SDVAN Monthly Message for March 2010

Dear SDVAN Visitors, Art Resources and Artists,

• New! Banner Our banner is in support of the current exhibitions at the SD Art Prize spotlight exhibition of Allison Renshaw: Plastic Fantastic, (New Contemporary III, 2010) Reception Sat. Jan 30, 5 -7 pm, Oceanside Museum of Art, (704 Pier View Way , Oceanside , 92054). Gallery Walk and Talk with Renshaw, Thurs. Feb 25, 7 pm. Show until June 20 More info: Danielle Susalla760-435-3720.
  
• New! A+ Art Blog Allison Renshaw Discovered by Patricia Frischer, coordinator of SDVAN. Remember you can now comment on all the blogs including this one.
  
• Remember New Contemporary III, 2010, Project X: Art Sat. April 24, from 7 to 10 pm. Shows runs until May 22. Panel discussion May 15 from 6 – 8 pm. Greg Boudreau, Kelsey Brookes, Stephen Curry, Steve Gibson, Brian Goeltzenleuchter,Wendell M. Kling, Heather Gwen Martin, Robert Nelson, Julio Orozco, Allison Renshaw, Lesha Maria Rodriguez, James Soe Nyun, Stephen Tompkins (320 S. Cedros Ave. Ste. 500 , Solana Beach, 92075). For more info: Chris Martino 858.792.9685
  
  

• New! San Diego Art Prize 2010 recipients announced. This year recipients are Gail Roberts who has chosen David Adey as the emerging artist to share her exhibition. Adey is a previous New Contemporaries II artists featured last year at the Noel-Baza Fine Art exhibition and was nominated again this year by Gabrielle Wyrick, Education Curator, Museum of Contemporary. Einar and Jamex de la Torre will choose their emerging artists after the launch of the New Contemporary III, 2010 exhibition that opens at Project X in Solana Beach on April 24.The San Diego Visual Art's Network, SanDiegoArtist.com and the Art San Diego Contemporary Art Fair are the proud sponsors of the San Diego Art Prize now in its fourth year. The Prize is given annually to several established and several emerging artists who have exhibited outstanding achievement in the field of Visual Arts. The Prize recipients will receive a cash grant and new this year, a booth exhibition for three days at the Art San Diego Contemporary Art Fair September 2-5. 2010. The opening night tickets Thurs. Sept 2 from 7 to 9 pm will benefit the SD Art Prize.
• New! Spotlight show for David Adey; John Henry, Reception Fri, Feb 26, 6:30-8:30 PM. Show continues until Feb 27 - April 3 at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library ( 1008 Wall St , La Jolla, 92037) More info: Jennifer Pyun 858.454.5872. Exhibition continues on to Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.

• New! Art Resource Focus Sheena Ghanbari, Program Promotion Manager of UCSD’s Visual Arts Department reports on Spaces for Art at UC San Diego so if you were ever confused about what to see on campus, here is a wonderful article to help clarify your choices.

• New! Art Meets Fashion guidelines for creative teams will be posted March 15 and are due May 15. Watch for details of an April information meeting or contact us to learn about this project. info@sdvisualarts.net
  
  
  
  
  

• New! Eat Your Art Out – We are looking for a minimum of three teams of three artists each to host fundraiser dinners with Patrons of the Arts. We will be happy if three dinners can occur in 2010, but this depends on your response. We could do more!!!! The following ideas were generated by Sharon Gorevitz, Robin Przybysz, Kaarin Vaughn, Mireille des Rossiers, Lin Holzinger, Lori Lipsman, Janine Free, Irene de Watteville, Lisa Van Herik, Gerrit Greve and Patricia Frischer: Treat Tweets for Twitters, Art Fun Fair, Boxed Lunches, Left Overs , Project runway, Mixology, Radio/Video interviews, Jewelry Food Art. For full descriptions and info about being involved see the guidelines for artists

