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RAW March 2023
A+ Art Blog: Black Women Artists in the Marketplace by Patricia Frischer Our banner this month is in support of Surfing Madonna Oceans Project which presents Ocean/Earth/Air , a regional show (jurors: Cathy Carey, Cheryl Ehlers and Danny Salzhandler) with 100 selected artists for exhibit April 1- 30. The reception on Sun, April 23 from 1-4pm of Earth Day weekend is at Poway Center for the Performing. More info: Cathy Carey 760-877-0869. Artists: (left to right) Cathy Carey, LaRetta Small, Cheryl Ehlers. A second banner this month is for JP Wackenstedt , the 2023 Business of Art Scholarship recipient. She will be exhibiting at the Mission Fed ArtWalk from April 29th & 30 th, 2023 in Little Italy booth #? sponsored by SDVAN . More info: Sandi Cottrell The Vast Sea between C and c is a symposium on the importance of San Diego in the canon of microtonal music at the Bonita Museum and Cultural Center on April 15 from 11am and 4pm. Participants include: John Chalmers, Jonathan Glasier, Joe Monzo. Daniel Corral, and Bill Welsey. Moderated by Kazmier Maslanka and produced by Vallo Riberto. More info: Wendy 6192675141 Join the upcoming conversation as our region begins to prepare for the Launch of World Design Capital (WDC) in 2024 on March 27, from 4 - 6pm at Park & Market: 1100 Market Street, SD 92101. World Design Capital will celebrate a cross-border commitment to human-centered design. Learn more about the HOME 2024 bid that and follow WDC San Diego-Tijuana 2024 on their website for more updates. The Timkin Museum is starting to give American Sign Language (ASL) Enhanced Tour for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Individuals on the first Saturday of every month from 11 to 12:30. The next one is April 1 st. These free tours are led by Timken docents who will be accompanied by an ASL interpreter from Palomar College's ASL-English Translation and Interpreting Studies Program to interpret for deaf or hard of hearing individuals. The California Center for the Arts, Escondido hosts Philipp Scholz Rittermann as the 2023/2024 Center Artist until April 16. His photography can be seen throughout the campus in the Concert Hall, Conference Center, administration office, and boardroom plus a selection of Rittermann’s work in the Museum. 25 Million Stitches: One Stitch, One Refugee opening on March 25 at the Mingei is curated by Sacramento-based, Korean-American fiber artist Jennifer Kim Sohn. This show raises awareness of the international refugee crisis by marking the number of displaced people via stitches on embroidered panels with over 2,000 panels combined vertically to create 408 floor-to-ceiling flags. The San Diego Museum of Art is going to create an Education Center in the west wing and rooftop space and has hired Foster + Partners as the Design Architect for this future renovation project. The project will begin its detailed planning phase in the coming months and is expected to break ground in 2026. You may know the name Norman Foster as his firm is responsible for renovations at Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Prado Museum in Madrid, Apple Park, Norton Museum of Art, Hearst Headquarters, and the Great Court at the British Museum. It should be really exciting to see what he imagines for San Diego. Don’t forget that Arts Alive and the Bloom Bash start on March 31 st. ICA North has 2 new exhibitions open in March and running until June 8 th. Narsiso Martinez: Rethinking Essential is the artist’s homage to the nation’s agriculture workers. This exhibition is a collaboration between ICA San Diego and the Museum of Latin American Art, MOLAA. Edra Soto: Graft, brings an interactive poetic meditation on national identity, displacement, and belonging. More info: Andrew Utt 7604366611 TEDxSanDiego happens on June 11, 2023 and Katie Ruiz will be one of four artists in residence. She will bring hundreds of her Pompom Project balls and guests will design and plant their own Seeds of Change which ties into the TEDxSanDiego 2023 theme. As part of Women’s History Month 2023, the San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery presents the exhibition Perceive Me , featuring a series of portraits created by artists in collaboration with plus-size artist Kristine Schomaker . This project was envisioned as a form of protest and to challenge the notions of female body size and ideals as construed by society and the art world. The show continues until April 13 with an artist panel on April 4 at 7 pm. San Diego participating artists: Anna Stump, Catherine Ruane, Elizabeth Tobias, Debby and Larry Kline. The 11 th annual Medium Photo Festival 2023 Keynote is a conversation with Judith Joy Ross and Joshua Chuang, taking place on Friday, April 7 at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (La Jolla campus). Did you know that 95% of the programs are free. We are hooked on the look of Denja Harris’s art at Art Produce on view until April 29 th as part of her artist in residency. Art N Soul on 101 in Encinitas is closing their store in March and having a sale of up to 20% off. There will be a special event on Sat. March 25 from 5 to 8 pm. Do you know of a space for them? More info: Kim Lange 619-847-7757 There is a new series of Craftivism Classes (the first on crocheting granny squares in March 22) at the Women’s Museum. From yarn bombing to femmage these classes support the Crafting Feminism exhibit to teach participants a crafting skill and how they can use it in their activism. All classes are bilingual and taught in English and Spanish Non-WMC Members: $20 WMC Members: $10. More info: info@womensmuseumca.org WE Gallery presents Mark Siprut and Larry Caveney: Turn! Turn! Turn! from April 14 - August 11at Mandell Weiss Gallery space in the Dorthea Laub Dance Place located at the NTC in San Diego. Black History Month and then Women’s History Month: Manuelita Brown is on a roll. She is included in 60 Years of Remarkable Women at UC San Diego. To see the list which is alphabetical by first name click here . She is featured in a podcast, Work While You Have the Light which is conversations with working women over age 70. Listen to it by clicking here . And her Harriet Tubman Sculpture was dedicated in Lincoln Park Pomona, CA recently. See a brief TV news clip from ABC Channel 7 in LA - click here . Kathleen Mitchell’s new glass art work is now on public view at Valley View Casino. It is an 8 ’ x 8’ x 2’ wall piece. She and her team made over 200 pieces to arrive at the final 110. Sparks Gallery is holding their Spring Art Auction with represented artists: Charlene Mosley, Duke Windsor, Alexander Arshansky, and Ron Carlson. Reserve prices for these 33 artworks begin at 30% off the retail price of the work so take a look if you are starting or wanting to build your collection. The bidding will stop on April 1 at midnight. OMA West Gallery at the Seabird Resort presents Eurythmy: The Dance of Colors . This is a group exhibition of movement, expression, and rhythm, inspired by dance from 7 artists that participated in the interior design of both hotels: Mission Pacific and The Seabird Resort. Exhibition celebration on Wed. March 29, at 6-8:00pm and showing until July 8. Great article sent to us by Claire Slattery, is a political commentary on the power of art ”…. a piece of art has quieted the self-conscious ego voice that is normally yapping away within.” The Power of Art in a Political Ageby David Brookswas in the New York TimesMarch 2, 2023 issue.
