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Ongoing Thursdays from 2-3:30 p.m. Ages 9-12 Welcome! Guest instructors teach this month-long series full of hands-on, engaging crafts using STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) to teach hand skills to kids using safe materials. Each project teaches craftsmanship, dexterity and material exploration. Projects range from woodworking, sewing, ceramics, paper crafts, textiles to fusing glass. Young students will make beautiful pieces to take home over the course of the series. All materials included. Projects are switched up constantly, so repeats are welcome! Follow on Socials! Facebook & Twitter

NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER The 2022 San Diego Festival of the Arts will return to San Diego Surf Sports Park in North San Diego on Saturday and Sunday, September 10 and 11. The festival moved permanently to the San Diego Surf Sports Park last year and has proved to be extremely successful. Guests and artists love its easy freeway access and ample convenient parking. Residents are encouraged to come out and enjoy this prestigious juried festival, now in its 36th year. This age 21 and up event showcases stunning works of painting, sculpture, photography, glass, jewelry, ceramics, wood, fiber and mixed media from more than 150 world renowned artists. Ticket sales (starting at $13), a silent auction and wine and beer sales all benefit local adaptive sports programs supporting thousands of San Diegans with disabilities. The San Diego Festival of the Arts Foundation, Inc., through this primary fundraiser, has raised more than $2.7 million for this cause since 1987. Beyond the incredible selection of art on display available for purchase, guests will once again enjoy world-class live music and entertainment both days, a selection of outdoor lawn games and a variety of cuisine options for every palate, from gourmet wood-fired pizza to BBQ and more. The open and expansive setting in beautiful coastal North County offers many opportunities to wander between artist booths, enjoy delicious food and drinks and take in a number of the musical performances each day in a tranquil and park-like venue. View the music schedule here. Event Details: What| 2022 San Diego Festival of the Arts When| Saturday and Sunday, September 10 and 11, 2022 Time|10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday Where| San Diego Surf Sports Park, 14989 Via de la Valle, Del Mar, CA 92014 San Diego Festival of the Arts on Facebook + Twitter

Exhibition on view: Aug. 22 – Sept. 8, 2022 RECEPTION: Thursday, Aug. 25, 4 – 7 P.M., ART GALLERY FA 103 FREE PARKING IN LOT # 1. PARK IN STAFF SPACES ONLY. MASKS REQUIRED. San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery hosts this exhibition of pictorial and sculptural investigations on color, light and texture, featuring recent artworks by San Diego-based artists Christian Garcia-Olivo, Kaori Fukuyama and Melissa Walter. The advent of Modernism inspired artists to explore abstraction and in the 20th century painters were motivated to pursue explorations with a variety of media in order to capture both the material and the immaterial. Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings, physically vigorous in form and action, can be contrasted with the ethereal rigor of perceptual light works by the Southern California Light and Space movement of the 60s and 70s; and to the interest on phenomenology of some conceptual art. The three artists whose works are assembled together in "The Weight of Color", "The Shape of Light", delve into these legacies; there’s a push and pull of the picture plane, a celebration of both organic and synthetic pigments while surface and materials are manipulated in novel and unexpected ways. These artists manipulate paint and pigments in novel and unexpected ways: Shaped canvases vibrate in contrasting colors; paint becomes solid like skin and thread; pulverized lava dust shaped into words. Gallery hours: M,T,W 12 - 5 pm, TH 12 am - 7 pm or by appointment. Closed Fridays, Weekends and School Holidays. For info call (619) 388-2829. Gallery website: www.sdmesa.edu/art-gallery FREE and OPEN to ALL San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery: Facebook Instagram

Interview with N. Scott Momaday and Dean Nelson as part of the 2023 Writer's Symposium by the Sea, Writing That Celebrates. Navarre Scott Momaday received a Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, "House Made of Dawn". His books include "The Way to Rainy Mountain", "In the Bear's House", "In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems", "1961-1991", and "The Gourd Dancer". He is author of several other novels, prose collections, the children's book "Circle of Wonder", and the play "The Indolent Boys". He is also the editor of various anthologies and collections centered on his Kiowa heritage. Momaday's honors include the 2019 Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, awarded by the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation to celebrate lifetime achievement in literature and to remind the world "that peace can be forged with words." He has also received the 2019 Ken Burns American Heritage Prize, the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement, an Academy of American Poets Prize, an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Premio Letterario Internationale "Mondello," Italy's highest literary award. Included in the ticket is live music from John Reynolds' Jazz Quintet to begin at 6:15 p.m., when doors open for general admission seating. The 28th Annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea will be February 21-24, 2023, also featuring Pulitzer winning writers Maria Hinojosa, Anthony Doerr and William Finnegan. For more info, visit here!

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