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Picked RAW for December 2016  

MINGLE AND JINGLE is the SDVAN  Annual 2016 Holiday Potluck Lunch on Tuesday, Dec 13, 11 am to 2 pm (2487 Montgomery Avenue, Cardiff by the Sea, Ca 92007) Please bring: One dish or drinks for 8 to share for our annual Jewelry and Accessories for our swap exchange. RSVP: patricia@sdvisualarts.net 760.943.0148.

New Symbologist Gallery Open house Holiday Sparkle Party (2060 Logan Ave unit C, SD 92113 from 4 to 9 pm on Sat Dec 10. Join in for the preview of this new gallery in Chicano Park. Symbologist features the work of local visual artists, designers and craftsman. More info: Kaarin Vaughn 619-693-5004. Starting January 3, 2017 regular gallery day and hours are Monday – Saturday, 10am - 4pm

Sandow Birk: Depravities and Monuments Gallery Tour at noon on Dec 2 the SDSU Downtown Gallery (725 West Broadway, SD 92101) Sandow Birk will guide visitors through his exhibition Depravities & Monuments, featuring monumental prints and drawings from two incisive series that address conditions and concerns of our contemporary global society. More info: Chantel Paul 619-501-6370

Holiday Bazaars are taking place at the Mingei, Sparks Gallery and the Studio Door all starting on Thurs. Dec 8.

Picked RAW dedicates part of each month's column to garden fresh newcomers in the San Diego Visual Arts Resource Directory

Zentangle Art Method
Negulescu Fine Art


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Picked RAW for December 2016 

MINGLE AND JINGLE is the SDVAN  Annual 2016 Holiday Potluck Lunch on Tuesday, Dec 13, 11 am to 2 pm (2487 Montgomery Avenue, Cardiff by the Sea, Ca 92007) Please bring: One dish or drinks for 8 to share for our annual Jewelry and Accessories for our swap exchange. RSVP: patricia@sdvisualarts.net 760.943.0148.

New Symbologist Gallery Open house Holiday Sparkle Party (2060 Logan Ave unit C, SD 92113 from 4 to 9 pm on Sat Dec 10. Join in for the preview of this new gallery in Chicano Park. Symbologist features the work of local visual artists, designers and craftsman. More info: Kaarin Vaughn 619-693-5004. Starting January 3, 2017 regular gallery day and hours are Monday – Saturday, 10am - 4pm

Sandow Birk: Depravities and Monuments Gallery Tour at noon on Dec 2 the SDSU Downtown Gallery (725 West Broadway, SD 92101) Sandow Birk will guide visitors through his exhibition Depravities & Monuments, featuring monumental prints and drawings from two incisive series that address conditions and concerns of our contemporary global society. More info: Chantel Paul 619-501-6370

Holiday Bazaars are taking place at the Mingei, Sparks Gallery and the Studio Door all starting on Thurs. Dec 8.

Picked RAW dedicates part of each month's column to garden fresh newcomers in the San Diego Visual Arts Resource Directory

Zentangle Art Method
Negulescu Fine Art

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Picked RAW for November 2016 

For Art San Diego Contemporary Art Show this year (Nov 3-6) SDVAN is sponsoring INTO THE LIGHT/ SDAI and San Diego Art Prize , curated by the San Diego Mesa College Museum Studies Program. This booth will feature artwork by San Diego Art Institute members who have been past years nominees for the San Diego Art Prize. It will highlight artists that have made the transition from their studios to solid representation in the San Diego art scene. There will be an exciting range of affordable work geared to young art collectors that want to support local artists.A very special section of the booth will focus on the outstanding works of the two emerging 2016 SD Art Prize winners William Feeney andShinpei Takeda. The collaboration between these organizations is rooted in our mutual interests to promote artists, exhibit their works, and network with the San Diego community. San Diego Mesa Collage Museum Studies students will be curating the exhibit, managing the booth and focusing on outreach during the art fair.   

