Luminescent Flora by Deanne Sabeck. The Encinitas City Council approved two of Deanne Sabeck glass and metal sculpture in a meeting at the beginning of April. One will go at the entrance to Oakcrest Park at 1219 Encinitas Blvd and the other at the southeast corner of Newcastle Avenue and Liverpool Drive in Cardiff by the Sea, across the street from the Cardiff Library. Both of these works, that were presented anonymously to the public, got very high ratings. Another sculpture by Peter Mitten was accepted for placement at the new Pacific View Art Center that will open later this ..read more

Assemblymember Tasha Boerner, 77th District AB 812 PRO-ARTIST AFFORDABLE HOUSING The new AB 812 bill approved Oct 11 by the governor and authored by Tasha Boerner allows cities and/or counties to give up to 10% of its very low, low, or moderate-income housing to eligible artists as long as they are within one-half mile from a state-designated cultural district or within a locally designated cultural district if certain income and occupation conditions are met. We asked Edwin Borbon, Legislative Director for the office of Assemblymember Tasha Boerner to clarify a number of ..read more

Patricia Frischer - Silent Conversation (detail) Front Porch Gallery, in collaboration with Surfing Madonna Oceans Project is holding the fourth annual Save the Ocean art and poetry exhibition through Feb. 29, 2024. In conjunction with this exhibition, a Ekphrastic Poetry Writing and Collage Workshop was held. That means the poetry is inspired by a work of art and that part of the workshop was led convincingly by Dr. Marit Anderson. Cathy Carey, the new Director of the Front Porch Gallery, led the collage component. Dr. Marit Anderson in front of Chery Tall's  Z ..read more

  JFK The big question is always how do I get funding or help for my cause? Although the answer is often “get involved”, the feeling is often ‘why weren’t we asked?”. So I am going to spell it out here. To get involved you have to volunteer your time, energy or even some in-kind service. You don’t wait to be asked. You seek out opportunities to collaborate. When you volunteer you meet other committee members and volunteers and you get to really know them if you make an effort. You can then start to create a network of advisors and supporters. You find out about volunteer op ..read more

There are environmental disasters, financial uncertainty with high inflation, post COVID impact and ongoing wars in the Ukraine and Israel/Palestine as well as a controversial upcoming election.  Is CRISIS also the defining word of the state of the arts?  In San Diego, we have two fabulous new developments. The county came together to produce the first county wide AEP6 Arts and Economic Prosperity report (joint public presentation of results on Jan 24, 10 – 12:30 at MOPA) and the county supervisors approved the formation of a new Commission of Arts and Culture which is well on its w ..read more

Legacy  is the long-lasting impact you leave on the world. For those of us in the arts community that might mean art works, accomplishment in art advocacy, discoveries of new techniques. We are remembered by those who know us and live after, but how is it preserved in other more concrete ways? I am going to concentrate on the visual arts and a body of art works.   Archiving your 2 and 3-D art means documentation and that is a constant challenge of changing technology. An inventory systems used to mean means photos, transparencies and slides then digital on floppies, cd, flash drive ..read more

 by Patricia Frischer This month  I have decided to focus on advocacy issues that effect the region of San Diego, but knowing this is quite dry material, I have added photos from a recent visit to The Broad Museum in Los Angles where we saw the exhibition of Keith Haring. The show has finished but this is a reminder for those who saw it and a taste for those who did not.  The biggest news is the release of the country wide economic report on the arts. There is a link to the whole report and you can also read my summary report including info about San Diego County.  Natio ..read more

We present here a few of the photographs from our Hats ON: 20th Anniversary Celebration for San Diego Synergy Arts Network. We thank the many documenters that sent us images to share with you including: Tera Gardner, Jerri Nachman, Jim Bliesner, Marjorie Pezzoli, Marti Krane, Claire Slattery, Blanca Lucia Bergman. Our deep gratitude to all of your who came, ate, danced, bid, volunteered and made this a night to remember.  San Diego Synergy Arts Network Volunteers! Just a few of the more than 45 volunteers that helped put on our Celebration/ Remember we are a 100% vol ..read more

Purchase tickets HERE Our Double Decade Celebration promises a magical evening loaded with art, dance, DJ, Live music, silent auction and many more surprises… Delicious food, fun and frivolity with purchase of your ticket.  Beer/wine $7 per glass/ bottle of wine $25 (Venmo/cash/credit card and ID please) Valet Parking available on ticket site or at the venue ($10) San Diego Visual Arts Network (SDVAN) and Synergy Arts Foundation (SAF) are inviting you to celebrate our  20th Anniversary Celebration on Saturday, September 16th, 2023 6 pm to 10 pm  at Institute of ..read more

  Creativity as a human attribute is relatively new as a concept starting after World War II. There was no IQ or SAT for creativity. Dan Adams was a self-proclaimed formally untrained artist. But if creativity is making something original and if an artist is someone who thinks outside of the box, if the quality of creativity is judged by authenticity, then Dan Adams is the consummate artist. However, I mainly think about Dan and the life he led as work as play and play as work. There was seemingly no division. Luckily, I have only been to a very few funerals. They are always going to ..read more