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.
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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.
Explore the luminous world of cyanotype at the Visions Museum of Textile Art, where four artists—bailey macabre, Shane Booth, Morgan Ford Willingham, and Patricia Gaddis—demonstrate diverse approaches to this historic photographic printing technique. The exhibition highlights how artists transform the deep-blue process into contemporary textile and mixed-media works that blend craft, photography, and storytelling. On […]
Space Maker examines where art and architecture meet, tracing how creative practices rooted in design influence the shaping of spaces, objects, and communities. Featuring a blend of historic pieces with contemporary works by local artists - including Russell Forester, Robert Irwin, Miki Iwasaki, Irma Sofía Poeter, and others - the exhibition highlights wide-ranging interpretations of […]
Explore the powerful legacy of groundbreaking artist Faith Ringgold in this compelling exhibition at UC San Diego’s Mandeville Art Gallery. Featuring works from across her career, the show traces her evolution through painting, textiles, and narrative storytelling while honoring her impact as an artist, educator, and activist. Free and open to the public, with an […]
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, the show invites audiences to engage with art as motion, mechanism, and discovery. Rooted in curiosity and hands-on experimentation, Kramer’s work blurs the line between […]
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, memory, and everyday objects. Working at the intersection of craft and design, Bayat transforms traditional Persian rugs into sculptural forms, including furniture, abstract trees, and […]
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. Presented in collaboration with the Oceanside Public Library as part of the community-wide program The Big Read, the exhibition extends the novel’s themes into a […]
Known for his beguiling portraits of Paris nightlife and the unvarnished local characters of Montmartre, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born into an aristocratic family in the South of France in 1864. Growing up as a child with a disability that caused his legs to stop developing, Toulouse-Lautrec turned to drawing rather than the sports his […]
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego hosts the West Coast debut of Giants, a landmark exhibition featuring more than 130 works by nearly 40 Black diasporic artists from Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States. Drawn from the personal collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, the show explores themes of Black joy, […] |
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Join Vanguard Culture and UC San Diego Craft Center for Art Garden, an inspiring evening of visual art, storytelling, dance, and community care. The event also marks the national launch […] |
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Dreamlike imagery, subconscious symbolism, and uncanny visual worlds collide at Surrealism Exhibition: THE LIFE, opening May 15, 2026 at the Broker’s Building Art Gallery Board in downtown San Diego. This free exhibition invites audiences into a thought-provoking exploration of identity, perception, memory, and the blurred boundaries between reality and imagination through contemporary surrealist works. Expect […] |
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Presented at Gallery 21 in Balboa Park, Spectrum 2026 is a collaborative exhibition produced by The Studio Door in partnership with the Village Arts and Education Foundation. Curated by RD Riccoboni, the exhibition features nine local LGBTQ+ artists working in stained glass, oil painting, acrylic, mixed media, and stoneware. This off-site presentation expands The Studio […] |
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Print culture, storytelling, and creative community converge at Hi-Res Edition 004: PAPER/CUTS on May 7, 2026 at the San Diego Made Factory. Part of San Diego Made’s First Thursdays series, this free evening celebrates self-publishing and the collective power of print through conversations with local authors Stacey Uy, Megan Groth, and Bryttney-Mischele, alongside curated art, […] |
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Bloodlines & Brushstrokes celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month through a dynamic group exhibition highlighting the voices, stories, and creative perspectives of a diverse roster of AAPI artists. […] |
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Join Future is Color Studio Sessions and MCASD for our quarterly Jazz Night hosted in MCASD's Art Park. Music has the power to gather us, heal us, and connect us. Historically, sonic gathering spaces have been at the heart of revolutionary movements. They were spaces where individuals, particularly from marginalized communities, could fully express and […] |
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Celebrating the world-class exhibit featuring the work of Toulouse Lautrec, San Diego Ballet will present the ebullient, sparkling, and oh so chic I LOVE PARIS, alongside the premiere of the reimagined DEBUSSY DANCES, a nod to French Impressionism, both musical and visual to the music of Claude Debussy. Also on the program is the rapturous […] |
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exhibition of experimental art+music Project ’s annual exhibition returns to close the season with a festival of innovative local art and music. This year’s WORKING TITLE fills the soaring gothic halls of St. Paul’s Cathedral with bold visual art, multimedia installations, performance art, and live experimental music from a diverse group of transborder artists. This […] |
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