By Lonnie Burstein Hewitt. Image and photos by Maurice Hewitt.
There’s art all around if you know where to look.
Here are a few spots you may want to check out this month…and they’re all free admission.
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| A real eye-catcher by Betty Busby in the irresistible gift shop at Visions Museum of Textile Art in Liberty Station. You’ll see more about Visions in next month’s SDVAN. |
Visions Museum of Textile Art
2825
Dewey Rd., Ste. 100. SD, 92106
Hours: Wednesday/Thursday 10
a.m.-2 p.m. Friday/Saturday, 10-4.
More
to see in the Arts District at Liberty Station.
San Diego Watercolor Society (SDWS)
now offers “a water-based art experience,” meaning all water media…anything but
oil. Their current exhibition, Scintillation, on view through
September 14, surprised us with a broad range of styles.
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| The Sun Will Rise, by Andrea Ausland. |
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| Great is His Faithfulness, by Susan Keith. A very distinctive watercolor that was one of the award winners in this show. |
Scintillation at San Diego Watercolor Society
On
view until Sept 14
2825 Dewey Road, Bldg 202
Suite #105, SD 92106
Wednesday-Sunday,
11 a.m.--3 p.m.
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| Bird Brains, by Irene Abraham and Stacy Birky-Green. What you can’t see in this photo is that this is a 3-D piece and these birds are actually moving. |
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| Rights and Unity and Speaking My Rights, by Kathy Nida and Moya Devine. These artists, who live in different cities, sent each other a word, then created a piece based on that word, did another exchange, and created a piece inspired by the first one received. So this artist duet ended up with a quartet of artworks. |
Women Work
Together at Mandell Weiss Gallery.
On
view until Sept 6
2650 Truxton Rd. SD 92106
Hours:
Wednesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Community Quilt Show at Pacific Beach Library
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| San Diego Community Quilt: The show’s magnum opus, made up of 95 blocks created by local residents, was professionally quilted by Seaside Quilters Guild member Michaelanne Gephart. |
Over a year ago, three members of the Seaside Quilters Guild, a PB-based group of about 50 members, decided it would be great to introduce the wider community to the joys of quilting. They organized a series of three workshops at the library which produced 95 individual creations that were then stitched into letters by Seaside members, some of whom also contributed quilts of their own to display. There are 37 quilts on view here, and the show is a complete delight.
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| One corner of the quilt show, including a smaller community quilt made of blocks that for various reasons couldn’t fit into the main quilt. |
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| Another corner of the show. |
I was happy to speak with Chris Bernet, who along with Carol Simpson and Deborah Lancaster originally came up with the idea of doing this project.
“It was a lot of work, but it was such a rewarding experience,” she said. “Our entire Guild came together. Any time we asked for help, they were there. And the opening of the exhibit was more than I could have hoped for, watching everyone excitedly find their own blocks and then admire all the other blocks around them. And every time I go in to look at the show, I see something new… even though I’ve spent so many hours with each one of those blocks.”
Fortunately, you have time to see for yourself, since the show will remain in the library’s Community Room through October 27. And the quilters would love for some organization to adopt the San Diego Community Quilt and give it a permanent location where more of the public could see it for years to come.
Community
Quilt Show
at Pacific
Beach Library
On
view until Oct 27
4275
Cass Street. SD, 92109
Hours: Monday/Tuesday 11:30 a.m.-8
p.m., Wednesday-Saturday 9:30am-6pm, Sunday 1-5pm. Phone: 858-581-9934.
Lonnie Burstein Hewitt is an award-winning
author/lyricist/playwright who has been writing about arts and lifestyles in
San Diego County for over a dozen years. You can reach her at hew2@sbcglobal.net
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