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Create a Necklace Pendant together! San Diego Craft Collective welcomes Ashley Lohr, a special guest artist and educator from Southeast Alaska this month! In this workshop, students will be introduced to the art of powder enamel and learn the skills to create a gorgeous necklace pendant — matching or unique to the individual. This is the perfect workshop for a child and adult who love exploring new creative crafts together! Important Information: - Note that the price is per person making a project, so please add to your order as many as will participate in making their own project. - Learn how to prep, sift enamel, clean fire scale, and fire with a handheld butane torch (torch will only be handled by adults). - Pairs of adult & child will have their own enameling station/will not be sharing materials. - Choose from a variety of copper metal shapes to enamel on. - Work with 11 Thompson powder enamel colors to choose your palette. - Use stencils and sgraffito tools to layer in your own unique designs. - All jewelry created will be ready to wear at the end of the workshop. - Students will be using lead-free Thompson enamel on copper metal. Enamel is a glassy compound applied to and bonded by heat (fusion) to a metal surface. Masks and safety goggles will be provided. - This workshop is for beginners and for those who’d like a refresher. - This class is appropriate for ages 8+ years and older with an adult who will handle all use of the blow torch. - All materials to create one necklace pendant per person are included. For more information visit: sandiegocraft.org Stay Connected on Facebook

The 2023 Studio Honors class presents "Space Between," an exhibition showcasing projects produced by the participating artists over the course of the winter and spring quarters. This is the final show of this two-quarter studio course, where students are prompted to build a body of work exploring conceptual and formal issues of their own choosing. The bodies of work in this exhibition focus on topics such as human rights, nature, gender roles, technology, and individual identity. All of the work reflects a deep commitment to the pursuit of meaningful answers in this tumultuous and haphazard world. The featured pieces range from painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture to multimedia collages, algorithmic artwork, and installations. Participating Artists: Larisa Barlan, Yutong Chen, Zongze Chen, Sayeh Dehestani, Noah Gonzalez, Rachel Heinemann, Katerina Husar Lazarova, Yufan Lu, and Camille Wang. For more information visit: visarts.ucsd.edu Stay Connected on Instagram

Join Oceanside Public Library and Glassless Minds for a free live poetry contest on Saturday, July 15 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Civic Center Library Courtyard at 330 N. Coast Highway. The Find Your Voice Poetry Contest is a one round, one poem poetry contest for adults that will offer 1st, 2nd and 3rd place cash prizes. Sign up starts at 4:30 p.m. and there are 17 spots. The poem does not need to be memorized and should be 5 minutes or less. The event will feature a short set by Rudy K. Francisco, who will also serve as a judge along with San Diego Poet Laureate Jason Magabo Perez and Dr. Angélica M. Yañez. Glassless Minds is a local non-profit that has facilitated and fostered constructive emotional outlets and personal expression in an accepting and safe space for teenagers and young adults through a variety of mediums: spoken word poetry, creative writing, poetry, music and visual art for the last ten years. Support for this program is provided by The Friends of the Oceanside Public Library. The Oceanside Public Library aims to empower the community by promoting literacy, information access, civic engagement, cultural inclusiveness and openness to new ideas. Related links: Oceanside Public Library on Instagram

Harold López-Nussa: “Timba a la Americana” features López-Nussa on piano and his brother, Ruy Adrian López-Nussa, on drums. Cuban pianist and composer Harold López-Nussa sets out to capture the stirring sensation of walking the streets of Havana with an exhilarating marriage of jazz and Cuban pop music. López-Nussa has built a global following in jazz and beyond, having burst upon the international scene when he won first prize in the solo piano competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2005. He has gone on to play the world’s leading jazz venues and festivals. His tight-knit quartet captivates audiences with a driving vivaciousness that “bridges generations and genres” (Billboard). His music reflects the full range and richness of Cuban music, with its distinctive combination of classical, folkloric, and popular elements, in addition to a virtuosic embrace of jazz improvisation and interaction. DownBeat wrote, “López-Nussa’s single-note grace is akin to Herbie Hancock’s, and his two-fisted attacks are as joyous as Chick Corea’s.” Related links: Athenaeum Music and Arts Library website | Instagram | Facebook Harold López-Nussa website | Instagram

Local author Sarina Dahlan's "Preset" imagines a world where what's left of human civilization is highly controlled in order to avoid extinction.

Media Arts Center San Diego (MACSD) In partnership with University of California San Diego (UCSD) will offer Free workshops for Beat Making, composing, and podcast classes at the City Heights Idea Lab starting in July. Sessions Session 1: July 11 to August 3 Session 2: August 8 to August 31 Session 3: September 5 to September 28 The Beat Making class will have a stipend of $300 per session and film composing will have a stipend of $150. That means that students are paid to participate as long as they meet minimum attendance requirements. Please see the fliers for other workshops: Film Composing: https://forms.gle/dghTQw4HHXK8XDZm9 Podcasting: https://forms.gle/K97MDAifJSxwnhx7A For more information visit: mediaartscenter.org

Antoine Predock created buildings around the world — from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg to the College of Media and Communications in Qatar and public spaces like the Arizona Science Center in Phoenix and the Padres baseball stadium in San Diego.

Artist Brian Van de Wetering will present Under Glass – An exhibition of experimental lumen prints, on display as part of the City of Encinitas Visual Art program at the Encinitas Community Center from 28 July, 2023 to 18 October, 2023. A reception and artist lecture will be held at the Community Center on 9 September, 2023 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The artist lecture will start at 6:30 p.m. Under Glass is the culmination of five years of experimentation with the photographic process known as lumen printing. A lumen print is a type of contact print or photogram made by exposing photographic paper to light without the use of a camera. Mr. Van de Wetering creates his images by painstakingly arranging various botanical objects – flowers, leaves, seeds, and vegetables – on photographic paper and exposing them to direct sunlight. Pressed tightly between pieces of glass, the ultraviolet light, heat, moisture, and unique chemistry of the botanicals and photographic paper combine to create an image. He then scans these images at high resolution and adjust settings in Photoshop and Lightroom to enhance and reveal subtle colors. Although small prints of these works have been included in juried group exhibitions in the past, Mr. Van de Wetering became convinced that the only way to show the complexity and singular beauty of these works would be to make large-scale prints. In collaboration with local artist and master printer John R. Mireles, Mr. Van de Wetering has created 18 large-scale works for this exhibition ranging in size from 20” x 25” to 80” x 36”. This is the first time that this work has been printed and exhibited at this scale. For more information visit: brianvandewetering-photo.com

They can write essays for students, create art and music, and even help with office work.

The Balourdet Quartet, based in Boston, Massachusetts, are past LJMS Fellowship Artists and are currently in residence at the New England Conservatory’s Professional String Quartet Program. The quartet received the Grand Prize at the 2021 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition, as well as prizes in international competitions including the Banff, Paolo Borciani, and Carl Nielsen competitions. They were also awarded the Gold Medal at the 2020 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the 2021 Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition. For more information visit: theconrad.org Stay Connected on Facebook / Instagram