The Athenaeum is pleased to exhibit the paintings of Reed Cardwell: All The Presidents (Men) at the Athenaeum Art Center in Logan Heights (Studio at Bread & Salt, 1955 Julian Avenue, 92113) from Nov. 7 to Dec. 31. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, November 12, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Between 2005 and 2009 Reed Cardwell painted a series of all 44 presidents from George Washington to Barak Obama. The expressive paintings are based on official portraits. Each president looks at the viewer with a pensive, determined and self-confident manner. They know about their historical importance and they project it. We are invited to be part of that history. Reed Cardwell (1954-2013) was an artist and teacher at the Athenaeum from 1997 to 2013. He taught abstract art at the Athenaeum’s School of the Arts to a group of fiercely devoted students. They adored him for his kindness and selfless dedication to their needs and development of their own voice and vision. More info: Lidia Rossner 858-454-5872. At the La Jolla Athenaeum, don’t miss the selection by Mark Quint called “Give me a minute, I am thinking.” Also showing is Roy Porello and Aida Cervantes.

If you, or the kid in the you, is a fan of “comix,” you’ll be a fan of The 613, a collection in which painter Archie Rand illustrates each of the Torah’s 613 commandments. All done in a wild style the New York Times calls a “mash-up of comic books, True Detective magazine covers and obsessive-compulsive disorder… like Marc Chagall on a bender,” each panel in The 613 is stunning, truly unique work of art. Meet the artist for a Bagels & Books event on Wedn. Nov 2 from 10 to 11:30 and a virtual and very visual guided tour of one of the most singular works of Jewish art ever made. Center for Jewish Culture , TEMPLE SOLEL 3575 Manchester Avenue, Cardiff by the Sea, CAS 92007. More info: Leigh Haubach  858-362-1148.

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San Diego Regional Arts and Culture Coalition
Melinda Resendes Fine Art
Art Box

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Picked RAW for October 2016 

2nd Annual Open Studios is producedby Studio Door ( 3750 30th Street , SD 92104 ) with a r eception: Sat. Oct 8, 6 -9 pm for all the participating artists. The exhibition runs from Oct 1 to 22. The Self Guided Studio Tours: Sat/Sun Oct 15/16, 10 am to 5 pm. More info; Patric Stillman 619-255-4920 . Our thanks to the following artist for the use of their images in our banner which include Linda Litteral: Background,Left to right: Combat Arts San Diego, Julia S Rasor, Dennis Dizon, Chris Smith, Hyacinthe Baron, Gabriele Bitter, Danielle Nelisse  

Cultural Districts Public Input Meeting San Diego Region presented by California Arts Council is on Mon, Oct 3 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at California Center for the Arts: Conference Center ( 340 North Escondido Blvd, Escondido, 92025) Click here to learn more and to RSVP

In partnership with the City of Encinitas Arts Division, Encinitas Friends of the Arts will be celebrating its third annual Dia de la Muertos on Sat. Oct 29, at the Encinitas Community Center ( 1140 Oakcrest Park Drive, off Balour, Encinitas) from 12-4 pm. This free family event will foster an appreciation and awareness of this significant Latino cultural celebration while uniting people of all backgrounds and traditions. More info:Naimeh Tanha Woodward  760-298-1708

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Picked RAW for September 2016 

Daniel Foster’s exhibition db Foster: OutSide In at Southwestern College Art Gallery ( 900 Otay Lakes Rd., Chula Vista,  91910) The rece ption is Sept 1, 5:30 to 8:30 pm and the exhibition is on view until Sept. 22, 2016. There is a lecture on the day of the reception from noon to 1 pm. More info:Daniel Foster or Vallo Riberto

Sergott Contemporary Art Alliance (SCAA) (Rancho Santa Fe) celebrates the beginning of Five Years with an Anniversary Exhibition from Sept 9 to Nov 9.  To commemorate this occasion, the exhibition features a selection of new works by sixteen artists who have exhibited at SCAA as well as two new artists. Erin Dace Behling and Robert Michael Jones both New Contemporaries for 2016. Other SD Art Prize artist include: De La Torre Brothers, Belize Iristay, Jeffrey Laudenslager, and Deanne Sabeck. The opening reception isFri, Sept 9 from 6 - 9pm with a performance by Amigos del Rep at 7:30pm. More info: info@sergottart.com 858.756.2377

San Diego Art Institute annual benefit celebrating 74 years is Sun.Sept 25 from 5 to 9 pm and includes dinner, live art, and silent auction. It is held at Writerz Blok, 5010 Market Street, SD 92102. Dinner provided Chef Mario Medina, music, dancing, opportunity drawing, silent auction with musical guest Cumbia Machin. Purchase tickets at $75 per person.

