Public Awareness Campaign - The SD Art Prize is our major push for public awareness in San Diego, but we have generated many other ideas. Can you help?

A Public Relation/Advertising Expert - We need a volunteer to give us advice on how to spend our money and effort to the best effect.
Developement Director - expert advice on fundraising and broadening our reach
Television and Radio media coverage of SDVAN. If you know anone like Gloria Penner of Full Focus or Dennis Morgino at Channel 4 and can arrange an interview, please let us know
Real Estate – We are trying to find housing developments before model homes are furnished and suggest they decorate around art works instead of putting in art after the décor is done.If you know names of future housing developments with a contact in charge of model home décor, please let us know.
Billboards – We need to find volunteer to head this project with connections to restaurants who want to have billboards perhaps in combination with a menu design exhibition.
Coffee Cup jackets ads – Are you a volunteer with connections to Peets or Starbucks who could arrange for the SDVAN details of the website to be advertised in this way? We are also interseted in water bottle label promotions and re-usable shopping bag illustations using visual art.
Sky Writing – We would like to take to the air.Do you have a contact in the sky writing field or air ship advertising field? Let us know.
Movie theater ads......know anyone in the industry that can open some doors for donations of space on the big screen? We are looking for animators to make short ads for SDVAN.

Our committee is continually changing. Besides our committee members who attend our bi-monthly meetings, we ask volunteers to choose projects which they fell comfortable working to complete. Your can attend one or all meetings. We do many projects exclusively by email communications. There is no attendance requirement. If you would like to participate in the development of SDVAN, please
e-mail Patricia Frischer at
Patricia@SDVisualArts.net or call 760 943 0148

We are open to most suggestions of projects and you can send ideas to us at any time.

SDVAN Committee: Founding members
Sandra Chanis (Oceanside Museum of Art, Carlsbad Outdoor Arts Foundation)
Daniel Foster (Riverside Museum of Art, formerly SDAI)
Patricia Frischer (Current coordinator of SDVAN, OMA AA, formerly COVA)
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 committee members and past members:
Lisa Roche (SDAG, 101 Artists Colony, Escondido Arts Partnership, & Gypsy Creations)
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)
Joan Seifried (Angel Appraisers)
Nadine Baurin (Creataria)
Jeneen Ausk (JB Artistic)
Paul Vauchelet
Paul Sewell (se6ix)
Kristi Stone
Jo Brooks
Jim Reeves
Janet Hansen
Terri Hawk
C. Paul Majors
Kaarin Vaughn
Alex Rosso
David Miranker
Steven Churchill - Art of Digital, Art of Photography
Julia San Román
J ulia Akatieva
C. Paul Majors
Alexandra Rosso - Ally Bling Bling, Art Rocks! producer
Emily Grey
Janet Hansen
Andrea Chamberlin -SDAI education director
Molly Lipsher
Diane Stacey
Tiger Lee
Jill Le Croissette
Leif Buckley
Valerie Salatino, Nature Works Inc.
Tracy Johnson
Anna Woerman
Maria Palma
Johnny Carter
Julia Gill, Women in Creative Photography
Kate Fox
Carol Matter
Theresa de Mol
David Villa
Ellen Speert
Naimeh Tanha, Studio Vivace
Carmen Velazquez, Expressions of Mexico
Delane
Soudabeh Memarzadeh
Marti Kranzberg
Carla Naden
Marsha Peeters
Tanya Kolesnikova
Laura Lhotsky
Tanya Alcala
Linda Luisi
Jessica Johnson, Consciously Social Events
Karla Duarte
Kyle Belding
Jeff Sprague
Melodie Baker
Ana Paola Pérez Calderón
Maggie Wolszczan
Ellen Smoak, Concsiously Social
Peter Gorwin
Jude Mathis
Brian Willis, Zhibit.com
Tom Fleming
Earl Storm
Denise Bonaimo
James Loiselle
Jeff Yeomans, SD County Visual Arts Guide
Georgia Hoopes
Ariele Johansson
Donna Pikus
Jake Polster
Padgett Mason
Twyla Perry, ArtBusXpress
Marlene Dictore
Mireille Des Rosiers
Debra Turner- Emerson, St. Madelieine Sophie's Center and Gallery
Joni Miringoff, Flower Fields, Art Splash
Bobbie Hoder
Lynne Endicot
Bradley P Reye
Mark Skok

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.

Support SDVAN and you receive more than the gift of art. You support that which binds us together that goes beyond religion, race, or gender. You support our freedom to express ourselves and to gather to celebrate our creativity.