ALEXIS SMITH: THE AMERICAN WAY

Alexis Smith: The American Way is the first retrospective of the California artist in thirty years. Smith’s collages combine found texts, images, and objects to underscore and exaggerate how we are shaped by the media and culture that surround us. With her signature sense of humor, Smith turns a keen eye to literature, movies, and pop […]

SAN DIEGO ART PRIZE

Cog.Nate Collective Dedicated to the idea that the visual arts are a necessary and rewarding ingredient of any world-class city, the SD Art Prize was conceived to promote and encourage dialogue, reflection and social interaction about San Diego’s artistic and cultural life. This annual award honors artistic expression witha cash prize, exhibition opportunities, and spotlights […]

OUR ANCESTOR’S DREAM: LIFE BETWEEN THREE WORLDS

Casa Familiar is pleased to announce the art exhibition OUR ANCESTOR’S DREAM: Life between three worlds. (EL SUEÑO DE NUESTROS ANCESTROS: La vida entre tres mundos). This is an exhibition featuring Kumeyaay Artists from California and Baja California Mexico. Curated by Karla Garcia-Perez: Curator, Community Organizer & Legal Studies Student of Indigenous People’s Law Program at the University of Oklahoma. The exhibition includes […]

PORTALS

Kathy Nida – The Way Out The Feminist Image Group was formed in 2009 by artist and curator Anna Stump. FIG is a coalition of visual artists who meet to discuss art, see exhibitions, and support one another in our careers. We work across many media, including drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, installation, digital media, and performance. As […]

P.I.L.L.A.R.S.: PEOPLE IN LUCHA Y LIBERACIÓN AND RESILIENT STRUGGLE”

Celebrate the grand opening of the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center (CPMCC). The inaugural exhibition in the museum will be the premiere of a collective historical narrative of Chicano Park and Logan Heights titled, “P.I.L.L.A.R.S.: People In Lucha y Liberación And Resilient Struggle” – a collective historical narrative of Chicano Park and Logan Heights. […]

THE LIVING HAND

  Stephen by Vicki Walsh, oil on birch panel, 48″ x 64″, 2011 Brought together to showcase their explorations in portraiture and reflective consciousness, the Hyde Art Gallery’s second exhibition of the Fall 2022 semester, The Living Hand, presents the works of two San Diego artists in conversation. Vicki Walsh’s paintings and Gail Schneider’s sculptures establish a repertoire of provocative, sensuously […]

SCRIPT/RESCRIPT

Bhavna Mehta Throughlines: Synapse, 2020 Glass beads embroidered on X-ray 17 x 14 inches Courtesy of the artist The SDSU School of Art and Design presents the exhibition, Script/Rescript featuring the artwork of ten artists who use historical and contemporary medicalizing scripts of their own bodies to colorfully rescript – or rewrite – visual language attributed to […]

PIÑATAS – THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION

  Amorette Crespo, Zoom Computer, 2021.  Photo: Craft in America, Madison Metro. A groundbreaking show with more than 80 works by Latinx artists and makers from across the U.S. PIÑATAS: THE HIGH […]

SAN DIEGO ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL

The San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF) is San Diego’s premier film showcase of Asian American and international cinema. Founded in 2000, the festival has grown to become the largest exhibition of Asian cinema in the western United States, and has showcased everything from future classics like Bong Joon-ho’s Memories of Murder (US Premiere) to luminary independent work like […]

BREAD & PUPPET THEATER

The circus in coming to town – but this is no ordinary circus. Bread & Puppet Theater (B&P) is an internationally celebrated political puppet theater company that champions a visually rich, street-theater brand of performance art, filled with music, dance and (as its name would suggest) puppets. Each performance ends with the troupe breaking bread with the […]

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL

San Diego Dance Theater presents ‘up close & personal: A collection of dances joined by Doug McMinimy’s photographic installation: Dis/Re-member, before and after the performances. San Diego Dance Theater has been enthusiastically […]