THINGS TO DO

The Bold, the Beautiful & the Brilliantly Weird

  • A Body of Work

    A Body of Work is a photographic exhibition exploring the dancer’s body as both instrument and archive. Featuring over 20 San Diego-based dancers of diverse backgrounds and styles, the project invites viewers to rediscover the human form—intimately captured and abstracted through close-range imagery.

  • The Show of Hearts

    The Show of Hearts is an interdisciplinary art event celebrating love, creativity, and connection through live music, dance, poetry, and more. Featuring invited artists and a closing dance party, the evening invites audiences to embrace community and the heart in all its forms.

  • Clothes Story

    Clothes Story at Mesa College Art Gallery highlights African American women’s stories through 30+ recreated garments, Sept. 6–Oct. 15, 2025.

  • It’s OK, But It Ain’t Right

    Meta description: It’s OK, But It Ain’t Right brings national artists together in a bold, messy exhibition confronting discomfort, humor, and quiet resistance through fearless contemporary art.

  • Palpitations: The Cadence of Heartbeats

    Palpitations unites painter Marianela de la Hoz and sound artist Marc Urselli in an immersive installation where sound and image pulse with themes of life, death, and resilience.

  • Alfredo Castañeda: Beyond Surrealism

    Alfredo Castañeda: Beyond Surrealism brings together thirty-five paintings from outstanding private collections in North America and Spain for the first museum retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States.

  • Homegrown ArtBeat

    Through painting, photography, sculpture, textile arts, interactive performance, and live music, Homegrown ArtBeat reveals how deeply art lives in our everyday surroundings, often unnoticed.

  • San Diego Made: LIVE

    Experience San Diego Made: LIVE during San Diego Design Week—an evening of music, live art, installations, open studios, and community connection at the San Diego Made Factory.

  • Omni Intelligent

    Omni Intelligent is a group exhibition that explores the intertwined and interdependent relationships between non-human and human entities as artificial intelligence becomes an integrated part of contemporary life.

  • San Diego Undersea Film Exhibition

    Dive into the 26th annual San Diego Undersea Film Exhibition at Qualcomm Hall, showcasing breathtaking underwater films from around the world. With affordable tickets, audience-choice prizes, and works by acclaimed filmmakers, this two-night festival has grown from local dive shop roots into one of the world’s premier underwater film events.

  • West Coast Textile Arts

    The annual West Coast Textile Arts exhibition brings innovative and traditional fiber works to the gallery, juried by Beth Smith of Fiber Arts Now. Featuring pieces from regional artists, the San Diego Creative Weavers Guild, the Talk Ten Split Image Challenge, Lydia Richez-Bowman, and Lorrie Teates. Opening reception October 11, 4–6pm.

  • Me voy pa’l pueblo – by PANCA

    PANCA reflects on the binational and transborder experience amid the political turmoil and violent immigration policies, a look into Paola's experience of moving back to Mexico after living in the USA for 3 years.