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RAW April 2024  There is a new mural in La Jolla . Amy Adler’s Location , 2024 is located at 7661 Girard Avenue (Kline Street side of the building) 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. RSVP for arts organization and local arts agencies. 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. 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. Plus 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. RSVP for arts organization and local arts agencies. 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. .
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