Here is a sample of our RAW July 2012 which is posted every month on the SDVAN site. If you like this make sure you are signed up on our Mailing list to get a monthly reminder to check it out!
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
P. J. O'Rourke
The Art of Sound in San Diego
included interactive sonic sculpture and installations, stage
performances and pop up gallery performances, listening stations and
video installation. Presented by
Open Arts Collective at Space 4 Art Sat. August 25, 6-9 pm
. (325 15th St, SD 92101)More info:
Cara Mia Ciasulli 619.309.8537
There will be a special presentation at the next
SDVAN Monthly Meeting
Tuesday, August 14, 10 am to noon: Putting on Successful Art Events by
Patricia Frischer. If you want to put on better events: Learn the role
of passion and charm and how to become inclusive not exclusive. Find out
what your events should provide the artist, the community and you, the
organizer. Learn how to identify trends, match make promotion ideas,
negotiate with venues and in kind donors, work with volunteers and
create time lines and standard operating procedures. To RSVP and for an
agenda.
patricia@sdvisualarts.net .
Thanks go
Naomi Nussbaum and the
SD Botanic Gardens
for hosting us at the opening of the Sculpture in the Garden reception
in memory of Dennis Paul Batt. It was a glorious day and a stellar group
of local sculptors including
Alber and Luna de Mattius, Matt
Devine, Dan Peragine, Jeffery Laudenslager, Aoma Robinson, Madelynne
Engle, Cheryl Tall, Charles Bronson, Ben Lavendar, Fritzie Urquhart and
Becky Guttin…all friends of SDVAN. But there were many more to
admire including two that sold that day by Victoria Johnson. This is a
wonderful place to take children this summer. Don’t miss it.
We were also hosted by
Vicki Leon at the
Bernardo Winery for a performance at The Vine (
Mojalet Dance Place for the Arts.) Vicki was showing the last of three Quilts of Life happenings before her exhibition in October at
Noel Baza. We got to see the interaction of the dancers with her dichromatic etched glass discs. This work in progress is funded by the
SD Foundation.
Bernardo Winery (founded 1889!) has a whole collection of fun galleries
and shops and holds an art walk once a month and Mojalet has a
performance every weekend in the summer. We were so pleased to see such a
wonderful resource hidden away in a neighborhood in Rancho Bernardo.
Brandie Maddalena is busy building
CarouShellat
Nottingham Center fro the Artsin
San Marcos. The center houses outstanding artists from a variety of
media, including glass, wood, and ceramics. Caroushell is a fabulous
sculpture destined for the Burning Man Festival from the San Diego
region.
Quint Contemporary Art
(QCA) is announcing a summer series of short exhibitions. A large
portion of the gallery will be under renovation and so they will be
using a portion of the space to introduce new artists, and showcase
artists of the gallery. On August 10 th and continuing through August 25
th works on paper by artist
Kim MacConnel ,
(SD Art Prize) spanning ten years from 1973 to 1982. These gouaches on
paper are studies of MacConnel's large-scale fabric paintings and large
scale paintings and are stand-alone as exquisite examples of MacConnel's
interest in pattern and design.
The SD Foundation has now published its Greater San Diego Vision
which weaves together aspiration and inspiration and calls for
innovation and collaboration. This is the 48 th vision exercise for the
city in the last 100 years. What makes this vision different is that
30,000 people in the community contributed their ideas and preferences
to the vision. The San Diego Foundation Malin Burnham Center for Civic Engagement will
steward the Vision and help move the region forward by convening
stakeholders, informing decisions, engaging people, and impacting our
evolution. They are on their way to raising $5M for this endeavor asking
$100,000 from 50 donors. The SD Foundation has current assets of $600M
and had $55M in donation in 2011. Forty-two million dollars went out in
grants last year. The Arts and Culture division of the Foundation has
three main initiatives right now: Creativity in the Classroom , Creative Catalyst Fund: Individual Artist Fellowship Program, and the Business of the Arts Program .
We were delighted to see that one of the seven goals of the Vision
includes neighborhoods that are safe, vibrant and convenient centers of
Community Life, Arts and Culture. Not only that but one of the Big Ideas is to create and integrate Arts Districts (like the I.D.E. A planned by David Malmuth.) We are grateful to Felicia Shaw and a large group of volunteers for making sure that Arts and Culture has a high priority in the vision.
