Volunteers of The San Diego Visual Arts Network:

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.com

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),
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 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)
Paul Sewell (se6ix)
Kristi Stone
Jo Brooks
Jim Reeves
Janet Hansen
Nadine Baurin
Jeneen Ausk
Terri Hawk
Paul Vauchalet
C. Paul Majors
Kaarin Vaughn
Alex Rosso
Joan Seifried
David Miranker

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.