More from Mark Quint: SPECIMEN at Lux with Adam Belt

TFM friend and client Mark Quint of Quint Contemporary Art posted this invite to the opening of SPECIMEN, his commissioned “store” project opening this afternoon November 27, 2009 at Lux Art Institute in Encintas:

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

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Kelsey Brookes now at Mark Quint Contemporary Art La Jolla

Kelsey Brookes at Mark Quint Contemporary Art

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Victoria Reed on The Port of San Diego Public Art program

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.

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San Diego arts barely funded by NEA this time around

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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Bike Art auction raises $14k for kids in San Diego

TFM just heard about this event hosted last weekend in San Diego from BikeRadar (yes, a seemingly unrelated source). Check out what this San Diego non-profit got done on one evening, though, even in tough economic time.

The 2009 Bike Art Spectacular raised more than US$14,000 for the San Diego, California-based non-profit Kimberlee’s Bikes for Kids this past Saturday, raising funds to distribute free bicycles, helmets and locks to underprivileged 1st – 3rd graders.

“Being the first year we had no idea what to expect,” Dan Gindling, president of Kimberlee’s Bikes for Kids, told BikeRadar Tuesday. “We definitely had exceptional art and a few exceptional art lovers….

The most expensive piece, “Tour de France”, a 6’ x 3’ hand-painted aluminium wall sculpture by Israeli artist Dave Gerstein, was sold to a New York collector for US$6,600. The collector also bought the gallery-framed Leroy Neiman “Indoor Cycling” limited edition print for US$2,575.”

LeRoy Nieman donation to Kinberlee's Bikes for Kids

Even more noteworthy after the fact of the event, Dan Gindling, president of Kimberlee’s Bikes for Kids, has established an eBay store so that that art & children’s patrons can browse, bid and buy more art online in support of their cause.

Please visit Kimberlee’s online art auction here.

You can read the rest of BikeRadar’s write up of the event here.

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