By SDCN Editor San Diego, CA–Far South/Border North is in full swing during Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month, with hundreds of artists and cultural practitioners in San Diego and Imperial counties implementing creative campaigns to engage communities and raise awareness of the region’s most critical issues. Far South/Border North, which San Diego announced in 2023, has a new interactive map to search art and culture campaigns funded through the program by location ZIP codes.  Additionally, the website has detailed information about each of the more than 70 projects, including I Am San ..read more

By SDCN Editor La Jolla, CA–This fall, UC San Diego will unveil Embodied Pacific, a multi-sited exhibition in partnership with the Getty initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide.  Embodied Pacific, a collaboration between UC San Diego’s Department of Visual Arts and Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, features artworks created by artists in partnership with scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and laboratories across UC San Diego, as well as with community leaders in Indigenous environmental and ocean science, engineering and design. The exhibition ..read more

Cross Border Art by Claudia Rodriguez-Biezunski. Courtesy of San Diego International Airport By SDCN Editor San Diego, CA–San Diego International Airport unveiled “Espacios & Lines,” a temporary art exhibition that showcases the culture of a shared binational region of 7.1 million people.  The exhibition, which explores the border of art and design, follows the World Design Organization’s joint designation of San Diego and Tijuana as the World Design Capital 2024. “Espacios & Lines” features the work of 16 local artists, half of whom work binational, five of whom fully reside in B ..read more

By SDCN Editor Oceanside, CA–Mark Chamness, a Californian artist based in Oceanside, is exhibiting new works in fibers and what the artist calls “discarded urban plastic” at the Hill Street Country Club in Oceanside. Chamness’s work draws from legacies of abstraction, his training as a painter and carpenter, and his daily experiences of the last several years with the ongoing Covid pandemic.  The last three years have been a time of significant personal and cultural change for the artist. Many people have been reexamining the domestic space and reconnecting to labor-intensive hand work.&n ..read more

San Diego International Airport’s Arts program will run until the end of 2023. Photo provided by San Diego International Airport By SDCN Editor San Diego, CA–San Diego International Airport’s Arts Program has completed the installation of its latest temporary exhibition A Necessary Departure, located throughout Terminal 2 pre-and-post security. A Necessary Departure is a collection of works from 17 local artists and organizations that examines personal transformations and how the San Diego community has remade itself after the pandemic. Pieces speak to themes that developed ..read more

Chang Sheng By SDCN Editor San Jose, CA–eigoMANGA a media company for publishing digital comics, animation, and games will showcase its productions at San Diego Comic-Con International next week. Comic-Con is the nation’s largest comic book, science fiction, and pop culture event, and will take place on July 20 to 23 at the San Diego Convention Center. eigoMANGA, along with manga artist Chang Sheng, will exhibit and host panels that showcase their productions of comics, animation, games, and mobile apps; this includes Sheng’s award-winning manga series “Oldman”. Based in Taiwan, Sheng is the c ..read more

By SDCN Editor San Diego, CA–The 34th annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards announced its winners at a ceremony Friday night in the Indigo Ballroom at the Hilton Bayfront during San Diego Comic-Con International. Presenting the awards at this year’s ceremony were comic book greats Frank Miller (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Daredevil, Sin City, 300) and Neil Gaiman (The Sandman, American Gods), voice actor and comedian Phil LaMarr (MadTV, Samurai Jack, Futurama, Justice League), actor, writer, and director Tom Lennon (Reno 911, Balls of Fury, Night at the Museum series), bestselling gra ..read more

Alexis Smith’s Men Seldom Make Passes at Girls Who Wear Glasses, 1985. Wall painting with two framed mixed-media collages. Photo courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego By SDCN Editor San Diego, CA–The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego will present Alexis Smith: The American Way, the first retrospective of California artist Alexis Smith in thirty years.  Smith, 73, is widely known for her mixed-media collage works which draw heavily on film, literature, and pop culture. Her unique practice has been informed by conceptual and pop art and shaped by the feminist movement of the 1 ..read more

San Diego, CA–The Balboa Art Conservation Center in partnership with the Centro Cultural de la Raza will present Preserving Chicana/o/x Art: Conversations on Conservation this month. Through a series of informal dialogues- artists, community organizers, scholars, conservators, curators and administrators will explore issues of representation, cultural production, culturally responsive approaches to conservation, and community-led standards for the care and preservation of Chicana/o/x cultural collections. The webinar series kicks off on April 7.  As museums move towards diversifying thei ..read more

Oceanside Public Library. Photo: Gina Yarbrough By SDCN Editor Oceanside, CA–The Friends of the Oceanside Public Library has invited the community to participate in their second annual amateur photography contest next month.  The contest is open to San Diego County residents and the images must be taken in Oceanside.   Entries will be accepted from April 1 through May 15, and the theme is Capturing Your City:  Urban Life – everyday encounters and random events in public spaces that best represent Oceanside to each participant. The entry fee is a $10 donation for two images ..read more