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Starting in March the the year of the COVID pandemic, we started listing virutal events on SDVAN. These events have a start date, but often have no end date as they are available 24/7 online. Please note: These events may or ma ynot be archived by their creators. If you have a new virtual event contact:info@sdvisualarts.net.

 

Virtual Events RAW 2020

		March 20	April 20	May 20	June 20
July 20	Aug 20	Sept 20	Oct 20	Nov 20	Dec 20

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Virtual Events March 2020

• Art Access at Lux
• Edges Fray ed at Cannon Gallery Carlsbad
• Art of the City with Steve Burton at EC Gallery
• Two Artists Responding to the Pandemic: Cathy Breslaw and Susan Osborn
• Arts in the Time of COVID-19 from the Union Tribune Nina Garin
• Local Artists Find Healing And Community In Mass Producing Masks KPBS Julie Dixon Evans
• Timken Curator's Corner with Dr. Cartwright with Marianela de la Hoz
• Virtual Art Alive 2020 at the San Diego Museum of Art
• Michelle Montjoy Live Stream Artist Talk at Lux
• Multiverse at Thumbprint
• Transformative Encounters by Bridget Rountree at Vanguard Culture
• Linda Litteral: Pathways at Spark Gallery
• Illumination Full report by curator Chi Essary with Artist Statements and Photos at the San Diego Art Institute (Look for Day 1 to Day 16 reports)
• Ludicrous Tales: A Topsy Turvy Quartet at Mesa College Gallery ceramic installation by Beliz Iristay and Irene de Watteville, paintings by Gloria Muriel, andsculptures by Aida Valencia
• The Crow Show at Studio Door
• Medium San Diego Behind the Scenes
• Salon with Helen McKenna, Vertez Burke, TroubleClefs and Jayne Relaford Brow

 

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Virtual Events April 2020

• Art Access at Lux Timken Curator's Corner with Dr. Cartwright
• The Dazzling World of Art Theft with Robin Douglas and Jaw-Dropping Art and Its Censorship with Robin Douglas from OMA
• Virtual Art Alive 2020 at the San Diego Museum of Art
• MCASD Curator Jill Dawsey and artist Katie Ruiz. Ruiz as part of the Artist Conversations at Museum of Contemporary Art
• Hidden Leaves Virtual Magazine from Ilan Lael Foundation /James Hubbell
• Amanda Kachadoorian Artist in Residence Art Produce
• Fallbrook Art Center’s Reflections of Nature
• Studio Series: Kahn & Selesnick at Lux Art Institute
• Flower Arranging Mini-Workshop with Native Poppy from Arts Alive at SDMA
• National Arts Action Digital Summit April 27-May 1
• Fallbrook Art Center’s Reflections of Nature
• Studio Series: Kahn & Selesnick at Lux Art Institute
• Flower Arranging Mini-Workshop with Native Poppy from Arts Alive at SDMA
• Amanda Kachadoorian Artist in Residence Art Produce
• Hidden Leaves Virtual Magazine from Ilan Lael Foundation/James Hubbell
• The Dazzling World of Art Theft with Robin Douglas from OMA
• Virtual Art Alive 2020 at the San Diego Museum of Art
• MCASD Curator Jill Dawsey and artist Katie Ruiz. Ruiz as part of the Artist Conversations at Museum of Contemporary Art
• Virtual LA March 2020 by Doug Simay
• Navigating the Crisis in the Arts by Redwood Media Group

 

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Virtual Events May 2020

• The San Diego Museum Of Art Artists Guild 2020 Membership Exhibition at the Lyceum
• La Caja Galeria Expanded Space corazón de maíz in TJ
• 9 th Annual Fallbrook Artist Guild exhibition
• Liberty Station Virtual Live First Friday – June 5
• James Hubbell’s Father's Day Open House Tour at Ilan-Lael June 20/21 $4.99 before May 31 (normally $50)Abstracts / A Group Show at Sparks Gallery
• RAM San Diego Art Intitutes’s Regional Artists Market for functional art
• New Children’s Museum weekly Coloring and Activity Pages
• Becky Guttin, shares her mother and grandmother's stories for The New American Museum
• UCSD Graduate 2020 online gallery