Picked RAW dedicates part of each month's column to garden fresh newcomers in the San Diego Visual Arts Resource Directory

T Short Galleries

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Picked RAW for August 2016 

Sidney Wildesmith: Wonderlust and TRANSDIMENSIONAL which begins July 26 and runs to Oct 4. There is an openingreception onSat.Aug 13, 6-8 pm This is aretrospective of Widesmith who was an Artist in Residence in 7 National Parks. This is also a tribute to the National Parks 100th anniversary. At the opening and for night only TRANSDIMENSIONAL is the premiere of artwork exceeding 3-dimensionals. L Street Gallery at the Omni ( 628 L Street, SD 92101) More info: Sidney 760-436-8776 

ArtWalk @ Liberty Station is Sat./Sun, August 13 & 14, 10am-6pm. Please visit the SDVAN sponsored participation booth and have fun at the Nature Paper Project produced by Artist & Craftsman Supply ( 2645 Historic Decatur Road, SD 92106) More info: Sean Christensen 6196151090

Quint Projects is pleased to announce a collaborative installation by San Diego artists Jean Lowe and Kim MacConnel: The Museum of Metropolitan ArtThe installation will include wall paintings appropriated from Old Master and Impressionist artworks and a “museum” café serving cake and coffee. ( 5171 B Santa Fe Street, SD 92117,) Sat Aug 13 from 10 am to 1 pm or by appointment . More info: Nina Howard  858-454-3409

Picked RAW dedicates part of each month's column to garden fresh newcomers in the San Diego Visual Arts Resource Directory

Art Lounge on 101
San Diego County Archaeological Society


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Picked RAW for July 2016 

Remember to vote for the emerging artist nominated for the SD Art Prize in 2016.2016 New Contemporaries: Robert Andrade, William Feeney, Kim Garcia, Robert Michael Jones, Erin Dace Behling, Sasha Koozel Reibstein, Aren Skalman, Graham Smith, Shinpei Takeda, Paola Villasenor (PANCA), Nicole WaszakThe exhibition is a tCity College Gallery until Thurs. July 14, 2016. Use our SD View Art Now Appto vote until July 12.Closing Reception and Recipients Announcement: Thur. July 14 from 4 to 5 pm

Neo-Kitsch: A New Old Latin America plus SD Art Prize New Contemporaries artists: opening Fri. July 22 from 6 to 9 pm and showing until Aug. 27 at Sergott Contemporary Art Alliance RSVP and directions: Tom Sergott 858.766.2377

Passport to France produced by the Encinitas Friends of the Artson Sat, July 23, 6:30 to 9 pm at the Encinitas Community Center ( 1140 Oakcrest Park Drive, off Balour Encinitas) $20 member, $25 public. More info: Naimeh Tahna

Picked RAW dedicates part of each month's column to garden fresh newcomers in the San Diego Visual Arts Resource Directory

North County Sculptors Salon
Lori L Fine Art Gallery
Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery

Picked RAW for June 2016 

San Diego Visual Arts Network is excited to announce the new Public Choice award for the 2016 New Contemporaries. To allow visitors at City College Gallery to vote for their favorite artists in the exhibition, an addition to our SD View Art Now app was created by Anand Bora , Founder Determinant Studios. Mr. Bora is flying in from India to be present at the closing reception and announcement of the recipients. 2016 New Contemporaries SD Art Prize Nominated Artists will all be showing at City College Gallery (1508 C Street, San Diego 92101) from Sat. June 18 - Thurs. July 14, 2016 with an opening Reception:  Sat. June 18, 6 - 8 pm. The artists included are Robert Andrade, William Feeney, Kim Garcia, Robert Michael Jones, Erin Dace Behling, Sasha Koozel Reibstein, Aren Skalman, Graham Smith, Shinpei Takeda, Paola Villasenor (PANCA), Nicole Waszak. Two artists from this exhibition will be chosen to receive the 2016 SD Art Prize. Additionally there will be an extra cash prize for the Public Choice award. Announcements of the recipients will be made on Thurs. July 14 at the end of the City College exhibition. The two emerging artists chosen for the SD Art Prize will in turn select two established artists to mentor them and to be co-exhibitors at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in the spring of 2017.

