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RAW June 2024 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 619.573.9300 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
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