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Art Produce is a laboratory for building community and developing creative social space. Our mission is to build community and foster civic engagement through arts, education and public culture. Explore some of the woven pieces, vibrantly colored and more abstract in nature even while adhering to the intricate roots of the art form in the blog.
Art Produce Blog
5M ago
We're a part of the creative workforce! And we’re proud to announce that our organization is a 2023 California Arts Council grantee!
California's state arts agency is supporting our work through their Organizational Support Program.
View the California Arts Council Press Release HERE ..read more
Art Produce Blog
6M ago
The Thriving Art Community of San Diego
Beyond the big headlines, the city’s contemporary art scene is rooted in its diverse, community-centered art spaces.
By Jordan Karney Chaim October 13, 2022
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Art Produce, another multifaceted, multi-use art and culture center, is an extension of artist and educator Lynn Susholtz’s public and community-based practice. Susholtz purchased and rehabbed the boarded-up North Park Produce Market in 1999 and it now serves as a cultural hub, where community members can gather and “envision what life in a rich cultural environment could look like,” Su ..read more
Art Produce Blog
1y ago
Photo by K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union Tribune
Meet artist Evan Tyler: weaving his own story
By Seth Combs, Contributor, San Diego Union Tribune
Textile artist Evan Tyler, in residency at Art Produce in North Park, found his artistic calling on a loom
Evan Tyler knew he was onto something. He’d been weaving and dyeing his own brand of textile-based art and was beginning to feel he was on the “right path” with his art, but he couldn’t help but feel he had one thing holding him back: He needed a better frame loom.
“This is the biggest type of weaving I could do at the time,” says Tyler, p ..read more
Art Produce Blog
1y ago
The School of Art and Design and Art Produce Showcase the Work of Emerging Artists
Supporting students through awards and an opportunity for a solo exhibition
by Aleesia Benkey, November 17, 2021
In a partnership with Art Produce, the School of Art and Design’s annual Student Award Exhibition provides students a chance for a solo exhibition. In the heart of North Park, Art Produce gallery has set aside a gallery space for the winner of the Student Award Exhibition. This year, third-year Graphic Design MFA candidate Sepideh Shamloufard was awarded this unique opportunity.
Shamloufard’s int ..read more
Art Produce Blog
1y ago
Written by Bhavna Mehta for San Diego Visual Arts Network, June 2022
Imagine you are a woman of color that is above all curious. You see a free workshop offered to explore who you are in your journey of life with a chance to gain some new art skills. Now imagine you are a recognized public art consultant who is also an artist and a passionate community gatherer. Art Produce in North Park brings these two together for a workshop during the artist residency of Constance White. Ms. White held a gathering to discuss all sorts of social issues and then prepared individualized pack ..read more
Art Produce Blog
1y ago
Every Picture Tells a Story at Art Produce Gallery
By Lonnie Burstein Hewitt, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2022
On April 3rd, my husband and I drove south to North Park for what we thought would be a quiet chat with Marianela de la Hoz, who is doing Sunday paint-ins at Art Produce Gallery where, along with Helen Redman, she is half of the bilingually-titled exhibition Retelling/Recontar.
We had no idea that, in the hour or so we spent in the small-but-mighty gallery, more than a few members of San Diego’s art world would show up to see what Marianela was up to. What she is up to is sh ..read more
Art Produce Blog
1y ago
The Cartography Of Poetry At Art Produce
By Julia Dixon Evans / Arts Calendar Editor and Producer
Poet-in-residence Catherine Kineavy brings Julia Alvarez in conversation with local audiences, plus workshops to map community through poetry.
Artist residencies hit a little differently now. Space and solitude have taken on new meaning since the pandemic began over a year ago, and the public face of the art world has changed dramatically. But Art Produce is committed. The nonprofit gallery and art space in North Park has kept up a vibrant schedule of residencies the entire year.
"We were qui ..read more