, The participants develop an art project that is relevant to their transborder community. The final project is exhibited or presented at the gallery. The Environmental Justice Arts-based Storytelling activity is a paid apprenticeship program targeted at San Diego transborder youth also between 14 and 24. A group of 13 youth will participate in a 35-hour paid internship ($1000 in two parts) over the course of Sept 3rd to Nov 12th to gain skills in digital photography, videography, advocacy and storytelling with a focus on environmental concerns in the border region. Their work will be showcased at two community events and will also be used as a tool for Casa Familiar’s advocacy efforts. The project will take place in District 8th neighborhood of San Ysidro. All project activities will be situated at Casa Familiar’s community spaces: The Front Arte y Cultura, The San Ysidro Recreation Center and El Salon Theatre. More info: elizabethb@casafamiliar.org There is a contest to design a logo for South Bay Water and if selected win $1,000 or $250. August 28 deadline for anyone who lives or owns a business in South Bay Water’s service area. Confirm that you are eligible by using the Director Division map and confirming you live in a division represented by a South Bay Water (SBW) Director. Please note that National City is not one of the South Bay Water divisions, and therefore not eligible for entry in this contest. The Phes Gallery is calling for artists with 2- and 3-dimensional work that responds to portraits as masks, and masks as portraits for FACE : OFF showing from Oct 13 - Dec 1. The Deadline for entries Sept 14. Information and application: info@PhesGallery.com put “Face:Off” in the subject line. It time again for artists to apply for Juried Exhibitions in Encinitas. There are no fees, but you have to apply by Sept 15 for shows that will be on view for approximately 4 months in 2025 in a variety of City venues. Call for Artists from the Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA)’s Artist Alliance for Spirited: Artist Alliance at Brooks Theatre. Explore the holiday spirit in any form that may take. Consider subjects related to the winter-season holidays, traditions, or natural scenes, or abstract expressions of joy, comfort, celebration, or nostalgia. Submission July 15 to Sept 19 for a show Nov 15 to Jan 5, 2025.
Art Reports by or about SDVAN by local writers A+ Art Blog: The First City of San Diego Cultural Plan by Patricia Frischer A+Art Blog: Arts Prescriptions by Patricia Frischer has been updated with information on all four session of this webinar from CA for the Arts. Past SD Art PRize recipient Marianela de la Hoz is displaying her new work Polvo de Luz / Stardust at Art Produce Gallery until November 16. The opening reception Sat, Sept 28th from 5:00-8:00pm We are looking forward to seeing Carlos Castro Arias’s The Splinter in the Eye exhibition at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library which opens on Oct 18 th through Jan 11, 2025. Carlos is another SD Art Prize recipient. There is so much going on at the Bread and Salt building in Sept/Oct that it deserves a shout out especially since all four of the following are previous SD Art Prize recipients: Max Daily is back with his Oslo Sardine Bar in the Not an Exit Gallery; Hugo Crosthwaite is showing at the Bread & Salt Main Gallery with Tijuacolor his solo exhibition; The INSITE LAB part of the INSITE project is a roving platform for artists on both sides of the border designed to instigate conversations and experiences around process and research in art making at the Best Practices gallery space; Tom Driscoll is featured in the Bread & Salt Sculpture Garden with his Surplus Trophies: 2017-2024; and Kim MacConnel's 1981 paintingKudosat Quint One. As part of the Getty Foundation’s PST ART: Art and Science Collide, there is a four part exhibition of Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work , The Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego presents this husband-and-wife team who were among the earliest and most notable ecological artists and founding members of the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego. More info Nick Lesley 858.822.7755. Opening Sept 28 th from 2 to 6pm and showing until Dec 7. Another exhibition is at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido . More info: Rokhsane Hovaida 760.839.4125. This is the first exhibition to focus on their California work, including