I will be participating in this cool event representing the "artist"!

50 Scientists. 25 Bars. One Night. All Over San Diego County.

What sounds like the beginning of a rather bad joke is actually a fun community program by the Fleet Science Center. During Two Scientists Walk Into a Bar℠, local scientists will enjoy something we all do: a beer and good conversation in a local bar. Join them, and ask them anything you want! They'll be easy to spot. Just look for the sign that reads: "We are scientists. Ask us anything!"

We are happy to announce that our next event on Thursday, March 9, will be part of the San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering! To help celebrate science in San Diego, we are excited to host: Two Scientist Special Edition: A Scientists and an Artist Walk Into a Bar.

In this artistic variant on our popular Two Scientists Walk into a Bar program, we add a special twist by inviting artists to the mix. For this special edition, we have partnered with the San Diego Art Insititute, who will bring together artists and scientists in their upcoming exhibition Extra-Ordinary Collusion: Art & Science Collaboration. Many of the artists and scientists you'll meet during our March 9 event are participating in the exhibition.

We love hearing the questions being asked and seeing pictures of all the fun, so if you participate, be sure to post on social media, and tag the Fleet and use the hashtag #2scientists.

Stay tuned and visit over the next couple of weeks as we update the information on participating bars, artists and scientists.

Join Emerging Museum Professionals at 57 Degrees for the first of a new EMP event series: Craft (Wine) & Conversation!

I will be facilitating a conversation about advocacy. We will discuss how we define advocacy, from the personal to the political. Questions will include: What does advocacy mean to you? How do I advocate for myself as an emerging museum/arts/culture professional? How do we advocate for the future of our industry in a changing political climate?

We've collected some articles written by those established in the arts as well as by some emerging professionals to scratch the surface of these advocacy challenges. Check them out if you can. If not, come anyways and join the conversation!

EPIP Conference Reflections by Martin Furey: http://www.epip.org/epipsd_conf_reflections?utm_campaign=epip_sd_newsdec&utm_medium=email&utm_source=epip

Emerging Museum Professionals: The Next Radical Change Makers by Holly Godward:
https://hollygodward.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/emerging-museum-professionals-the-next-radical-change-makers/

To Fund or Not To Fund Shouldn’t Be The Question by George Stelluto: http://www.juilliard.edu/journal/fund-or-not-fund-shouldn’t-be-question

MAS Attack 13 opens at the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, California November 12, 2016. This is a pop-up exhibition for one night only, uniting 300 artists from San Diego and Los Angeles. Read more about it here.

Did you ever wonder what it would look like to see people who never play sports play a few rounds of volleyball?

Wonder no more! Come out to Silver Strand Beach in Coronado (Bay-side by the Aquatic Center) for this free highly entertaining event 12-5pm Sunday, October 2, 2016. I'll be playing on an "artist" team with 3 other lovely artists.

Sergott Contemporary Art Alliance

Exhibition: September 9 – November 9, 2016

Opening Reception: September 9, 2016 – 6-9pm – RSVP
Performance by Amigos Del REP: 7:30pm
Music by: MALAMANA

Location:
Private Gallery Space
Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067
RSVP: info@sergottart.com to receive directions

Artists:
Dia Bassett
Erin Dace Behling
Joseph Caroff
De La Torre Brothers
Jeanne Dunn
Emily Halpern
Belize Iristay
Robert Michael Jones
Yee Joon
Jeffrey Laudenslager
Echo Lew
Marco Miranda
Fred Ploeger
Heidi Rufeh
Jiela Rufeh
Deanne Sabeck

Image: Beliz Iristay, El Belis/Luggage, 2016 © Beliz Iristay

Connective Intimations is a group exhibition at HB Punto Experimental featuring artists Dia Bassett, Dani Dodge, Janice Grisnell, and Hugo Heredia. Join the August 13th closing celebration of new works, new collaborations, and new connections and hear the artists describe their inspiration, process, and more.

Artist Talk 7:30-8:00

Entrance to gallery is on the alley behind/south of Logan Ave. There will be signs to direct you.

Please RSVP to Hugo@HugoHeredia.com

Show runs through August 13, 2016.

Connective Intimations is a group exhibition at HB Punto Experimental featuring artists Dia Bassett, Dani Dodge, Janice Grisnell, and Hugo Heredia. Join the June 11th opening celebration of new works, new collaborations, and new connections. Stay tuned for more details.

Join San Diego Art Institute, partnering with Director/Curator of the Torrance Art Museum for MAS Attack: a one-night only nomadic series of exhibitions, taking place Saturday, March 19th from 6-10pm. MAS Attack travels from city to city as well as around various sites in Los Angeles, introducing artists to each other and building a wider community of networks. These events invite artists to select their own work and to come together for a single evening of informal networking; catching up with old friends and their work, discovering new artists, and meeting long-time favorites. MAS Attack foregrounds the interactions of artists and the social aspects of our shared obsessions with art.

Read more about the free event here.

View the Facebook Event Page here.

This Thursday! View my newest installation at the SDSU Downtown Gallery...

