Open Studio: August 8, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Workshop: August 10, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

California Center for the Arts, Escondido CA

Deanna Barahona is the inaugural Artist-in-Residence through the In Studio program at the Center Museum. Over the course of four weeks, Barahona has explored new techniques and materials, delving into her familial history to create visual narratives that resonate with themes of memory and identity. On Saturday, join Deanna for a free drop-in workshop based on her screenprinting work on ceramic tile.

Reception: August 8, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

August 8 - September 21, 2024

Parent Company, New York NY

The group exhibition entitled Tend, features works by Nora Chellew, beck haberstroh, Carly Mandel, Sara Murphy, Funto Omojola, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. The exhibition is about care, or the lack of care, shown towards our bodies. It is about the love and violence that is inflicted on our bodies and about the time spent enacting care and bodily labor.

August 10, 2024

The City of San Diego, Commission for Arts and Culture

The City of San Diego supports artists to participate in Public Art/Public Sphere, a three-day intensive for artists interested in working in the public realm and competing for public art commissions. Public Art / Public Sphere is recognized as an initiative within the WDC2024 Community Program of the World Design Capital 2024 (San Diego/Tijuana 2024). This activity is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency.

August 15, 2024

Olympia, New York NY

Just Beyond locates itself within the haunting historical landscape of the American south amongst literal and figurative structures of violence. Through jarring, ephemeral and viscerally evocative moving images, cinematic pauses of entrance and exiting highlight the plight of an onerous escape muddled in timeless brutality.

August 22, 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Mutek Forum, Montreal Canada

This exposé delves into the neuroscience of art, highlighting the crucial role of sensation, perception, and memory, as Dr. Yoldas approaches art's evolutionary and neurological foundations, emphasizing immersion as a key element in modern storytelling and digital technologies.

July 12, 2024 - April 20, 2025 

Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery

Through portraiture and biography, the one-room exhibition will explore Baldwin’s legacy alongside his contemporaries in art, music, film, literature and activism. “On the centennial of Baldwin’s birth, it is important to look at this prolific thinker and writer, not only for his visionary insights but his influence that still resonates,” Combs said.

August 2 - September 7, 2024

Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles CA

The show invites artists from across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Albania and Mexico to an exhibition organized as a love letter to an idealized home – one both real and imagined, archival and ancestral – about the impact of displacement on their cities’ empowerment, embodiment, and resilience.

April 20 - November 24, 2024

Venice Biennale, Italy

The Vanhaerents Art Collection is holding it’s third exhibition on the occassion of 60th Venice Biennale. Entitled ‘Boundaries’ which will showcase a digital work that Memo Akten has made on commission for the Vanhaerents Art Collection.

July 1 - September 26, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

LaJuné McMillian: The Portal's Keeper is a new site-specific commission for the exterior video façade of the Mandeville Art Gallery. Building on the artist's interest in stewarding spaces for liberated Black realities and the Black imagination, McMillian conducted a movement and meditation workshop with UC San Diego students using extended reality and physical computing to translate participants' movement data into visuals for this new artwork.

June 21 – August 9, Oruzar Projects, New York NY

June 29 - August 10, as-is.la, Los Angeles CA

Featuring the work of Nancy Buchanan, Hildegarde Duane, Susan Mogul, Susan Singer, and Nancy Youdelman, the synchronous exhibitions link these five artists through their shared commitments to feminism, photography, storytelling, and the ingenuity necessitated by the indifference that greeted their practices as young women artists in 1970s Los Angeles.

July 20 - August 11, 2024

Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles CA

The exhibition features an installation of objects from Kuredjian’s Blocks series, a scattered constellation of square stone-like objects that combine earth, hydrostone, and silver. Sandbox was inspired by Kuredjian’s fascination with volcanic sites throughout California as well as architectural elements from monastic complexes in the southern Caucasus.

July 13 - August 17, 2024

Best Practice, San Diego CA

Tigercrow Collective includes MFA alumni Cat Gunn, Kirstyn Hom, Heige Kim, Jun!yi Min, and Naomi Nadreau. Utilizing singular and collaborative artworks, the collective seeks places of refuge through objects that hold memory, materials that preserve touch, and references to ever-changing landscapes. Best Practice is co-founded by MFA alum Joe Yorty.

June 1 - August 17, 2024

California Center for the Arts, Escondido CA

The exhibition takes the art assignment as its point of departure, with written instructions that ask college and university student participants to respond to find magic in the everyday. Each assignment serves as a catalyst for artistic exploration and seeks to build empathy through collectively recognizing and appreciating the magic inherent in our everyday lives and practices.

July 12 – August 17, 2024

Bonita Museum, Bonita CA

Border Blasters is an exhibition and programming exploring the impact of TJ/SD radio/television/music in the region. The exhibition, curated by [undergraduate alum] Diana Benavídez, Bill Perrine and Itza Vilaboy, presents creatives utilizing sound and visuals to transcend the physical border.

June 7 - August 18, 2024 

Kimball Art Center, Park City UT

Through site-specific, object-oriented, and community-engaged works, the artists in this group exhibition challenge stark divisions between people and nations, embracing the creativity capacity of multiple belongings. Upcoming Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence, Tanya Aguiñiga, is also included in the exhibition.