March 2013
Upcoming Events
Mission Federal ArtWalk
April 27 & 28, 2013
Taste of Little Italy
June 19, 2013
ArtWalk San Diego @NTC Liberty Station
August 24 & 25, 2013
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Help Us Choose the 2013 ArtWalk T-Shirt!
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Our annual "vote for the festival t-shirt" contest is live online until March 8. Choose your favorite art by participating festival artists, and return to the site to vote up to once every 24 hours to support your favorite! |
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Mission Federal ArtWalk 2013
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San Diego's original fine art festival is celebrating its 29th year in 2013. Artists travel from throughout the country and from Mexico to share their talents and their artwork. Plan now to attend this two-day free celebration of both visual and performing art of all kinds. Visitors to the festival have the opportunity to meet more than 300 fine artists, learn about their inspiration, and purchase work directly from these talented artists.
Art Meets Design provides an opportunity to learn how to design your living space around artwork. Designer Stephanie Malcolm of Room by Room, Inc. will create a "virtual home" where you can get inspired by the many ways to bring art into your interior. CALLS FOR ARTISTS
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Introducing: ArtWalk San Diego @NTC Liberty Station
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The event formerly known as ArtWalk on the Bay has a new home, new dates, and a new name! We are delighted to partner with NTC Liberty Station on the 8th annual event. The arts and culture district that has sprung up at this location over the past few years makes it an ideal location for showcasing fine art against the grassy backdrop of Ingram Plaza. The flat, accessible park and ease of set up will be popular with artists. Additional benefits are thousands of FREE parking spaces and a wide selection of restaurants in the neighborhood. 
Late August dates have been requested by many participating artists for this festival and the scheduling works beautifully for artists participating in the Sausalito Festival the following weekend. |
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The Art of Photography Show
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The Art of Photography Show is an international exhibition of contemporary photography taking place October 12 - November 17, 2013 at the San Diego Art Institute, located in Balboa Park. The Prospectus and entry details are available CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
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Mission Federal ArtWalk 2013 Would you like to participate in San Diego's largest annual showcase of visual and performing arts? Sign up to volunteer at the 2013 Mission Federal ArtWalk! We offer about 250 volunteers the opportunity to get involved on event days, this year taking place April 27 & 28, with a few positions during the month of April. |
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COMMUNITY UPDATES
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Make 2013 a Year of Art
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ArtReach teaching artists help young people discover the joy of creating original art while learning standards-based art education skills. Let us tailor a program to your K-6 students — during or after school. Check out our Facebook page to see just some of the amazing work created in ArtReach workshops: |
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The Little Italy Mercato |
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The Little Italy Mercato is the city market for downtown San Diego residents and visitors with more than 150 booths lining Date Street from Kettner Blvd to Front Street offering farm fresh produce, artisan foods and specialty items. Visit the Mercato every Saturday from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM. MANGIA BENE! |
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Friday Night Liberty Open Art Studios & Performances
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Friday Night Liberty is a night of free open studios, galleries, museums with live performances and delicious dining. On Friday, March 1 from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM enjoy new exhibitions at Pulse Gallery and the Women's Museum of California while Casa Valencia presents three new female artists from Baja. Also view new works at Monique Straub Studio/Gallery and Visions Art Museum with their latest acquisition Playing with a Full Deck — a clever "deck of cards" made of quilts. Don't miss an exclusive performance from Malashock Dance and live music at the Recreational Music Center. All this and more at NTC at Liberty Station, 2740 Historic Decatur Rd. San Diego, CA 92016. COMMUNITY ART UPDATES
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William D. Cannon Art Gallery 
The City of Carlsbad’s William D. Cannon Art Gallery will present 100 works of art in its upcoming and highly anticipated “2013 Juried Biennial Exhibition” – the tenth juried exhibition to be held since the gallery opened in 1999. Featuring more than 100 works in all media created by 72 artists who live, work or maintain a studio in San Diego County, the 2013 Biennial display continues through March 9 at the William D. Cannon Art Gallery in the Carlsbad City Library complex, 1775 Dove Lane at El Camino Real. From young, emerging artists to veterans who have had gallery and museum exhibitions, and with works in painting, lithography, photography, assemblage, watercolor, ceramic, bronze, wood and knotted fiber, this exhibition is a snapshot – the state of the art – for San Diego County today. |
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Niki Sands Supporting St. Jude's Hospital
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SPACE san diego to help fight Muscular Dystrophy During ArtWalk SPACE san diego, a local interior design firm and multi-functional furnishings showroom has teamed up with the San Diego chapter of the Muscular Dystrophy Association to fight neuromuscular disease. During ArtWalk weekend (April 27 and 28) and throughout the month of May, SPACE san diego will donate 10% of their furniture sales to MDA. Their showroom is located at 1531 Pacific Highway located in Little Italy at the corner of Beech Street and Pacific Highway (validated parking at adjoining Hampton Inn). Showroom Hours are Friday from 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Saturday & Sunday from 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM and Monday - Thursday by appointment. To schedule an appointment please call 619.309.9202. |