• New! We are delighted to announce that there will be a Movers and Shakers Tijuana as part of the Entijuarnarte10 from Sept 26 to Oct 3. We are proud to sponsor this international extension of the successful project. We will be arranging bus transportation for the opening so watch for further news later in the year.
• Huge THANKS to Steve Lillegren for producing this wonderful video which features the LipSticksfor the Movers and Shakersreception in January.
• Please contact Dennis Batt is you are interested in portraying other VIPS in the visual art scene for inclusion in the Movers and Shakers SDVAG supported website. The SDVAG site in the month of January, got over 58,000 hits and over 1,300 unique visitors for the Movers and Shakers subdomain. SDVAN just for the month of January had8,651 unique visitors, 28,024 visits in total accessing 65,134 pages with 126,632 hits.

• Enormous thanks to Doug Rowe for helping us to install the new ReCapCha system on our website. This has saved us from the invasion of the spam robots who were flooding the site with listings. reCAPTCHA now appears on the site for our directories and for our mailing list for first time listee only. The wonderful thing about this particular software is that is also aids a program to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows. reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computer Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. When you decipher it, that info is sent back to be digitized for those books and newspapers etc. Cool, huh! Now we are all helping and that makes the extra effort a bit easier to take.
  

• NEW! February RAW Gossip Column report by Alexandra Rosa including masses of opportunities for artists locally as the years gets into full swing. Also transtions, museum updates and news of visual arts in our community.
  
  
• NEW! PICKED RAW PEELED - Our THANKS to this months writers Sheena Ghanbari covers Circle of ComplicationbyDavid Ghilarducci at  Sushi Performance , Louisa Garcia emotes on In the Garden of Mythos: Anna Zappoli at The Martha Pace Swift Gallery Our special thanks to Ann White for proofing these reports.
  
• Remember submit your March events for PICKED RAW before the end of February. Branching Out in our Picked RAW section will feature new resources just listed for the first time on SDVAN.
  

• NEW! Our next meeting will be in April. Email us for directions, agenda and do RSVP. If you can’t come to this meeting, but are available at home or by mobile phone , let us know your telephone number and we will call you to join in by conference call.
  
  Money given to SDVAN is money given to help the visual arts in the entire region of San Diego prosper and be recognized as a vibrant and creative resource. Please consider becoming more involved with SDVAN by giving of your time, expertise, and with your donations. Those of you who can give $25 of more will be listed on the sponsor page. Feel free to contact us with suggestions or questions and everyone is invited to attend our committee meetings.

Patricia Frischer
coordinator, SDVAN, 760.943.0148

On a personal note:

Artists: Are you tired of waiting to be discovered by a gallery director?  Do you have a body of work you would like to display?  Would you like to expand your patron email list?  Maybe it is time to take matters in your own hands and curate your own group art show.
Galleriest: Are you looking for exciting new ideas so your space looks fresh? Would you like to attract a new audience to your venue. Is it time to use social networking to spread the word about your collaborations.
How to Curate a Group Show lecture by Patricia Frischer is held onTue, March 23rd from 6:00 - 7:30pm. Learn the details of curating a group show from finding a theme, working with other artists, locating a venue, getting the word out, and traveling the show. Admission is $5 members / $10 non-members of San Diego Art Institute Museum of the Living Artist, 1439 El Prado, SD 92101.  More info: Andrea Chamberlin 619-236-0011

Join in for a Artists' Community Build for Sdspace4art sponsored by Synergy Art Foundation Thurs – Sun, Feb 25-28, 8 - 5 pm , 325 15th. Street (between J and K) More info: Chris Warr 858.509.1155. They need as many volunteers as possible. No construction experience needed. Kids can even participate. It is going to be fun and they will provide lunch.

Hope for Haiti is a fundraiser sponsored bySynergy Art Foundationon Sat, March 20 - 5:00 - 9:00 p.m. at Losina Art Center, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd., Suite A, SD, 92110. More info: Naomi Nussbaum 858.509.1155

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