OPPORTUNITIES (click to see a list of all current opportunities listed on SDVAN) The City of San Diego is seeking applications from interested qualified artists for Exposure , San Diego’s first-ever municipal photo fellowship program designed to provide a platform for artists to explore civic and social issues facing San Diego. The $75,000 fellowship program has an application deadline of April 5 . The Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for the fellowship may be downloaded from the following PlanetBids website but artists have to register through the City of San Diego for PlanetBids prior to downloading the RFQ. April 14 is the deadline for the prestigious California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships . All Media - All Disciplines for Emerging - Established - Legacy Artists with up to $50,000 and open to Artists & Cultural Practitioners residing in Region 1 which include San Diego. The San Diego Council on Literacy has a call for child and teens to make art for the Financial Literacy Superheroes Competition . Cash prize, ranging from $500 to $1,000 and showing at Comic-Con Museum in Balboa Park. They want to promote good money management habits among young people and families in the San Diego region. The deadline for submissions is midnight on March 31st.
The City of Coronado is making a call for Volunteer Grant Readers for this year’s Arts and Culture category. Deadline to apply before Friday, April 7. The grant readers will be asked to score the grants by May 24, 2023. More info: Kelli Maples Dip your brush into your yellow oxides, cad yellows, hansa yellows, diarylide yellow, Naples yellow, etc., and bring on liquid sunshine. Daffodil Dreams is the regional call for artists by Art on 30 th with Juror Wanda Honeycutt. Deadline is Fri. April 14 th. Carlsbad is making a call for artists18 years of age and older, anxious to share a special talent with the community if your expertise is visual arts using sustainable or recycled materials? Now through March 20, the city is accepting submissions to support qualifying emerging artists, as well as other funding categories for organizations and schools with Carlsbad Community Arts Grants. ArtReach is making a second call for artists to create vinyl records into custom art pieces, this time to be displayed at North Park Music Fest May 27th & 28th. Submit 1-3 design mockups by May 5. Sourced your own records and earned $25 of the sales price with the rest going to support arts education. More info: Becca Dwyer 619-940-7278 BeautifulPB , in partnership with San Diego Audubon Society, is seeking an artist/artist team to create an inspiring outdoor mural or mosaic that shows off the Pacific Beach local connection to the bay, specifically a creative interpretation of the Mission Bay wetlands ecosystem and the endangered California Least Tern. There is a $5000 budget. Application due by April 3. More info: Chris Olson 858-336-9605 Brooks Theater Art Gallery is making a call for artist for FACE 2 FACE Portraits and Self-Portraits. $10 fee and deadline of March 25. More info: Carol Naegele , 760.995.5975 The Athenaeum School of the Arts is looking for a new Director. Do you have a studio art background and a passion for education and team-building? Come work with us to grow fine arts education resources in San Diego for children and adults. Twenty-five hours per week position with the possibility of full-time starting summer 2023. Pay range is $27–$29/hour. To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume addressed to Christie Mitchell , Executive Director. The Imperial Beach Arts Bureau and IB Library invite South Bay Artists to submit to the 2023 Spring/Summer Juried Art Show . Open to all 2-D artists, 18+ in the South Bay Area with no fee but cash awards, no theme and a deadline of May 5. Jurored by IB Art Committee Members Lisa Capano, Sherry Hansen, and Michelle Lubin with Guest Juror, Patric Stillman. Exhibition May 30 th to Sept 1 st. More info Dave Frink 858-761-4242 The Power Of A Single Flower is a 2023 photo contest where the winning photograph will be featured on the cover of July/August San Diego’s California Garden magazine, the longest continuously running horticulture publication in the Western United States. Entry closes March 31. For more info: photocontest@sdfloral.org .