nearly 20 projects produced between the late 1960s and 2000s which respond to growing environmental awareness., the San Diego Central Library Judith Harris Art Gallery on Park Blvd. More info: Bonnie Domingos 619.236.5881 The La Jolla Historical Society joins the other two on display until Jan 19, 2025 The Mandeville is included in Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen , another Pacific Standard Time exhibition opening Oct 4. This a multi-sited collaboration between UC San Diego’s Department of Visual Arts and Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography . The exhibition features artwork created in partnership with scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, laboratories across UC San Diego, and Indigenous community leaders. Get Birch Aquarium information and tickets here . In addition to the Oct. 4 Birch opening, the exhibition spans multiple sites including the Kendall-Frost Marsh Reserve , The SME Visual Arts Gallery (opens Sept. 27), Gallery QI (opens Sept. 27), Mandeville Gallery (opens Sept. 28), UCSD Library Gallery (opens Sept. 9), and Kosay Kumeyaay Market (opens Sept. 27). Remember the reception at the Oceanside Museum of Art for Transformative Currents: Art And Action In The Pacific Ocean (part of PST) and My Intimate Partner curated by Smardar Cohen is Oct 5 from 5 to 7 pm. Rally 4 Culture at Space 4 Art is on Sat Ot 5 from 3-7. During this free event, a variety of Felicia Shaw and Jonathon Glus will lead conversations and action items around AB 812, California’s affordable artist housing bill. Local implementation of this bill aligns perfectly with San Diego’s recently unveiled Cultural Plan. Congratulations to Director and Chief Curator Ceci Moss. Her compelling vision for the Mandeville Art Gallery has been awarded a three-year, $150,000 grant by the New York-based Teiger Foundation . Watch for Everyday Life a two person show introducing Laura Ortiz Vega and celebrating again the work of Pablo Castañeda. Ortiz Vega Her technique consists of laying thread on a surface prepared with wax, pressing and folding it with a palette knife making small but incredible details scenes of Mexico. Castaneda, details the contents of the building Ortiz Vega portrays. The opening reception at RB Stevenson is on Sat. Oct 19 from 5 to 8. Yokai are Japanese supernatural creatures and phenomena from folklore. In ancient Japan, spirits were thought to be formless and invisible to the human eye. However, as artistic traditions developed, it became necessary to visually depict the spirits and monsters from stories. Guests can enjoy the Yokai Exhibition of folklore, art prints, and Yokai movies at the Japanese Friendship Garden hosted in the Inamori Pavilion, from Oct 25,– Nov 4, with featured artist, Matthew Meyer We are delighted to hear that The Women’s Museum of California has moved their collection to the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park. We shall look forward to seeing some displays at that facility.
The Beatles/I saw the Photograph at the Mesa College Gallery offers a unique opportunity to see rare images of this iconic group. The exhibit features the Vincent Vigil collection, including sixty photographs, posters and memorabilia spanning The Beatles’ trajectory from 1962 to 1969. The reception on Thursday, Oct 3, 4 – 7 pm. On Nov 9, there are a series of panels and talks to launch of the INSITE Journal _07. A Timeless Way to Build. There are three sessions from 2-8pm at Bread and Salt, where you are can also see the exhibition (which runs through Feb 15, 2025. Andrea Torreblanca project, The Sedimentary Effect, explore contemporary perceptions of phenomena, architecture, and spirituality through microhistories of the San Diego County-Baja California US/MX region. Student Art Workshops have now been posted for 2024/2025 school year at the San Diego Museum of Art. The Young Art Nature and Nurture annual exhibition dates have also been posted with digital submission opening Dec 2, 2024. Hurrah! San Diego Natural History Museum announces new store and café partners to debut in October, the Museum’s 150th Anniversary Month. The retail partnership with South Park-based Gold Leaf and a new café partnership with The Craft Taco, based in Sorrento Valley should be great as they intend to feature artisan brands and sustainable products. ArtWalk’s Bella Vita Fest in Little Italy is Oct 19 & 20. This is a celebration of Italian culture and chalk artists with wine, food and music.