Felicita is the inaugural Art Show at A Ship In The Woods’s new location ( 3007 Felicita Road, Escondido, 92029) Sat June 4 at 4 pm $10 +$3 parking. With over two acres of lush gardens, oak tree grove, and year round stream, the new SHIP IN THE WOODS will be an incubator for innovative ideas and elevated conversations with world class artists, scientists, and creative minds from all disciplines seeking to enhance our ever changing world view. More info: RJ Brooks  619-218-2737

The San Diego Museum of Art presents Quilts and Color from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston through September 4th celebrates the vibrant color palette and inventive designs found in the outstanding array of early American quilts amassed over decades by the collectors Paul Pilgrim and Gerald Roy.

Remember San Diego Art Prize 2015 at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library until June 11, 2016 with Wendy Maruyama with emerging artist Peter Scheidt and Roy McMakin with emerging artist Kevin Inman. 

Picked RAW dedicates part of each month's column to garden fresh newcomers in the San Diego Visual Arts Resource Directory

San Diego Festival of the Arts
Downtown San Diego Partnership

Picked RAW for May 2016 

San Diego Art Prize 2015 at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library May 7- June 11, 2016 with an opening reception on Friday, May 6, 6:30-8:30PM for Wendy Maruyama with emerging artist Peter Scheidt and Roy McMakin with emerging artist Kevin Inman. 

The next North County Arts Network NCAN quarterly program themed Arts Education in San Diego is on Wedn. May 11. Networking is at the Muramid Museum and Art Center (212-F Artist Alley) from 5:00 - 6:00 pm and the formal meeting at Sunshine Brooks Theater (217 N Coast Hwy), operated by the Oceanside Theatre Company at 6:00 pm. The program is presented by NCAN's Arts Education Committee led by Leah Goodwin (CCAE) and Lynnette Tessitore-Lopez (City of Chula Vista Arts), with additional support of Jacque Kilpatrick (CSUSM). This arts education program will feature some of San Diego's most knowledgeable and impactful arts educators and administrators discussing the opportunities and challenges for strengthening youth arts education. RSVP for this free event: Daniel Foster

Join Art Produce on Sat. May 14, reception 6 – 9 pm for a two month celebration (ending July 3) of the past 15 years of exhibits and the launch of new cultural activities and engagement opportunities for the neighborhood. Looking Back/Forward is a retrospective group show of 25 local artists who have previously had solo exhibits at Art Produce ( 3139 University Ave, SD 92104). This includes many New Contemporaries artists (William Feeney, May-ling Martinez, Marisol Rendón, Anna Stump, Dave Ghilarducci, Lee Puffer, Nina Karavasiles) and Terri Hughes-Oelrich curator of the upcoming exhibition at City College. Watch for the new ChuckAlek Biergarten in the Urban Garden ( Herman Street entrance.) More info: Lynn Susholtz  619-584-4448

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Picked RAW for April 2016

Learn more about the art of Robin Bright and Tom Driscoll as curator Eric Phleger leads a tour through the exhibition with artists on Tue. April 5 from 6:30 at Oceanside Museum of Art. More info: Mitzi Summers  760-435-3721 

Watch for Bhavna Mehta Body 1.0 onSat, April 2, 5:30-8pm at Bay Park Press ( 4138 Napier St, SD 92110)
More info: Bhavna Mehta 619-987-3187

Lucia Ferreira Litowtschenko the recipient of the College Student “The Business of Art” as part of the Mission Federal ArtWalkApril 30th and May 1 st from 11 to 6 pm between Ash and Grape Street in San Diego’s Little Itally , 92101. More info: Sandi Cottrell  619-955-5285  

Passport to Africa produced by the Encinitas Friends of the Arts, Friday, April 29 th 6:30 to 9 pm at the Encinitas Community Center Center ( 1140 Oakcrest Park Drive, off Balour Encinitas). $25 member, $30 public.