Submissions for the 17th annual Juried Youth Exhibition are now open at the Museum of Photographic Arts. This year’s theme is Exploration with a deadline of May 8. Check out the link to see last year’s show and get information on how to submit. A Walk Through Nature is the next SDMA Artists Guild exhibition at the Mission Trails Regional Park (MTRP) Visitors Center and online. All current artist, associate and student members may participate so this is a good time to join. The juror is the artist Keiko Tanabe and the deadline is April 30 for a show from June 17- July 27. Reception is June 18 th. Have you got tidbits or other bits of gossip that you want to broadcast. Contact info@sdvisualarts.net RAW January 2023  Patric Stillman at Studio Door has announced his 2023 artists and it is fun to see them in a quick slide show . There is a special exhibition to introduce these REPRESENTING ARTISTS. . More info: Patric@TheStudioDoor.com 619-994-2263. Art Reports by or about SDVAN: Local art reports by local art writers Oceanside Museum of Art: Overview January 2023 Picked RAW Peeled by Patricia Frischer Shellie Zhang: What We Bring and Leave at ICA San Diego North - Picked RAW Peeled by Patricia Frischer Colorful mural is a holiday gift to Encinitas Encinitas Advocate and Picked RAW Peeled by Lonnie Burstein Hewitt, photos by Maurice Hewitt. Lift the Sky at Front Porch Gallery Picked RAW Peeled by Patricia Frischer
Patric Stillman at Studio Door has announced his 2023 artists and it is fun to see them in a quick slide show . There is a special exhibition to introduce these REPRESENTING ARTISTS. . More info: Patric@TheStudioDoor.com 619-994-2263. The UCSD Craft Center welcomes Michele Murphy , a talented and experienced jeweler as one of their newest instructors this quarter. Take a look at the jewelry making classes for more information. The first listed Valentine’s Day themed event - Sophies Art Gallery presents Gotta' Have Heart: Farm Fresh with mosaic heart plaques and mosaic barnyard animal portraits. Reception February 10, 5-8PM and showing until March 19 th. More info Wendy Morris 619-593-2205 The Japanese Friendship Garden reminds us this is the year of the Rabbit. They will be holding a Setsubun to banish the evil and welcome Spring with good fortune on Feb 3 from 10am to 4 pm. Guests can make special oni masks, as well as lots of other activities, games and food. Emerald C Gallery is offering a Kintsugi ceramic repair class (the Japanese tradition of honoring a flaw) on Sat. Jan 28 from 10 to 2:30 (1331 Orange Avenue Coronado, CA 92118). They also have a Live Music + Wine & Paint every Wed & Sat Night. We are so impressed with Medium Photo . scott b. davis tells us they increased Size Matters exhibition with the $1000 Purchase Award, expanded the 2023 scholarships for Black Artists and artists living in Mexico's border states, raised more than $1000 to support Ukrainian photographers, began a partnership with Digital Gym for regular film screenings about photographers, live streamed all of their 2022 artist talks, available on our YouTube channel and welcomed their 200th member to their membership program. Contemporary Perspectives in Fiber Arts features impressively creative selections by 22 regional artists from California showcasing multi-disciplines such as weaving, basketry, sculpture, quilting, felting, knitting and wearables. William D. Cannon Gallery at Dove Library Complex until March 18 (1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad, 92011) A Map Project is 60 Artists / 60 Maps for a fundraising auction on Feb 4 to support the youth education programming at Earthlab in Southeast San Diego organized by City Gallery SD City College . The exhibition runs Jan 26 to Feb 4. More info: Terri Hughes-Oelrich 619-277-0132 We did not know that classes start every 6 weeks at Art Academy of San Diego . Check the website or contact Stuart Burton for more info 619-231-3900 Escondido Arts Partnership presents the Wood: A Furniture Show XIII on view until Feb 24 th. Curated by Brian and Nancy Murphy of Murphy's Fine Woodworking. Fallbrook Art Center presents The New York 155th Annual American Watercolor Society's Travel Exhibition themed An Artful Home as well as Barbara Marks: The Art of Life Lines both beginning on Feb 11. The UC San Diego Department of Visual Arts is pleased to announce that Ceres Madoo will be the Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residenc e in the Fall of 2023. Ceres Madoo is a Los Angeles based mixed media artist, who describes herself as a mix of a mix. West Indian, American, Black, Indian, Jewish and Mormon. San Diego Museum Council's Museum Month is back in February with more than 60 museums participating by giving 50% off admissions. Looking forward to Oceanside Museum of Art exhibitions: Ethan Chan: Selections From The Closets Of The People That I Love... (wearable art made from condiment packages and Quinton Mccurine : Materialing making oil paint live and breathe, both Jan 14–April 30, Memory Is A Verb : Exploring Time And Transience 11 women photographers Jan 28–May 14, Robert Xavier Burden: Relics larger than life childhood Feb 18 to June 8 and Melissa Meier: Becoming Nature sculptural clothing hybrids Mar 11–June 25. Oceanside Museum of Art: Overview January 2023Picked RAW Peeled by Patricia Frischer The Children’s Museum in downtown is celebrating its 40th anniversary in San Diego and 15th year as The New Children's Museum . Congratulations! In 2023 MCASD will reimagine its programming for the downtown space. They are arranging collaborations with La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls (WOW) Festival, World Design Capital San Diego Tijuana 2024 (WDC 2024) and Blindspot Collective. They will share the exhibit space as a premier venue to spotlight regional design as part of the prestigious, year-long slate of programming and events. There is a virtual workshop to help with county grants on Feb 2 at 12:30. They will go over grants for which your organization may be available, including the Community Enhancement Program, Neighborhood Reinvestment Program and the Community Enhancement (American Rescue Plan Act) ARPA funds. County Staff will also be present to answer questions on the process and walk you through the requirements. The Commission for Arts and Culture for the City of San Diego is conducting a survey of employers and workers in the creative jobs and industries in San Diego County that make up the Creative Economy. They define the Creative Economy as the non-profit and for-profit businesses and individuals involved in producing cultural, artistic and design goods or services, and intellectual property. We have taken this survey and hope you will as well. The San Diego Museum of Art has appointed a new Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Rachel Jans . With more than 10 years of experience, Jans joins the institution from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she served as Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture. Congratulation to San Diego’s Leah Goodwin , who is one of the four new appointments made by Governor Gavin Newsom to the California Arts Council. We truly hope this passes in the state budget this year: $100 million one-time Proposition 98 General Fund —or roughly $200 per 12th grade student enrolled in California public schools—to enable local educational agencies to provide high school seniors with access to cultural enrichment experiences across the state by facilitating museum visits, access to theatrical performances, or other participation in extracurricular art enrichment activities. A note for any of you who are a Cultural institutions/arts organizations affected by the flooding; you can call the National Heritage Responders hotline: 202.661.8068. Plus, members of the public who have questions about saving family heirlooms can email the National Heritage Responders at NHRpublichelpline@culturalheritage.org . and HENTF’s Save Your Family Treasures guidance is available at https://www.fema.gov/assistance/save-family-treasures .
