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25 years of The Hapa Project

Explore hapa.me – 25 Years of The Hapa Project, Kip Fulbeck’s powerful portrait series on multiracial identity, now expanded at the Museum of Us with updated reflections from original participants.

Aaron Kramer: Sense of Wonder

Oceanside Museum of Art presents Sense of Wonder, a playful and inventive exhibition by artist and maker Aaron Kramer. Featuring kinetic sculptures, automata, and drawing machines built from salvaged materials, […]

Maryam Bayat: Unrolling Paradise

The California Center for the Arts, Escondido presents Unrolling Paradise, an exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Maryam Bayat that examines the Persian garden as a living design tradition carried through textiles, […]

The Seed Keeper / El Guardián de las Semillas

Inspired by Diane Wilson’s novel The Seed Keeper, this exhibition explores the concept of seeds as both a material presence and a powerful metaphor—an archive of memory, resilience, and future. […]

David Adey: Sacrificial Bodies

As the first comprehensive mid-career survey of San Diego artist , this exhibition traces more than 25 years of a creative practice defined by a persistent exploration of what it […]

Decoding DaVinci

Decoding DaVinci is an immersive theatrical adventure inspired by the pulse-pounding world of The Da Vinci Code and the bestselling thrillers of Dan Brown—a thrilling race against time where the […]

Amoxtlis

José Hugo Sánchez: Amoxtlis Amoxtlis—the Nahuatl word for “codices”—centers Sánchez’s large-scale printmaking practice, which draws from the visual language of Mesoamerican codices while engaging the cultural and political conditions of the U.S.–Mexico border. At the heart of the installation is Codex Tonalpohualli, a series of towering printed banners that reference the twenty day signs of […]

Adult Storytime

Inspired by Eric Garcia's Uncle Scotchy’s Blues Opera, also known as The Blues Opera, Adult Storytime is a stirring collection of autobiographical monologues that explore the hardships and unexpected humor […]

Cat Gunn: if only by the light of a new moon

Cat Gunn’s first solo museum exhibition, if only by the light of a new moon, explores the complex terrain of inherited memory and the seemingly impossible nostalgia for a home that one has never known through materials including fabric, ceramics, and cyanotypes. This experience, familiar to immigrants, first-generation children, and anyone displaced by colonialism, war, […]

Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra Festival

The Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra Festival returns for its 38th season, bringing together the largest gathering of concertmasters and principal players in North America for an extraordinary summer of music. […]

Ongoing

Make Music Day

Celebrate the joy of music-making at Make Music Day 2026 on June 21 at the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad. Part of the global annual celebration inspired by France’s Fête de la Musique, this free, family-friendly event invites musicians and music lovers of all ages to participate in performances, hands-on activities, and community music-making […]