Picked RAW dedicates part of each month's column to garden fresh newcomers in the San Diego Visual Arts Resource Directory

Walker Preserve Trail
Poway Center for the Performing Arts

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Picked RAW for March 2016

Sacrifice/Souvenir is a Immersive installation by Geoffrey Cunningham with a starting point of the news opening on Sat March 12 6 -9 pm and running until April 30 at Art Produce (3139 University Ave, SD 92104) More info: Lynn Susholtz  619-584-4448

MAS Attack with Torrance Art Museum is a change for a huge number of local artist to mix with Los Angeles artists. Every one in the show has to be present for this one night event on Sat March 19, 6 pm at San Diego Art Institute (1439 El Prado, SD 92101) More info: Celia Gold 619-236-0011  

Kathryn Kanjo Perspective: Do Ho Suh is a walk though of this new show onMonday, March 21 at 2 pm lead by the deputy director (and we understand next director when Huge Davies retires in the fall) at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (1100 Kettner Blvd, SD, 92101) More info: Patricia Dwyer  858 454 3541

An Artist @ the Table with Roman de Salvo is a very select gather on Sat, March 26, 7 pm costing $150 put on Vanguard Culture with a location given out once you have made a reservation. More info: Susanna Peredo 619-829-7561  

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Picked RAW for February 2016

Tara Donovan: Slinkys opening onSat. Feb 6, 6-8 pmat Quint Gallery ( 7547 Girard Avenue, La Jolla 92037) More info: Nina Makosch  858-454-3409

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library opens the new Athenaeum Art Center with a reception on Sat. Feb 6 from 2 to 5 pm ( 1955 Julian Avenue, SD 92113) More info:press@ljathenaeum.org 858.454.5872 

Now You See It , on view February 24–March 20, 2016 (a farce by the French master George Feydeau) and has a juried show on the theme of the play i.e jealousy bordering on paranoia, a philandering husband, hypnotism, a spurned lover and a scandalous discovery. Th reception for Oceanside Museum of Art’s exhibition is on March 3, 2016, 6:00–7:30pm. This is the second partnership of OMA and North Coast Rep.OMA has a mega opening of five exhibitions on Feb 6 from 6 to 8 including Deanne Sabeck, Robin Bright and Tom Driscoll, Laddie John Dill, Marjorie Nodelman, and Bill Rasstetter

Daniel Foster: Inside Out is the launch of his artist career at Susan Street Fine Art Gallery (200 North Cedros Avenue, Solana Beach, 92075) from Feb 8 -12 by appointment. Foster was the former director of the Oceanside Museum of Art, Riverside Art Museum and Riverside Foundation. Many remember him as the education director at SDAI. His art has been hidden from view until now. In January 1986, upon a visit to Spectrum Gallery in San Diego's Gaslamp District, Foster was deeply inspired by a Walter Wojtyla’s Stalker Dog series prismacolor drawing. He immediately purchased a box of colored pencils and has been making art ever since. His work will be revealed for the first time at this exhibition and celebrated at a reception: Fri., Feb.12, 5-9 pm and an Artists Talk: Sat, Feb. 13, 4-6 pm. Open without an appointment on Sat/Sun Feb 13/14 from 12 to 4 pm. BYOF (Bring your own flashlight) More info and RSVP: dbfosterart@gmail.com

Art of the Open Air is a new installation of works by major sculptors in the Plaza de Panama in front of the San Diego Museum of Art. Works have been taken out of storage, restored and installed for the view public, creating an exciting pedestrian space when there used to be a car park.

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Studio Fine Artists Network

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Picked RAW for January 2016

The History and the Hair Story: 400 Years Without a Comb. You still have time to join and go to the members only reception Fri, Jan. 15 th from 5:30-8:00pm. The show runs Jan 16 to March 6 at California Center for the Arts ( 340 N. Escondido Blvd, Escondido 92025) More info: Julie Riggert760.839.4125 

The Opening Night: Ed Ruscha Then & Now: Paintings from the 1960’s and 2000s Fri. Jan 29, 7-9 pm $10at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego ( 700 Prospect Street, La Jolla 92037) More info: Patricia Dwyer  858 454 3541

NCAN Quarterly Meeting Thursday, Jan 21 from 5 to 7:30 pm at Poway Center for the Arts. ( 15498 Espola Rd , Poway 92064 ) More info Daniel Foster 951-334-5677

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Story Arts
Kids Like Clay
Powercorp Productions

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