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

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 Excerpt: ​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

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

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

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

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

​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