COMING UP

Radio Chthulucene: Collaborative FM Radio Installation

June 3 - June 7, 2024

87.9 FM all around the UC San Diego campus

Undergraduate students in the Visual Arts (Electronic Technologies 1) and Literature (Intercultural Writing Workshop) have partnered to conceive programs, build radio stations and create diverse content. Visitors can meander walkways and eucalyptus groves to listen to audio recordings connected to the idea of the Chthulecene era—which presents an alternative story about our present lives on earth.

UG Studio Honors Thesis Exhibition Bloom

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

June 4 - June 7, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Featuring art by: Marley Blauch, Cole Byers, Kleo Zhou, Lillia Weissmuller, Jordan Cathcart, Partha Shankar, Rachel Holsworth, Robyn Rosete, Chloe Nickels, Youngmi Bombach, Angel Ren. The Studio Honors sequence is intended to refine and expand the student’s work and to build on conceptual and formal issues with the intention of giving the student a strong technical, critical, and theoretical base.

MFA Nathan Storey in room in a room in a room

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

June 6 - July 14, 2024 

Level of Service Not Required, La Jolla CA

This group exhibition features eight local artists with significant voices and influence working in photography, painting, printmaking, pottery and sculpture. There will be an opening reception with a ribbon cutting ceremony and an ice cream truck onsite offering free soft serve cones.

Art Joy Music Festival

June 6, 4:00 - 10:00 p.m.

The Stageroom, Student Center, UC San Diego

Proudly brought to you by KSDT Radio, Mandeville Art Collective, Antifragile Zine, En Route, Triton TV, TREND, Jewish Voices for Peace, and more! A celebration of student creatives at UCSD and a gathering for solidarity. This festival aims to bring together our community in support of Palestine by showcasing students’ musical and artistic talents.

UG class VIS 190 Design Master Studio Exhibition

Reception: June 7, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Featuring projects by: Gabrielle Almazar, Estrella Anaya, Nigel Ascencio, Jonathan Bandiera, Evelyn Chen, Kayla Chen, Aron Choy, Nikka Eshraghi, Camden Greenwood, Akina Huey, Dohyung Kim, Celeste Li, Jiaxi Lin, Yaxuan Liu, Siqing Mao, Rodolfo Marquez-Valencia, Valentina Molina, Paulina Mondragon-Lopez, Ani Sancianco, Aada Waltari, Anessa Williamson, Leana Wong, Max Zhao, Carolyn Zuniga

Animation Club Showcase

June 7, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

The Animation Club @ UCSD are hosting their first ever 8-Week Learn & Create Animation Showcase Event! Have you ever wanted to learn how to animate? Work in a group to create an animation? 🧐 We will be having ✨ weekly ✨ in-person workshops to go over different pre-production, production, and post-production animation themes at the SAME pace of having to create an animation to have showcased in Week 10!

UG ICAM Senior Showcase We’re Not Old Enough to Know What Dying Means

Reception: June 11, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

June 11 - June 13, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

The Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts major draws upon and aims to bring together ideas and paradigms from computer science, art, and cultural theory. The goals of the program are to prepare the next generation of artists who will be functioning in a computer-mediated culture.

Professor Pinar Yoldas panel for Synaptic Sculpture

June 15, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

ICA Central, San Diego CA

Please join us at ICA San Diego / Central on Saturday, June 15 in celebration of Dr. Pinar Yoldas‘ first solo exhibition in the U.S., Synaptic Sculpture. This free art event in San Diego is part of ICA’s commitment to reduce barriers to contemporary art in our community.

Lecturer Yue Nakayama screening I Get To Have My Own Private Hope

June 15, 3:30 p.m.

AVIFF Art Film Festival, Marseille, France

The play questions today's working conditions and societal structure through the precariousness of Fish's life and the disappearance of bananas. The AVIFF festival has become an essential place for exchanges between authors, directors, artists and professionals from the film industry, who come from all over the world to meet the public.

MFA Nathan Storey featured in SD Union Tribune

San Diego Union Tribune

In the article, titled "Art of the City: Young San Diego emerging artist is finding that queer history is his story," writer Seth Combs describes how "Using archival materials, Nathan Storey explores the history of LGBTQ longing and loss within his multidisciplinary works."

UG student Jaime Leynes in A Practical Guide to Modest Magic

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.

CLOSING SOON

Lecturer Joshua Tonies & MFA alum Joe Yorty Kilo Quebec

May 18 - June 15, 2024

Phase Gallery, Los Angeles CA

This exhibition brings together a body of recent collaborative projects as well as a selection of independent works by the artists, each tracing a key lineage to their collaboration. Themes of queerness and invisibility/visibility emerged and ultimately became the foundation of their collaboration.

Professor Danielle Dean Out of this World

April 13 - June 15, 2024

Mercer Union, Toronto Canada

Commissioned for her solo exhibition Out of this World, Dean’s new film is a portrait of Hemel Hempstead, where she was raised and unfolds as a personal essay on the town’s history as a planned community under the New Towns Act of 1946.

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