A good painting to me has always been like a friend.
It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. 
~ Hedy Lamarr

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7th Annual ArtWalk on the Bay Returns in September
September 22 & 23, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM • Hilton San Diego Bayfront Park

We have a handful of spaces available for ArtWalk on the Bay, San Diego's premier Fall Art Festival at the beautiful San Diego Bayfront. This event's grassy bayfront setting is an extraordinary venue for showing your fine art to huge crowds of art lovers that the festival attracts annually. With plenty of parking options available the event is both accessible and beautiful.

Submit your online application now or download a PDF application.

Read what participating artists think about ArtWalk on the Bay: http://www.artwalkonthebay.org/testimonials.htm

ArtWalk on the Bay is a partner and co-founder of Arts Month which takes place each September to shine a spotlight on San Diego's rich cultural offerings. ArtWalk on the Bay artists also benefit from an aggressive publicity and marketing program that draws huge crowds to the Bayfront.


For more information visit www.artwalkonthebay.org

Mission Federal ArtWalk 2013
April 27 & 28, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM • Little Italy, Downtown San Diego

San Diego's original fine art festival is celebrating its 29th year in 2013 and we are now accepting applications from fine artists.

The two-day juried show attracts more than 100,000 attendees each year to the hip and historic Little Italy district in San Diego's downtown. The outdoor urban setting on the streets of Little Italy gives this event a unique flavor. In addition to fine art from artists across the country and Mexico, the festival features more than 30 musical performing groups and a park filled with interactive art for children at KidsWalk.

Mission Federal ArtWalk attracts tremendous publicity including print, online and broadcast media. Beyond the 2-day festival, the web site, www.missionfederalartwalk.org, serves as a searchable year-round resource that helps buyers connect with their favorite artists long after the event. This is one event you will want to add to your annual calendar.

Artists who create and sell original fine art are invited to apply. For more information and to apply visit www.missionfederalartwalk.org

ArtWalk on the Bay 2012

Would you like to participate in this bayside showcase of visual and performing arts? Sign up to volunteer for ArtWalk on the Bay 2012!  We offer over 100 volunteers the opportunity to participate in a fun, artsy and rewarding community event on both event days, September 22 & 23, at the waterfront park at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel.

Volunteer positions available include postcard and poster distribution (mid-August), event setup (Thursday afternoon, Friday all day, Saturday and Sunday morning), event strike (Saturday and Sunday evening), greeting and assisting attendees, conducting surveys, helping with deliveries, and traffic control.

As an ArtWalk on the Bay volunteer you receive our official 2012 ArtWalk on the Bay T-shirt, and have the chance to be part of a great event!

For more information, and to request a registration form, please email Carmen at carmen2450@aol.com. Minimum age to volunteer is 16 years.

ArtReach

ArtReach proudly announces our fundraising unGala! At the unGala, you'll have an opportunity to support art education in schools through attending the unEvent! Help us take visual art programming into elementary schools county-wide.

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Learn more about ArtReach: www.artreachsandiego.org

The Little Italy Mercato

The Little Italy Mercato is the city market for downtown San Diego residents and visitors alike. For the summer, the Mercato announces extended shopping hours from 8:00am to 2:00pm.

Every Saturday in Little Italy the Mercato has more than 100 booths lining Date Street from Kettner Blvd. to Front offering farm fresh produce, artisan foods and specialty items. MANGIA BENE!

For more information, visit www.littleitalymercato.com

Friday Night Liberty Open Art Studios & Performances

Friday Night Liberty is a monthly first-Friday evening of free open artist studios, galleries and performances throughout NTC Arts & Cultural District at Liberty Station. August 3 features the opening of Casa Valencia Baja Galleria featuring artists from Tijuana and Rosarito, and Ballast Point Gallery opening with watercolors by Chuck McPherson.

Friday Night Liberty is from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM at the NTC Promenade, located at 2640 Historic Decatur Road, SD, 92106.

For more information, visit www.ntcpromenade.com/events or call 619.573.9260

New Children's Museum

The New Children's Museum presents Trash: The Gala, their 5th annual benefit gala on Saturday August 18 from 6:00 PM – 12:00 AM at The New Children's Museum. Enjoy decadent cuisine, festive entertainment and an opportunity to sport your finest ecocouture — an inspiring night of unlimited possibilities. Dare to wear...trash!