OPPORTUNITIES (click to see a list of all current opportunities listed on SDVAN) Vanguard Culture is making an Open Call for Visual & Performing Artists for ENVZN23 is a one-of-a-kind visual and performing arts festival in Logan Heights on September 2, 2023 from 5:00pm – 10:00 p.m. It aims to spark increased cultural tourism (5,000 design professionals, art patrons, and other culture-seekers) for our region and highlight the virtuosity of its creative sector. Deadline March 1. For more info: Susanna H. Peredo 619-829-7561 Through Far South/Border North: Artists and Cultural Practitioners in Community , this partnership will develop opportunities for artists/practitioners and build the infrastructure for creatives to contribute to social justice, public health, energy-water-climate, and civic engagement with $4,750, 000 in funding to share with Imperial Valley. More information for artists will be available when the California Creative Corp Program portal goes live for Individual artists on Feb 15th. The second phase for Nonprofits organization will launch in May, 2023. The San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture is the administering organization but grant submissions will be facilitated by the San Diego Regional Arts and Culture Coalition. Read this month’s A+ Blog with more details. Encinitas City Council is making a call for Community Grant Program (CGP) applications in the arts: visual art, performing arts, arts education, literary arts, etc., with a deadline Mon, Feb. 27, 2023 via email to CGP@EncinitasCA.gov . There is a Grant Applicant Workshop on Tue, Jan 31. 4-5 pm via virtual teleconference. Vista Public Arts Commission announces the 2023 Kites Over Vista. The submission deadline is Fri, Feb 10 and you can click here for the call to Artists.
Submissions for the 17th annual Juried Youth Exhibition are now open at the Museum of Photographic Arts. This year’s theme is Exploration with a deadline of May 8. Check out the link to see last year’s show and get information on how to submit. Alessandra Colfi, the Expressive Arts Therapist , invites you to create art feathers out of cardstock to express gratitude in a UCSD Health Art Collaboration project Gratitude Feathers Together as Majestic Wings. Cancer Patients and supporters preferred but all can participate. For more info: acolfi@health.ucsd.edu 8587355708 The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild is holding its 2023 Online Spring Exhibition which is open to members and non-members from Feb 15 to April 15. Deadline to enter is Wed., Jan.18. The juror isHugh M. Davies, Ph.D., Director Emeritus Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. There is an open call to artists for Casa Familiar's 16th Annual Dia De La Mujer Exhibition at The FRONT Arte y Cultura. The theme is Womxn, Words & Weaving and is curated by Katie Ruiz. Deadline for entry Fri, Feb 3rd showing from March 4 to May 5.
