Summer Salon Series 2012 RFP
After months of hard work, I am excited to say that this year’s Summer Salon Series at the San Diego Museum of Art is already shaping up to be the best one yet. The themes within the Museum’s summer exhibitions offer a unique opportunity to explore how information about various issues is disseminated on both...
Reclaim UCSD: March 1st Demands
March 1st Demands STATE OF EMERGENCY: ACTION FOR EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE University of California, San Diego March 1, 2012 http://reclaimucsd.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/march-1st-demands/ I. PREFACE It is with immediate concern that the administration of the University of California, San Diego address issues of upholding the promises of the California Master Plan of Education for an accessible, public, and free University...
Reclaimed Library at UCSD
From SignOn San Diego: Students ‘reclaim’ UCSD library By Pat Flynn Originally published December 5, 2011 at 1:59 p.m., updated December 5, 2011 at 5:38 p.m. LA JOLLA — Students forced open the doors of a shuttered University of California San Diego library Monday and rushed inside, vowing to stay around the clock until the end of...
CALL FOR ENTRIES AMERICAN IMPRESSIONS 2012
CALL FOR ENTRIES AMERICAN IMPRESSIONS 2012 JURIED PRINTMAKING & BOOK ART EXHIBITION All Traditional and Digital Print Media Exhibition Dates January 30 – March 9, 2012 Submissions Deadline Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Organized by the University Galleries at William Paterson University, American Impressions is an annual juried printmaking exhibition featuring traditional and digital print media...
Call for Papers Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts
Call for Papers Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts Volume 6, Number 3 (Spring 2013) Grassroots Politics in the Postcolony Papers must be received by September 15, 2012 to be considered for publication in this issue. Please send manuscript publications to the managing editor: Leslie Shortlidge shortlidge.2@osu.edu. See Style Guidelines at www.raceethnicity.org. Submission of artwork for the cover that...
Mini Mobile Museum of Sweeteners -Kickstarter deadline Nov. 29th
From The Sugar Museum’s Kickstarter page: “My project is a mini mobile museum of sweeteners, which I call MMMsweet cart. The mobile cart presents information about artificial and natural sweeteners by traveling the streets of San Diego and possibly other cities in the future. Adults and kids will be invited to participate by taste testing sweeteners,...
Ocupación en Movimiento
West on Chapo Marquez; South through the alley to Cuevas. I barely notice the wire mesh that Luis installed the other week to keep the cat in. Across Malaroq, wind up the ramp. The footbridge across the canal toward Centro. Negrete to Juan Sarabia. Across Sánchez Taboada. One block more to Los Heroes. The...
Call for Participants: Three Crises -A Satellite.
Call for Participants: Three Crises. A Satellite. Session I Oct. 22th- Nov. 19th 2011 Session II Nov. 26th- Dec. 10 2011 @ Agitprop space 2837 University Ave. (North Park, entrance on Utah st.) San Diego CA 92104 contact@agitpropspace.org 619.384.7989 What: Three Crises: a Satellite. An open seminar to discuss the historical development of the current...
Occupy San Diego Tomorrow!
I recently came across the below excerpt from a talk given by Noam Chomsky in which he mentions the current state of affairs of the UC system and its’ systematic dismantling through deliberate policy decisions from once being the best public higher education system in the world into a system that more closely resembles Ivy League...
Call to Artists- #OccupySD
An Open Call to Artists in Alliance with Occupy Wall Street and Beyond Email ideas to the public Facebook forum: https://occupywallst.org Occupy Wall Street: https://occupywallst.org/ The Wall Street Occupennial: An Open Call to Artists in Alliance with Occupy Wall Street and Beyond The Wall Street Occupennial is an urgent call for artists to contribute to the...
Virtual March on Wall Street this Wednesday
from MoveOn.org: Dear MoveOn member, Over the last two weeks, an amazing wave of protest against Wall Street and the big banks has erupted across the country. In Seattle, San Francisco, Ohio, and Boston (where 3,000 people rallied),1grassroots groups have shut down banks and held sit-ins to demand that giant banks pay their fair share of taxes,...
5 from 1 artist Margaret Meehan on Glasstire
Check out 5 from 1 artist Margaret Meehan‘s excellent post on Glasstire Similar but Different #21: Art Schoolin’ Art School Confidential by Daniel Clowes via Glasstire