For more information and tickets, visit thinkplaycreate.org/gala

Michelle Gonzalez at Del Mar Race Track

Artist Michelle Gonzalez is proud to announce she is a featured artist at the Del Mar Race Track and will be displaying her works August 8 – 12 from 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM each day.

For more information contact Michelle at michelledesigns2003@yahoo.com

McNabb Martin Contemporary Art

McNabb Martin Contemporary Art, located in Little Italy, presents Summer Hues, featuring the art of James Shilaimon as well as 12 other local and emerging artists. Summer Hues runs through Friday, September 14.

For more information visit www.mcnabbmartincontemporaryart.com or call 619.546.5888

Nelson De La Nuez presents Pop Land

Artist Nelson De La Nuez is showing his new collection Pop Land at the Legends Gallery on Prospect in La Jolla beginning August 11 with an artist's reception that evening from 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM. Pop Land runs through Friday, August 31.

For more information visit www.kingofpopart.com

San Diego State University Downtown Gallery

San Diego State University presents The Art of Jim Skalman, on display August 23 through February 18, 2013. Inspired by the landscape of the West and the architecture of mid-century modernism, Jim Skalman will merge the two in a sculptural installation that will fill most of SDSU's Downtown Gallery. Skalman will also be working in response to the architectural space of the Gallery, the resulting work will be a site-specific installation that includes sound. Visitors can expect to visit and watch the artist as he creates his installation until mid-September.

For more information visit downtowngallery.sdsu.edu/index.php/gallery/upcoming

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library

The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library features Flicks on the Bricks, an outdoor film and wine series each Thursday night during the month of August. Returning for its 6th year, guests are invited to enjoy a balmy summer night and screening of a classic film including Some Like It Hot, Under the Tuscan Sun, Murder on the Orient Express and Sabrina.

For event schedule, ticket pricing and information call 858.454.5872 or visit www.ljathenaeum.org/specialevents.html

San Diego Visual Arts Network

SDVAN is delighted to announce the SD Art Prize 2012 emerging artist recipients. The established artist Arline Fisch has chosen Vince Robles and Jeffery Laudenslager has chosen Deanne Sabeck. These four artists will show together at booth #C19 during the Art San Diego Contemporary Art Fair, September 6-9, and again at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library from March 30-May 4, 2013.

For more information visit www.sdvisualarts.net

ArtHatch

Distinction Gallery and ArtHatch present Immortalized: Now And Then on display August 10 through September 1. This 2nd annual art exhibit and auction is devoted to hot rods and customs of distinction and features some of the most prominent car artists to date including Doug Hoch, Big Toe, Sara Ray, Squindo, Chris Froggert, and more. All artworks will be auctioned off starting at only $100 and the auction will last through the month ending on September 1st.  In conjunction, there will be an incredible group of cars lined up and parked in front of the gallery.  The opening reception is on Friday, August 10 from 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM highlighted with pin up girls from Cuties for a Cause passing out goodies, Stone beer, catered food by Vinz Wine Bar, and live music by Gino and The Lone Gunmen.  Cost is $15 per person for the event, with proceeds to benefit Palomar College scholarships, Cruisin Grand, and ArtHatch.

For more information, visit www.arthatch.org

Meyer Fine Art

Meyer Fine Art presents a solo exhibition of Andres Nagel: Allusions on Paper, featuring etchings and mixed media. Andres Nagel, a prominent Spanish artist, was born in San Sebastian, the Basque region of Spain on August 15, 1947 and is essentially self-taught in the fine arts. This exhibition, on display through August 24, consists of 21 pieces, created in 1988-1989; 7 black and white etchings/aquatints and 14 mixed media pieces, collage over etching. The images are based on public monuments. Nagel first renders the image as an etching and aquatint then alters each print with collage, producing a series of mixed media pieces. There is a reception reception Friday, August 10 from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM in conjunction with Kettner Nights presented by galleries and artists of the Art and Design District of Little Italy North.