Art & Science Collaborations Inc. (ASCI) serving the international art-sci-tech field for 24-years is featuring
Kaz Maslanka in their November issue for his NYC installation project,
A Spectrum of Jewels. Kaz is on the committee for the
DNA of Creativity project and heads one of the teams, Poly Aesthetic Mapping.
John Eger helps us again to see the value of art spaces in cities in his latest article,
Downtown Cultural Districts are the New Incubators of Creativity , published in the Huffington Post.
Linda M. Sokol on behalf of
Victoria Hamilton (City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture) is trying to arrange an
ArtPlace Grant Prep Meeting in order to make a more successful application for funds in San Diego. Date July 30 place TBD.
It is changed it name, changed from first to second Friday and not always been every month, but now we understand from
Perry Meyer Fine Art that
Kettner Nights is now going to be the SECOND Friday of EVERY month.
Robin Przybysz has launched her new accessory line with
a video made by Gerrit Greve at his studio in Cardiff by the Sea. This was a collection started with the support of the
Art Meets Fashion project in 2011.
Larry and Debby Kline have launched a Kickstarter fund to finance a book about their art
My Dinner with the Klines
which describes art they have made while dining out together. We love
the ketchup portrait and the straw and napkin sculptures. You might have
seen some of these a few years ago at the California Center for the
Arts in Escondido.
OPPORTUNITIES (click to see a list of all current opportunities listed on SDVAN)
Girl Scouts San Diego
seeks a muralist (female preferably) to lead approximately 15 Girl
Scouts in grades 6-8 to create a 10’ x 5’ portable mural to commemorate
the 100th Anniversary of Girl Scouting through a series of eight
workshops. The Finished painting will be exhibited throughout San Diego
County, including at the Chula Vista Public Library. . Honorarium of
$4,000 upon project completion (Friday, October 5, 2012.) Applications
due by Friday, July 27.
See the full listing on SDVAN. For more info:
Kathleen Stoughton 619.610.0813.
The
Bonita Museum & Cultural Center
is now taking submissions for our annual Juried Photography and Digital
Arts Exhibition. Our theme is San Diego - show us how you see our city,
what changes you've experienced, and what you love about it. Three
awards will be given: 1st place $200; 2nd place $100; and 3rd place $50.
Reception and awards given August 11, 2012, 5:30-7:00 p.m. Submissions
accepted through July 27, 2012. For more info:
Julie Gaybonitamuseum@sbcglobal.net.
Stephen Burns is keeping the
San Diego Photoshop User
up to date wit the new Adobe Connect for those who cannot make it in
person to the meetings and demonstrations. Attendance & membership
is free. For the directions page to get location/map details just click
on the "Directions" link to the left of
www.sdphotoshopusers.com.
ARTS seek two teachers.
A Reason To Survive
is seeking a teaching artist for the Fred and Finch Youth Center in
Spring Valley to work Thursdays, 12:30 -- 2:30, plus 2 hours prep and
post starting ASAP for a ten-week workshop for youth with intellectual
disabilities and mental health diagnoses, ages 14 – 21 years old. They
are also looking another experienced, energetic and talented artist to
teach a four week workshop for youth, ages 7- 12, whose families are
enlisted in the military. The sessions August 7, August 14, August 21
and August 28, are 3 hours per day will be held at the San Diego Armed
Services YMCA and will be 2 hours each. .Submit resume and cover letter
to
Ashleigh Starke, Director of Programs 619.297.2787
MUSEUMS
We love to see these sorts of collaboration to build the
reputation of the visual arts in San Diego. From Sept 16, to February
10, 2013,
MCASD will partner with the
San Diego Museum of Art and the
Timken Museum of Art
to bring together the finest American works from their permanent
collections presented in a groundbreaking collaborative exhibition
entitled
Behold, America!: Art of the United States from Three San Diego Museums. There are three main sections, Figures, Forms, and Frontiers, with each venue showing works from all three collections.