Our banner is in support of the Fallbrook School of the Arts Fused Glass Wall Vases Workshop is on March 18 from 10am to 1pm with Instructor Suzanne Balestri. Learn about the use of fiber paper, embedding metal in glass, glass cutting and design. $90 + $10 Supply Fee . More info: Christine Vanni 760-728-6383 We are so pleased to announce that JP Wackenstedt is the 2023 Business of Art Scholarship recipient. She will be exhibiting at the Mission Fed ArtWalk from April 29th & 30 th in Little Italy. This scholarship is sponsored by SDVAN . Of the eight featured artists for the Mission Fed Art Walk in April, five of them are from San Diego: Jen Duran - watercolor, acrylic, ink, Mac Hillenbrand - wood, Melissa Marquardt - mixed media, Mieko Anekawa – acrylic, and Nic McGuire – glass. The Art Reach Auction display at the Mission Fed Art Walk this year April 29/30/ is all about the bike. There will be 10 custom-painted Electra cruiser bicycles, 25 helmets, 25 bells, and 25 baskets available. The online auction starts on April 1 and funs the whole month. Cheryl Tall will be exhibiting in a solo show Dramatis Personae at Sparks Gallery with an opening reception on Sunday, March 12, 2023 from 5-8pm. The exhibit continues until April 30 th. There will be an Artificial Intelligence Symposium at Oceanside Museum of Art on March 22 from 6 to 8pm. The panel will consist of Memo Akten, Steve Burns, Kazmier Maslanka and Larry Vogel. Greg Klamt will moderate and this fascinating subject will be explored because of the efforts of Vallo Riberto . Prepare yourself by watching Refik Anadols's MoMA’s newest artist is an AI trained on 180,000 works, from Warhol to Pac-Man and seeing Beyond the Metaverse with Our Worlds; Indigenous Stories Are All Around Us is at UCSD Gallery QI (at the Qualcomm Institute on campus) until March 17. Here is your update abou the first commissioners for the SD County Office of Arts and Culture : District 1 Monica Hernandez and Lucas O'Connor, District 2 Renée Richetts , District 3 Ladan Akbarnia and Jay Bell, District 4 Felicia Shaw and Bob Lehman, District 5 Jim Gilliam and Mary Perhacs. That leaves one more appointment in District 2 plus all four youth members. Once they are all appointed, they will be given an orientation and then the work can begin. Space 4 Art is announcing their first art exhibition since the pandemic and it is at Art Produce Gallery. It will feature 14 past and current S4A resident artists working in a variety of media. The exhibit The Possibility of Something Happening , curated by San Diego-based Karla Centeno opens on March 3 and runs until April 13th. The Museum of Photographic Arts is offer an adult class: New Ways of Seeing: Photoplay with Color, Light, Filters and Obstructions. This is a 4-week course, on Saturdays: April 8,15, 22, 29 from 10:30am-12:30pm The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presents the first museum career retrospective of Celia Álvarez Muñoz ; Breaking the Binding and the first solo museum exhibition of San Diego and Tijuana-based Griselda Rosas : Yo te cuido (SD Art Prize recipient),on view from March 16 to August 13. By the way, The Kitchen, a full-service café offering breakfast and lunch should be open by the time you read this. E.A. Michelson Philanthropy gave The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego a grant of $250,000 for Titled Reflections: An art-making storytelling workshop grant for older adults. The gave $3 million in new grants to 16 museums but MCASD is the only Californian museum to receive the grant. This program will launch at MCASD in May 2023 and will be continue in 2024. We are fooking forward with great anticipation to The San Diego Museum of Art's O'Keeffe and Moore exhibition (Georgia O'Keeffe and Henry Moore!) opening May 13, and on view through August 27. But first, the annual Art Alive 2023 events are taking place Fri. March 31 – Sun. April 2. The Mingei will not be hosting a SD Design Week this fall but instead concentrating on the SD/TJ World Design Capitol project in 2024. For more info: info@sddesignweek.org The Bonita Museum & Cultural Center presents Vietnam Veterans, We Thank You: 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War from March 8th- April 29th, 2023 with a Vietnam Veteran Honor Ceremony: Sat. March 25, 11am. Curated by Heather Gallana, USMC veteran, the museum is now collecting stories and memorabilia from South Bay San Diego Vietnam Veterans for the upcoming exhibition Vietnam Veterans, We Thank You. More info: Heather 310 938-6683 On the weekend of March 11, the San Diego Chinese Art and Cultural Society will mount a showing of student work in the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum Extension building. Later on March 24th, the much-anticipated exhibition, The Achievements of Maestro Jahja Ling , will open. This exhibition that was originated by the Bonita Museum and Cultural Center and exhibited in 2018 so if you missed it, this is a chance to see it again. This should really be interesting to watch as the year progresses: Local creatives Swish Projects (the creative studio of Edwin Negado, John Itiola, and Julian Klincewicz ) has been appointed “artists in residence” at the New Children’s Museum . They will launch the TKRTP (The kids run this place) Museum Project. This year-long project will use art, video, photography, artmaking and more to document and celebrate the Museum community and enhance a sense of belonging starting this February with a Portrait Project. Now the renovations complete, the Mandeville Art Gallery is having its grand reopening on Sat. March 4 from 2 to 6 pm under the direction of a new, leader: Ceci Moss , who joins UC San Diego poised to take arts education and outreach to new heights, building on the gallery’s expansive, 57-year history. Are We Not Drawn Onward To New Era from March 4 - June 18, is the first show will be new faculty joined in the last 8 years. The day of the opening is also the MFA and PHD UCSD Visual Arts Graduate Open Studios event. More info Nick Lesley 858.822.7755 Thank goodness, Kinsee Morlan is coming back to San Diego! She is joining Mayor Todd Gloria as part of his #ToddSquad as senior communication advisor. Elizabeth Rooklidge, Founder and Editor of HereIn Journal , announced a new project within the project of Herein about Autotheory . What is autotheory you ask? Basically, it seems to be a way to write about life which starts with a personal view or experience (auto) that develops into philosophy (theory). We will look forward to reading more about this investigation which promises to be “…weird, I hope it’s squishy and personal and deep…” Mural of La Jolla and The Athenaeum Music and Art Library announce the third installment of Marcos Ramirez ERRE's mural, (It is an artist’s duty) To Reflect the Times at 7744 Fay Avenue. The previous two installations, Is all That it Proves, 2015 and In Chains, 2020, are followed by this new work that also uses Snellen eye chart as a symbolic tool. NTC Foundation is in its second year of an emerging artist program with free studio space. Leslye Villaseñor has been named the 2023 ARTS DISTRICT Emerging Artist . A recent Studio Arts graduate from UCSD, Leslye Villaseñor is mainly an oil painter, who features melancholic and haunting themes. You can follow her on Instagram @lvillasenorart . Further news at NTC is the newest tenant Studio Jules Silversmith in Barracks 15 and brings the total to 95. With California projecting a $24B budget deficit, we need to keep arts front and center with our elected officials. Take 2-minutes to send a congratulations to your state reps with a custom template from Californians for the Arts . You can also add your own message - we suggest inviting them to your events. Click here to find your elected officials and then click here to send your letter. April is California Arts and Creativity Month. We listened to an online panel discussion with the topic What Is the Value of Art? Organized by Zócalo Public Square . The conversation morphed to the Value of Artist and social justice and raised lots of interesting points of dialogue moderated by Helen Molesworth .