The Hispanic Heritage Exhibit take place at the Civic Gallery in the Vista Civic Center , located at 200 Civic Center Drive, on the second floor until October 25. Art Through the Glass on view until Dec 14 is a public exhibition that transforms empty storefronts at the Chula Vista Center (555 Broadway Suite 2020-21, 91910) into vibrant galleries. This initiative breathes new life into the mall, reimagining vacant spaces as dynamic art installations. Visitors are invited to stroll through and experience a diverse array of 15 artistic visions and narratives. Co-Founded by Yvette Roman and Julio Martha and activated by San Diego Art Matters with a slew of community partners including our friends at Thumbprint Gallery. We are ever grateful to Erika Torri who through The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library created the Erika & Fred Torri Artists’ Books Collection . The latest one is on Sol LeWitt . The book includes detailed documentation of each of LeWitt’s 80 artist’s books, the complete collection of which is held by the Athenaeum. Also featured within the book are essays about the medium of artists’ books, the artist Sol LeWitt, and sources for secondary information. The 8 other books in this series include Ed Ruscha (2010), Ida Applebroog (2011), Allen Ruppersberg (2012), John Baldessari (2013), Bruce Nauman (2013), Roberta Allen (2016), Allan Kaprow (2018), and Mel Bochner (2018). Yours for only $17 each…great gifts. COLLECT! Live Auction & Art Party at the Institute of Contemporary Art is coming on Sat, Nov 2. This is the very first benefit art auction hosted by Sotheby’s at ICA Central in Balboa Park with works by local and international artists including Taylor Chapin, Danielle Dean, De la Torre Brothers, Edra Soto, Damien Hirst, and more. Tickets $100 - $150. Congratulations to the organizations that received funding for interns from the 2024 Prebys Youth Workforce Grantees: A Reason To Survive - $150,000, California Center for the Arts, Escondido - $200,000 and Casa Familiar - $325,000 were among those that got a part of the $5,890,000 San Diego Made is already promoting all their holiday fairs… Holiday Market (10 th anniversary) NTC at Liberty Station Sat/Sun Nov 9 th /10 th, Makers Arcade North County Pop-Up Sat, Nov 23, from 10 AM to 5 PM at the Tremont Collective and Marker’s Arcade at Broadway Pier Dec 6-8. If you find yourself in LA LUMINEX 3.0: Landscape Frequencies , the site-specific, outdoor digital art exhibition, returns for one night only, free and open to all. A group of incredible multimedia artists will transform a five-block radius in the South Park District of downtown Los Angeles on Oct 5. Now is the time to starting thinking of a guided tour of Japan (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Kyoto) with the Japanese Friendship Garden. May 28 to June 4 with lots of special art excursions. OPPORTUNITIES (click to see a list of all current opportunities listed on SDVAN) Escondido Arts Partnership is announcing 2 calls for artists: Size Matters juried by Megan Darrough (for small works) Receiving dates Oct 18/19 and Summation juried by Robert Pincus, PhD. Receiving dates Nov15/16. For more info: Katie Werner San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery is making a call for artist for Dreamscape with a due date of Sept 29 th. The show is jurored by the Museum Studies advanced class under the direction of Professor Alessandra Moctezuma for an exhibition Nov 18 to Dec 12. Calling for local student artists in Encinitas for the 2025 Student Exhibition with this year’s theme: Icons of Encinitas. Applications are due Oct 14 for the showing at the Encinitas City Hall in January to an including a celebration at Art Night on May 3, 2025. Submissions will be juried, curated, and installed by a Student Art Committee comprised of students, the Encinitas Arts Division staff, and members of the Commission for the Arts. Oceanside Theater Company is making a call for artists for the Brooks Theater lobby gallery exhibition From Aliens To Esp: Art Featuring Science Fiction. They ask, please, no fantasy or horror. Submission deadline is Sept 28 by email only to Carol Naegele . Front Porch Gallery is calling for artists for their exhibit, The Journey of Life through Vision and Verse showing from Nov 6, 2024 – Jan 3, 2025 with submissions due Oct 13 th. The North Coastal Art Gallery in Carlsbad has a call for artists for their Holiday Small image ShowApplication due Oct 25. It will be 56 days of joyous art that is a great take away for gifts from Nov 9 - January 4, 2024 with cash awards selected by judge Drew Banish at a reception on Sunday, November 16, 3-5pm. But everyone gets in. More info: Cheryl Ehlers 760-434-8497 SDVAN has partnered with Artists Sunday Dec 1st to unite individual artists and organizations locally and nationwide and promote the purchase of art during the busiest shopping weekend of the year. Participating artists receive a comprehensive marketing toolkit that includes everything needed to create customized marketing materials for your storefront, website, and social media. And the best part is… it’s free! We hope you’ll join this movement of passionate and talented artists. Sign up at https://artistssunday.com/artists/ The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild is calling for new and existing member for their 2024 Membership Exhibition at Gallery 21, Spanish Village, Balboa Park from Nov 19 to Dec 2. The juror is Alex DeCosta, Gallery Director, Hyde Art Gallery, Grossmont College. The deadline to enter is Oct 4. Front Porch Gallery in Carlsbad is making a call for artists for the Journey of Life. This is an art and poetry exhibit that delves into the profound power of storytelling as a means to preserve, understand, and celebrate our diverse personal and cultural narratives. Applications are due Oct 13 for Nov 6, 2024 – Jan 3, 2025 show dates. More info: Cathy Carey