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The La Jolla Athenaeum
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The La Jolla Athenaeum presents On the Road Photography by Ed Ruscha on view through March 23. In 1951, Kerouac wrote On the Road on his typewriter as a continuous 120 foot-long scroll, recording in twenty days his experiences during road trips in the U.S. and Mexico in the late 1940s. With its publication in 1957, Kerouac was acknowledged as the leading voice of the Beat Generation, a group of writers that included Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs. Ruscha created his own limited edition artist's book version of On the Road in 2009, illustrated with photographs that he took, commissioned, or found. He has created an entirely new body of paintings, photographs, and drawings that take their inspiration from passages in Kerouac's novel. A selection of these images, along with the artist's book, is on display in the Joseph Clayes III Gallery while the complete set of Ed Ruscha's artist's books, is displayed in the North Reading Room. |
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Distinction Gallery
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ArtHatch and Distinction Gallery are pleased to present an exciting group exhibition entitled One Plus Six Equals Seven curated by artist Christopher Polentz. This exhibit features the collective art of current emerging artists: Nathan DeYoung, Heather Hogan, Michael Lockwood, Joseph Gerges, Michelle Gerich, Victor Roman, and Christopher Polentz. Highlighting a wide range of original art, this exhibit is a representation of the students of Christopher Polentz who learned his masterful technique of rendering. The opening reception with live music by Nick & Mel is on Saturday, March 9 from 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM with complimentary Stone Brewery beer and wine served to guests 21 years of age or older. The exhibition runs March 9 through April 6. |
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San Diego Visual Arts Network presents P 2 - Palette to Palate |
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A FUNdraiser celebrating the 10th Anniversary of San Diego Visual Arts Network (SDVAN) & Synergy Art Foundation (SAF), P2 – Palette to Palate, taking place on April 27, benefits ongoing programs of SDVAN and SAF. P2 - Palette to Palate is an Eat Your Art Out VIP patron 5-course sit down dinner/wine party and silent small format art auction. |
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California Center for the Arts |
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California Center for the Arts Escondido presents WOW First Wednesdays: On Wednesday, March 6, the Stoney B Blues Band entertains at the Center Theater at 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM. Big Sweet Daddy Peaches is a stately, comical and kind gentleman from Chicago who has travelled the country playing his Blues. Through this character, Stoney B Blues will share with you his extraordinary musical gift, witty tales and life of personal hardships as a Blues Man. |
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Meyer Fine Art
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Meyer Fine Art is honored to exhibit the art of the prolific artist Clay Walker (1924 – 2008). The exhibition, Clay Walker: Prints and the Painter consists of artwork from the late 1940s to pieces created up until the early 2000s. Walker is a master of diverse art media (oil paintings, watercolors, drawings and sculptures), but in printmaking (woodcuts, linocuts, etchings, serigraphs and mixed media) he found his niche in the contemporary art world. The exhibition is available for viewing March 8 through April 27 with an opening reception Friday, March 8, followed by a second reception Friday, April 12, both 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM, in conjunction with Kettner Nights presented by galleries, artists and businesses of the Art and Design District of Little Italy North. |
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San Diego Museum of Art
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The San Diego Museum of Art presents Pacific Horizons: Melanesian Art from the Valerie Franklin Collection on view through January 01, 2015. Featuring objects from the 19th century to the middle of the 20th that are on loan to the Museum from one of the most prestigious private collections in the United States, this exhibition serves as an introduction to the art and culture of one of the Pacific's most dynamic regions. Covering one-third of the earth's surface and touching the shores of five continents, the Pacific Ocean contains thousands of inhabited islands that are commonly divided into several regions based on language, cultural distinctions, and historical connections. As a cultural area, the Pacific is commonly divided into three sub-regions: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. This ongoing exhibition explores the artistic achievements of Melanesia, where art connects people with land, nature spirits, ancestors and each other to create strong and vibrant communities. Pacific Horizons: Melanesian Art from the Valerie Franklin Collection presents a startling variety of visual forms and intellectual models and allows visitors to experience some of the finest art created in Melanesia—an art that remains one of the least understood in the world. |
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Noel-Baza Fine Art presents Marianela de la Hoz
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Noel-Baza Fine Art is pleased to present a solo exhibition featuring the work of Bhavna Mehta, a San Diego paper artist, on display March 6 through April 9. A native of India, Bhavna Mehta makes her home in San Diego and is committed to building a better world. In May 2008 Bhavna's work underwent a breakthrough with a paper cutting class at the Penland School of Crafts with noted artist Beatrice Coron. Since that class, the trajectory of her development as an artist has been dramatic, having focused her work almost entirely on paper cuttings.
