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Explore photography and digital media arts with Outside the Lens’ after-school program for students in grades 6-8: Content Creator Lab. OTL’s Content Creator Lab brings together youth to create and share their own digital content. Students will learn the fundamentals of photography and filmmaking, media arts and more, and then apply those skills to write, create, edit, and share their own photos, animations, films, and digital content. You will learn from our Media Educators through fun, hands-on projects to explore and express your unique voice. Through participatory, arts-integrated projects, you will explore the world around you and express your story. Date | Monday through Thursday from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., from March 21 to June 27 Location | Clark Middle School This event is free and open to the public. For questions regarding this program please email grants@outsidethelens.org.

Join us for THE Party in the Park… Full Throttle! The San Diego Automotive Museum is hosting on September 30, 2023 from 5-10 p.m. Your ticket includes complimentary valet, three-course seated dinner by Ron McMillan's Catering Solutions, signature drinks, hosted bar, fine wines by Danica Patrick's vineyard Somnium in Napa Valley, fun surprises, line dancing, and new exhibits featuring classics and exotic cars! Attire is Rhinestone Cowboy and Shane Smith and the Saints (an acclaimed country music group featured on Yellowstone season 5 with Kevin Costner) will be performing live. Money raised through this event benefits the Vocational Education Academy for at-risk youth, and the Museum’s preservation, expansion, and conservation of automotive artifacts. This event will be honoring Discount Tire as well. Tickets have SOLD OUT 2 years in a row. Get your tickets early… You won’t want to miss our biggest event of the year! For more information, contact Sharon Smith at (619) 987-8020, email or head to our website. Stay Social! Facebook | Instagram | Twiter

International Folk Music Awards 2017 Artist of the Year Ordinary Elephant captivates audiences with their emotionally powerful and vulnerable songs, letting the listener know that they are not alone in this world. The collaboration of husband-and-wife Pete and Crystal Damore, their connection, and their influences (such as Gillian Welch, Guy Clark, Anais Mitchell) all meet on stage. The Associated Press is calling their latest album, Honest, “one of the best Americana albums of the year.” “There is nothing at all ordinary with this elephant. They are smack dab in the tradition that I have always loved but have both (all four?) feet in the 21st Century. This is rich ground. Listen!” -Tom Paxton "Crystal and Pete, Ordinary Elephant, are an extraordinarily well-matched duo, whose music seems to pour out of singular place, like Buddy and Julie Miller, Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer, Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings. Two become one, in song. Stripped down, intertwined clawhammer banjo and guitar, and hand in glove harmonies surprise the listener with focused intensity and musical mastery. Songs are pouring out of them, and I suspect their rise will be steady. I'm a fan." - Mary Gauthier "I’m a big fan of Ordinary Elephant—their intimate songs, the weaving harmonies, and the stories that draw you in as if you were gathered around an enchanted campfire." - Eliza Gilkyson "Their harmonies, singing, the whole presentation...as genuine as it gets" - Lloyd Maines www.ordinaryelephant.net

In “Tomándome mi tiempo, conversaciones en la morada interior” you walk into a candlelit limbo, an in-between places, a liminal pocket of disfigured time and space. Here I meet with Santa Teresa and experience transcendental, faith fueled conversation with her, we find ourselves dismembered, lost, used. More a symbol than a home. I have wondered between the fibers I have found light in silence, I have found rebellion in whispers, autonomy in light touches. I invite you to have faith and walk the liminal space of mysticism and madness with me, and Santa Teresa. The opening reception takes place on Thursday, April 28 at 6 p.m. at the Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility UC San Diego. The exhibit will be available for the public at 3 p.m. on the following dates: • Friday, April 29 • Saturday, April 30 • Monday, May 2 • Tuesday, May 3 • Wednesday, May 4 • Thursday, May 5 For more information, please visit visarts.ucsd.edu/news-events/mariaantoniaeguiartesouza or call (858) 534-2230.

