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Hundreds of officers in California have been stripped of their badges in the last few years for serious misconduct. The offenses range from sexual misconduct to domestic violence to dishonesty. There are still thousands of cases that need to be reviewed. Plus, the National Endowment for the Arts has frozen more than $300,000 in grants for San Diego organizations. That uncertainty has put the local arts community in limbo. And it’s St. Patrick’s Day — there’s lots of ways to celebrate Irish heritage in San Diego County.

A free 20min breakfast lecture series for our creative community. Join us for coffee, donuts, and inspiration every last Friday of the month. Grant Oliphant is CEO of The Conrad Prebys Foundation, a major independent foundation working to strengthen San Diego’s future through a focus on impact in the arts, medical research and healthcare, youth development, and higher education. Previously, Grant was president of The Heinz Endowments in Pittsburgh, one of the nation’s largest regional philanthropies, where he focused the foundation’s giving on sustainability, creativity, and learning. He also launched major initiatives to support democracy, public media, and racial and social equity, and worked with his board to bring the foundation’s investments into alignment with its social and climate change priorities. Prior to joining Heinz, Grant was President & CEO of the Pittsburgh Foundation, one of the nation’s largest community foundations, where he doubled the foundation’s size while helping to reinvent the national model of community philanthropy through an emphasis on regional leadership and impact. An outspoken advocate for philanthropy that is both effective and clear, Grant launched and hosted a popular podcast, “We Can Be,” and writes and speaks frequently about philanthropic leadership. He is the immediate past chair of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, a national organization working to promote better giving, and chaired the Communications Network, which promotes better use of communications by philanthropy. Devoted to community leadership at the intersection of business, non-profits and universities, Grant served on the boards of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, the August Wilson African-American Cultural Center and the Pittsburgh Promise, along with Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania and Riverlife, both of which he chaired. Earlier in his career, which also included a brief stint in advertising, Grant launched a magazine in Washington D.C. on American politics and co-hosted a radio talk show before joining U.S. Senator John Heinz as his press secretary. He is also the author of a novel, “Ring of Years.” Grant and his wife Aradhna, who have four grown children, are delighted to be making their home in Mission Hills and are looking forward to being active members of the San Diego community.

Come Indulge in the rich flavors of Laos at the 3rd Annual Lao Food Festival. Traditional Lao Food, Music, Art , Food Tours, 40+ Vendors. Visit: https://www.laofoodfestival.org/ LAOSD on Instagram and Facebook