Bhavna draws with a knife, cutting paper to tell visual stories. Starting with a single sheet of paper, she cuts away to reveal the image with the intricacy of the connections being essential for the piece to hang together, just as the connections we have with other humans and the natural world make our lives meaningful. |
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Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown
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Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown presents The Very Large Array: San Diego/Tijuana Artists in the MCA Collection. Featuring more than 100 artists and representing five decades of collecting, this expansive group show of Museum acquisitions highlights many of the region's most beloved and accomplished artists. Works presented in the exhibition range from Russell Baldwin's A Study (1959)—the exhibition's earliest work, which entered the collection the year it was made—to Glenna Jennings's photograph She forgot what was important and fastened on the little things (2008). Taken together, works such as these bookend fifty years of collection building, demonstrating the Museum's ongoing commitment to artists living and working in San Diego and Tijuana, as well as those hailing from the region. The exhibition is on view through June 1, 2014 and thematic installations will rotate inside the cube every three to four months. |
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The Mingei International Museum presents Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Art on view through May 12. Bill Traylor is one of the best-known and most highly esteemed artists from the American south. A self-taught artist from Montgomery, Alabama, Traylor's depictions of life in rural and urban Alabama have made him one of the most acclaimed artists of the twentieth century. Beginning when he was in his early eighties, in a prolific decade of art making, Traylor produced more than 1200 drawings in graphite, colored pencil, poster paints and crayon. Many of his works were created on shirt cardboard, cast-off signs and other shaped supports, whose unusual forms often influenced his designs. Traylor used these materials to create geometrically based representations of human and animal figures, often combining them in complex compositions that included abstracted buildings or "constructions." The exhibition features over 60 rarely seen drawings from the two largest public collections of his work, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
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The Museum of Photographic Arts presents Jessica Lange: Unseen on display through May 19. Jessica Lange has maintained a career as a fine art photographer for nearly two decades, alongside her work as an acclaimed actress. As a photographer, Lange documents diverse cultures from regional and international travels. Alternately comforting and disquieting, the artist's striking and unexpected photographs possess a kind of moody mystery that is appropriately cinematic. MOPA is pleased to present the first United States exhibition of Jessica Lange's mid-career retrospective unseen. |
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Oceanside Museum of Art
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The Oceanside Museum of Art presents Flavia Gilmore: Paper, Wood, Metal on display through April 28. In her playful assemblages, Flavia Gilmore creates surprising juxtapositions of utilitarian objects that evoke a poignant look at consumer culture. Primarily working with found material and domestic debris, the work in this exhibition will take a focused look at Gilmore's long and distinguished career in San Diego over the last 20 years. Drawn to objects that carry vestiges of memory evoked by their previous utilitarian life, from scrap metal and wood, machine parts, tools and toys to paper from food products, Gilmore has an uncanny ability, parallel to that of an alchemist, to transform the most unlikely discarded materials into a work of art. Oftentimes Gilmore will paint her finished sculptures, unifying the objects reminiscent of the work of Louise Nevelson. Gilmore prefers metal and wood over plastic items, for their durability and her intrinsic connection to objects that she grew up with in the 50s, 60s and 70s. PERFORMING ARTS UPDATES
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Old Globe |
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The Old Globe presents A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder on stage March 8 through April 14. Former Old Globe Co-Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak returns to direct this world premiere musical of merriment and murder. When Monty Navarro finds out he is ninth in line to inherit a dukedom, he decides to eliminate the other eight heirs standing in his way – all played by one incredible actor. This witty music hall comedy explores how low we'll go to make it to the top.