For more information, visit www.plmeyerfineart.com

Alexander Salazar Fine Art

Alexander Salazar Fine Art presents the exhibition Celebrity Skin at the White Box Contemporary Gallery August 1 – 25 with an opening reception on Saturday, August 4 from 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM. This exhibition takes its title from a song by the same name authored by the rock band Hole. Metaphorically written in the first person and alluding to the affected, unapologetic and ultimately redemptive life of its singer, its self-reflexivity is loaded with subtext about the vacuity of the music and Hollywood movie industries and their coteries of deal-making agents, paparazzi, cosmetic surgeons, hangers-on, and general star-struck stargazers. The exhibition uses these subtexts as foil to elaborate a new kind of iconoclasm. The international exhibition of known and emerging artists articulate diverse subject matter within the exhibition's curatorial framework via painting, sculpture, works- on-paper, photography, installation, video, and performance. The White Box Contemporary Gallery is located at 1040 Seventh Ave in downtown San Diego.

For more information, visit www.salazarcontemporaryartexhibits.com

San Diego Museum of Art

The San Diego Museum of Art is proud to present The Invention of Glory Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries through September 9. The Pastrana Tapestries are among the finest surviving Gothic tapestries and features the recently restored set of four monumental tapestries that commemorate the deeds of Afonso V, King of Portugal. Woven in the late 1400s, these tapestries, each measuring 12 by 36 feet, depict Afonso V's conquest in 1471 of the Moroccan cities of Asilah and Tangier, located near the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. They are among the rarest and earliest examples of tapestries created to celebrate what were then contemporary events, instead of allegorical or religious subjects. Exquisitely rendered in wool and silk threads by Flemish weavers in Tournai, Belgium, the tapestries teem with vivid and colorful images of knights, ships, and military paraphernalia set against a backdrop of maritime and urban landscapes.

For more information, visit www.sdmart.org or call 619.232.7931

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown presents Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves through December 1 at MCASD Downtown, Jacobs Building. British artist Isaac Julien is acclaimed for his arresting films as well as his dynamic gallery installations. Ten Thousand Waves, his most ambitious project to date, poetically weaves together stories linking China's ancient past and present. This nine-screen video installation explores the movement of people across countries and continents and meditates on unfinished journeys. The film's original musical score is by fellow east Londoner Jah Wobble and the Chinese Dub Orchestra and Maria de Alvear.

For more information, visit www.mcasd.org

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla presents Santa Ana Condition: John Valadez through September 2. John Valadez is widely considered the most significant artist to have developed a realist pictorial language recording the Chicano experience in Los Angeles during the '70s, '80s, and '90s. His work has come to define the iconography of Chicano identity of the period, situating it within the changing dynamics of the city rather than nostalgically attempting to reconstruct a mythical and distant past. His style is derived from street photography as he records the life of his community and of other inhabitants of downtown Los Angeles. Valadez turned the ordinary snapshot into a source for his portrayal of a large, diverse cast of urban inhabitants drawn from his everyday life. Born in Los Angeles in 1951, Valadez began as a muralist, in which he presented themes of invisible borders and histories binding together Spanish, Mexican and American culture.

For more information, visit www.mcasd.org

Mingei International Museum

The Mingei International Museum presents Hats & Headdresses: Selections from the Permanent Collection on display through September 9. Celebrating the breadth and depth of Mingei In­ternational's permanent collection, this exhibition features hats and headdresses from cultures and countries around the world. Simple, straw peasant hats from Southeast Asia are displayed alongside colorful South American felted hats and beaded African headgear.

For more information, visit www.mingei.org

Museum of Photographic Arts

The Museum of Photographic Arts presents Three Story House through September 30. Drawn from MOPA's photography collection of more than 7000 images, Three Story House traces how photographers have captured the familiarity of the domestic environment to tell stories of how we live and where we live, as well as transforming it into a creative space to make art. With the inception of photography in 1839, photographers began to explore the importance of domesticity in our everyday lives, offering insight into the home as a nucleus for daily growth and renewal. 

For more information, visit www.mopa.org

Oceanside Museum of Art

The Oceanside Museum of Art presents Lee Silton: Evolution on display through August 12 at the Groves Gallery. Juxtaposing organic shapes to create a lyrical sense of design, Lee Silton's three-dimensional wooden wall sculptures have an intriguing sense of motion while exploring universal themes of encapsulation, isolationism and escapism. Her largely abstract work is expertly crafted through the layering of wooded panels painted in a monochrome or polychrome scheme. This exhibition traces the trajectory of the artist's career over the past ten years, focusing on a collection of pieces that show her evolution of style from a more figurative approach to a stronger abstract sensibility.