The San Diego Museum of Art Featuring artists such as Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, Gabrielle Münter, Egon Schiele, and Vasily Kandinsky,
The Human Beast presents the key figures in the rise of German Expressionism. The exhibition highlights the
recent bequest
of 48 German Expressionist works from the estate of Vance E. Kondon and
Elisabeth Giesberger and features 9 paintings on loan from the Museo
Thyssen Bornemisza, in addition to many works long in the permanent
collection.
July 21 through November 11.
T he Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries,
is a major exhibition now showing at the museum and it depicts event
for the first time contemporary to its time instead of allegories. It
shows the battles and sieges of that time. We loved the
Drone project which was part of the
Summer Salon series
featured every Friday night throughout the summer. This Salon projects
is about conflict and its depiction in art, in this case a drone
container was re-purposed as a room. It was originally displayed in
front of the General Atomics (the producer of the drones in SD) and
amusingly, as it was being hauled away was mistaken for the theft of an
actual drone. The name of the Salon Series this month is
Beyond the Banner which reveres not only to banner of war, but advertising banner like those at the top of our website pages.
Agitprop is the Series Co-Curator.
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Get ready to roll out the red carpet for Monte Carlo
On Screen, the
Museum's 36 th annual gala on Saturday, September 8 at 6:30 PM at the
La Jolla location. Monte Carlo is one of San Diego's highly anticipated
fundraisers. MCASD will be magically transformed into a cinematic
wonderland. At the MCASD Downtown ( Jacobs Building) from August 9,
January 20, 2013as part of MCASD’s ongoing Cerca series, this mixed
media installation and performance by sound artist
Margaret Noble
charts a psychological path through San Diego’s City Heights
neighborhood, where the artist grew up. Combining references to the
neighborhood’s early Victorian years and motifs drawn from 1980s urban
pop culture,
44th and Landis takes the form of an intricate sculptural environment made up of hundreds of cut paper dolls and other forms.
Oceanside Museum of Art as part of their
Artists@WORK will feature
Anna Stump and
Ted Meyer on Aug 9 6 -9 pm working to create an installation on the theme
Exploring Tattoo. The
Zen Brush Painting demonstration by
Rosemary KimBal is Thurs. Sept 13, 6-9 pm 760.435.3720. While there catch the
Facing West/Looking East exhibition that begins on Sat Aug 11 from 5 to 7 pm. ( 704 Pier View Way, Oceanside, 92054).
More info:
Danielle Susalla Deery
TRANSITIONS
We are sad to report the passing of
Richard Seubert. He was always cheerful and so enthusiastic about his role in the
Hats Off to Life project. He was one of the models and a hat was made for him depicting his life by
Rosemary KimBal and an excellent photo taken of him in full glory by
Erika Johnson. The photo is still on view at
Fairwinds Ivey Ranch. Our condolences go to his family. May he rest in peace.
TIDBITS
The food truck fever spreading across cities of the United States
and beyond has infiltrated the contemporary art scene: One 25-foot-long
rented truck in Boston is serving up culture instead of sandwiches
through
White Walls Boston, a mobile art initiative to make art accessible across the city.
As
Sotheby's step out of it auction role into a selling role they are partnering with
Josh Baer, art critic, private advisor and author of
Baer Faxt,
on a unique selling exhibition called "Not Californian" from 6 - 30
September 2012. The show will highlight important works by eight
Californian artists from the 1970s and 1980s who gained immense
international appeal:
Mike Kelley, Chris Burden, Bruce Nauman, Paul McCarthy, Charles Ray, John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha and Raymond Pettibon. For more information or if you are interested in consigning, 212.606.7254
Miety.Heiden@sothebys.com
Just like the SDMA, there are now no artists left on the board of
MOCA in Los Angeles.
Jim Wilsterman forwarded this article from the
Los Angles Times .
John Baldessari, Catherine Opie and
Barbara Kruger all resigned from the board of trustees and the last to go was
Ed Ruscha.
Like SDMA, the LA MOCA was started by artists and over the years, their
role has been marginalized. The last straw was the firing of the firing
of longtime chief curator Paul Schimmel by the life trustee
Eli Broad who “rescued” the museum from financial troubles but now is seen to hold too much power.