Art Reports by or about SDVAN by local writers A+ Art Blog: Carol Rogers: How the Arts helped me find community by Patricia Frischer 11th Annual Encinitas Dia de los Muertos is coming on Sunday Oct 27 from noon to 4 pm at Mira Costa Collage (3333 Manchester, Cardiff by the Sea, 92007) The event as always is produced by the Encinitas Friends of the Art. This is a safe, free family event with Mariachi bands and Ballet Folklorico groups on stage, art-making workshops, artist demonstrations, raffles, a 10’ Ofrenda and a low-rider car show! We are delighted to tell you about Dreamscape: Beyond the Veil , a show curated by the students at Mesa College Art Gallery . Exhibition will run from Nov. 18 – Dec 12 with an opening reception on Thurs., Nov21, 2024, 4 - 7pm . Gallery Hours: M, T, W, TH 12 - 5 pm. The gallery is closed on Friday, weekends, and Thanksgiving break, November 25 – 29. The First Annual People’s Choice Best of Show for the Year’s this year features Rosemary KimBal’s Contemporary Zen Paintings . Reception Friday October 18, 4:30-6:30. (103 So. Main Avenue FALLBROOK, 92028. The exhibition runs until Nov 9. Rosemary is also featured in Highlights from The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild at the new Community Engagement Gallery, the Dammeyer Gallery, at the Museum of Photographics Art at The San Diego Museum of Art (MOPA@SDMA). Works for the exhibition were chosen by Dr. Hugh M. Davies , Director Emeritus, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. The exhibition will be on view from November 7, 2024, through March 9, 2025 Vicki Walsh’s exhibition Animals to Limbs at SipArt Space in San Marcos runs from Nov 2 to Dec 13. Vicki invites you to confront the tender layers of existence, to feel deeply, and to challenge your perceptions of life, conflict, and renewal. More info: vicki@sipartspace.com 858-336-6678 by appointment only. We were excited to see Face Off: Portraits and Masks at PHES Gallery in Carlsbad which runs until Dec 1. Lots of wonderful artists in this show including some of our SD Art Prize and New Contemporary Artists like Deanne Sabeck, Marianella de la Hoz, Irene de Watteville, Cheryl Tall, and Deanne Sabeck . More info: info@phesgallery.com 760-696-3022. Face Off: Portraits and Masks at PHES GalleryPicked RAW Peeled by Patricia Frischer . Gail Roberts is opening at Quint Gallery in La Jolla Sat Nov2, 11am-2pm and Marcos Ramirez ERRE opens at Quint ONE on November 9. Both are San Diego Art Prize stars. A local show, call Picturing Health is a great compliment to the MCASD show about disease. At Best Practice on Julian Avenue in the Bread and Salt building, the show includes local artists including Bhavna Mehta, Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio , Elizabeth Rooklidge (who is also the curator). Opening Nov 9, 5 – 8pm until December 14, 2024 Keeping fingers crossed department: If the City of San Diego Sales tax increase measure E passes, there is talk of doubling the Arts and Culture budget from $161M to $324M. Whoa, even more conservative estimates are taking it to $221 million because 7 of the 9 councilpersons are support of raising the arts budget. A penny for the arts in San Diego might be possible in the future. What could happen if the county sales tax rise also went through? Would that free up more money for the arts countywide. Make sure you get out and vote, and vote for pro-arts candidates and measures! If you live in the City of San Diego, please sign support affordable housing for artists called A Local Tenant Preference Ordinance for Artists sponsored by Space 4 Art. We applaud them for taking the first steps towards implementation of AB812 . The deadline for signing the letter is Oct 29. Kumeyaay Design Exhibit opens at the City Gallery at SD City College. Bird Singers will perform at the opening reception on Thurs, Oct 24 starting from 4-7 pm. This is another World Design Capitol SD/TJ event. More info: Terri Hughes-Oelrich 619-296-9789 The 16th edition of Art San Diego will run November 1-3 again at the San Diego Convention Center. Watch their sizzle reel from last year. As a friend of SDVAN click to get your FREE tickets. INSITE is presenting programs developed as part of “ A Timeless Way of Building ”, the first chapter of the INSITE Commonplaces : the Sedimentary Effect project in San Diego County and Baja California on Nov 9 starting at 2pm with the opening of the exhibition at 5 at Bread and Salt in Barrio Logan. Part party, part runway show, part epic costume contest, Art After Dark returns to Oceanside Museum of Art on Oct 26 th. It’s the one-of-a-kind ‘art party’ of the year. This