For more information, contact Patricia Frischer at 760-943-0148 or visit the San Diego Visual Arts Network website here.

SAQA SATURDAY

Sat, Jan 30th: Get-Together to meet your fellow SAQA members and discuss what you’d like from SAQA in San Diego. Member Gillian Moss has graciously agreed to host us in her home in La Jolla on January 30, 1-4pm. Jane LaFazio will send reminders as it gets closer, and ask you to RSVP and give directions. Jane@plainjanestudio.com

QUILT VISIONS SLATE OF EXHIBITS

Nov 14th – Jan 17, 2010; Interpretations 2009: Art Quilts by Quilt Visions Members; Many of the artists are members of SAQA; 2825 Dewey Rd #100, San Diego, CA 92106; Hours: Tues-Sun 10am-4pm; Opening Reception is Sat, Nov 14th from 5-7pm. 37 pieces in the collection. Check it out in person and online here.

Dear Friends,

Lux Art Institute commissioned artist Adam Belt and myself to design a store for them, and we would like to invite you to the opening this coming Friday, November 27.

We have named the store SPECIMEN and have turned Lux’s library into a curio shop, full of bits of science, objects of nature, and artistic whatnots. It is geared for children, grandparents, and everyone in between.

We realize that this is a busy weekend with the Thanksgiving holiday and that this is also a last minute invite, but if you are in town, we would love to see you. The hours are between 1:00 and 5:00 p.m. Below is a link for Lux.

I hope you have a great Thanksgiving.

Best,
Mark Quint

SPECIMEN at Lux Art Institute

Visit them online at luxartinstitute.org

A few weeks ago, when San Diego was on the national television stage during a Sunday night football game on ABC, there appeared the customary footage that the broadcast devotes to the home team’s town. And among the few sights that encapsulated San Diego was a giant two-figure gewgaw by J. Seward Johnson along the downtown waterfront, which was supposed to have left town about a year-and-a-half ago.

The implication for each week’s game, with this quick take on a city, is that you’re getting a snapshot of a metropolis, an emblem of its personality. And what a scary thought to think that this embodied San Diego.

Be sure to read the rest of this thorough (and illustrated) critique of the Port of San Diego public art program

Scott White Contemporary Art from San Diego will be exhibiting a wide range of important works ranging from early mid-century modern paintings to important contemporary pieces such as the 1944 oil on canvas Portrait des Dora Maar by Pablo Picasso and the 1944-45 oil on canvas Les Quatre Acrobats by Fernand Leger.

Read the complete list of artists and galleries represented at Art Miami 2009 on the Premier Guide Miami website.

Christine Forester, Member, President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

Ms. Forester – an architect specializing in hospital architecture – switched careers in the 1980s to head Christine Forester Catalyst, a business, marketing and branding company. She served on the Board of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Board of the Museum of Photographic Arts; the Advisory Panel for the San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture’s Allocations Programs; and, currently, Scripps Institute of Oceanography’s Advisory Council.

See the rest if the newly minted member’s of the committee in the original article by Blair Kamin.

Balboa Park is the place to be this Halloween for safe, family-friendly adventures as 15 museums open their doors free to children as part of a park-wide Family Day on Saturday, October 31. Kids 17 and under will be admitted free of charge with a paid adult admission, and together families can enjoy a rich variety of hands-on activities, music, performances, and special programs, all free with museum admission. Adults can also take advantage of the new Stay-for-the-Day Pass, a one-day excursion pass allowing one adult admission to four park museums for one low price of $29.

For more specific info, please visit the outstanding Balboa Park website’s event page.