OPPORTUNITIES (click to see a list of all current opportunities listed on SDVAN) Surfing Madonna Oceans Project presents Ocean/Earth/Air a regional show (jurors: Cathy Carey, Cheryl Ehlers and Danny Salzhandler) with 100 selected artists for exhibit April 1 - 30. The reception on Sunday, April 23 of Earth Day weekend is at Poway Center for the Performing. Entry fee and cash awards. Deadline to apply March 12. More info: Cathy Carey 760-877-0869. The Athenaeum School of the Arts is looking for a new Director. Do you have a studio art background and a passion for education and team-building? Come work with us to grow fine arts education resources in San Diego for children and adults. Twenty-five hours per week position with the possibility of full-time starting summer 2023. Pay range is $27–$29/hour. To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume addressed to Christie Mitchell , Executive Director. Ashton Gallery at Art On 30th is making a new call for artists for 4 Square Regional Exhibition. Any piece of artwork that has square or cube dimensions is eligible to be entered. Juror: Max Lofano, Director of Quint Gallery, La Jolla and deadline Fri, March 10 th. California Creative Corp Program portal is now live for Individual artists. Far South/Border North: Artists and Cultural Practitioners in Community will award approximately 115 artist $25,000 plus approx.. $8000 for materials for projects that contribute to social justice, public health, energy-water-climate, and civic engagement. See full 15 page guideline . And apply by March 22. The second phase for Nonprofits organization will launch in May, 2023. The San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture is the administering organization but grant submissions will be facilitated by the San Diego Regional Arts and Culture Coalition. The Escondido Art Association announces a call for artists for Wildlife jurored byJulia San Roman. Take-in of art will be on Saturday, March 4th and the show runs March 11 until March 31 st. There is an entry fee and prize money. More info: Cathy Haven 442-317-0980 29th Annual Mission Trails Regional Park Photo Contest for amateur adults and children is now open until March 15 with no entry fee. Photos must be taken within Mission Trails Regional Park from an authorized trail and have MTRP as their subject. The exhibition of selected works is at the Visitor Center from May 6 to June 16. The Imperial Beach Arts Bureau and IB Library invite South Bay Artists to submit to the 2023 Spring/Summer Juried Art Show . Open to all 2-D artists, 18+ in the South Bay Area with no fee but cash awards, no theme and a deadline of May 5. Jurored by IB Art Committee Members Lisa Capano, Sherry Hansen, and Michelle Lubin with Guest Juror, Patric Stillman. Exhibition May 30 th to Sept 1st, at More info Dave Frink 858-761-4242 The City of Vista’s Public Arts Commission is partnering with the Gloria McClellan Senior Center making a call for artists for a public mural exhibit. There is a $4,000 honorarium/design fee, deadline is March 20 at 2 pm. For more info: jboensch@ci.vista.ca.us The Power Of A Single Flower is a 2023 photo contest where the winning photograph will be featured on the cover of July/August San Diego’s California Garden magazine, the longest continuously running horticulture publication in the Western United States. Entry closes March 31. For more info: photocontest@sdfloral.org . The Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) Foundation established a Larry T. Baza Scholarship for San Diego Unified School seniors, so that they may pursue higher education in an undergraduate college or technical school of their choice. Scholarships of $1,500 will be awarded to each student selected. Applications are now open with a deadline of March 15 th. Artists are invited to apply for juried 3d exhibitions in Encinitas . There are no fees to apply . and no commissions on any artwork sales. Exhibition applications must be received by Monday, April 3, 2023, 8:00am.Exhibitions will be on view for approximately three months between July 2023 and Jan 2024 and include an artist reception with Art Night Encinitas . Vanguard Culture is making an Open Call for Visual & Performing Artists for ENVZN23 is a one-of-a-kind visual and performing arts festival in Logan Heights on September 2, 2023 from 5:00pm – 10:00 p.m. It aims to spark increased cultural tourism (5,000 design professionals, art patrons, and other culture-seekers) for our region and highlight the virtuosity of its creative sector. Deadline March 1. For more info: Susanna H. Peredo 619-829-7561 Submissions for the 17th annual Juried Youth Exhibition are now open at the Museum of Photographic Arts. This year’s theme is Exploration with a deadline of May 8. Check out the link to see last year’s show and get information on how to submit. Alessandra Colfi, the Expressive Arts Therapist , invites you to create art feathers out of cardstock to express gratitude in a UCSD Health Art Collaboration project Gratitude Feathers Together as Majestic Wings. Cancer Patients and supporters preferred but all can participate. For more info: acolfi@health.ucsd.edu 8587355708 Coronado Art & Wine Festival on May 13 th is making a call for artists.Fee but no commission on sales. Each artist is asked to donate one piece of work to theirart auction, that benefits STEAM programs in our public K-12 schools. Application due March 31st..
