Palomar Art Sale!
Palomar Arts Media Lab
Category: Art
San Diego Museums are half price in February!
Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers Documentary Film
If you have access to HBOmax why not watch the 30 min documentary called Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers. The film explores how 3 blind photographers, Pete Eckert, Bruce Hall, and Henry Butler create their work and explores questions such as can vision succeed where eyesight fails? Can a blind person make meaningful photographs? How can the creator appreciate his own work?
Tim Murdoch show at SWC Gallery
You may know Tim as Palomar College staff from the 3D area of the art dept. Tim has a show titled Edges of Things running from April 4 -April 28 at the Southwestern College Art Gallery.
There is an artist reception Sat. April 23 4-6 pm.
The Gallery is located at:
900 Otay Lakes Road
Building 88 Rm 101
Chula Vista CA 91910
11 Contemporary Ceramics Artists
The My Modern Met website released an article featuring 11 contemporary ceramics artists. If you are interested in contemporary ceramics art you may want to explore some of the artists featured in the article.
The artists include Christopher David White whose work looks like wood but is actually clay, Charolette Mary Pack
Livia Marin, and Lei Xue, whose work has traditional roots in the Ming Dynasty.
If you are interested in modern ceramics you will be inspired by some of the artists featured!
Sasha Koozel Reibstein show at Quint Gallery
Ceramics faculty member Sasha Koozel Reibstein has a show at the Quint Gallery in La Jolla. The show is titled “Are you OK in the Dark” and features her recent work examining transformation and the sublime. The show runs until March 5th and there is an artist talk Feb 26th at 11:30. For more details visit the Quint Gallery website.
Discover local Black History and Heritage from the San Diego History Center
The San Diego History Center has an interactive exhibit, Celebrate San Diego: Black History & Heritage. The virtual and physical exhibitions are now open. Celebrate is an unfolding exhibition that’s not complete without on-going community crowd-sourced insights, information and items. Visitors are invited to be contributors by nominating a Black hero that has been a pioneer, visionary, champion, leader or inspirational to you in the San Diego region. Or by submitting an event, milestone or memory to the 24 foot wide historical timeline being put together. Be sure to visit online or in person to view this interactive exhibit celebrating black history and heritage.
Thao Huynh French mural in City Heights
Thao Huynh French, shares about the effort, time, and energy that went into a newly-unveiled mural of the Tiger – in celebration of The Year of The Tiger. The mural is painted on the side of the Minh Ky restaurant in City Heights. The mural was created with arts funding provided by the county. Thao Huynh French is a San Diego artist and you can read more about her and her organization Ladies who Paint here. The website includes maps to a walking or driving mural tour you can take in San Diego.
The website also showcases other female muralists working in San Diego
Lunar New Year, held typically in late January or early February, is a holiday celebrated primarily in Asian countries. It marks the start of the spring season and is annually linked to one of a dozen zodiac animals, such as the dragon, horse, ox and tiger. Watch more here. on this pbs story about Lunar New Year and the new mural.
February is Museum Month in San Diego
February is Museum month in San Diego. You can pick up a pass at your local public library or at a Macy’s store. A pass is good for 4 1/2 price admissions at one of the 45 participating museums and cultural institutions. For more details on participating museums and current shows and events check out the museum council’s website.
Image Sources
- Screen Shot 2022-02-08 at 3.30.42 PM: san diego museum council
Open Image Collections for Hispanic Heritage Month
Sept.15th-Oct 15th is recognized as Hispanic Heritage month. The JSOR daily newsletter recently published an article that listed links to freely available images and other primary source materials from the JSTOR Open Community Collections and Artstor Public Collections. The full article can be viewed here
Included are:
Wofford College: The Lindsay Webster Collection of Cuban Posters
The collection features approximately 350 works created in Cuba from the revolution through the 2000s.
Dartmouth: Ediciones Vigia Collection
In 1985, Cuban poet Alfredo Zaldivar and artist Rolando Estevez established a literary forum for a group of Cuban artists in Matanzas, Cuba, and called it Ediciones Vigía. For over twenty years now, the goal for these artists has been to create beautiful handmade books.
Albright College David Schwartz’ Collection Nicaraguan Revolution
David Schwartz visited Nicaragua and took thousands of photographs during the period of the Sandinista revolution.
Rice University: Rio de Janeiro Iconography
Rice University: Brasilia Iconography
Rice University in Houston is sharing two fascinating collections of iconography around the second and third most-populated cities in Brazil:
City College Dominican Library First Blacks in the Americas
City College: Fighting for Democracy: Dominican Veterans from World War II
The City College of New York, home to the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, offers several collections related to Dominican history and Dominican-Americans.
Photo:
Part of a collection of handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture, from Dartmouth: Ediciones Vigia Collection
