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Women are underrepresented as artists and songwriters and make up less than 3% of credited music producers. For women of color that number is even lower. That's why Willie Mae is so important.

NOTE: Extended through Jan. 8, 2022. The 2021 San Diego Art Prize recipients are Beliz Iristay, Panca, Hugo Crosthwaite and Perry Vasquez. To commemorate the prize, the recipients will show new work together in a group exhibition at Bread and salt gallery, opening Oct. 9 with a reception from 5-8 p.m. RELATED: Artist Beliz Iristay's 'Movable' Sense Of Home RELATED: Hugo Crosthwaite: A Life In (Stop) Motion RELATED: Panca's 'El Más Allá' Opens At The New Children's Museum RELATED: The California myth of artist Perry Vasquez Opening reception: Saturday, Oct. 9, 5-8 p.m. Bread and Salt gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. From the KPBS/Arts newsletter, Oct. 7, 2021: This weekend, the 2021 San Diego Art Prize exhibition opens at Bread and Salt in Logan Heights, with work from prize winners Panca, Hugo Crosthwaite, Perry Vásquez and Beliz Iristay. The prize has been around since 2006, dreamed up by the San Diego Visual Arts Network, primarily using a mentorship model with two outstanding emerging artists linked with two established artists to create work together. In 2020, the split between emerging and established was set aside, and the four finalists that year (Melissa Walter, Kaori Fukuyama, Alanna Airitam and Griselda Rosas) all agreed to share the honor rather than wait for one winner to be announced, setting the new precedent. I've been following each of the four 2021 artists, and my most recent feature is on Beliz Iristay, who calls Mexico, San Diego and Turkey home — read it here. You can also learn about the way Panca draws on myth and her Tijuana street art roots to invent her own disruptive, vivid and weird narratives. Or read about the way Crosthwaite plays with folklore in his murals and how he uses stop-motion animation to bring portraits, drawings — and his process — to life in my feature here. Artist Perry Vásquez is also having a big month — in addition to showing works in the Art Prize exhibition, he will also open a solo show at Sparks Gallery, "Oasis." All told, he'll be throwing some 75 to 80 works into the world this month alone. I'm especially fond of Vásquez's massive palm tree paintings, including some of them on fire (timely!). He told me that in painting these trees, they become almost sentient. "The format suggests a kind of human-type scale, the anthropomorphic quality. So I feel like I'm painting portraits. I feel like they're very individual," Vásquez said. Watch for my feature on his work next week. Each artist has been busy installing works at the gallery, including a mixture of new works and murals plus older faves we may have seen before. At Saturday's opening reception, stick around for a performance by The Color Forty Nine. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS Sign up for the KPBS/Arts newsletter here.

Ludivina Vera moved into her daughter and son-in-law's National City home out of necessity due to her health.

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They walk on wind, they breathe, they hunker down in the wind, robots without batteries, chips, just a system of levers highly attuned to the environment they inhabit. This course explores the mechanics and philosophy behind Theo Jensen’s “Strandbeests” and other artistic creations that interact with the elements. Far from just a show and tell this course offers materials, knowledge, and space to support design and construction of these creations. This is an in-person workshop. 3rd Grade to 5th Grade

From the organizer: Steinway Artist Susan Merdinger presents her program Four Centuries of Variations, featuring stunning piano works by Beethoven, Schumann, and local award-winning composer Aaron Alter, as well as Franz Liszt's ever popular Paganini Etude No.6 based on the 24th Violin Caprice. A Two-time Gold Medalist of the Global Music Awards and Winner of the American Prize, Merdinger will enhance her performance with commentary on the genre of variations from Baroque to Modern times. Follow on social media: Facebook + Youtube

This 75 minute class takes a deeper focus of Musical theatre dance. Students should have a basic understanding of dance technique. Class will focus on developing artistry, picking up choreography, and and fun energetic appreciation of Musical Theatre Dance. Class will include a physical warm up and different dance combinations. This class is open to both teens and adults, must be 16 to join. Some exceptions considered, email info@teatrosandiego.org with any questions! Drop ins accepted, registration encouraged: https://classbug.com/businesses/3400/offerings

Every Ocean Hughes (EOH), f.k.a. Emily Roysdon (born 1977), is an transdisciplinary artist and writer. EOH’s recent projects take the form of performance, photographic installations, print making, text, video, and curating. EOH was editor and co-founder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective, LTTR. Her many collaborations include music with The Knife, Colin Self, and JD Samson & MEN; costume design for choreographers Levi Gonzalez, Vanessa Anspaugh, Faye Driscoll, and the band Le Tigre. Solo exhibitions include Studio Voltaire, London (2022); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2022); Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2017); Secession, Vienna (2015); PARTICIPANT INC, New York (2015); Art in General, New York (2011); and the Berkeley Art Museum (2010). EOH has received commissions for new work from Tate Modern, London (2012, 2017), the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2013–14); Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (2013–14); and the Kitchen, New York (2010). EOH’s work was featured in the 11th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2016); the Biennale of Sydney (2014); Future Generation Art Prize at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013); the Whitney Biennial 2010, New York; Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain (2010); Greater NY, MoMA/PS1 (2010); and The Generational, New Museum (2009). She is currently the Sachs Visiting Professor at University of Pennsylvania. http://everyoceanhughes.com/ Date/Location: Oct. 15, 2021 @1:00pm Virtual Zoom Link For more information on this event please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/every-ocean-hughes-remote-guest-lecture-tickets-186336356057

"Together, so many years," writes Juan Felipe Herrera, former U.S. poet laureate, in his recent poem "Tantos Años Juntos," created to encourage farmworkers to get vaccinated.

This weekend in the arts: "Sugar Houses," UCSD MFA Open Studios, Xavier Foley, "Reimagined: The Artist's Book," "Expressions of Black Joy and Unity," and "Something's Brewing: Tango and Tacos."