Visual artist Melanie Taylor will open a solo exhibition of new works at Bread and Salt, "Terrain," featuring works on paper and paintings. Taylor's atmospheric and evocative works center on natural spaces, with trees and plantlife that evoke more movement and urgency than any sort of peaceful landscape painting. Her paintings are vividly colored, though her drawings tend to be monochromatic. On view in the main gallery, with an opening reception from 5-8 p.m. on July 9, 2022. Note: closing date is TBA. Related links: Bread and Salt on Instagram Melanie Taylor on Instagram Bread and Salt information

Pianist Wynona Wang was selected as First Prize winner of the 2018 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, which is just the latest in a series of impressive first prize performances, along with the 2017 Wideman International Piano Competition in Louisiana. Wynona was also awarded the 2019 “Charlotte White” Career Grant awarded by the Salon de Virtuosi in New York City. Come see her perform at the California Center for the Arts on Sunday, May 22 at 3 p.m..

Join us, Sunday, June 12 at 3 pm, for an Artist talk at the PHES Gallery with visual artist Alvaro Alvarez. "Being a curious boy by nature, I get excited about what the process of creating art can reveal – and how the work becomes alive and has a will of its own. I paint with ink because I relate to its materiality’s innate emotion and flexibility to conform to any formal rigor. Ink being liquid, it has a mind of its own; a quality which I respect in and out of my studio. Loaded with pigment, ink’s free-will grants it a human quality, and portrays the strength and power of its color." Alvaro is one of the featured artists in the PHES Gallery's newest exhibition "Boundaries and Connection," with Kaori Fukuyama and Kline Swonger. Free event. Public parking adjacent to the courtyard in the Coaster parking lot.

Exhibition dates: Mar. 1 through Apr. 7, 2022 Opening reception: Thursday, Mar. 3, from 4-7 p.m. Mesa College Art Gallery, FA 103 Free Parking in Lot # 1 for reception. Park in STUDENT spaces ONLY. From the gallery: Ben Allanoff and Anna Stump’s two-person exhibition delves into the contradictions of the Mojave Desert, a militarized training ground but also a place notable for incredibly tenacious forms of life. Stump’s paintings and Allanoff’s assemblages transform discarded and found materials into haunting artworks. The works represent an ironic juxtaposition: an ecology where a huge military enterprise focused on training people to kill, coexists with diverse life-forms that for millions of years have evolved, adapted, and persisted with mind-boggling creativity and determination. The exhibition renders visible often overlooked aspects of violence, conquest and resilience in the desert. The exhibition will also include a lecture by San Diego filmmaker Evan Apodaca who through interactive works and documentary video explores the ways that the military shaped and exploited San Diego. RELATED: Filmmaker Points Surreal Lens To San Diego’s Military History Learn more from the gallery website. About the artists: Ben Allanoff is an artist working primarily in large scale sculptural installations, mostly temporary and/or collaborative, but some permanent as well. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University, and earned his B.A. from Duke. Prior to his work as a public and gallery artist, Ben was a filmmaker and a screenwriting fellow at the Sundance Institute. He also was Chair of the non-profit Topanga Creek Watershed Committee, which under his guidance worked to diminish the negative impacts of human activity on a fragile and important ecosystem in the Santa Monica Mountains, mostly through community education and political activism. His work promoting non-toxic methods of pest control earned awards from the County of Los Angeles and from elected state representatives. Anna Stump is an artist and arts educator. She earned her Bachelor’s degree at Occidental College and her Master of Fine Arts at San Diego State University. She was a Senior Fulbright Scholar to Turkey in 2006-2007 (kloeamongtheturks.com) and was recently awarded residencies at Cill Rialaig, Ireland, Centre Pompadour, France, Guapamacataro, Mexico, and Hrisey, Iceland. Anna teaches studio art courses at Grossmont College in El Cajon. Anna is the founder of the San Diego Feminist Image Group (fig-art.blogspot.com). She is one-half of the painting team Hill&Stump (hillandstump.com). She is co-owner of the Moonhuts, a photo and events studio in Los Angeles (moonhuts.com). She is currently rehabilitating a large property that will support the arts in the high desert near Joshua Tree (desertdairy.com) Related links: Mesa College Gallery on Instagram

