March 11-12, 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.

March 13, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

This art exhibition explores the intersection of human presence and the landscapes we inhabit. Through photography and mixed media, the show displays portraits, movement, terrains, and the spaces in between, capturing the tension and harmony of lived experience. It delves into the freedom of those experiences and the raw curiosity that shapes us.

March 13, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego

Over the past decade, artist Math Bass has developed a lexicon of symbols in the series Newz!—letters, bodily forms, architectural fragments, animals, bones—arranged in a variety of scores, each symbol an empty space of meaning, filled in by the context in which it finds itself. Repetition of these symbols exposes the difference at the heart of each iteration; there is always a gap in meaning, something unnamable left out of and left over in the viewer’s reading.

March 15 - May 15, 2025

Louis / Buhl & Co, Detroit, MI

Through painting and sculpture, the artists examine the intricate connections between nature, identity, and transformation, exploring cycles of growth and decay, the interplay between the natural and constructed worlds, and the ways personal and cultural histories are embedded in the landscapes we inhabit.

Reception: March 17, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Juliana Amaya, Amara Bhatia, Kaylee Bradshaw, Chanta Chea, Sarah Chung, Emma Denton, Sonia Klein, Audrey Legaspi, Kieli Leon, Sydney Nunnemaker, So Rivera, Rania Shamji, Ember Sierra, Isabella Vargas, Shruthi Venkatesh, Ajjon Zimmerman. "Systems + Networks @ Scale" introduces students to the study and design of complex systems and networks at diverse scales, from the nanometric to the planetary (and perhaps beyond).

March 19, 11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Mandeville B-114 and B-116, UC San Diego

Animation and Data Visualization Showcase of VIS 141A work Winter 2025. The course introduces external APIs currently of interest in the arts, extending a common programming language such as C, C++, Python, or Java, and the basics of TCP/IP networking. Students gain API fluency through planning and coding software or software mediated art projects.

March 20, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO

D'Elena-Tweed presents this talk titled “The Obstacle is In the Way: Pedagogy as Transparency and Mythos Reformation” for the Teaching Artists series. Teaching Artists offers participants professional experience via curriculum development, analysis, skill-sharing, and critical discussion surrounding arts education.

March 21, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.

Bread & Salt, San Diego, CA

Necking has been a free-punk improvising collective since 2004. For this event presented by Project [BLANK], they’ve invited like-minded collaborators, including past members, to participate in a series of stunts that break Necking into its composite parts and themes. This five chapter essay will cite influences lofty and lowly, using the language of some of our best misfits!

March 6 - May 8, 2025

The FRONT Arte & Cultura, San Ysidro, CA

Casa Familiar’s 18th Annual Dia de la Mujer Exhibition at The Front. Visions of a future considers cultural aesthetics from Afrofuturism, Latinfuturism, and Chicanofuturism to question the relationship between past, present and future in the Americas, exploring themes of migration, colonialism, racism, and cultural identity while actively challenging dominant narratives.

January 16 - March 14, 2025

Gallery QI, UC San Diego

Featuring works that engage elemental media used for millennia, returning our senses to the surface and to regenerative botanical practices. Artists: Pinar Yoldaş, Catherine Eng, Gloria Montes Crosthwaite, Ana Gloria (Martha) Rodriguez, and Stanley Rodriguez for Our Worlds, Paolo Zúñiga, and Betty Delsie Bosi and the women weavers of the Holau Vaka Taumako Association

March 1 - June 15, 2025

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Border Craft is a group exhibition featuring contemporary artists employing craft practices to address the geopolitical realities of borderland regions. The works on view serve as a feminist and critical counterpoint to dehumanizing systems designed to divide people and cultures. The exhibition includes MFA alum Isidro Pérez García and Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence, Tanya Aguiñiga.

October 4, 2024 - Ongoing

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen invites you to explore Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Indigenous science through the eyes of contemporary artists. Collectively, the exhibition asks us to consider how ocean science technology is not just about “high-tech” but also very much about the tools we use to shape our understanding of the ocean’s unseen mysteries.

February 20 - March 15, 2025

Union Hall Art Space, Denver, CO

Curated by Nathan Storey the exhibition features six interdisciplinary artists reckoning with queer histories, pasts, archives, legacies, and loss within their own contemporary studio practices. The artists search for their fragmentary pieces and reimagine queer constellations as they unearth LGBTQ+ histories.

January 31 - March 16, 2025

Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY

The first major solo exhibition in New York of this seminal post-Mexican, neo-American artist, it highlights new directions in his groundbreaking practice. A leading figure in the Mexican and Latinx artistic communities, Ortiz-Torres’s spectacular deconstruction of styles, dislocation of paradigms of identity, and creation of new forms of political aesthetics offers multiple perspectives on the fluidity of culture.