For more information, call 760.435.3721 or visit www.oma-online.org.

Old Globe

The Old Globe presents one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies about flirtation, friendship and mistaken identity. As You Like It is a lighthearted look at the fickle and passionate nature of love. Will wit and merriment overcome jealousy and deception? How will true love ever find its way, lost in the delightful madness of the forest? As You Like It can be seen on the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre stage through September 30.

For more information, visit www.theoldglobe.org

Broadway San Diego

Broadway San Diego presents La Cage Aux Folles, on stage August 7 – 12. La Cage tells the story of Georges, the owner of a glitzy nightclub in lovely Saint-Tropez, and his partner Albin, who moonlights as the glamorous chanteuse Zaza. When Georges' son brings his fiancée's conservative parents home to meet the flashy pair, the bonds of family are put to the test as the feather boas fly! La Cage Aux Folles is a tuneful and touching tale of one family's struggle to stay together... stay fabulous... and above all else, stay true to them selves.

For ticket and performance information visit www.broadwaysd.com

San Diego Performing Arts League

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.

For more information, and to buy tickets, visit www.sdartstix.com

La Jolla Playhouse

The La Jolla Playhouse presents a re-imagined classic, An Iliad, on stage August 11 through September 9. Based on Homer's The Iliad, this production spins the familiar tale of gods and goddesses, undying love and endless battles told through an original and immediate voice. In a tour-de-force performance by Henry Woronicz, you're brought to the front lines of every war in history, reliving humanity's unshakeable attraction to violence, destruction and chaos. Has anything really changed since the Trojan War?

For information and tickets, visit www.lajollaplayhouse.org

Lamb’s Players Theatre

Lamb’s Players Theatre presents See How They Run playing August 10 through September 23 at the Lamb's Players Theatre in Coronado. See How They Run is Philip King's hilarious caper set during war-time Britain and filled with extraordinary characters, mistaken identities and unexpected visitors and is one of the funniest pieces of theatre of the 20th Century. 

For more information, visit www.lambsplayers.org

Cygnet Theatre

Cygnet Theatre in Old Town presents Man of La Mancha on stage through August 26. One of the best loved musicals of a generation, the moving retelling of the classic story of Don Quixote celebrates the triumph of the human spirit. Imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition, Cervantes reenacts the story of Don Quixote of La Mancha to win back a package of papers his fellow prisoners stole. The story of a knight who lives in a world of madness, his love and his chivalry enchants, Man of La Mancha features the musical classic The Impossible Dream. Man of La Mancha is the winner of five Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Composer and Lyricist.

For more information, visit www.cygnettheatre.com

San Diego Repertory Theatre

San Diego REP is proud to open its 37th season with a brand new production of the most significant work of Latino drama in American theatre, Zoot Suit. Playwright Luis Valdez is America's greatest Latino playwright and Zoot Suit is his masterpiece – a muscular mix of historical fact and agitprop fiction. Featuring a cast of 33 actors/singer/dancers and a live orchestra playing hot Latin Jazz form the 1940's, Zoot Suit is a not-to-be-missed classic filled with swagger and swing and is on stage through August 12.

For ticket and performance information visit www.sdrep.org

ArtWalk Marketplace Partner of the Month:
Puerto La Boca Argentinean Steakhouse

Located in Little Italy on the corner of India and Hawthorne, Puerto La Boca brings the true spirit of Argentina to San Diego. Enjoy world famous Argentinean steaks as well as an extensive wine list featuring the best from Argentina's famous vintners. Puerto La Boca is open for both lunch and dinner and offers a great atmosphere and attentive service.

Hours:
Monday – Thursday: 11:30 AM – 10:00 PM
Friday – Saturday: 11:30 AM – 11:00 PM
Sunday: 1:00 PM – 8:30 PM

2060 India Street
San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: 619.234.4900
Web: www.puertolaboca.com

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2012 ArtWalk on the Bay
Waterfront Park at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront
September 22 & 23, 2012
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
www.artwalkonthebay.org

2013 Mission Federal ArtWalk San Diego
Downtown, Little Italy – April 27 & 28, 2013
11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
www.missionfederalartwalk.org

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