Joseph Clayes III & Rotunda Galleries Harvest & gather: missed connections Harvest & Gather is pleased to present "missed connections", an exhibition that facilitates collaboration between artists who might have once worked together, but the stars did not align in their favor or their spirits could not quite connect. Each invited artist has selected another artist to exhibit with, thus fulfilling their missed connection at the Athenaeum. Moving beyond an exchange of glances but nothing more and the “you-smiled-at-me-on-the-subway-platform” prose of personal ads, Harvest & Gather seeks to allow the exhibiting artists a working opportunity to intimately connect with another artist’s work and practice. Artists are Deanna Barahona and Susan Aparicio; Katie Delaney and Elaine Fisher; Maria Antonia Eguiarte and Liz Nurenberg; and Stephen Rivas and A.R. Tran. Harvest & Gather is an experimental, nomadic curatorial project founded by mika Castañeda & Cat Gunn in 2023. With an emphasis on creating makeshift spaces for art anywhere at any moment, the project exists beyond traditional galleries and museums through pop-up shows in various locations. ARTISTS Deanna Barahona is a first-generation multidisciplinary artist from Southern California working in text, photography, installation, and sculpture. Barahona examines subcultures that emerge in Southern California’s integration process with materials referencing architecture, adornments, and symbols within the homes of the Latin American diaspora. Barahona’s work has been in exhibitions at Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; Bread + Salt, San Diego; Island 83 Gallery, New York City; Mandeville Gallery, La Jolla; Bakersfield Museum of Art; Two Rooms, San Diego; and Residencia 797, Guadalajara. She is set to participate in a group exhibition at Museo Raúl Anguiano in Guadalajara in the summer of 2024 and a solo exhibition at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in 2025. Barahona holds a BA in visual arts from California State University, Bakersfield, and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Susan Aparicio is a Southeast Los Angeles native, a daughter of Mexican and Honduran parents, and a visual artist experimenting in the mediums of stained glass, experimental video, and installation. Her stained-glass work explores worship, desire, and Latinidad-through-pop-culture-inspired imagery from the early 2000s to today, blending bling and beauty to make the fake feel real. Her works explore the complex relationship between reality and states of being, inviting viewers to reflect on their existence within our natural, digital, and consumer worlds. Her works have been exhibited at Leiminspace, Bellyman, LaPau Gallery, Charlie James Gallery, the California Museum, the Hudson River Museum, Texas Tech University, and Cal State Dominguez Hills, among others. Her work has been recognized by publications such as LVL3 Magazine and the Daily Bruin. Aparicio was a resident at Caldera Arts Residency and the Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE). She earned dual BA degrees in studio art and cognitive science from the University of Virginia in 2018. She then earned her MFA in art from UCLA in 2022. Aparicio is currently based in Pasadena. Katie Delaney (they/them) is a queer, non-binary artist based in Philadelphia. Their practice questions the role of the gender binary in generational trauma by creating work within a “mythspace” that transfigures traditional storytelling. They hold an MFA from the University of Delaware (’24) and a BFA in sculpture from Towson University (’20). Their work has been exhibited internationally at Galería Municipal de Arte, Valparaíso, Chile; virtually at the Alternative Art School, Vox Populi; Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia; throughout the DMV, ICA Baltimore; Delaplaine Art Center, Frederick, Maryland; and The Hen House, Washington, D.C. Elaine Fisher received her BA in archaeology and ancient history from the University of Liverpool in 1996 and her MFA from the University of Gloucestershire in 2015. She continues her research independently and collaboratively in the areas of art, archaeology, and depth psychology, through place-based residencies and commissions, including B-side Festival; SLUICE Exchange, Berlin; and most recently at The Florence Trust , London. In 2022 she was invited to exhibit her COVID project Domestic Structures at Project 1628 in Baltimore. Group exhibitions include Fibres at AIR Gallery, Manchester, UK; Garden Party by Latela Curatorial, Washington, D.C.; and Flat Files at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore. In 2024 Elaine was nominated for a Castlefield Gallery Award for her entry in the Manchester