By Patricia Frischer
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| Current and past City Council members and Art Commissioners Carla Roemer, Bruce Ehlers, Joy Lyndes, Teresa Barth, Mayor Tony Kranz, Lisa Shaffer, Kellie Shay Hinz and Arts Administer Collette Murphy. |
I never saw Pacific View when it was a school which closed
in 2003. For me it had always been a sad unused shell of a building, but a
structure with good bones and a strong foundation and a serious mid-century vibe.
As Darius Degher named in his reading… Pacific View...has been... Lost and
Found. In my imagination, it is now what the building must have looked
like in its prime. Wonderful clean windows make all the rooms airy, beautiful
colors and nice graphics to guide the learners to their chosen classes, shade providers,
benches and landscaping that will grow and mature.
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| Poet Darius Degher |
After many long years, countless volunteer hours, pushes by
the community, non-profit arts organization, city art commissioners, the city council, and multiple mayors (Shaffer,
Barth, Blakespear, and finally Kranz), it is a relief and a joy to
see the building back in all its glory. The ribbon cutting celebration was a
chance for the public to view the results of all the hard work made by a team of city planners,
architects (Coar Design Group), builders (Kleinfelder Construction Services and Conan Costruction) and landscape artists, not to mention the valiant efforts
of the city art department staff under the direction of the city manager Pamela Weaver Antil.
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Arts and Culture Commissioners (left to right)
Katy Fox, (chair) Carla Roemer, Vicki Campbell, Niyati Kadakia,
Jennifer Marakovits (vice chair) posed in front of Peter Mittien's sculpture. |
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| Peter Mitten's Momentum |
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| Mayor Tony Kranz |
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| City Manager Pam Antil |
Congratulations goes to Collette Murphy who now has
3 more full time staff and 4 part time staff as well as 2 part time teaching
artists. Jess Roberts will now be permanently on hand at the new
building, making sure everything runs smoothly. This is a soft opening with
limited classes and closed on Monday and Friday. The online registration portal
with class titles and detailed info is here, and information about becoming a
teaching artist is here. The city offers a free arts newsletter
that will include Pacific View updates; you can sign up here. Classes
officially started on August 13th.
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| Jess Roberts, Pacific View Art Center staff |
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| Jim Gilliam, current chair of the SD County Commission for Arts and Culture and past art manager of Encinitas with new staffer. |
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| Danielle Susalla Derry, new part time staffer |
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| Encinitas Arts Administrator Collette Murphy |
But I suggest you join the mailing list of the Encinitas Friends of the Arts. This
organization is responsible for publishing the Encinitas arts and culture
events calendar once a week and they will start posting the classes as well. Plus the EFA has arranged a very large grant
to help scholarship students attend classes that might not be able to do so
otherwise. They are working with the Boys and Girls Clubs who who will supply
transportation to the venue.
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| A very large crowd including Naimeh Woodward, Chair, Encinitas Friends of the Arts |
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| Marineke Vandervort, CEO Boys and Girls Club of Northwest San Diego |
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| The mayor of Encinitas and City council accept $10,000 from the Encinitas Friends of the Art for a scholarship fund for Pacific View Art Center. |
Right now there are classes in performing arts, dance,
singing, songwriting, drawing, painting, watercolor, printmaking, sculpture,
writing, and sewing. We will be interested to see over the next year how the
classes expand and meet demands. We hope they will develop and become unique to
the community, offering diversity, cultural enrichment, and healthy
opportunities. The buzz word these days is Art Prescriptions…no need for pharmaceuticals
with nasty side-affects as art works to lower blood pressure, cure loneliness,
rid you of depression and anxiety.
We have some videos to show you what the 8 new rooms and
office look like with some more pictures of those attending since it was a time
to greet old and new friends. The media rooms are particular impressive and
certainly would not have been around in 2003!
Rooms 1 and 2 are for the visual arts:
Say hello to Rosemary KimBal at the end of the video
Ellen Speert and Irene de Watteville appear at the beginning and Lili Noden at the end of this video
Room 3 and 4 are performing arts rooms with wall to wall mirrors.
Rooms 5 and 6 are multimedia rooms
Room 7 and 8 are both mixed use rooms
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| Still intact, of old hopscotch has been preserved from the school! |
The office is begging for art to be put on the walls!
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| My favorite part of the new color scheme is the contrasting complimentary color soffits under the overhang, each one coordinated green with red wall, purple with yellow wall and blue with orange wall. I helped design that! |
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