Educational Support

WALK WITH ARTIST’S EYES Initiative

The Walk with Artist’s Eyes initiative is an immersive educational project that has standard-aligned lesson plans. Through hands-on projects, guided inquiry, and artist-informed lesson plans, participant engage deeply with contemporary art while building meaningful connects to artists, galleries, museums and community spaces across the region. Rooted in the mission of the San Diego Visual Arts Network, this initiative connects and promotes visual artists while cultivating an inclusive, collaborative and thriving arts ecosystem throughout the San Diego region to and including Baja Norte.

Vision: to nurture a dynamic visual arts community that honors artists, engages diverse audience and enriches lives through creativity and critical dialogue.

Artist-Centered Practice: Artists are the foundation of every program. Curriculum and projects are developed in dialogue with exhibition artists to ensure authenticity, integrity and relevance.

Lifelong Learning: Intergenerational engagement, from students to seniors, foster mentorship, critical thinking a creative confidence at every stage of life.

Recognition and Collaboration : Programs celebrate excellence in the visual arts while building meaningful partnerships among educators, cultural institutions, and community organizations.

Inclusion and Accessibility: Education resources are designed to be adaptable, standards-aligned and accessible thus ensuring diverse voices are represented and art experiences are available to all.

Educational and Community Impact: The Education Plan supports recognition of excellence in the visual arts while strengthening community engagement across ages. Through immersive projects, lectures, panels, tours and downloadable free lesson plans, participants gain deeper understanding of artists’ work and it broader social, cultural and material contexts.

Donate to San Diego Visual Arts Network to support arts learning for all ages through SDVAN’s educational program. Your contributions help cover the design of excellent projects that are available online for no cost so students, families and seniors can fully participate in meaningful creative experiences. Every donation helps ensure that high-quality arts education remains accessible, equitable and sustainable.

San Diego Art Prize Lesson Plans coming soon.

Twelve Lesson Plans created for Art Meets Fashion, 2011

Six Lesson Plans created for The DNA of Creativity, 2014

SD View Art Now: SDVAN App  (a smart phone app to locate local arts events with an augmented reality component)
SD View Art Now Lesson Plans 1 - Application Evaluation
SD View Art Now Lesson Plans 2 - App Logo Design

Sea Changes: Act ( featuring  climate change, plastic pollution, acid seas, and dwindling fish populations and offering emotional motivation to create changes in these areas affecting our oceans )
Sea Changes: ACT Lesson Plan 1 - Floating Bottled Jellyfish
Sea changes: ACT Lesson Plan 2 - T-shirt Tote

Urban Succession (preserving wild life in urban settings)
Urban Succession Lesson Plan Microbial Knot

PAMM - PolyAesthetics Mapping: The Muses (a structure to think about the collaborations that artists and scientist experience, a way to compare and contrast aesthetic decisions and to help individuals gain confidence in their own aesthetic choices).
PAMM Lesson Plan   

SmART Collector
In order to demystify the art collecting process, our SmART Collectorsection is an entire set of resource articles that guide the art collector to buy wisely, to buy safely, and to encourage buying activity in the local community. Please check out this educational resource. It includes Collecting Insights for Artists.

Did you know we are a 100% Volunteer Organization?
Your input and donations* helps SDVAN fashion our arts community. All donation go to programs and promotion of the visual arts in San Diego.
*All tax deductible donations $5 or more made until Dec 31, 2022 recognized online with a live link of your choice on the 2021 sponsor page. Please join our list of 2021 supporters.

or Donate by check 
Please make checks payable to San Diego Visual Arts Network and mail to:
SDVAN
c/o Patricia Frischer
2487 Montgomery Ave.
Cardiff by the Sea, CA 92007

We ask now for your end of year donations which are fully tax deductible and look forward to seeing all of your names on our 2022 Supporters list which is now posted.

We hope you will continue to support the San Diego Visual Arts Network which works so hard to support the entire visual arts community and showcase San Diego as a city of innovation and creativity. Please remember that SDVAN is a 100% volunteer organization with no bricks and mortar overheads and so all your donations go to our programming needs.

We continue with our programs highlighting the best of the best with our SD Art Prize. We have produced a variety of other programs including our ongoing, Business Scholarship for Emerging Artists at Mission Fed Art Walk which enable a free booth and mentoring marketing skills. We give featured event status to hundred of events a year, mention art professionals, art activist and art opportunities in our RAW column and post reports on dozens of art exhibitions in our Picked RAW Peeled blog. We now have an Ongoing Events page and a Virtual Events page besides our Upcoming Events page which also scrolls on our home page.

San Diego Visual Arts has positioned itself to be of optimum support for the visual arts community . with our. SD View Art Now, smart phone app which pin points local arts events from the San Diego Visual Arts Network calendar on a GPS map identifying the viewers position. . Our calendar is free and accesses the events in our directory of over 2600 visual arts resources. All of these projects are moving San Diego in the right direction for innovative economic growth..