Attend a tour at 6:00 or 7:00 and engage in an interactive activity in front of my newest installation, It's Immaterial, Products of Invisible Labor. I don't want to ruin the surprise, but I will say that we will be making sounds! Come join. It will be a memorable and fun event.

In conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCASD), visual and performing arts converge at MCASD's new after-hours offering: Downtown at Sundown. On the third Thursday of every month from 5 to 8 PM, local, partners Stone Brewing Co. Store on Kettner, The Flight Path, and SDSU Downtown Gallery join MCASD to welcome you to the downtown neighborhood of Core-Columbia.

Enjoy free admission and guided tours of exhibitions at SDSU Downtown Gallery and MCASD, located just one block north of the museum. Take advantage of $5 drink and appetizer specials at The Flight Path Wine Bar & Bistro and Stone Brewing Company, next door to the museum on Kettner.

Energy: Made in Form, a group exhibition exploring the intangible concept of energy, visualized through the creative process. I will be exhibiting a new sculptural installation. Opening reception taking place 6-8pm February 4, 2016 at SDSU Downtown Gallery on 725 W. Broadway. DJ Professor Shadow will be spinning sounds inspired by our exhibition theme.

Free and open to the public.

Energy: Made in Form is inspired by San Diego State University’s current campus-wide Common  Experience theme 'Experience Energy'. From 19th century technology to handmade craft and the fantasy of science fiction, the exhibition explores the intangible concept of energy, visualized through the creative process. Varying approaches examine the amount of energy required in creating art, energy as a social issue, and energy as a state of being. Made in Form brings together works by SDSU School of Art + Design students and faculty with regional artists from California and Arizona.

Curated by Chantel Paul.

Visit the SDSU event page.

Film Premiere, Chicano Park tour, and Q & A with Mario at Gallery D

Join us to celebrate the release of a short documentary featuring legendary Chicano artist Mario Torero. Global arts network The Artist Odyssey will celebrate the release of its forth artist documentary, Mario Torero-Artivist, a short film featuring renowned muralist and Chicano painter Mario Torero. Open to the public, the event takes place at Gallery D in Barrio Logan, where the exhibition An Intersection of Muralists is currently on view, featuring Mario and other San Diego and Baja muralists.

To join the Chicano Park tour with Mario, meet at 4:15 at the kiosk/stage in Chicano Park. This free event requires RSVP at info@theartistodyssey.com or (858) 480-1264

View the Facebook Event here.

Film screening begins at 6:45.

Event: An Intersection of Muralists

Location: Gallery D, 1878 Main St, Unit D, San Diego, CA 92113

Dates: February 13-March 26, 2016. Gallery hours by appointment.
Opening Reception: February 13, 2016 6-10pm.
Closing Reception: March 12, 2016 6-10pm.
Opening and Closing events will coincide with Barrio Art Crawl.

Other Gallery Events: Film premiere, TBD

About: Each mural artist is painting in a 8' x 12' space of an interior gallery wall. Artists are reflecting on the neighborhood of Barrio Logan, having many historically valuable murals painted during the Chicano movement in the late 1960s/70s and beyond, which is marked physically by nearby Chicano Park. Today, the mural and street art movement is experiencing a resurgence as the Barrio Logan neighborhood is experiencing a lot of development and a lot of popularity amongst burgeoning arts groups.

Exhibiting artists: Manu Faves, Esther Gamez Rubio, George Garcia, Sake Saratoga, Mario Torero, Melissa Walter, and Anna Zappoli

For more information: contact Curator Dia Bassett: diabassett06@yahoo.com,
or contact Gallery Director Vijay Hingorani: vijay@galleryd.us

I will be leading a workshop on sculptural techniques using crochet. We will be recycling malleable materials such as fabric from used clothing, secondhand domestic wares (curtain, table cloth, etc.), wire, and more. No use for needles! I will teach you to use your hands and to build structure. I will close the workshop with a group project, when students can combine the smaller pieces into a larger installation. Bring a soft material that can be cut into continuous thread to personalize your piece.

For more information and to register and purchase tickets, check the facebook event link and the San Diego Art Institute website.

I am happy to announce that I will begin teaching art this September for two San Diego organizations: CoTA (Collaboration of Teachers and Artists) and City Tree Christian School. I will be working with children in grades K-12 all together. Over the last two years, I have had the opportunity to work as an Independent Curator, which I have really enjoyed, but I have also missed being an Educator. From 2010-2013, I worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego as a Teaching Artist and Gallery Educator, working with students and adults from all over the county.

Finally, I will be able to work with children again and help shape their creative minds! Stay tuned for news on future children's art exhibitions.

Artist Talk and Closing Party for San Diego Art Institute's exhibition What Remains: Debris and Detritus in Fine Art

5-7pm: Guided Tour of Exhibition and Artist Talk with participating artists: Rachel Erwin, Cat Chiu Phillips, Brian Benfer, Dia Bassett, Jon-Loren Bazan, Joshua Krause, Wick Alexander, Matthew Mahoney, Meegan Nolan, Larry Caveney, and Phillip Petrie, Iaian Gunn, and Bridget Rountree.

7-9pm: Closing Party for SDAI's Artist-in-Residence Matthew Mahoney and current exhibition What Remains: Debris and Detritus in Fine Art