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Cal State San Marcos will expand the number of school districts at which students are guaranteed admission if they meet certain criteria, officials announced Wednesday.

Travel the Globe and Back Through an Artist’s Sketchbooks and Paintings Gallery Open & Events: Where: St James Gallery By-The-Sea: 743 Prospect Ave, La Jolla, CA. When: November 6-27, Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. & Sunday 12-4 p.m. December 10-18, Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. & Sunday 12-4 p.m. Reception 1: November 12, Saturday 5-7 p.m. & Reception 2: December 10, Saturday 6-8 p.m. Special Event Following: The Festival of Lessons & Carols, December 18, Saturday 6-8 p.m. The prolific artworks of Cherry Sweig will be blended into a solo exhibition at ‘Gallery By-The-Sea’. Guided by seven renowned collections and descriptive commentaries, participants will travel around the world and back. Sweig’s first international trip was an Art History Tour with The Bishop’s School in 1984. Since then, she broadened her techniques to draw the viewer in for their own imaginary and sensory experience. Sweig will present four themed demonstrations during assigned gallery hours: ‘En plein air’ inside and out at St James Church, Greek Skyrian equine watercolors, travel sketchbooks and an in-progress oil painting of Meteora, Greece. (See websites for demo schedules.) 1) Around the World in 80 Paintings: 2012. Eighty watercolors and oils represented the journeys encompassing the world by Sweig including California, Hawaii, South America, Europe and Egypt. 2) Gyotaku: 1988-2010. Over these years, Sweig focused on the legendary Japanese art (gyo = fish, taku = hand imprint). Ink is applied to the subject, rice paper laid and pressed by hand. A mirrored image reveals art from sea horses, Garibaldi, octopuses, flying fish to a Great White Shark. 3) Touch the Ancient Skyrian Horse: from 2006- Life-sized works revere these small horses with a monumental past. As the Parthenon’s frieze portrays Alexander the Great using them in battle, she fused stone pigments and oils on canvases. Viewers are welcomed to feel the texture! Her current project, a watercolor book, is dedicated to The Sylva Project, an equine breeding program in Corfu, Greece. 4) In Bloom: 2011- 21. Inspired by ‘plein air’ venues, garden gems come to life from Monet’s wisteria French lavender, California poppies, tropical birds of paradise to the hollyhocks of Santa Fe, New Mexico. 5) Finding Venetian Angels: 2020. Twenty oil paintings depict angels in human form, Byzantine mosaics and spirited imagery collected by Sweig during a 25 day quest in Venice, Italy. 6) In the Air: from 2018. Look up! This uplifting collection includes hummingbirds, the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, a village in the clouds of Provence and central Greece’s Meteora, six Eastern Orthodox Monasteries built on immense natural pillars called Meteoras. (suspended in air). 7) La Jolla Treasures, 2014- present: Featuring Sweig’s hometown, return to admired scenes captured in oil paintings from the La Jolla Cove, The Shores, Windansea Shack, Goldfish Point, Shell Beach, The Bishop’s School and St James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church.

Around 250 young playwrights wrote and submitted work as part of the annual contest, Enough! Plays to End Gun Violence. Six were chosen as finalists and had their work performed.

From the organizers: Little Fish Cosplay Figure Drawing is Back! Meanwhile, at Little Fish Comic Book Studio… Grab your art supplies citizens, because it’s time for our first Cosplay Figure Drawing session in more than two years! Unlike other art studios who feature either nude or plainclothes-wearing models, Little Fish gives the amazing opportunity to draw some truly unbelievable cosplayers (aka., models in professional level comic or pop culture costumes). This session's model's: Wrestlers "REBELSTORM" & "CJ TINO" So, join us Friday, October 14th, at the Fortress of Drawitude (aka the College Area’s Little Fish Comic Book Studio), for the next Cosplay Figure Drawing session. Fifteen ($15) dollars is all it takes for three hours of professional level modeling! Spots are limited, so please reserve yours today by emailing LittleFishContactUs@gmail.com WHO: You! WHAT: Little Fish Cosplay Figure Drawing! WHEN: Friday, October 14th, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. WHERE: Little Fish Comic Book Studio, 6822B El Cajon BLVD., San Diego, CA 92115 Follow on social media: Facebook + Instagram