year's theme is Transformative Currents: Art and Action in the Pacific Ocean. More info: Wanda Wease (760) 435-3720 Showcasing groundbreaking architectural designs by Lord Norman Foster and his internationally renowned studio, a new exhibition titled Foster + Partners: Architecture of Light and Space opens at The San Diego Museum of Art on view through April 27, 2025. This is the team that will be renovating the west wing of the museum. The 24th Annual Axline Lecture: In Conversation with Norman Foster was in Sept 9 and now you can watch in on YouTube . Gabrielle Wyrick Chief Curator and Director of Art + Engagement at New Children’s Museum announces that on Sat, Nov 16th at 9 a.m., the latest immersive exhibition opens featuring the extraordinary work of artist Cannupa Hanska Luger , Future Ancestral Technologies: Odyssey. As part of Pacific Standard Time PST, her airship is inspired by the shape of a whale shark and the camouflage patterns of dazzle ships. The Glass Center is coming to UCSD and they now have a new webpage to provide information and updates. This 10,000 square foot facility at Thurgood Marshall College in the new Ridge Walk North Living and Learning Neighborhood is scheduled to open in early 2026. For right now, glass is in the craft center. More info anelson@ucsd.edu . Wendy Maruyama has now received the Gold Medal for Consummate Craftsmanship at the 2024 American Craft Council Awards on September 19, 2024. Congratulations, Wendy! If you have not done a Murals of La Jolla walk lately, here are the three new ones in 2024: Todd Gray, Ghosts in the Machine (1111 Prospect Street at back of building), Claudia Comte, The Deep, Impenetrable and Mysterious Jungle (7766 Fay Avenue) and Amy Adler, Location (7661 Girard Avenue). Remember the opening reception for Carlos Castro Arias: The Splinter in the Eye is Sat Oct. 19 from 6:30 to 8 and Amy Adler is giving a lecture on Tue. Nov. 19 at 6 pm. The New Colossus is a celebration of San Diego’s Immigrant Communities with the photographs of John Raymond Mireles , the City of San Diego’s inaugural Exposure photo fellow. The show is in four venues: City Administration Building Breezeway , San Ysidro Library , Valencia Park, Malcolm X Library , College, Rolando Library until Oct 31, 2024 Bevan Davies: New York Typologies has launched at Joseph Bellows Gallery in La Jolla featuring vintage black and white photographs of lower Manhattan made in the mid-1970s. This exhibition will showcase varying aspects of the city’s architecture, presenting serial images devoted to these cast-iron edifices. It will run until Nov 23. Bravo to Professor Alessandra Moctezuma , director of the San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery will travel to the Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport, Connecticut, for the first-ever "Art for All: Connecting Campus and Community" summit. This event will bring together representatives from community colleges spanning from California to Alabama, showcasing the collective impact of these institutions on students, the creative sector, and regional development. The fourth annual Valley Arts Festival (VAF) Spirit Of The Valley: Kíicha Nights, Coyote Dreams© to be held on Saturday, November 16, 2024, at Heritage Park in Oceanside. VAF is held in partnership with Studio ACE and a variety of other Oceanside non-profits with a purpose to present a celebration of Oceanside and its first peoples, today known as the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians, one of the seven tribes of the Luiseño nation. Sparks Gallery and Ángulo Galeria are announcing a cross-border collaboration showcasing the works of San Diego-based artists Kathleen Kane-Murrell and Alexander Arshansky and Tijuana based artists Jessica Sanchez and Aida Urbina. The se two American artists will show starting Sat, Nov 2 from 5:00-7:00 PM at Ángulo Galeria , (Flores Magón 7401, Zona Centro, Tijuana, Baja California.) The reception for the TJ artist will be Thurs. Nov. 7, 2024 from 5:00-7:00 PM at Sparks Gallery 530 Sixth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92102. All artists will deal with the themes of identity and cultural exchange. Get ready for the holidays : Flock Together is a selection of Bird mosaics, woodland animal paintings, mixed-media winter silhouette paintings, cyanotype feather prints, and a collection of handmade ornaments by the artists of Sophie’s Gallery in El Cajon. Come together on Dec 6 from 5-7:30 with the artists of Sophie's Gallery to celebrate the variety and diversity of nature this holiday season. More info: Erin Perschbacher Vision 2030: Strategic Plan is a tool that California for the Arts and California Arts Advocates have developed to provide strategic focus to the organizations for the next six years and it was just made public. It could pretty much apply to any umbrella arts organization but has an emphasis on racial equity. The following statement was of interest: . We also recognize that the meaning of equity is continually evolving, and we commit ourselves to keep a finger on the pulse of what our communities seek and need and the language they use to describe these needs . It reflects the need to stay agile. It is only 8 pages of large type and can serve as a guide for advocacy.
