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Mingei International Museum
1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States
These vibrant and intricately decorated objects are pysanky – a timeless art form of highly decorative eggs deeply rooted in Ukrainian heritage. Pysanky comes from the Ukrainian word pysaty, meaning “to write.” The eggs, which contain designs embedded with deep cultural significance, are often gifted as wishes for good fortune and protection. They also serve as a symbol of the Ukrainian ...
Mingei International Museum
1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States
Cups to Connections: Global Gestures of Hospitality embraces the art of hospitality and how the act of sharing a drink has the extraordinary power to bring people together, fostering a deep sense of community and belonging. Highlighting a wide range of global traditions, the objects in Cups to Connections tell the stories of heritage and craft from across ...
Museum of Photographic Art at San Diego Museum of Art
1649 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States
Cara Romero is an enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, and was raised between the contrasting settings of the reservation in Mojave Desert, California and the urban sprawl of Houston, Texas. Romero’s identity informs her visceral approach to representing cultural memory, collective history, and lived experience from a female Native American perspective. Romero is ...
Japanese Friendship Garden and Museum
2215 Pan American Road East, San Diego, CA, United States
In the serene embrace of the Japanese Friendship Garden and Museum, "Beyond Form: Transient Echoes" invites you on a journey through the ephemeral essence of existence. Inspired by the timeless wisdom of Zen philosophy, Glover created site-specific paintings that echo the impermanence and transience inherent in both nature and the material world. Within this exhibition, ...
The Timken’s fifth artist-in-residence, Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio will create her monumental drawings exploring memory and the blues of atmospheric perspective in June, culminating in a site-specific installation on view July 19 – September 29. The installation In Blue Time will be an exploration of memory, distance, and as the title suggests, the color blue. As Ortiz-Rubio ...
Institute of Contemporary Art Central
1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States
The Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego is thrilled to name the artists of NextGen 2024. This year’s exhibition of work by newly-graduated artists will run from July 13 to September 1, 2024 at ICA San Diego / Central located in San Diego’s famous Balboa Park. The annual exhibition, juried by a panel of art-world professionals, celebrates emerging ...
Mingei International Museum
1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States
Blue Gold highlights the roles of botany, chemistry, medicine, ecology, and economics in indigo cultivation. Part of the Getty’s 2024 Pacific Standard Time initiative, Blue Gold is focused on the intertwined histories of art and science, past and present, addressing some of the most complex challenges of our century. Featuring stunning objects of creative expression, coupled with ...
Institute of Contemporary Art Central
1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States
Nathalie Miebach (b.1972, Zeven, Germany, lives Boston, MA) foregrounds the human relationship to data in her meticulously researched practice. Using basketweaving techniques to transform a variety of material into sculpture, wall installations, and 2D weavings, Miebach has devised her own visual languages to describe our reciprocal relationship with data. Each material in a work by ...
