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IN THIS EDITION: Plans are well underway for ArtWalk’s fall event, ArtWalk on the Bay. Space is limited at this event so artists are encouraged to apply now. Click here to apply. The spectacular setting of Embarcadero Marina Park North is San Diego’s most ideal location for showcasing art, music and interactive art for children at KidsWalk. The event is unrivalled for its beautiful setting, with yachts floating by in the Bay and a gorgeous grassy tree-lined 8 acre park filled with fine art. You won’t want to miss this outstanding San Diego art event. Mark your calendar for September 12 & 13. ArtWalk on the Bay is sponsored by the Port of San Diego. Check out www.artwalkonthebay.org for registration and information. A Message From ArtWalk Title Sponsor: Mission Federal Credit Union Mission Federal Credit Union is safe, sound and standing by you through these difficult economic times. Whether you’re opening a checking account, buying a home, applying for credit, or planning for retirement, you can count on Mission Federal Credit Union. With 23 branches countywide, Mission Fed offers a full range of savings, loans and investment products. Since 1961, Mission Fed, as a not-for-profit credit union, has driven value right back to their members instead of stockholders. Mission Fed member-owners benefit from solid information, a wide range of options, and personal advice. No matter what your mission, Mission Fed will take time to understand your changing needs and goals and provide financial services to help you fund it. At Mission Federal, your mission is our mission. Mission Fed invites you to visit them online today at www.missionfcu.org or call 800.500.6328 Revisit Mission Federal ArtWalk Click here to view a “music video” of the 2009 festival, featuring "Fool to Fall" by performer Jasmine Commerce. This video is also available on the event home page at www.missionfederalartwalk.org. Thank you to Kristie Heinze, our Art Director, for creating this fun piece. Are you the best undiscovered music artist in San Diego? Submit your original songs about San Diego for your chance to own the spotlight! Sophie Radio 103.7, along with Golden Track Studios and Traa Daniels from P.O.D., are partnering with San Diego Magazine to promote and produce the winners single. The top three finalists will battle it out at the Best of San Diego Party in August. Submission deadline in June 30, 2009. For more information, visit www.sandiegomagazine.com Help ArtReach Earn $1000 for Art in Schools:
Banana Republic employees from University Towne Center and Downtown La Jolla share our passion for keeping visual art in elementary schools. They are the friendly, enthusiastic volunteers you may have met in the ArtReach tent at KidsWalk during Mission Federal ArtWalk 2009 and at ArtWalk on the Bay 2008. These community-oriented folks entered a video to support ArtReach art programs in The Ultimate Happy Hour Global Video Contest presented by Gap, Inc. View the video Reaching Out for Art and ArtReach could win $1000! Any funds received go directly toward art workshops for K-6 students in schools throughout the community. Here’s how to vote: - Visit this website: http://www.volunteeringmakesyouhappy.com Encourage your friends and family to view and click as well! Thank you for supporting ArtReach and thank you to Banana Republic employees for caring about our community! For more information on ArtReach, visit. www.artreachsandiego.org Find your Favorite Artists on the ArtWalk Websites www.missionfederalartwalk.org and www.artwalkonthebay.org feature searchable databases of artists and their work. The addition of this feature on the ArtWalk event web sites helps event attendees find their favorite artists before and long after each of the ArtWalk events. Check it out and see how easy it is to find the art and artists you want to connect with. You can search by medium, artist name or event location. To go directly to the page: visit http://www.missionfederalartwalk.org/artists for the April 2009 event and http://www.artwalkonthebay.org/artists for the September 2008 event. Introducing the WestEnd Gallery at San Diego International Airport Inaugural exhibit features Mission Federal ArtWalk Featured Artists A new gallery space is open to the public in the airport’s Terminal 2 West. WestEnd Gallery will feature rotating exhibits, with the first installation in recognition of Mission Federal ArtWalk’s 25th anniversary. Artists of the Artes de Mexico group have their work on display in this new gallery through September. The gallery is located upstairs in Terminal 2 at the far west end of the building…you can visit it without passing security screening. We invite you to enjoy this fantastic new space. City of San Diego Call to Artists The City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture seeks an artist