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Virtual Events June 2020

• ‘There Would Always Be A Needle and Thread’: Family History and Folk Art KPBS by Julia Dixon Evans
• Coffee with A Collector: Hugh Davies for Oceanside Museum of Art
• The New Children's Museum's reNEWing Hope Fund  Art Auction opens on June 1 then every t wo weeks .
• San Diego Museum of Art’s YouTube channel presents The Art of Elan every other Tue. at 6 pm.
• Oceanside Museum of Art Auction end June 28
• Oceanside Museum of Art : Studio Tour Charlotte Bird June 16
• Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Virtual
• Downtown at Sundown, ToDo • A Mending Project
• UCSD Electronic Distancing: 12 volts apart
• ‘Art Is Just A Language’: Dinah Poellnitz On Black Art And Protesting KPBS by Julia Dixon Evans
• Artists Paint Shattered La Mesa Storefronts: ‘This Isn’t About Property Loss’ KPBS by Julia Dixon Evans
• Comic Con Museum Sense of Wonder Virtual Tour

 

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Virtual Events July 2020

• MOMENTUM: A Creative Industry Symposium August 17 and Sept 7
• Visions Art Museum: Judith Content's "Shadow Dance," Melody Money's "of Meadows and Blue Skies" and Teri McHale's "Remnants"
• To Tame a Wild Tongue: Art after Chicanismo at Museum of Contemporary Art
• Lux Art Institute AR Portal for Cammie Staros
• Art Unites presents Diversify Your Art Form And Revenue Streams
• Women’s Museum of California: Handbags
• Behind The Exhibition: GIFTED at Oceanside Museum of Art
• 29th Annual Juried Exhibition - Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
• Virtual Studio Visit: Deanne Sabeck from Oceanside Museum of Art
• Brain Candy - A Virtual Salon Series - The Curators from Vanguard Art (See Patricia Frischer summary on A+ Art Bog)
• The Cross-Border Art And Radical Imagination Of Luisa Martínez KPBS by Julia Dixon Evans
  Jane LaFazio 6 Shelter in Place for San Diego Book Arts
• Cammie Staros at Lux Art Institute
• Oceanside Arts Live by Oceanside Cultural Arts Foundation
• reNEWing Hope Art Auction New Children’s Museum (ends July 20 and contains work by Irene de Watteville, Marisol Rendón and Philipp Scholz Rittermann)
• San Diego Art Institute: Reopening and adapting to the new norm | Pedestrian Simulation Modeling
• A (Brief) Glimpse Of Reopening For San Diego Museums KPBS By Julia Dixon Evans
• New Americans Museum 100 Faces of War Sneak Peak, Gallery Set Up

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Virtual Events August 2020

• San Diego Design Week Sept 9 -13
• Oceanside Museum of Art; Behind The Exhibition: GIFTED, Virtual Road Trip: Impressions Of California with Robin Douglas, Behind The Exhibition: Southern California Contemporary Quilts in support of 2 exhibitions  GIFTED: Collecting the Art of California at Gardena High School, 1919-1956 and Southern California Contemporary Quilts
• Radial Symmetry with Complementary Color from the Timken Museum
• Lux Art Institute; Behind the Scenes: Explorations of Contemporary Art Thurs, Aug 13 at 5pm, Dysfunctional Ware Sat, Aug 8 from 10am to 12pm
• The Buzz: Working in Isolation: Melanie Taylor by Cathy Breslaw
• San Diego Chinese Historical Museum Collection
• The Californians for the Arts will hold a San Diego + Imperial Counties Regional Conversation: Advocacy and Elections Update on August 14 at 11 am. Register link .
• Gary Lang: Brave Gestures at Madison Gallery Film by Eric Minh Swenson
• Using Art to Relax with the Timken Museum of Art
• Lux Art Institute’s On AiR Episode XXX: The Anthropomorphized Vessel Panel Discussion Thurs, Aug 13 at 2pm
• New Spark Gallery Selection 2020 Online
• Taste of Nostalgia Zard Apuya at Thumbprint Gallery
• Lori Escalera art making videos
• Patrons of the Prado's Pop Up the Paddle August 16-20 .

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Virtual Events September 2020

• Taste Of Art: An Art Picnic With Wayne Thiebaud , OMA, Thurs, Sept 17, 6:00–8:00pm
• SmallTalk: SoCal Quilters Roundup , OMA, Thurs, Sept 24, 7:00–8:00pm
• Art Apart Three-Day Workshop: California Watercolors , OMA, Tues, Sept 24–October 6, 6:30–8:00pm
• Chor Boogie: Decolonizing Aerosol Art – Please listen how the history Street Art has been appropriated
• Paola "Panca" Villaseñor and Megan Dickerson podcast from the New Children’s Museum
• San Diego Chinese History Museum volunteer training sessions Part 1 Robert Stein Immigrant and Minority Experience and Michael Yee on early California History and Part 2 with Michael Yee on San Diego Chinese History
• The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Art Auction 2020 Oct 1 - 15.
• SmallTalk: SoCal Quilters Roundup with Beth Smith at OMA Thurs, Sept 24, 7:00 – 8:00pm
• Sparks Gallery - Gallery Selections 2020
• The Buzz: Working in Isolation – Ellen Deiter by Cathy Breslaw
• Margaret Nobles Sky Muse Compass Interactive Visual Music for SD International Airport and Silent Graphic Score
• Space4Art presents smART with Ms Molly
• Lux Art Institute: Cosmo Whyte and Regional Artist Beliz Iristay Artist Talk & Reception