OPPORTUNITIES (click to see a list of all current opportunities listed on SDVAN) Calling all teens in grades 6 to 12: Participate in the TeenTober Art Contest by submitting a drawing, painting or digital design of your favorite book cover or a banned book. This is a program of the Carlsbad City Library. Winners announced early Nov. The 2025 Institute of Contemporary Art Residency Program is now open for local applications until Nov 3. Artist-in-residence will receive a year of free studio space in the non-profit creative hub, Studio Culture, a $2,000 stipend, a $500/month materials budget, and mentorship from the ICA’s curatorial team. In addition, the artist-in-residence will also have the opportunity to exhibit in a solo show at ICA North that aligns with the 2026 exhibition theme. The RFQ for site specific outdoor installation art at Arts District Liberty Station is now live for 2025. Those interested artists or artists teams are invited to learn more and submit their qualifications by Monday, November 4th It’s that time of year again that the City of San Diego has opened its arts and culture funding application cycle . The guidelines are now released and online applications for two organizational categories: the Organizational Support Program and Creative Communities San Diego . They are also making a call for panelist for application review taking place in March 2025. Applications due Tuesday, December 31, 2024. Heads up, the County Supervisors grants for some of the district that still have funds for the Community Enhancement grant, there is an opportunity for individual artists to get grants that are being matched by the Prebys Foundation. You still have to go through a non-profit organization to apply. The new County Commission for Arts and Culture will be part of the decision panel. Volunteers are needed for the San Diego Made 10th Anniversary Holiday Market on November 9-10 at NTC Liberty Station. Volunteers help them keep prices for small businesses. You’ll get a swag bag filled with handmade goodies in return. More info: Brittany Kaszas (619) 817-5517 P.S. The are working with the Crafter’s Retreat in the Liberty Station Arts District Nov 7-9 and you can get a $200 on this three-day event with code made200 at check out. Be quick to enter the Fallbrook Art Center International Holiday Show as thedeadline is Oct 31 for this juried show.More info: Brenda Andrews 760 728 1414 Fallbrook Art Center is making a call for its 14th Annual Artist Guild Exhibition 2025 . Deadline is Nov 12 for this show that runs Jan 11 to Feb 1. There are cash awards from $250-$500. More info: Brenda Andrews 760 728 1414 Remember: The North Coastal Art Gallery in Carlsbad has a call for artists for their Holiday Small image ShowApplication due Oct 25. It will be 56 days of joyous art that is a great take away for gifts from Nov 9 - January 4, 2024 with cash awards selected by judge Drew Banish at a reception on Sunday, November 16, 3-5pm. But everyone gets in. More info: Cheryl Ehlers 760-434-8497 SDVAN has partnered with Artists Sunday Dec 1st to unite individual artists and organizations locally and nationwide and promote the purchase of art during the busiest shopping weekend of the year. Participating artists receive a comprehensive marketing toolkit that includes everything needed to create customized marketing materials for your storefront, website, and social media. And the best part is… it’s free! We hope you’ll join this movement of passionate and talented artists. Sign up at https://artistssunday.com/artists/ AW Nov 2024
Art Reports by or about SDVAN by local writers A+ Art Blog by Patricia Frischer: And the Pendulum Swings: How the election results of 2024 will affect the arts HURRAH! The San Diego City Council unanimously approved a recommendation to establish the City of San Diego Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) – the City’s first department to support and advance the arts, culture, and creative sectors. The programs of the office of the Commission for Arts and Culture will continue uninterrupted, providing nearly 200 annual funding awards, managing public art across the city, and providing research and technical assistance to the field. But this newly formed DCA will be implementing the new Creative City cultural plan in partnership with various departments and community partners. DCA’s mission is to support a creative economy by investing in the work of artists and the institutions and to cultivate local participation and access, and advance San Diego as a global art city. Please note: The DEPARTMENT of Cultural Affairs is a huge set up from an office of the Commission for Arts and Culture. We would be happy to see an Office of Arts and Culture at the COUNTY level and eventually a Department of Arts and Culture! Carol Rogers tells us that congratulation goes to the City of and Public Art Commission of Escondido. Their Strategic Public Art Plan just won an award of excellence from North County Economic Development. On December 19, 2024, more than 300 North County leaders will convene for a luncheon at The Seabird Resort in Oceanside to celebrate economic