or artist team to create permanent, documentary public artwork(s) such as drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, videos or multi-media artworks, which record the unique nature of City Heights and engender community. Artists must be authorized to work in the U.S. to apply. For a full RFQ please visit http://www.sandiego.gov/arts-culture/pdf/rfq.pdf. The application deadline is July 17. All questions about this opportunity should be directed to Nigel Brookes at nbrookes@sandiego.gov Call For Artists/Request For Qualifications: New Acute Care Pavilion Artwork at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego The Art Advisory Committee at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego is seeking to commission artists for a variety of artwork for their New Acute Care Pavilion project in San Diego. The committee is soliciting responses from qualified San Diego, Riverside and Imperial County artists who may be interested in providing inspirational, healing and refreshing images in a wide variety of mediums. This includes 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional artwork, including original art, limited edition prints, giclee prints, mixed media art, mosaics, ceramics, graphic images, fabric art, collages, small sculpture of any medium, ceramic tile murals, environmental murals and photography. Both existing and commissioned artwork will be considered. The themes for the building are sea, beach, sky, and space. Artwork that may include elements of the culture and history and geography of the community is also encouraged. For more information and a RFQ, contact Pamela Nickell, Arts Programs Coordinator, Aesthetics, Inc. at nickell@aesthetics.net Open Call for Exhibits: The Cultural Exhibits Program is a component of the San Diego International Airport Art Program. Established in 1999, this program is free and available to local, regional, and international cultural organizations, individual artists and collectors who have art and artifacts of public interest with artistic merit, cultural significance or educational value. The purpose of this program is to showcase the diversity of art and culture in the San Diego Region and to provide a venue for international exhibitions. This Open Call for Exhibits is open to organizations, groups and individuals interested in submitting for the Cultural Exhibits Program. All media may be proposed for review. There is no deadline. Submissions are reviewed by an Exhibits Review Panel annually or semi-annually as needed. Each approved proposal is assigned an exhibit start date based on the yearly exhibition calendar. The duration of exhibits is up to six (6) months depending on the nature of the exhibit and the selected site. Exhibits can be scheduled up to three years in advance. For more information, please see the attached document or visit http://www.san.org/airport/arts_at_the_airport/index.asp. Synthesis in Escondido Artist Jim Respess, a member of the Pacific Beach Art Group, is curating an exhibit of fine art photography and digital works entitled Synthesis: Art & Science at the Escondido Municipal Gallery, located at 262 E. Grand Ave from June 11 to July 3 with an artist’s reception on June 13 from 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM. For more information, visit www.escondidoarts.org Artist Brenda York received three awards at The North Park Festival of the Arts on May 17: Best in Show, Best Painting and People's Choice Award. For more information, visit www.brendayork.com
Julie Ricksecker at Center for Contemporary Printmaking Burnt Pine, an etching by artist Julianne Ricksecker, was accepted in the 7th International Miniature Print Biennial at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking. The exhibit runs through August 15th at 299 West Avenue, Norwalk Connecticut. For more information, visit www.artbyjulianne.com Artist Jeni Bate is having a solo show of new work in the City of Whittier. The show runs June 15th - July 17th at the Parnell Park Lobby, 15390 Lambert (Lambert and Scott) behind the Whittier Mall. Lobby hours are 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Monday through Friday. For more information and to preview her work, visit www.jenibate.com under the button 'Solo Show'. Duke Windsor showing in Laguna Beach Artist Duke Windsor has signed an exclusive deal with Sue Greenwood Fine Arts in Laguna Beach and this month will be part of an introductory group show at the gallery. For more information, contact Duke at windsorfinearts@cox.net New Classes at Red Door Studio Artist Elizabeth Washburn’s Red Door Studios offers a variety of art classes through the summer. Classes range from Painting Techniques/Collage to Abstract, Mixed Media Drawing and Painting with Color and Light. For more information, contact ewash777@cox.net or call 619.297.6474. Every Saturday, year-round, 