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Virtual Events October 2020

• Gallery Selections 2020 at Sparks Gallery
• Art San Diego Collection   online from Art San Diego
• Roxana VelásquezTransforming A Collection: A Decade of SDMA Acquisitions Virtual Event
• Public Art Installation at the U.S./Mexico Border by Ryan McGinness
• MCASD annual auction Thurs. Oct 15
• S4A TV presents Material Studies - Brennan Hubbel
• Kaz Maslanka’s Part 2 of Mathematical Poetry at the Los Angeles Center For Digital Art,
• Traversing through Rituals of Remembrance - Featuring photographers  Rizzhel Javier  and  Wayne Martin Belger
• Virtual Demonstrations from the San Diego Book Arts
• Women’s Museum of California presents Beauty or Torture: Society's Demand of Perfection Examined 
• Phenomenal San Diego women: Creators and performers presented by the Union Tribune and Women’s Museum of California by Karla Peterson, Michael James Rocha and George Vargo
• Trailblazing Women Episode 6: Zandra Rhodes
• Walking Tour of the APHD - Chinese-American History & Beyond
• Andre Desjardins: Inside his studio past and future talk presented by Arredon Art
• Artist Jean Lowe Plays With Depictions Of Women KPBS By  Julia Dixon Evans
• Jens Rossen Solo Show at Sparks Gallery
• Wu Tsang: Remote Guest Lecture from UCSD

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Virtual Events November 2020

• Night of the Living Art: An Art After Dark Fashion Extravaganza
• Rebecca Senf on Ansel Adams' Early Career presented by Medium Photo Women's Film
• Festival San Diego presented by The Women’s Museum of CA
• Create a Monster fromYour Name with the New Children’s Museum
• Salome Asega - UCSD Visual Arts Remote Guest Lecture
• Sparks Gallery exhibition walkthrough + notes from the curator, Christopher Polentz Solo Show Interview and Allied Craftsmen Panel Discussion.
• FEAR NO ART: Civic Engagement, Histories, Currencies at the Central Library
• Njideka Akunyili Crosby - Russell Lecture with UCSD/MCASD – Hybrid experience when culture is not lost but does change.
• Judit Hersko: Pages from the Book of the Unknown Explorer
• Oceanside Museum of ArtTeeny Tiny Art Mart
• Talmadge Art ShowGift Guide

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Virtual Events December 2020

• Cardiff artist Sharon Belknap finds connection, healing in sand mandala beach drawings by Pam Kragan
• How to Photograph Your Artists' Book by Cathy Cakebread by San Diego Book Arts
• Lazio Moholy-Nagy: The New Bauhaus presented by Los Angles Museum of Contemporary Art
• Kaori Fukuyama Light After Dark at Engage Gallery : Walk through and panel discussion
• Mission Federal Art Walk
• Redwood RAVE Virtual Art Fair
• City Heights Reports : a Puppet Theater Project
• Solstice Shadow presented by San Diego Watercolor Society
• Lazio Moholy-Nagy: The New Bauhaus presented by Los Angles Museum of Contemporary Art
• Julia San Roman Art ShopTalk presented by Vanguard Culture
• Food and Art by Robin Douglas for Oceanside Museum of Art
• Interview with Arline Fisch presented by the Mingei International Museum
• San Diego Quilt Vision Museum Gift Store offerings