development achievements from throughout North County. These awards are called the Devvies! The San Diego City Council in November approved the transfer of property ownership for 1100 Kettner Boulevard in downtown San Diego from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) to University of California San Diego, marking a key milestone in a collaboration that envisions a major cultural center in downtown San Diego. UCSD has stated that the goal for the use of the former museum is to feature emerging artists. But they will first have to do extensive refit project before artists’ studios, and a community gathering place and an adaptable, multidisciplinary arts space can be established. Very topical…How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? An exhibition by Cog•nate Collective ends Jan 18 at The Front Arte & Cultura and Casa Familiar in San Ysidro. We love the Oceanside Cultural Arts Foundation sponsored Public Piano project. The latest one, "Laurel" , has recently landed at the Oceanside Civic Center Library. Artist Joanna Tawfilis and staff at Muramid Museum & Art Center spent countless hours turning this at risk piano into a community heirloom. Robert Parker, OCAF board members says it will supply hundreds of hours of “moments of inspiration”. Have you had a chance to see the plans for the new wing of the SDMA? The San Diego Museum of Art: A New Vision with Foster + Partners is the video which shows a building that is stunning in its function, but not in keeping with the visual culture of Balboa Park except as it relates to the mid-1960’s Timkin Museum. Kaz Maslanka ponders, “Could there be a compromise façade to the new wing, perhaps in the older style but made with new transparent materials? And what happened to the public input on this project?” On the occasion of the first exhibition of the SDMA Artist Guild exhibition at MOPA@SDMA, SDMA Artist Guild video has been created. It features work by Rosemary KimBal, Manuelita Brown, Kevin Inman, Scott Bruckner and Julianne Ricksecker among many others in the Guild. This show was juried by Hugh Davies and is on display until March 9, 2025. James Bliesner is the new chairman and we look forward to more new direction from the Guild. The San Diego History Center and the Women’s Museum of California are merging together, uniting two of San Diego’s premier nonprofits with a shared mission to preserve and celebrate the region’s history. The merger should be completed by the end of 2025, further solidifying their shared vision and mission for this region’s future. Ghosts in the Machine is another new Murals of La Jolla project. This time by Todd Gray and located at 1111 Prospect Street and no, it is not for Halloween! One for the new year: Madison Gallery presents the unique artistic journey of Ángel Ricardo Ricardo Ríos in his solo exhibition La Verdad Absoluta opening Jan 15 to March 15 with a reception on Jan 25. But don’t forget Santiago Parra for his solo exhibition Soaring Nature on view until then. Oceanside Museum of Art presents Marshall Toomey: Black Americana, the debut solo exhibition that showcases the life, history, and artistry of this former Disney animator. This exhibition is now open through April 13, 2025. Arts (A Reason to Survive) presents Recollections: Youth Arts Festival is a celebration of the creative experiences of all the young artists who participated in A Reason to Survive (ARTS) programs the Fall 2024 season, with the integral support of our community. Join them on Sat Dec 7, 2024 from noon to 3. The City of Carlsbad is in the process of commissioning Barrio Traffic Circle Public Art project. You can see the list of 9 short-listed artist, three of which will be asked to design the site specific work of art. Lightscape illuminates San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas with more than one million lights, tunnels, fire, sculptures, and artistic installations. See it all come to life after dark with color, imagination, and sound along a newly expanded trail including the Winter Cathedral shown above. Reserve your tickets here for dates beginning Nov. 15. Congratulation the ICA San Diego which raised $15K over it goal of $60K in its first ever art auction hosted by Sotheby’s. fundraising goal of $60,000 and raised just over $75,000! There was an online and live auction that took place at ICA San Diego / Central in Balboa Park. Art Reach has organized its own Artist Gallery at its new headquarters to show case artwork created by their staff, They are encouraging purchases for the holidays with a percentage, of course, going to Art Reach. Please email Laurie Evans for artwork inquiries or more information about the gallery. Valency Genis’s Tarnished Emporium is coming to Distinction Gallery in Escondido just in time for a holiday treat .Opening on Dec 14 from 6 to 10 pm. and on view until Jan 4, 2025. More info: Melissa Walker 760-781-5779 Holiday Afternoons with Art in Rancho Santa Fe hosted by Margot Wallace at her studio (Suite 5060-131 16950 Via de Santa Fe, RSF 92067) is the weekend Dec 7th and 8th from 2 to 5 pm. Art by local artist, music, bites and