The Project - San Diego Visual Arts Network:

A data base of information produced to improve the clarity, accuracy and sophistication of discourse about San Diego's artistic and cultural life and which is dedicated to re-enforce the idea that the Visual Arts are a necessary and vital part of the health of our city. Directory entry to include: Name of Organization or Service, location, contact numbers (tel, fax, email, web site) and mission statement or services offered to the community. The directory is available as a web site. Entries are made directly onto the site by those listed. The events calendar lists the next 15 events and on going events with a search by type and location. Opportunites both paid and volunteer are listed including grants with a search by type and age. The SDVAN offers a listing of artists by name with website and gallery affiliation and enables them to be located by medium as well.

The categories for directory include:
Arts Organizations
Public Exhibition Spaces
Commercial Galleries
Art Education
Services and Suppliers
Art Management and Promotion

Currently the site includes a feature to encourage new buyer of art called SmART Collector, a gossip coluumn RAW, top three picks of the month Picked RAW and a monthly message of updates about the site.
Future components of the web site could include a chat line, advocacy issues, links to similar sites in other cities, and a techniques symposium.

SDVAN Committee: Founding members
Sandra Chanis (Oceanside Museum of Art),
Daniel Foster (Riverside Museum of Art, formerly SDAI),
Patricia Frischer (COVA, OMA AA)
Elfred Lee (SD Artist Guild and Portrait Society)
Jane LaFazio (San Diego Watercolor Society)
Ann Berchtold (SanDiegoArtist.com)
Steven Churchill (La Jolla Art Association)

Current members and past members:
Lisa Roche (SDAG, 101 Artists Colony, Escondido Arts Partnership, & Gypsy Creations)
Joan Seifried (Angel Appraisals)
Laurie Brindle (North County Times Charities Fund)
Dennis Batt (SD Visual Artists, OMA AA, COFAC)
Victor Perez (COVA, SD Artists Guild)
Tom Hedges (Director of Marketing, RosArt Multimedia, Inc.™)
Rosemary KimBal (Dancing Brush Studios)
Joanna Leigh Wheeler (Parisi Portfolio and Shiho Gallery)
Connie Cannon (formerly Visual Arts Group of North County)
Carole Lindsey (Arrayon Expressions)
Paul Sewell (se6ix)
Paul Valchalet
Julia San Román
Maria Palma
Kaarin Vaughn
Alexandra Rosso (ArtRocks!)
David Miranker
Rebecca Van Ness
Jim Reeves
Janet Hansen
Jeneen Ausk (JBArtistic)
Nadine Baurin (Creataria)
Larry Stein (Warp9Imaging)

Our committee is still expanding. If you would like to participate in the development of SDVAN, please e-mail Patricia Frischer at
Patricia@SDVisualArts.com

We believe that the Visual Arts Network will:
1. Recognize and celebrate the existing accomplishments by ordering and identifying the visual arts.
2. Facilitate cross-pollination between the cultural organizations to strengthen and invigorate the art scene.
3. Bring the visual arts to a new audience - children and adult, business and family, state, country and world
4. Promote a vision of the future of the role the visual arts can play in the San Diego community - lively, thriving, positive and empowered.
5. Create an infrastructure of spokespeople who have access to regularly collected information about visual arts organizations, activities and providers including a data bank for future analysis.

The SD Visual Arts Network to be used by:
1. The artist who would use it to get more information and services, who want others in the community to be directed to an organization to which they are members.
2. The listed entries would use it to be made available to those who might want to join, attend or use their services.
3. The new or newly interested citizen or corporation who wants to know what is happening in the Visual Arts in the city and who may be encouraged to fund the visual arts or use the services of the entries.
4. National research programs like the Pew Charitable Trust who will need to start with this type of directory to do its research
5. The Convention and Visitors Bureau and Commission for the Arts and Culture who are charged with promoting San Diego as a city of cultural richness.

Go to this link to find out answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the San Diego Visual Arts Network.

Go to this link to read an article about the SDVAN COMPUTER CANVAS FOR CONNECTION by Kehau Cerizo published on Dec 8, 2004 in Today's Local News and other press articles.