Flourish is the name of the game for Growing Places, the first of the annual food and farm art extravaganza benefitting San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Project (Roots). Roots is a non-profit organization of volunteers eagerly and excitedly seeking a more connected and honest food system in San Diego.
Growing Places, on Saturday, August 1, 2009, is both a celebration of the agricultural abundance and potential of our region and a call to action on behalf of people in the community to all people living in San Diego County and beyond: know your food, know the people who grow it, and where it grows, and have fun with it!
Growing Places will also feature a loungy food and art reading room, art+response projects, art installations featuring issues about food and water, a raffle of prizes from San Diego’s top business that encourage the local arts and local food currents, 100% local treats, and local craft beer.
Food-and-farm themed art in all styles and media, made especially for Growing Places by residents of San Diego County, will be showcased in a silent auction to raise money for Roots’ farmland project and future education center. From 7:30 pm into the night, three local San Diego bands will play live original music: Unum, Old Man Hands, Skavolutionary Orchestra.
Folks can get in for an easy $10, or less if you bring organic vegetable plants or non-perishables for the donation station, to be donated to Victory Gardens SD and SD Food Bank. Pre-sale tickets can be purchased for only $7 at The Linkery, 3794 30th St 92104, North Park’s restaurant-hero of local food, and City Farmers Nursery, 4832 Home Ave 92105, the homegrown and delightful urban farm and organic garden center.
Growing Places starts at 3pm on the fourth floor of Front Place, a business building located at 1446 Front Street (92101). This event came together because of an increasing rally for a sensible and enjoyable food system and many hands doing the work of creating it.
Posted By jordan | 7/30/2009 | 12:09 PM | Add a Comment
As we've mentioned before, we partnered with Society6 to offer a $500 emerging artist grant. The people have spoken, and 211 applicants have been widdled down to 10 finalists. Peep the winners here, and if you have any favorites leave us a comment below.
Cash, Money, Sezio.
Posted By zack | 7/24/2009 | 9:22 AM | Add a Comment
Back in January, Sezio interviewed Brooklyn-based Illustrator / Adventurer Morgan Blair. We were all so enthralled by her, that we created a new program just to get her and her work out west.
Sezio's Artist Exchange Program will launch in August when Morgan and a friend road trip across the country. Upon arrival into San Diego, Morgan will stay at Luce Loft for a week and will be creating a custom installation to go with the various work she crams into her car.
Sezio will host a two night opening, August 14th and 15th at downtown San Diego's Luce Loft. We're excited to have Karl Strauss and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego on board for this initial event. MCASD has provided a travel stipend for Morgan, and in return Morgan will be leading an Illustration workshop at MCASD's downtown building on August 13th. More details to come... To RSVP on Facebook, click here.
Posted By zack | 7/14/2009 | 11:21 AM | View Comments (2)
Love art but can't quite manage those triple-digit price tags? Do you often attend art openings in good faith, loitering around favorite pieces in hopes that the artist might just take pity and adjust the cost for a kind youth of your financial stature? Tired of knowing all you're going to score is some free booze and savory appetizers? If you've answered yes to any of the following, chances are you are suffering from a little something I like to call the EWEP Syndrome (Empty Walls/Empty Pockets). Well, there's good news and there's bad news. The bad news is that we're still in a recession. The good news is that the artist collective Yeller is proud to announce their second opening at Octopus Ink's Wharffice (a design studio on Driscoll's wharf) this Saturday, July 11 from 7-11 pm.
Yeller's mission is both simple and admirable. They want to produce and promote art on their own terms, free from the high-brow rigamarole that far too often accompanies the gallery scene. More than anything, they are seeking to connect with their fellow San Diegans on a creative platform, while still remaining accessible. (Two things that are not often synonymous in many art circles). In their own words, "Yeller caters to the underrepresented population of artists and art appreciators in San Diego."
This will be the collective's second show, and this time around the crew has taken inspiration from the gallery's seaside surroundings, creating pieces of "a small scale original aquatic artwork", says Yeller member Lindsay Preston. While the theme of this show has changed with its new location, Yeller's committment to showcasing unique environments remains an important pillar of their operation.
"By leveraging the current real estate void," Preston continues, "Yeller has showcased work in un-rented commercial spaces, creating an event that results in publicity for the unused space while simultaneously providing a venue for us to present our work."
Visit Yeller's site to follow their installation process, as well as for a sneak peak into Saturday's show.
Posted By jordan | 7/8/2009 | 10:47 AM | Add a Comment
Good news girls and boys: school is back in session. On Saturday, June 27, from 7-11 pm at North Park's Point of Departure (3712 30th St) the good folks that brought you the first Homework Show will be presenting the results of their second assignment. This Homework Show will be a massive zine swap, featuring a large variety of artists and designers from San Diego and beyond.
For those who haven't studied up already, here's a quick wiki-cheat-sheet: a zine is an "inexpensively produced, self-published, underground publication usually reproduced via photocopier on a variety of colored paper stock". Some zines are sold, and some are given away for free.
In this case, all zines will be free (with a relatively refreshing catch)--the zines in this show will be displayed, then followed by a period where artists can trade each of their zines for another artist's zine. Similar to swapping baseball cards, the aim is to make a fun (and most importantly, free) event where artists can gain exposure, meet with each other (in person!), and be inspired by a barter economy. After the bartering there will be music (including the DJ stylings of Lucha and Triceratron's JohnZ) as well as the usual jolly-good social hour (or two, etc).
Don't have a zine to trade? Don't sweat it. All attendees are welcome to trade something for an artist's zine they'd like to have--something intangible, like praise, or something tangible, like a service, object, clever treasure, etc. Artists may also give their zines away for no trade if they wish.
Most importantly, however, Homework Show founders Steph Walker and Juliana Miloseski urge everyone "to interact in a meaningful way. Get to know each other. No one has any money these days, so friends and collectives are a few of our most important resources."
For more information, be sure to check out http://thehomeworkshow.wordpress.com/.
Posted By jordan | 6/25/2009 | 11:54 AM | View Comments (3)