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Together the artists explore their experience of the female body through a lens of both fecundity and loss, of excess and containment. Scale and material play a pivotal role in both artists’ work, defying expectations with installations that confront and engage the viewer’s body. Both of them mothers, the title Tether alludes to the sensation of being inextricably tethered to the body of others — to their children certainly but also to partners, to the varying social expectations of artist / mother / woman. Tether also examines their technical processes: Updegraff merges a multitude of materials together in her sculptures, using the delicacy of substances like thread and paper, then shackling them with industrial touches of cement, wood or metal. Carter works in a similar way with imagery, building up layers of images and melding them within her paintings, tethering them all back into one space onto one surface. Opening reception April 8 from 6-9 p.m.; preview rsvp info@oolongallery.com for April 6 from 5-8 p.m.

Executive Producer: William Lawrence | Director: Isaac Artenstein | Producer: David Richardson Complimentary for San Diego History Center Members and Film Underwriters General Public: $15 Reception at The San Diego History Center in Balboa Park Wine, Beer, Light Refreshments Program and Premiere (screened at MOPA) at 5:45 pm RSVP by Monday July 25th The Journeys of Harry Crosby is a one hour documentary by award-winning director Isaac Artenstein about Harry Crosby, renowned photographer and historian, whose journeys have resulted in classic books such as “The Painted Caves of Baja California,” “The Last of the Californios," ”Antigua California” and “Tijuana 1964.” Inspired by Harry’s richly illustrated books and on-camera testimonials, Artenstein and his crew traveled throughout Baja California to retrace his journeys from land and air. The Journeys of Harry Crosby is an engaging documentary that embraces a life of creativity, adventure and shared bi-national stories that speak to a long-time spirit of mutual understanding and conservation between the U.S. and Mexico. * Please note, the Premiere will take place next door, at the Museum of Photographic Arts and guests will need to walk from the San Diego History Center to MOPA. Seating is limited. Related links: San Diego History Center on Instagram San Diego History Center on Facebook Event information from the SDHC website

San Diego Poetry Annual open reading, hosted by author Curran Jeffery and sponsored by SDPA and Bluestocking Books. All authors, fans of lit arts, and poets looking to publish are welcome. Come to watch, share, and celebrate. Sign up to read by email at mkklam@gmail.com or text (619) 957-3264. Please indicate in your message whether or not you’ve previously published work in SDPA.

Two-term incumbent Serge Dedina is leaving Imperial Beach’s top political office to return to his environmental activism roots.

The Eras Tour film is precisely as advertised: nothing more and nothing less than a pristine recording of a record-shattering concert spectacle. But will it really be a savior for the cinema industry?

Free Enjoy a cup of coffee and good conversation with fellow artists, and explore the exhibitions at OMA for free. Offered by OMA's Artist Alliance, sculptors, painters, photographers, and artists for all disciplines are welcome. Follow on social Media! Facebook + Instagram

The stripped down sound of some of Becky G's biggest hits offered a rare view of her artistry.

MAY 14 - JUNE 18, 2022 Opening reception Saturday, May 14th, 5pm - 8pm Gallery Hours Tuesdays - Sundays 11am - 4pm From the gallery: BEST PRACTICE is pleased to announce the opening of Loose Ends, an exhibition of a new body of work by artist Nikko Mueller that will include several folded and pleated paintings on canvas and a large-scale fiber-based sculpture. From the artist: "My work applies evocative processes to fundamental motifs and forms. I employ the formal language of color and geometric abstraction with its implication of order and platonic ideal. I then disrupt these institutions through a process of folding, re-ordering the relationships, then patching fractures, restoring forms, and finding uneasy compromises. In “Mutually Inconsistent,” the initial composition of stripes becomes irregular and disjunctive as I re-stretched the canvas into pleated folds. The tension of the canvas on its frame becomes exaggerated horizontally, while its vertical pull goes slack. For “Between two parentheses”, I collected clothes from friends in Philadelphia where I’m from, LA where I lived for over a decade and finally SD where I am currently. The piece sprawls the gallery floor like a giant serpentine body pillow - placid in places, twisted and writhing in others. Each opening attaches to another opening; neck holes consume pant legs, armholes intersect waistbands, dress bottoms join shirt bottoms, past connected to present. In all of these works, the solutions I seek are provisional and partial, tentative and tense. As I attempt to connect edges, blend transitions, and repair movements, issues of representation and abstraction intersect in a pictorial space oscillating between literal and illusory." — Nikko Mueller About the artist: Nikko Mueller (b. 1977 in Philadelphia, PA) explores patterns and systems, particularly in situations where they are subjected to transformation and flux. His work in various media apply the strategies and processes of abstract painting to address how we locate ourselves and extend our perspectives in unstable circumstances. He received his BFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, and his MFA from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA. Mueller has had solo exhibitions at Angles Gallery in Santa Monica, Sam Lee Gallery in Los Angeles, Southwestern College Art Gallery in Chula Vista, and the Athenaeum in La Jolla. He has had numerous group exhibitions at art venues throughout the United States including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, Honor Fraser, Green Gallery West, Quint Contemporary, Dust Gallery, R.B. Stevenson Gallery. Mueller is a Professor of Art at Southwestern College in Chula Vista. He currently lives and works in San Diego, California. Related links: Best Practice on Instagram Gallery information

This weekend in the arts: New exhibitions at Bread and Salt, Best Practice, Athenaeum Art Center, ICA San Diego North, Cannon Art Gallery, and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library; three stages of music at the San Diego Festival of Arts; and "Come Fall in Love" at The Old Globe.

The California Education Code mandates art, music, theatre and dance be offered to every student, yet less than one-in-five public schools today have a full-time arts and music teacher. That could change with a proposed state ballot measure that would guarantee funding for arts in public schools. Meanwhile, a new state law requires that all food waste be composted rather than sent to landfills. A composting specialist calls the new law a much needed "kick in the pants" for cities and counties that have not been doing this in the past. Plus, in what many are calling a surprise victory, an Indigenous woman was found not guilty on federal charges of blocking border wall construction in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.