A+ Art Blog: Black Women Artists in the Marketplace by Patricia Frischer Our banner this month is in support of Surfing Madonna Oceans Project which presents Ocean/Earth/Air , a regional show (jurors: Cathy Carey, Cheryl Ehlers and Danny Salzhandler) with 100 selected artists for exhibit April 1- 30. The reception on Sun, April 23 from 1-4pm of Earth Day weekend is at Poway Center for the Performing. More info: Cathy Carey 760-877-0869. Artists: (left to right) Cathy Carey, LaRetta Small, Cheryl Ehlers. A second banner this month is for JP Wackenstedt , the 2023 Business of Art Scholarship recipient. She will be exhibiting at the Mission Fed ArtWalk from April 29th & 30 th, 2023 in Little Italy booth #? sponsored by SDVAN . More info: Sandi Cottrell The Vast Sea between C and c is a symposium on the importance of San Diego in the canon of microtonal music at the Bonita Museum and Cultural Center on April 15 from 11am and 4pm. Participants include: John Chalmers, Jonathan Glasier, Joe Monzo. Daniel Corral, and Bill Welsey. Moderated by Kazmier Maslanka and produced by Vallo Riberto. More info: Wendy 6192675141 Join the upcoming conversation as our region begins to prepare for the Launch of World Design Capital (WDC) in 2024 on March 27, from 4 - 6pm at Park & Market: 1100 Market Street, SD 92101. World Design Capital will celebrate a cross-border commitment to human-centered design. Learn more about the HOME 2024 bid that and follow WDC San Diego-Tijuana 2024 on their website for more updates. The Timkin Museum is starting to give American Sign Language (ASL) Enhanced Tour for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Individuals on the first Saturday of every month from 11 to 12:30. The next one is April 1 st. These free tours are led by Timken docents who will be accompanied by an ASL interpreter from Palomar College's ASL-English Translation and Interpreting Studies Program to interpret for deaf or hard of hearing individuals. The California Center for the Arts, Escondido hosts Philipp Scholz Rittermann as the 2023/2024 Center Artist until April 16. His photography can be seen throughout the campus in the Concert Hall, Conference Center, administration office, and boardroom plus a selection of Rittermann’s work in the Museum. 25 Million Stitches: One Stitch, One Refugee opening on March 25 at the Mingei is curated by Sacramento-based, Korean-American fiber artist Jennifer Kim Sohn. This show raises awareness of the international refugee crisis by marking the number of displaced people via stitches on embroidered panels with over 2,000 panels combined vertically to create 408 floor-to-ceiling flags. The San Diego Museum of Art is going to create an Education Center in the west wing and rooftop space and has hired Foster + Partners as the Design Architect for this future renovation project. The project will begin its detailed planning phase in the coming months and is expected to break ground in 2026. You may know the name Norman Foster as his firm is responsible for renovations at Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Prado Museum in Madrid, Apple Park, Norton Museum of Art, Hearst Headquarters, and the Great Court at the British Museum. It should be really exciting to see what he imagines for San Diego. Don’t forget that Arts Alive and the Bloom Bash start on March 31 st. ICA North has 2 new exhibitions open in March and running until June 8 th. Narsiso Martinez: Rethinking Essential is the artist’s homage to the nation’s agriculture workers. This exhibition is a collaboration between ICA San Diego and the Museum of Latin American Art, MOLAA. Edra Soto: Graft, brings an interactive poetic meditation on national identity, displacement, and belonging. More info: Andrew Utt 7604366611 TEDxSanDiego happens on June 11, 2023 and Katie Ruiz will be one of four artists in residence. She will bring hundreds of her Pompom Project balls and guests will design and plant their own Seeds of Change which ties into the TEDxSanDiego 2023 theme. As part of Women’s History Month 2023, the San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery presents the exhibition Perceive Me , featuring a series of portraits created by artists in collaboration with plus-size artist Kristine Schomaker . This project was envisioned as a form of protest and to challenge the notions of female body size and ideals as construed by society and the art world. The show continues until April 13 with an artist panel on April 4 at 7 pm. San Diego participating artists: Anna Stump, Catherine Ruane, Elizabeth Tobias, Debby and Larry Kline. The 11 th annual Medium Photo Festival 2023 Keynote is a conversation with Judith Joy Ross and Joshua Chuang, taking place on Friday, April 7 at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (La Jolla campus). Did you know that 95% of the programs are free. We are hooked on the look of Denja Harris’s art at Art Produce on view until April 29 th as part of her artist in residency. Art N Soul on 101 in Encinitas is closing their store in March and having a sale of up to 20% off. There will be a special event on Sat. March 25 from 5 to 8 pm. Do you know of a space for them? More info: Kim Lange 619-847-7757 There is a new series of Craftivism Classes (the first on crocheting granny squares in March 22) at the Women’s Museum. From yarn bombing to femmage these classes support the Crafting Feminism exhibit to teach participants a crafting skill and how they can use it in their activism. All classes are bilingual and taught in English and Spanish Non-WMC Members: $20 WMC Members: $10. More info: info@womensmuseumca.org WE Gallery presents Mark Siprut and Larry Caveney: Turn! Turn! Turn! from April 14 - August 11at Mandell Weiss Gallery space in the Dorthea Laub Dance Place located at the NTC in San Diego. Black History Month and then Women’s History Month: Manuelita Brown is on a roll. She is included in 60 Years of Remarkable Women at UC San Diego. To see the list which is alphabetical by first name click here . She is featured in a podcast, Work While You Have the Light which is conversations with working women over age 70. Listen to it by clicking here . And her Harriet Tubman Sculpture was dedicated in Lincoln Park Pomona, CA recently. See a brief TV news clip from ABC Channel 7 in LA - click here . Kathleen Mitchell’s new glass art work is now on public view at Valley View Casino. It is an 8 ’ x 8’ x 2’ wall piece. She and her team made over 200 pieces to arrive at the final 110. Sparks Gallery is holding their Spring Art Auction with represented artists: Charlene Mosley, Duke Windsor, Alexander Arshansky, and Ron Carlson. Reserve prices for these 33 artworks begin at 30% off the retail price of the work so take a look if you are starting or wanting to build your collection. The bidding will stop on April 1 at midnight. OMA West Gallery at the Seabird Resort presents Eurythmy: The Dance of Colors . This is a group exhibition of movement, expression, and rhythm, inspired by dance from 7 artists that participated in the interior design of both hotels: Mission Pacific and The Seabird Resort. Exhibition celebration on Wed. March 29, at 6-8:00pm and showing until July 8. Great article sent to us by Claire Slattery, is a political commentary on the power of art ”…. a piece of art has quieted the self-conscious ego voice that is normally yapping away within.” The Power of Art in a Political Ageby David Brookswas in the New York TimesMarch 2, 2023 issue.