Open Exhibition at HOME, Manchester. She currently lives and works in Manchester. Maria Antonia Eguiarte Souza is a Mexican American artist raised in Mexico City and based in San Diego. She engages in gesture-based performance and object making. Eguiarte has shown in group expeditions in both Mexico and the United States, including at the ICA San Diego, Patio Trasero, Brea Gallery, NIXON, Proxyco NYC, Working Title with Project Blank, the New Wight Gallery UCLA, and Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual. Liz Nurenberg (b. 1978) is a Los Angeles–based artist. She received a BFA from Grand Valley State University (2003) and a MFA from Claremont Graduate University (2010). Liz is an associate professor in the Foundation Department at Otis College of Art and Design. She is a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles. Liz was awarded a fellowship to Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist Residency and a Helen B. Dooley Fellowship at Claremont Graduate University; she received a California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at such venues as the Holter Museum, Helena, Montana; Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts; Elephant Art Space, Los Angeles; HilbertRaum Gallery, Berlin; Galleri CC, Malmo, Sweden; and the Contemporary Calgary. Stephen Rivas is an interdisciplinary artist raised in Palmdale, California. Working across photography, video, sound, and writing, Rivas creates deeply personal, multilayered works that interrogate intersections of history, identity, and resistance. His work often adopts an autobiographical lens, utilizing multi-channeled projections to weave narratives that explore memory, love, death, joy, anarchy, and the fleeting nature of time within his family’s collective history. Central to Rivas’s practice is the critique of colonial narratives and systems of power. By uncovering the preexisting “threads” of resistance and resilience within his family’s past—what he refers to as “weapons against empires”—Rivas reclaims stories that challenge dominant historical frameworks. As systemic oppression persists, Rivas sees focusing on past resistance as a method of preserving memory and a strategy for imagining liberated futures. His work highlights the connections between historical uprisings and contemporary struggles, emphasizing the enduring relevance of resilience and decentralized resistance. Rivas’s installations invite viewers into a space where personal and political histories collide, emphasizing the importance of storytelling as a tool for survival and subversion. Rivas completed his BFA in 2019 at the California Institute of the Arts, where he began exploring themes of identity, migration, and memory. He later earned an MFA from the University of California, Irvine in 2023, further refining his interdisciplinary practice and conceptual approach. A.R. Tran was born in Monterey Park, California, in 1993 and moved to New York in 2011 to attend New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. In 2015, he received his BA in Critical Race Theory and visual studies and was awarded the Finish Line Grant and Founder’s Day Award. That same year he was selected to participate in the Gallatin Arts Festival as a visual and performance artist. For more than five years, he worked in arts education and public programming for institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Mark Morris Dance Center and participated in a number of student shows at 205 Hudson Street. In 2020, he enrolled in the University of California, Irvine’s MFA program in art. There he developed his interdisciplinary art practice while taking PhD-level courses in Critical Race Theory and Black studies. In 2022, he was accepted into UC Irvine’s Pedagogical Fellowship program, was nominated for the Tom Angell Fellowship, and was named a Claire Trevor Society Scholar in Art. In spring 2023, he was awarded an Interdisciplinary Research residency at UC Irvine’s Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL) and his solo exhibition, entitled THE ROOT OF DESIRE IN VIOLENT AND I STILL WANT TO BE WANTED, opened at University Art Gallery in Irvine. The lecture will be in person at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library. There are no physical tickets for this event. Your name will be on an attendee list at the front door. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for a members-only reception, and at 6 p.m. for a general reception. Seating is first-come; first-served. Priority seating will be given to Donor level members and above. Visit: https://www.ljathenaeum.org/events/exhibition-2025-harvest-gather-panel Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Instagram and Facebook