beverages. More info: art@watercolorsbywally.com Gracie Rhoads is teaching a Mini Charcuterie Boards workshop on Fri. Dec 6 at 6pm for ArtReach (1065 University Ave. SD, 92103). Craft the tiniest, tastiest-looking favorite foods using polymer clay and add them to a “wooden” board and/or make your creations into magnets or pendants. Take them home to bake. All ages: $30. We were thrilled to read that Matt Divine will be having his first solo museum show at the Oceanside Museum of Art coming up March 1, 2025. After reading A+ Art Blog by Patricia Frischer: And the Pendulum Swings: How the election results of 2024 will affect the arts presented by AFTA, if you want to know more specifics about California then The State of Funding and Legislation for Arts, Culture & Creativity in California is on Dec 11 at noon PT presented by Californian for the Arts. With the 2024 election, more than 25% of the CA legislature is new, Federal Funding resources are increasingly uncertain and the California state budget remains unstable. OPPORTUNITIES Heads up, the County Supervisors grants for some of the district that still have funds for the Community Enhancement grant, there is an opportunity for individual artists to get grants that are being matched by the Prebys Foundation. You still have to go through a non-profit organization to apply. The new County Commission for Arts and Culture will be part of the decision panel. To apply for funding starting Dec 1, organizations can: visit the County's Community Enhancement Grant portal. Check the designated box on your grant application to indicate interest. Application due Jan 31, 2025. Current grant applicants will be automatically reviewed for eligibility. Watch for a webinar to be announced. For questions about the matching program, contact arts@sdcounty.ca.gov . The Escondido Arts Partnership is pleased to announce the Fifteenth annual presentation of WOOD, A Furniture Show hosted by Brian Murphy of Murphy’s Fine Woodworking. Deadline to submit is Dec 14 for this January, 2025 exhibition. The fifth annual Teeny Tiny Art Mart at Oceanside Museum of Art starts in Feb 9 so start now to craft your own 5-inch by 5-inch miniature masterpiece. The deadline for Teeny Tiny Art submissions is Jan 12, 2025. Call for Artists: the Oceanside Transit Center Pedestrian Tunnel Public Art Project is a large-scale opportunity to impact thousands of residents and visitors on a daily basis in Oceanside's Cultural District! The budget is $165k. Open now, due Dec 6. Oceanside Museum of Art Artist Alliance submissions for the Annual Artist Alliance Gathering Light exhibition at Ashton Gallery @ Art on 30th are open until Dec 4th. Consider artworks that are luminous, bright, hopeful, reflective either literally or in concept, and reviving in spirit. $20 for first submission, $10 for each thereafter. Please contact katie@oma-online.org if you would like to be considered for a scholarship. Young Art 2025: Nurture and Nature at Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art. This is the first year of the merger of two youth exhibition programs: The San Diego Museum of Art’s Young Art and the Museum of Photographic Arts’ Youth Exhibition. Youth artists from grades K-12 in the San Diego and Tijuana regions are encouraged to submit from Dec 2-20, 2024. On View April 5–May 18, 2025. Studio Ace reminds us that they are looking for new art teachers and teaching artists for 2025 to round out their offerings in Oceanside. Contact info@studioace.org The City of San Diego has opened its arts and culture funding application cycle. The guidelines are now released and online applications for two organizational categories: the Organizational Support Program and Creative Communities San Diego. Both are due November 25 They are also making a call for panelist for application review taking place in March 2025. Applications due Tuesday, Dec 31, 2024. SDVAN has partnered with Artists Sunday Dec 1st to unite individual artists and organizations locally and nationwide and promote the purchase of art during the busiest shopping weekend of the year. Participating artists receive a comprehensive marketing toolkit that includes everything needed to create customized marketing materials for your storefront, website, and social media. And the best part is… it’s free! We hope you’ll join this movement of passionate and talented artists. Sign up at https://artistssunday.com/artists/ Prebys Sparx is a challenge that is focused on improving community health and well-being for San Diego youth. Managed by the Prebys Foundation in partnership with Carrot, the challenge seeks to recognize and support bold ideas that activate arts, culture, and/or nature to address growing mental health disparities and promote behavioral well-being among youth. Up to four honorable mentions will each receive $25,000 and one grand prize winner will receive $1 million. NOTE: Local SD county non-profit organizations with partners who have registered, you have until Dec 4 to apply. Complete the readiness quiz to determine eligibility. More info: questions@prebyssparx.org
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