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM the Little Italy Mercato is the city market for downtown San Diego residents and visitors with more than 70 booths lining Date Street from Kettner to Union offering farm fresh produce, artisan foods and specialty items. Select from fruits and vegetables, herbs, plants and flowers, eggs, fresh fish and meats, assorted breads and pastas, cheeses and more. While you’re shopping, enjoy live music at the Mercato. At the top of the market from State Street to Union, check out the MercARTo for crafts and specialty gifts. For more information, visit www.littleitalymercato.com Due to overwhelming response, Perry L. Meyer Fine Art is pleased to extend Clay Walker: a Retrospective an exhibition consisting primarily of prints complimented by oil paintings, watercolors, drawings and sculptures through June 27. Perry L. Meyer Fine Art is located at 2400 Kettner Blvd, Ste 104. For more information, visit www.plmeyerfineart.com Distinction Gallery Celebrates 5 Years Appalachian Spring Re-imagined and Performed by CoSA Dancers To learn more about the CoSA program, please call 619.522.4050, or visit www.cosafoundation.org Noel-Baza Fine Art Noel-Baza Fine Art is pleased to present Becky Cohen: The Garden. Becky Cohen is best known for the photographs she made for Robert Irwin Getty Garden, published by The J. Paul Getty Museum, which earned her rave reviews in a wide range of publications. Independently, both The Times of London, and The Los Angeles Times Book Review called her photography for Robert Irwin Getty Garden, “exquisite”. Shot over four years, this body of work also provided images for a second book, The Plants in The Getty’s Central Garden, which is a plant encyclopedia in handbook form. On display now until June 18, Noel-Baza Fine Art is located at 2165 India St. For more information, visit www.noel-bazafineart.com San Diego Museum of Art For more information on SDMA, visit www.sdmart.org or call 619.232.7931 Mingei International Museum For more information, visit www.mingei.org San Diego Visual Arts Network For more information, visit www.sdvisualarts.net Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego – presents an evening with Shirin Neshat: Women Without Men on Thursday, June 18 at 7:00 PM. Celebrated Iranian-American visual artist/filmmaker Shirin Neshat views her first feature-length film/work in progress, Women Without Men. Set in Tehran in 1953, Neshat’s screen adaptation of exiled Iranian writer Shahrnush Parsipur’s magic realist novel of the same name chronicles the experiences of five women when Iran’s democratically elected government was overthrown by the CIA-supported shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. In addition to screening Women Without Men, MCASD also will screen a small selection of Neshat’s short films, including The Last Word (2003). Neshat will be present and will participate in a Q&A session. For more information, visit www.mcasd.org The Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) in Balboa Park is pleased to present Ansel Adams: A Life’s Work. The exhibition includes over 80 photographs by the 20th Century master, and celebrates Adams as an artist and conservationist. A Life's Work is on view through October 4, and features an overview of Adam's work from his early years in the Sierra Nevada's and Yosemite Valley to his work in the Japanese Internment Camp at Manzanar, as well as his well-known masterpieces. For more information, visit www.mopa.org San Diego Art Institute For more information and reservations, please call 619.236.0011 or visit www.sandiego-art.org The Old Globe For more information, visit www.theoldglobe.org or call 619.23.GLOBE (619.234.5623) San Diego Performing Arts League For more information, and to buy tickets, visit www.sandiegoperforms.com Art Around Adams The 6th annual Art Around Adams will be a two-part creative arts celebration happening all day Saturday, June 6th in Normal Heights. Honoring AAA (Art Around Adams) tradition, the first part is a free art walk merging local artists with the over 65 galleries, boutiques, and other establishments on The Avenue. A trolley will escort guests along the route. The second part is the addition of a Coachella-style festival, happening in the 7,500-person capacity Adams Recreation Center. The AAA Festival will feature three stages spotlighting the best in San Diego performance, from music to stand-up comedy to blacklight theatre. The Festival is a fundraiser to maintain the activity programs at the Adams Recreation Center. For more information, visit www.artaroundadams.org San Diego Art Department One-Day Workshops The San Diego Art Department offers several one-day workshops throughout the month from watercolor to stained glass, abstract painting to faux finish. Visit their website and click on the calendar of events for a full listing of classes