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Broadway San Diego
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Broadway San Diego presents Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, a rare, personal look inside the life and mind of one of the most feared men ever to wear the heavyweight crown. Directed by Academy Award® nominee Spike Lee, this riveting one-man show goes beyond the headlines, behind the scenes and between the lines to deliver a must-see theatrical knockout. On stage for one night only, Tuesday, March 5, this is for mature audiences only, contains adult language and content. |
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La Jolla Playhouse
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The La Jolla Playhouse presents a special engagement of The Second City's
Laughing Matters Tour, on stage March 20 – 23 only. Legendary sketch comedy theatre, The Second City, returns with their Laughing Matters Tour, featuring some of the best sketches, songs and improvisations from the company's 53-year history. The Second City is truly a Chicago landmark and a national treasure, having launched the careers of Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray and more. Now comes the next generation of the comedy world's best and brightest, delivering an evening of hilarious sketch comedy and Second City's trademark improvisation. Whether it's ripped from the morning headlines or a classic gem from their archives, The Second City is always a laugh out loud hit.
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San Diego Performing Arts League |
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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. |
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Lamb’s Players Theatre Lamb's Players Theatre presents miXtape: A Musical Journey through the 80’s, now in it’s fourth year. Take a seriously wild musical ride back to that most awesome of decades. Reagan was in the White House, Michael Jackson was at the top of the charts, Lycra and legwarmers were the accessories du jour, and a "mix tape" of favorite tunes was the ultimate in self-expression. A lousy economy was about to bounce back like we’d never seen, set to the synthesized beat of 80s Rock. The Cold War was heating up, and with fingers on the nuclear button, the world was sure to end any moment. But for Generation X, life was just beginning. Put on your suspenders, pull out the Members Only jacket, do your hair up with a scrunchy, and "everybody cut footloose" with us in this totally rad musical world premiere. miXtape runs through March 30 at the Horton Grand Theatre in the Gaslamp Quarter. |
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Cygnet Theatre 
Cygnet Theatre presents Assassins, on stage at the Old Town Theatre March 14 through April 28. Bold, original, thought-provoking and alarmingly funny! Assassins lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States. From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman take us on a musical rollercoaster ride that explores the American Dream and our right 'to be happy.' |
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San Diego Repertory Theatre The San Diego Rep presents the west coast premier of The Mountaintop, on stage March 2 through 31 at the Lyceum. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. said "I may not get there with you, but I want you to know that we as a people will get to the Promised Land." King, who lived every day in the face of death, was assassinated on April 4, 1968 while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. This imaginative and soul stirring drama premiered in London in 2009 to great acclaim, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Play. REP audiences will be the first to experience this astonishing play in the intimacy of the Lyceum Space, where all seats are within 25 feet of the stage! |
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ArtWalk Marketplace Partner of the Month: Mona Lisa Italian Foods
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Mona Lisa Italian Foods, a family owned restaurant and deli, is located in the Little Italy area of San Diego. The Italian restaurant offers a full bar, extensive wine list and great service in a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere. The restaurant's menu includes pizza, antipasti, hot and cold sandwiches, pasta and ravioli and house specialties including veal and chicken dishes, lasagna, manicotti, seafood and more. The Italian deli offers a very wide selection of foods, wine and drinks, including Italian cheeses, bread, crackers, desserts, meats and much more. The delicious deli sandwiches are prepared fresh daily. Visit Mona Lisa Italian Foods for a true family dining experience.
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FEEDBACK NOTIFY A FRIEND NOTE TO ARTISTS If you have any questions please contact our office at 619.615.1090 or info@missionfederalartwalk.org 2013 Mission Federal ArtWalk San Diego 2013 ArtWalk San Diego @NTC Liberty Station ArtWalk San Diego e-newsletter designed by highlyanimated.com |
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