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Virtual Events RAW 2021

Jan 21	Feb 21	March 21	April 21	May 21	June 21

Virtual Events January 2021

• Youth Mental Health & Art Discussions: Anxiety; Depression, Diversity, Understanding Autism presented by Compassionate San Diego
• 2020 Online International Winter Exhibition of the San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild
• San Diego Art Institute 360 Video Player list for Illumination (11 videos under 4 minutes each)
• Museum of Contemporary Art Behind the Scenes video
• 3rd Saturday Lecture: Qing Dynasty Ceramics: An unprecedented era of colorful glaze innovations
• "Waves of Feminism" Unveiling from the Women’s Museum of California
• Medium (Virtual) Review and Festival
• Virtual KidSketch of The Salk Institute sponsored by the SD Architectural Foundation
• Sculptural Valentine’s Card with Bhavna Mehta sponsored by the Timken Museum of Art
• Dewey Crumpler "Culture, Power and Art" Remote Guest Lecture by UCSD
• ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station Virtual First Friday
• Just Breathe
• "Gather and Stitch" Online ClassIana
• Quesnell Reception & Artist TalkDewey Crumpler
• Beatriz Cortez: Longenecker-Roth Artist In Residence Guest Lecture
• Kirsten Francis The First Cut
• Focus on the Features with Stephanie Goldman
• All About Art video series from New Children’s Museum
• GIFTED: Collecting the Art of California at Gardena High School, 1919-1956 presented by Oceanside Museum of Art
• Jonny Hoolko Japanese paper marbling technique, Suminagashi on Space4Art TV
• Spring Classes at Lux Art Institute with free demonstration the last week of January
• In the studio with Andre Desjardins presented by Arredon Arts (new location)
• Christopher Polentz: Children Of The Circus presented by Sparks Gallery
• Fitz Henry Lane from Castine, Maine to San Diego, California with Dr. Derrick Cartwright
  
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Virtual Events Feb 2021

• Mask Making with May-ling Martinez presented by Space for Art
• Experiments on Stone: Four Women Artists from the Tamarind Lithography Workshop
• DIY: Abstract Quilts in honor of Black History Month at New Children’s Museum
• Guest Artists at The Studio DoorHow many types of Cloisonne are there?Sparks Gallery
• Valentine's Day AuctionPainting Challenges And Plein Air Paint ShareSDSU Chinese
• Cultural Center Virtual Field TripArtist Lecture Shaun Leonardo: From Seeing to
• WitnessingNicole Fleetwood Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass
• IncarcerationCollectible Artists at The Studio DoorEdwin Vasquez Upcoming Show:
• Anuncios Feb 13 - Mar 6Christopher Polentz/ The Promised Land and Allied Craftsman
• Closing Feb 14Acrylics for Everyone with Stan GoudeySDSU Chinese Cultural Center
• Virtual Field TripThe Botany of Livin
• ON AIR: GLYPH CERRO with Professor Ulises Valiente
• Beatriz Cortez Studio Series [En Español]
• Art Exploration [Glyph] Exhibition
• Anne Mudge Wire workshop Virtual Family Open Studio, City of Carlsbad Arts
• In Conversation: Manuelita Brown And Dr. Denise Rogers presented by OMA
• Online Lectures: Great Women Artists, Then And Now at OMA
• Comic Con Fun Book #30 celebrates the impact Black creators have made on comicsand pop culture
• Studio Ace Presents Arts for Older Adults from Oceanside Public Library
• UCSD Graduate Open Studios

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Virtual Events March 2021

• Artist Talk: Reimagining the Power of Art + Play , The New Children's Museum with artist Katie Ruiz
•  Art Produce’s 2021 Artists in Residence has been announced and this super group includes two past SD Art Prize recipients Kaori Fukuyama and May-Ling Martinez plus who knows how many future ones.
• Medium (Virtual) Review and Festiva
• lMy Life, My Story, a virtual Art Exhibition
• RAVE | Focus San Diego
• Greek Gods & San Diego Architecture sat The Studio Door
• Chris E. Vargas: Remote Guest Lecture
• SD Art Prize at RAVE Artist Interviews
• Poetry Workshop with Poet in Residence Catherine Kineavy
• Ellen Lupton & Josh Halstead: Saturday Morning Pop-up Book Talk
• Watercolor Journey with Kene Lohmann
• Art Unites 2021 Support Group
• Postcommodity: A Conversation About New Work
• Panache Annual Art Auction
• Sidecar Puppetry Revue virtual Show
• Online Lecture: Great Women Artists, Then And Now Part Two
• Two-Day Workshop: Fixing The Image
• 14 th annual Dia de la Mujer Domestic Geographies is curated by Ingrid Hernandez
• 2021 Celebration of Sculpture > Julia S Rasor
• Spring Into Art
• San Diego Women's Hall of Fame
• 12th Annual Fallbrook Signature American International Watermedia Exhibition
• New Children’s Museum Toddler Time: Nature Dough
• Melissa Walter with HereIn
• Portfolio: Beliz Iristay
• Journey Up the Mountain - Nathan Harrison Exhibition Born Enslaved, died a San Diego Legion
• UCSD Art Grad Exhibition : Ch'ik'xulub: A Non-Visible Crate

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