OPPORTUNITIES (click to see a list of all current opportunities listed on SDVAN) The City of San Diego is seeking applications from interested qualified artists for Exposure , San Diego’s first-ever municipal photo fellowship program designed to provide a platform for artists to explore civic and social issues facing San Diego. The $75,000 fellowship program has an application deadline of April 5 . The Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for the fellowship may be downloaded from the following PlanetBids website but artists have to register through the City of San Diego for PlanetBids prior to downloading the RFQ. April 14 is the deadline for the prestigious California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships . All Media - All Disciplines for Emerging - Established - Legacy Artists with up to $50,000 and open to Artists & Cultural Practitioners residing in Region 1 which include San Diego. The San Diego Council on Literacy has a call for child and teens to make art for the Financial Literacy Superheroes Competition . Cash prize, ranging from $500 to $1,000 and showing at Comic-Con Museum in Balboa Park. They want to promote good money management habits among young people and families in the San Diego region. The deadline for submissions is midnight on March 31st.
The City of Coronado is making a call for Volunteer Grant Readers for this year’s Arts and Culture category. Deadline to apply before Friday, April 7. The grant readers will be asked to score the grants by May 24, 2023. More info: Kelli Maples Dip your brush into your yellow oxides, cad yellows, hansa yellows, diarylide yellow, Naples yellow, etc., and bring on liquid sunshine. Daffodil Dreams is the regional call for artists by Art on 30 th with Juror Wanda Honeycutt. Deadline is Fri. April 14 th. Carlsbad is making a call for artists18 years of age and older, anxious to share a special talent with the community if your expertise is visual arts using sustainable or recycled materials? Now through March 20, the city is accepting submissions to support qualifying emerging artists, as well as other funding categories for organizations and schools with Carlsbad Community Arts Grants. ArtReach is making a second call for artists to create vinyl records into custom art pieces, this time to be displayed at North Park Music Fest May 27th & 28th. Submit 1-3 design mockups by May 5. Sourced your own records and earned $25 of the sales price with the rest going to support arts education. More info: Becca Dwyer 619-940-7278 BeautifulPB , in partnership with San Diego Audubon Society, is seeking an artist/artist team to create an inspiring outdoor mural or mosaic that shows off the Pacific Beach local connection to the bay, specifically a creative interpretation of the Mission Bay wetlands ecosystem and the endangered California Least Tern. There is a $5000 budget. Application due by April 3. More info: Chris Olson 858-336-9605 Brooks Theater Art Gallery is making a call for artist for FACE 2 FACE Portraits and Self-Portraits. $10 fee and deadline of March 25. More info: Carol Naegele , 760.995.5975 The Athenaeum School of the Arts is looking for a new Director. Do you have a studio art background and a passion for education and team-building? Come work with us to grow fine arts education resources in San Diego for children and adults. Twenty-five hours per week position with the possibility of full-time starting summer 2023. Pay range is $27–$29/hour. To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume addressed to Christie Mitchell , Executive Director. The Imperial Beach Arts Bureau and IB Library invite South Bay Artists to submit to the 2023 Spring/Summer Juried Art Show . Open to all 2-D artists, 18+ in the South Bay Area with no fee but cash awards, no theme and a deadline of May 5. Jurored by IB Art Committee Members Lisa Capano, Sherry Hansen, and Michelle Lubin with Guest Juror, Patric Stillman. Exhibition May 30 th to Sept 1 st. More info Dave Frink 858-761-4242 The Power Of A Single Flower is a 2023 photo contest where the winning photograph will be featured on the cover of July/August San Diego’s California Garden magazine, the longest continuously running horticulture publication in the Western United States. Entry closes March 31. For more info: photocontest@sdfloral.org .
Submissions for the 17th annual Juried Youth Exhibition are now open at the Museum of Photographic Arts. This year’s theme is Exploration with a deadline of May 8. Check out the link to see last year’s show and get information on how to submit. A Walk Through Nature is the next SDMA Artists Guild exhibition at the Mission Trails Regional Park (MTRP) Visitors Center and online. All current artist, associate and student members may participate so this is a good time to join. The juror is the artist Keiko Tanabe and the deadline is April 30 for a show from June 17- July 27. Reception is June 18 th.
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