DaCosta has directed blockbusters like Candyman and The Marvels. Her latest is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play, Hedda Gabler, recasting the main character as a queer, mixed-race Black woman.

Presented by the San Diego River Artists’ Alliance The San Diego River Artists’ Alliance creates art inspired by the San Diego River and it’s ecosystem. Drop by to see a variety of representations of the river in various mediums including painting, collage, paper, tapestry, photography, and fiber arts. This artist exhibition will take place simultaneously at two locations: Mission Valley Library, 2123 Fenton Pkwy, San Diego, CA 92108 T+C Park at Town and Country Resort on River Park Drive No RSVP required, but we would still like to know if you plan to attend: https://sdriverdays.org/activity/the-ebb-and-flow-of-the-river-presented-by-san-diego-river-artists-alliance/

Japan ranks low in gender equality among developed nations. The first woman to lead the country is an ultraconservative who cites Margaret Thatcher as a role model. She also loves heavy metal.

Harvest & Gather is pleased to present "missed connections", an exhibition that facilitates collaboration between artists who might have once worked together, but the stars did not align in their favor or their spirits could not quite connect. Each invited artist has selected another artist to exhibit with, thus fulfilling their missed connection at the Athenaeum. Moving beyond an exchange of glances but nothing more and the “you-smiled-at-me-on-the-subway-platform” prose of personal ads, Harvest & Gather seeks to allow the exhibiting artists a working opportunity to intimately connect with another artist’s work and practice. Artists are Deanna Barahona and Susan Aparicio; Katie Delaney and Elaine Fisher; Maria Antonia Eguiarte and Liz Nurenberg; and Stephen Rivas and A.R. Tran. Harvest & Gather is an experimental, nomadic curatorial project founded by mika Castañeda & Cat Gunn in 2023. With an emphasis on creating makeshift spaces for art anywhere at any moment, the project exists beyond traditional galleries and museums through pop-up shows in various locations. ARTISTS Deanna Barahona is a first-generation multidisciplinary artist from Southern California working in text, photography, installation, and sculpture. Barahona examines subcultures that emerge in Southern California’s integration process with materials referencing architecture, adornments, and symbols within the homes of the Latin American diaspora. Barahona’s work has been in exhibitions at Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; Bread + Salt, San Diego; Island 83 Gallery, New York City; Mandeville Gallery, La Jolla; Bakersfield Museum of Art; Two Rooms, San Diego; and Residencia 797, Guadalajara. She is set to participate in a group exhibition at Museo Raúl Anguiano in Guadalajara in the summer of 2024 and a solo exhibition at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in 2025. Barahona holds a BA in visual arts from California State University, Bakersfield, and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Susan Aparicio is a Southeast Los Angeles native, a daughter of Mexican and Honduran parents, and a visual artist experimenting in the mediums of stained glass, experimental video, and installation. Her stained-glass work explores worship, desire, and Latinidad-through-pop-culture-inspired imagery from the early 2000s to today, blending bling and beauty to make the fake feel real. Her works explore the complex relationship between reality and states of being, inviting viewers to reflect on their existence within our natural, digital, and consumer worlds. Her works have been exhibited at Leiminspace, Bellyman, LaPau Gallery, Charlie James Gallery, the California Museum, the Hudson River Museum, Texas Tech University, and Cal State Dominguez Hills, among others. Her work has been recognized by publications such as LVL3 Magazine and the Daily Bruin. Aparicio was a resident at Caldera Arts Residency and the Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE). She earned dual BA degrees in studio art and cognitive science from the University of Virginia in 2018. She then earned her MFA in art from UCLA in 2022. Aparicio is currently based in Pasadena. Katie Delaney (they/them) is a queer, non-binary artist based in Philadelphia. Their practice questions the role of the gender binary in generational trauma by creating work within a “mythspace” that transfigures traditional storytelling. They hold an MFA from the University of Delaware (’24) and a BFA in sculpture from Towson University (’20). Their work has been exhibited internationally at Galería Municipal de Arte, Valparaíso, Chile; virtually at the Alternative Art School, Vox Populi; Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia; throughout the DMV, ICA Baltimore; Delaplaine Art Center, Frederick, Maryland; and The Hen House, Washington, D.C. Elaine Fisher received her BA in archaeology and ancient history from the University of Liverpool in 1996 and her MFA from the University of Gloucestershire in 2015. She continues her research independently and collaboratively in the areas of art, archaeology, and depth psychology, through place-based residencies and commissions, including B-side Festival; SLUICE Exchange, Berlin; and most recently at The Florence Trust , London. In 2022 she was invited to exhibit her COVID project Domestic Structures at Project 1628 in Baltimore. Group exhibitions include Fibres at AIR Gallery, Manchester, UK; Garden Party by Latela Curatorial, Washington, D.C.; and Flat Files at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore. In 2024 Elaine was nominated for a Castlefield Gallery Award for her entry in the Manchester Open Exhibition at HOME, Manchester. She currently lives and works in Manchester. Maria Antonia Eguiarte Souza is a Mexican American artist raised in Mexico City and based in San Diego. She engages in gesture-based performance and