and times. For more information, visit www.sandiegoartdepartment.com Viva-city I miss the early morning sun streaming through my window, warming my face, and gently prodding me to open my eyes. Instead, I wake to a sky colored white. Quickly, I duck beneath the covers hoping when I peek out I’ll find the morning greeting me in a sunnier disposition. But alas, it’s still gloomy. Just before noon, the wind stirs and the light filters ever so slightly down upon the city. As if by coincidence, as the light grows brighter, life seems to come alive. Laughter emerges from the neighborhood coffee shop, birds–each with their own special melody–begin to sing, and soccer players cheer as a teammate makes a goal. As softly as a kitten walks, slowly without thought, the dreaded vapor mass blankets us once more. Another pictorial sunset lost. Does the May gray that gives way to June gloom dampen the sounds of the city? Or, is it us who move more quietly when the sun is hidden behind leaden skies? I muse…Do the gray days put us in a daze? Fortunately, it only lasts two months.Viva-city fostering a vibrant, welcoming community; where residents greet neighbors as friends! Visit www.viva-city.info. Marketplace Partner of the Month: Be Beauty Located in the charming yellow house at the Fir Street cottages in Little Italy, Be Beauty is the first of its kind offering beauty services in a social open setting. You are guaranteed to enjoy quality services and leave feeling and looking beautiful. Be Beauty Hours: FEEDBACK NOTIFY A FRIEND NOTE TO ARTISTS If you have any questions please contact our office at 619.615.1090 or info@missionfederalartwalk.org
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Brenda York wins Best in Show
Eat, Shop and Enjoy at Little Italy Mercato
KidsWalk participant Coronado School of the Arts (CoSA) dancers celebrate spring’s renewal, growth, and blossoming in CoSA’s final production of the year – Regeneration. Aaron Copland¹s Appalachian Spring is re-imagined and presented by Coronado Dance Company, joined by San Diego Symphony members and CoSA musicians. This limited engagement includes just three performances: June 4 and 5 at 7:00 PM and June 6 at 2:00 PM at Coronado High School Performing Arts Center, 650 D Avenue. Tickets are available online at 
The San Diego Museum of Art presents Oceanic Art: A Celebration of Form featuring 97 three-dimensional works, primarily from Melanesia and Polynesia, but the exhibition also includes objects from Micronesia and Taiwan. The exhibition includes a variety of three-dimensional objects, including sculptures, traditional adornments, weapons, and objects used in everyday life. Many of these are encoded with cultural and social meanings, some of which still function within certain Oceanic cultures today. Oceanic Art highlights an exceptional gathering of diverse works, including a rare life-size sculpture from Nuku‘oro in the Caroline Islands (Micronesia), elaborate hand-carved sculptures, exquisite architectural elements, and several striking figures from New Ireland, Admiralty and Manus Islands, and a rare Easter Island (Rapa Nui) carved figure is also on view. Oceanic Art is on display through January 3, 2010. 
SDVAN is pleased to announce the emerging artist recipients for the 2009 season of the SD Art Prize. This year’s recipient is Tom Driscoll. The announcement was made at the opening reception at the 
The San Diego Art Institute: Museum of the Living Artist is proud to present a show for Featured Artists Michele Guieu and Dennis VanderVlist, who were awarded “Outstanding Visual Artists” of the region. The show runs June 5 to July 12 with a Special Artist Reception on Friday, June 12 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. The San Diego Art Institute is located in Balboa Park, House of Charm at 439 El Prado. 
The Old Globe’s acclaimed “Classics Up Close” series continues with The Price, a stunning and moving drama by one of our greatest American playwrights, Arthur Miller (All My Sons, Death of a Salesman). A protective wife watches as her husband, a policeman nearing retirement, and his brother, a successful brain surgeon, face the truth about themselves when they meet to sell their late father’s possessions. Surrounded by the remnants of their childhood and goaded by an eccentric antiques dealer, each man is forced to examine the life he has chosen. To survive in a family battered by loss and misfortune, who has paid the greater price? The Price plays through June 14. 
The San Diego Performing Arts League is a not-for-profit umbrella organization serving more than 150 theatre, music, and dance companies and their audiences throughout San Diego County. The League develops cost-effective, collaborative programs that bring new audiences to the arts and strengthen San Diego's performing arts with new sources of earned income and management support. 
