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Exhibition Dates: May 6 – June 10, 2023 Reception: Saturday May 6, 4:30 – 7 P.M. Welcome to Spring with a celebration of California Plein air in the Sweetwater Valley in South San Diego County. In the exhibition find a celebration of the diversity of cultures in our region. The exhibition Cultural Celebrations will feature works by California Art Club members that showcases the artists’ personal cultural celebrations, or celebrations that they have had the opportunity to witness. Exhibiting artists from Southern California include Cliff Barnes, Nikita Budkov, Gloria Chadwick, Chona Doering, Jessica Falcone, Samantha Fried, Larry Hemmerich, Carolyn Hesse-Low, Joseph Iantorno, Cheryl Kampe, Chuck Kovacic, Margaret Larlham, Robert MacPherson, Hilary Paul McGuire, Linda Morton, Lisa Mozzini-McDill, Nadalena Radis-Cobbs, Junn Roca, Naomi Shachar, Alexey Steele, Andria Sullivan, John Paul Thornton, Durre Waseem and Sharon Weaver. The exhibition also features a “wet gallery” with artworks painted in Bonita during the open Paint-Out with Mehl Lawson (9 a.m. May 4 & 5) and artwork painted at the museum during the “Gathering of Nations” held in Nov. of 2022. Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

The country music icon played before a crowd of 110,905 fans at Texas A&M’s Kyle Field in College Station on Saturday, according to Billboard.

Stop by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture's drop-in pop-up event to learn more about the Creative City initiative, share your insights into the creative future of your neighborhood and surrounding communities, and help us create something unique in our hands-on art-making experience. Fun for all ages, and refreshments will be provided (while supplies last!). Learn more about the Creative City community pop-ups here.

Join the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture for our drop-in pop-up event to learn more about the Creative City initiative and share your insights into the creative future of your neighborhood and surrounding communities. Take in the fantastic view of Mission Trails Regional Park and participate in our fun, hands-on art-making experience. Fun for all ages, and refreshments will be provided (while supplies last!). Learn more about the Creative City community pop-ups here.

Join us every first Thursday of the month from Memorial Day to Labor Day for a monthly film screening curated by Standard Fantastic Pictures’ (SFP) Omar Lopex. The screening will include a feature film inspired by our special exhibition Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Breaking the Binding and local SFP shorts. Like Álvarez Muñoz, Standard Fantastic Pictures examines the nature of the border and embraces an ‘artivistst’ (art + activist) perspective in art-making. The double feature will include feature film "Days of Heaven" (1978) and two short films by artist Hugo Crosthwaite: "CARAVAN" (2022) and "Tía Juana Mi Amor" (2020). Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Internal emails, interviews and in-app messages show Uber and Lyft deployed a powerful lobbying playbook to stop minimum wage laws in Minnesota. But drivers had a playbook of their own.

On View: April 2 through May 3 Humanities Center Gallery, Saints Tekakwitha and Serra Hall Joan Perlman is a multi-disciplinary artist who has exhibited widely and received numerous awards and fellowships for her work inspired by the volcanic landscape of Iceland. Her videos, paintings, and drawings consider the raw, convulsive beauty of this place while drawing attention to the perils of accompanying glacial melt. As the artist herself has noted, “The experience of observing nature over an extended period of time in this subpolar region of the earth reveals the troubling presence of climate change, which includes receding glaciers and warming temperature trends.” Perlman’s work both documents and resists the morphing terrains that compel her. Recent videos such as "Dispersion" (2015), "Break" (2014) and "What Remains" (2011), combine spectacular footage of moving ice and water with original soundtracks made in collaboration with a range of composers. As part of the ongoing Screenings series, the Humanities Center will debut Perlman’s most recent video project, "Sweep" (2024), for San Diego audiences. The gallery is open Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For Information on Parking, visit here.

Honky tonk through the eras of country music! Hear iconic songs played in chronological order, from the 40s and 50s to current day and everything in between. Live music fans love country music in San Diego. Join Cody Carter and Ramblin Fever with ZB Savoy and The Red Headed Strangers as they turn the iconic Belly Up into a Honky Tonk on Sunday, February 25th. Special guests include Trey Hill and Ash Easton. Hear music from Hank, Willie and Waylon to Alan Jackson, George Strait and Chris Stapleton. Get your tickets today to take part in a night of country music you won't forget in San Diego.

The Scarlet Pimpernel is a swashbuckling action/adventure musical, based on Baroness Orczy’s famous 20th-century novel about the French Revolution and the battle for Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. With an epic, sweeping book by Nan Knighton and a rousing and passionate score by Knighton and Frank Wildhorn, The Scarlet Pimpernel is a colorful window into 18th century French and British history. The show’s most popular numbers include “Into The Fire,” “When I Look At You,” “You Are My Home,” and “Where’s the Girl.” Wheelchair seating available, contact info@eastcountyarts.org for details. Related links: East County Performing Arts website | Facebook | Instagram

Nineteenth-century artists were enamored with polar regions and viewed these extreme locales as unparalleled sources of visual wonder. Freighted with romantic ideas about the sublime and scientific debates about geological time, frozen places factored into the representational interests of many leading American painters like Frederic Edwin Church, whose classic investigation After Icebergs with a Painter (1856) lends this exhibition a title. As part of the Humanities Center’s multiyear inquiry into landscapes and human meaning, "After Icebergs: Conceptual Photography and Climate Crisis" looks at the persistence of creative fascination with ice during an era when glacial melt and accompanying species extinction are urgent concerns. "After Icebergs" will feature photographic works by Mark Dion and Farrah Karapetian, whose photographs suggest the varied approaches to this subject. Dion is a conceptual and installation-based artist whose ongoing project, Ursus Maritimus (begun 1994), documents the often uncanny framing of polar bears in museum dioramas, even as the species itself disappears from its primary habitat. Karapetian is an artist and writer whose series "Slips and Pushes" (2013–2015) deploys melting ice as both a formal element and as a metaphor for, among other things, forced migration due to climate change. Karapetian’s color photograms, cameraless images, are eerily luminous while Dion’s blunt black-and-white documentation prompts questions about the purposes of museum displays. A rare selection of works from "Ursus Maritimus" and "Slips and Pushes" make up the installation at the Humanities Center Gallery. The gallery is open Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information visit: sandiego.edu