object making. Eguiarte has shown in group expeditions in both Mexico and the United States, including at the ICA San Diego, Patio Trasero, Brea Gallery, NIXON, Proxyco NYC, Working Title with Project Blank, the New Wight Gallery UCLA, and Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual. Liz Nurenberg (b. 1978) is a Los Angeles–based artist. She received a BFA from Grand Valley State University (2003) and a MFA from Claremont Graduate University (2010). Liz is an associate professor in the Foundation Department at Otis College of Art and Design. She is a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles. Liz was awarded a fellowship to Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist Residency and a Helen B. Dooley Fellowship at Claremont Graduate University; she received a California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at such venues as the Holter Museum, Helena, Montana; Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts; Elephant Art Space, Los Angeles; HilbertRaum Gallery, Berlin; Galleri CC, Malmo, Sweden; and the Contemporary Calgary. Stephen Rivas is an interdisciplinary artist raised in Palmdale, California. Working across photography, video, sound, and writing, Rivas creates deeply personal, multilayered works that interrogate intersections of history, identity, and resistance. His work often adopts an autobiographical lens, utilizing multi-channeled projections to weave narratives that explore memory, love, death, joy, anarchy, and the fleeting nature of time within his family’s collective history. Central to Rivas’s practice is the critique of colonial narratives and systems of power. By uncovering the preexisting “threads” of resistance and resilience within his family’s past—what he refers to as “weapons against empires”—Rivas reclaims stories that challenge dominant historical frameworks. As systemic oppression persists, Rivas sees focusing on past resistance as a method of preserving memory and a strategy for imagining liberated futures. His work highlights the connections between historical uprisings and contemporary struggles, emphasizing the enduring relevance of resilience and decentralized resistance. Rivas’s installations invite viewers into a space where personal and political histories collide, emphasizing the importance of storytelling as a tool for survival and subversion. Rivas completed his BFA in 2019 at the California Institute of the Arts, where he began exploring themes of identity, migration, and memory. He later earned an MFA from the University of California, Irvine in 2023, further refining his interdisciplinary practice and conceptual approach. A.R. Tran was born in Monterey Park, California, in 1993 and moved to New York in 2011 to attend New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. In 2015, he received his BA in Critical Race Theory and visual studies and was awarded the Finish Line Grant and Founder’s Day Award. That same year he was selected to participate in the Gallatin Arts Festival as a visual and performance artist. For more than five years, he worked in arts education and public programming for institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Mark Morris Dance Center and participated in a number of student shows at 205 Hudson Street. In 2020, he enrolled in the University of California, Irvine’s MFA program in art. There he developed his interdisciplinary art practice while taking PhD-level courses in Critical Race Theory and Black studies. In 2022, he was accepted into UC Irvine’s Pedagogical Fellowship program, was nominated for the Tom Angell Fellowship, and was named a Claire Trevor Society Scholar in Art. In spring 2023, he was awarded an Interdisciplinary Research residency at UC Irvine’s Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL) and his solo exhibition, entitled "THE ROOT OF DESIRE IN VIOLENT AND I STILL WANT TO BE WANTED", opened at University Art Gallery in Irvine. The exhibition can be viewed in the Joseph Clayes III and Carolyn Yorston-Wellcome Rotunda Galleries at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library (1008 Wall Street, La Jolla, CA 92037) during open hours, Tuesday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Visit: https://www.ljathenaeum.org/events/exhibition-2025-harvest-gather-walk Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Instagram and Facebook

Make Music Day is a free celebration of music around the world on June 21. Launched in 1982 in France as the "Fête de la Musique," it is now held on the same day in more than 1,000 cities in 120 countries. The Museum of Making Music joins the celebration with a variety of fun, free activities, hands-on music-making, performances, and more! What can you expect on Make Music Day at the Museum of Making Music? 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.: Free Admission to the Museum. Enjoy free admission to the Museum of Making Music and be the first to see our latest spotlight exhibition "Roots & Wings: 40 Years of PRS Guitars" celebrating the artistry, innovation, and impact of PRS Guitars. 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.: Make and Play with Studio ACE. Our friends at Studio ACE will host make-and-play crafts for families. Create a music-themed art project that you can play! 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: The Big Sing. A family-friendly singing celebration for all ages and all voices. Enjoy live music throughout the day in our lobby: 10:15 a.m. - 11 a.m.: Patton Pending Ukulele Ensemble 12:30 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.: Mariachi Victoria de San Diego 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.: Westwind Brass Live Music - Making Opportunities. There will be opportunities throughout the day for spontaneous acoustic performances under our outdoor tent, so bring an instrument and come and jam! Musuem of Making Music on Facebook / Instagram

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