moses was a Hawaiian artist known for the intricate hats he'd sculpt out of everyday brown paper bags. In a new exhibition at the Mingei, "Fold, Twist, Tie," a collection of his 1980s paper bag hats will be on view alongside his photography of beachgoers wearing his sculptures. The exhibition is intended to bring the process to life, and I especially love the juxtaposition of a hat as an art object against a photo of it being worn. There's no doubt the wearer marveled or respected the work, but it feels deliciously far removed from a modern "don't touch the artwork" sensibility. One of my favorites is the towering "Sun Bishop" hat, constructed of repeated tube-like lengths of rolled paper bag strips, sitting high on the head like a bishop (fun fact: a bishop's hat is called a "mitre"). It's not the most elaborate of the designs in the exhibition, but that's part of its charm. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS (from "5 works of art to see in San Diego in April") From the museum: This exhibition at Mingei International Museum features whimsical and sculptural paper hats made by self-taught artist, moses. Self-taught artist moses is best known for his whimsical and sculptural paper bag hats. Each piece mimics materials ranging from leather to bamboo and challenges conventional ideas with extraordinary and elaborate design. FOLD, TWIST, TIE explores the process behind the making of his hats, pairing them with recently restored photos of his creations, often worn by enthusiastic participants. The hats were given grand titles by the artist, such as Sun Queen and Thelonious. The utilitarian paper bag, usually used to hold groceries or lunch, is transformed in this exhibition. Viewers will delight in the creative designs of moses and are sure to leave the show rethinking this simple material. Related links: The Mingei on Instagram The Mingei on Facebook

The La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club, one of California's most treasured beachfront resorts for almost 87 years, will host the 134th Annual Pacific Coast Men’s Doubles Tennis Championship, March 2-5. Many of the best NCAA Men's college teams in the country are expected to compete, including: Boston College Ball State Butler University California Lutheran University Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) Nebraska Pepperdine Pomona-Pitzer San Diego State University Stanford UC Berkeley UC Davis UC Santa Barbara UC Los Angeles UC San Diego University of Michigan University of San Diego University of Southern California Villanova Also entering this tournament will be top teaching pros, promising juniors, college coaches and former tour players, making this one of the most interesting and unusual competitor fields in the country. “We are very happy to host the 134th Annual Pacific Coast Men’s Doubles Championship at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club,” said Tournament Director Bill Kellogg. “Tennis fans are going to have a great opportunity to watch the top collegiate players in the country along with a strong field of independent competitors. We are looking forward to four days of high-level doubles competition.” Additional tournament information is available on the Pacific Coast Men’s Doubles Championship website. Named one of the “Top 50 Tennis Resorts in the World” by Tennis Resorts Online, the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club's reputation as a top tennis destination started when it attracted its first major tournament – the Pacific Coast Men's Doubles Championship in 1942. The tournament is one of the five-oldest tennis events in the world and the second oldest tennis event in the United States. First held in 1890 at The Hotel Del Monte in Monterey, California, the event was created to promote the sale of real estate on the Monterey peninsula. The original concept pitted the best players from the East versus those from the West. This coast-to-coast rivalry was the inspiration for the Davis Cup. Past winners of the Pacific Coast Men’s Doubles Championship include some on the greatest names in tennis, including Jack Kramer, Ted Schroeder, Bobby Riggs, Pancho Segura, Don Budge, Tony Trabert, Stan Smith, Bob Lutz, Arthur Ashe, Dennis Ralston and John McEnroe. The Club will also host the USTA National Hard Court Championships for Women’s 50-90 age groups and La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club Hard Court Tournament for Men’s 60-85 age groups from Monday, May 15, through Sunday, May 21. Stay Social! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter