events@theframemaker.com » San Diego Art News http://theframemaker.com/events art & design community events in San Diego Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:18:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Great Robert Irwin profile in Los Angeles Times http://theframemaker.com/events/great-robert-irwin-profile-in-los-angeles-times/ http://theframemaker.com/events/great-robert-irwin-profile-in-los-angeles-times/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:58:04 +0000 admin http://theframemaker.com/events/?p=425 Great work here by LA Times writer Leah Ollman, click the image to read full article.
 


Robert Irwin at Quint La Jolla in LA Times



]]> http://theframemaker.com/events/great-robert-irwin-profile-in-los-angeles-times/feed/ 0 Art as Authority blog details NEA grant allocations to San Diego art instituions http://theframemaker.com/events/art-as-authority-blog-details-nea-grant-allocations-to-san-diego-art-instituions/ http://theframemaker.com/events/art-as-authority-blog-details-nea-grant-allocations-to-san-diego-art-instituions/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:30:19 +0000 admin http://theframemaker.com/events/?p=330 Art as Authority is a great local art blog. They just posted a thoughtful commentary on the NEA arts funding allocations here in San Diego with a nice level of detail as to what the money is getting spent on.

* La Jolla Music Society La Jolla, CA $17,500 CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support SummerFest, presentations of chamber music and jazz. Under the direction of music director and violinist Cho-Liang Lin and composer-in-residence Christopher Rouse, the festival will include premieres of commissioned works and educational activities.
* Media Arts Center San Diego (aka San Diego Latino Film Festival) San Diego, CA $15,000 CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 17th San Diego Latino Film Festival. The films and videos exhibited are produced by Latinos or are about the Latino experience.
* Old Globe Theatre San Diego, CA $40,000 CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the world-premiere production of Whisper House, a new musical with music and lyrics by Tony Award-winning composer Duncan Sheik, book and lyrics by Kyle Jarrow and directed by Keith Powell. Educational and outreach activities will accompany the production.
* San Diego Asian Film Foundation (aka San Diego Asian Film Festival) San Diego, CA $15,000 CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 11th San Diego Asian Film Festival. Held in the fall, the 10-day event features short films, animated works, documentaries, and narrative feature films.
* San Diego Opera Association San Diego, CA $40,000 CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Verdi’s Nabucco. Activities designed around the production will include a student dress rehearsal for youth from schools in San Diego County and Tijuana, Mexico; pre-performance lectures; and an artists’ roundtable discussion.
* San Diego Repertory Theatre (aka San Diego REP) San Diego, CA $20,000 CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a residency by Latino theater troupe Culture Clash to create new works. Ensemble members Richard Montoya, Herbert Siguenza and Ric Salinas will rehearse and perform a newly revised version of Culture Clash in AmeriCCa, and develop, design, and perform the world premiere of A Weekend with Pablo Picasso.
* Theatre & Arts Foundation of San Diego County (aka La Jolla Playhouse) La Jolla, CA $25,000 CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a fully staged production of Shah Mat. A new play by Naomi Iizuka, the piece will explore the way in which recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have impacted the city of San Diego.

Read the entire commentary by Art as Authority.

]]> http://theframemaker.com/events/art-as-authority-blog-details-nea-grant-allocations-to-san-diego-art-instituions/feed/ 0 Victoria Reed on The Port of San Diego Public Art program http://theframemaker.com/events/victoria-reed-on-the-port-of-san-diego-public-art-program/ http://theframemaker.com/events/victoria-reed-on-the-port-of-san-diego-public-art-program/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:03:53 +0000 admin http://theframemaker.com/events/?p=305 Excerpt from a longer letter posted in the San Diego Union Tribune by Victoria Reed, Chair of the Public Art Committee, City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.

The Port, along with the Centre City Development Corp. and the city of San Diego, has been instrumental in supporting an ambitious art proposal by Pae White for the North Embarcadero waterfront redevelopment. The Port has also commissioned a light-based artwork by Leni Schwendinger for installation on the planned Broadway Pier Cruise Ship Terminal. Considering that White and Schwendinger are highly regarded in their fields — White’s works were in the 2009 Venice Art Biennale and Schwendinger is currently participating in Lightmapping NYC — when White’s and Schwendinger’s proposals are realized, San Diego could have the most dynamic, art-centered waterfront in the country.

Read her entire commentary in support of the Port here.

]]> http://theframemaker.com/events/victoria-reed-on-the-port-of-san-diego-public-art-program/feed/ 0 San Diego arts barely funded by NEA this time around http://theframemaker.com/events/san-diego-arts-barely-funded-by-nea-this-time-around/ http://theframemaker.com/events/san-diego-arts-barely-funded-by-nea-this-time-around/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:51:54 +0000 admin http://theframemaker.com/events/?p=302 Read this article by Helen Gao just out this weekend in the Union-Tribune- San Diego receives the same arts funding as Fresno in this round of NEA funding!
San Diego is California’s second-largest city in population, but not when it comes to bringing home arts funding.

The much-smaller cities of Monterey, Oakland and Santa Clarita squeezed out more federal stimulus dollars for the arts than San Diego.

Artistic powerhouses Los Angeles and San Francisco got 14 and 18 times as much money as San Diego, respectively.

The $787 billion stimulus package signed into law by President Barack Obama in February set aside $50 million nationwide for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Read the entire article on San Diego arts funding here.

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