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MFA alum Isidro Pérez García presents Por Debajo de la Mesa: Terreno Familiar

June 24 - July 2, 2023

El Centro Cultural & El Nido Gallery, Santa Ana CA

A cross-border weaving collaboration that uses el tejer con tule - weaving with tule - as material and metaphor for investigating and upending regimes of migration, capitalism, land, labor, and art. For two weeks, a collective of art collectives from both sides of the US-México border will work together to weave an oversized set of table and chairs in Mexican "folk art" style - estilo de Maravatío, Michoacán. We will also offer workshops and events for the community to participate in.

Professor Rubén Ortiz-Torres CaliBaja Seminar

June 27, 2023, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

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For the summer science and art seminar series, Ortiz-Torres presents "Smart materials in search of natural intelligence." This will follow a talk from Public Health Education Professor Elena Martinez, "Cancer health equity among Hispanics in the United States."

MFA alum Misael Diaz, Cognate Collective in Intersections Symposium

June 29, 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.

Corazon del Barrio, San Diego CA

California Lawyers for the Arts is proud to present its fifth annual bi-national symposium, INTERSECTIONS: Art and Law at the Border. With a focus on the geo-political context of the Tijuana-San Diego region, the intention of this gathering is to highlight artists, activists, lawyers, scholars, and researchers whose work navigates the intersection of art, praxis and legal issues.

Alumni Omar Pimienta, Diana Benavídez, Joe Yorty, Cognate Collective in Pallet

July 1, 2023, 7:00 p.m.

Estación Tijuana Libertad, Tijuana MX

The pop-up show Pallet was born from a cross-border commercial phenomenon. It attempts to generate a creative dynamic and space for the analysis of “found objects”–commodities–their value, functionality, cultural relevance, and aesthetic qualities. Artists from both sides of the border created work with the contents of a pallet that was unpacked in front of them a month ago.

Mandeville Art Gallery Nature Scene

July 1 - October 2, 2023

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Nature Scene is a program presented on the Mandeville Art Gallery’s exterior screen featuring artworks that have been commissioned or specifically adapted for the space. It is on view daily from 7 am to 10 pm. The works use artificial intelligence, generative algorithms, 3D scanning, and more to depict the influence of technological evolution on the staging and mediation of the natural world.

FIELD #24 presented by founder & editor Professor Grant Kester


This issue has been guest edited by FIELD editorial collective members Primrose Paul and Laura Thompson. Black Lives Matter, and the broader cycle of protests catalyzed by the ongoing police killings of black Americans, inspired a range of new forms of cultural and artistic production/intervention over the past decade that span performance, site specific interventions, music, and dance, as well as more conventional gallery-based practices.

MFA candidate Amir Saadiq awarded Skowhegan Residency


Skowhegan seeks each year to bring together a diverse group of individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to artmaking and inquiry, creating the most stimulating and rigorous environment possible for a concentrated period of artistic creation, interaction and growth. Skowhegan draws its vitality from the community created through the talent and energy of the participants, and the distinguished Faculty of Resident and Visiting Artists who provide them with support and critical assistance.

MFA Heige Kim awarded Fulbright Open Study/Research Grant


Open Study/Research Awards provide the opportunity for academically mature students to complete independent research projects in Korea through 10 months of grant support. With its strong focus on growth and development, and its emphasis on maintaining tradition and history, South Korea is an excellent place to study and to research topics spanning a multitude of fields and issues.

UG alum Marisa DeLuca Artist Occupancy

Backfence Society, Vista CA

Sourcing original photographs from the Oceanside Historical Society's archives and incorporating materials from dismantled antique homes Marisa will continue to investigate the origins of cycles of disappearance and remnant from a new angle - anchored in the city she loves.

Assistant Professor Janelle Iglesias Las Hermanas Iglesias

December 17, 2022 - July 9, 2023

Blanton Museum of Art, Austin TX

Working on opposite coasts, Sisters Lisa and Janelle Iglesias produce playful work in a variety of mediums, engaging issues such as community, feminism, and cultural hybridity. Las Hermanas’ artworks draw on their identities as the children of Dominican and Norwegian immigrants and highlight relationships between family members as well as individuals in society, tying the personal to larger cultural systems and promoting cooperation and collectivity.

Professor Monique van Genderen Paintings

June 3 - July 15, 2023

Quint Gallery, La Jolla CA

Her painterly language may be understood through her search to humanize abstraction, in which intersections of landscapes and organic forms convey memories and evolve over time.

San Diego Union Tribune Article

Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 in Fictions of Interdomain Routing

April 22 - July 23, 2023

Long March Space, Beijing China

Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 includes Visual Arts Professors Ricardo Dominguez & Brett Stalbaum, Literature Professor Amy Sara Carroll,MFA alumni Elle Mehrmand and micha cárdenas.

Assoc. Prof. Paul Mpagi Sepuya Push/Pull

June 10 - July 28, 2023

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich Switzerland

Push/Pull is the latest in Sepuya’s project DAYLIGHT STUDIO / DARK ROOM STUDIO (2021 - ongoing), in which his anachronistic take on 19th and early 20th century Western European and American photo studios becomes a site for both playful and tensely charged interactions and reflections, bringing a contemporary Black and queer perspective to the origins of desire within the medium.

MFA alumni Trevor Amery, Taylor Chapin, Ruth Wallen in Good Natured

May 13 - July 30, 2023

Central Public Library, San Diego CA

At a time when vast amounts of scientific data are sounding the alarms of our current poly-crisis, our collective experiences implore us to reconsider our environmental impact and the need for reciprocity. Good Natured challenges us to act in this contingent world and ponders the question what it is to be both the problem and the solution.

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