Ashton Gallery at Art on 30th proudly presents "Our Collective American Memory" Art Opening and Exhibition. The show is an adaptation of the Smithsonian’s widely acclaimed book, The History of America in 101 Objects, written by Dr. Richard Kurin, Smithsonian Distinguished Scholar and Ambassador-at-Large. The show will feature a collection of unmistakably nostalgic American images including Julia Child’s kitchen, Abraham Lincoln’s stovepipe hat, Dorothy’s slippers and of course, the American flag, all created by Ashton’s Gallery’s Resident Professional artists. The show was jurorjuried by Karen Milbourne, Senior Curator Smithsonian Museum of African Art. Opening reception: Saturday, August 20 4 p.m. - 8 p.m. Socials: Facebook Instagram

Artist Yaw Owusu will be "in-residence" and working from 3-5 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday from Sept. 9 through Oct. 9, 2022. From the museum: The Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego (ICA San Diego) is excited to announce Yaw Owusu as the first Artist-in-Residence of our 2022-2023 Season Limitless Growth, Limited World, marking the artist’s first solo exhibition in San Diego. What is the value of a penny? This question is at the center of Artist-in-Residence Yaw Owusu’s exhibition A Penny, for What It’s Worth in which Owusu deconstructs the exchange rates of copper through the different stages of being; from raw material, to monetary value, to art, to the art market. Art lovers can observe Owusu’s elaborate artistic process as he employs unique techniques for oxidizing pennies, altering the copper coins into varying hues of bronze, blue, gold, green, pink, black and white for his visually striking sculptural wall pieces. Owusu’s transformation of something as common as a penny into pieces of art captures new perspectives on value when recontextualized. The copper used in the construction of pennies has doubled in value since 2016, and due to inflation is worth more than the penny itself. By uniting the raw material with the penny’s monetary value, Owusu transforms the depreciated copper into art objects whose value is decided by social, cultural, and economic exchange. Learn more here. Related links: ICA San Diego on Instagram ICA San Diego on Facebook Related events:

The surprise performance at the Newport Folk Festival, now released as an album, is another exciting evolution in Joni Mitchell's notoriously chameleonic career.

The first official outdoor exhibition on Washington D.C.'s National Mall showcases six artists whose monuments honor American stories missing from the heart of the country's capital.

Teatro Tierra Caliente presenta el teatro-comedia “Se Aliquila Mi Tesorito,”‘ una obra en español. Al clarear el Sol En una de las tantas comunidades mexicanas desde la parte más alta del Cerro del Berna, lejos una madre de familia sola y atrapada entre la extrema pobreza tiene que debatir entre vender o alquilar su tesorito......Acompañanos a disfrutar de esta obra comedia completamente familiar, escrita y dirigida por Soledad Escobedo. Interpretada por los estudiantes de la rama de Teatro de la Academia Tierra Caliente. Actuación especial de Fernando Bernal. Los esperamos! An original Spanish-language family comedy by Soledad Escobedo, Tierra Caliente presents “My Little Treasure for Rent.” As the sun rises on one of the many Mexican communities in the highest part of Cerro del Bernal, an impoverished single mother is forced to decide between selling or renting out her "little treasure." Enjoy this delightful family comedy written and directed by Soledad Escobedo and performed by the theater students of Tierra Caliente Academy with a special guest appearance by Fernando Bernal. We look forward to seeing you there!

The San Diego Watercolor Society proudly presents the 42nd International Exhibition juried by award-winning artist, Linda Daley Baker. This highly competitive exhibition represents the very best of water-based media art from around the world. The exhibition runs from Oct. 3-31, 2022 at our Gallery in The ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station. The Opening Reception is Friday, October 7, 5-8 p.m. with over 95 ready-to-hang original paintings plus refreshments and the fellowship of other art enthusiasts. The Gallery is open Monday–Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Sunday 12-4 p.m. The paintings can also be viewed and purchased online. Please visit here for more information. The San Diego Watercolor Society: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram