Reading Series: Joseph Mosconi & Ara Shirinyan 5/4 at 7pm
Dear Friends, Now that national poetry month is nearly over, we’re ready to have our next event on Saturday, May 4 at 7pm featuring LA-based literary artists Joseph Mosconi and Ara Shirinyan. This reading will be bittersweet—This isn’t the last Agitprop reading, but it is the last reading we’ll have in our current space. So...
Feb. 2, 2013 7pm: Alt Lit Cityscapes With Ana Carrete & Aurelio Meza
Agitprop Reading Series: Alt Lit Cityscapes With Ana Carrete & Aurelio Meza February 2, 2013 at 7pm Dear Friends, We hope you can join us this Saturday, February 2, 7pm for the first reading in what promises to be an outstanding Spring reading series. This month, we’re hosting two writers recently featured in Jacob Steinberg’s...
Poets Sophie Sills and Frank Montesonti at Agitprop Sat. Dec. 1st 7pm
This month, we’re thrilled to host poet and editor Sophie Sills in her debut reading at Agitprop. We’ll also welcome back former San Diegan Frank Montesonti to celebrate the publication of his first book, Blight, Blight, Blight, Ray of Hope and his soon-to-be-released second book, Hope Tree. Sophie Sills’ collection of poetry, Elemental Perceptions: A...
Genevieve Kaplan and Joseph Harrington Read on 11/3, 7pm
Dear Friends, We hope you can join us this Saturday, November 3 at 7pm for a reading by poets Genevieve Kaplan and Joseph Harrington at Agitprop. Before and after the reading, you can check out some of the events hosted that same day by the There Goes the Neighborhood collaborative in conjunction with the Living...
TGTN event: “What’s the Use?” November 3rd 2012
“What’s the Use?” November 3rd 2012 Organized by the There Goes the Neighborhood collaborative A day of programming in association with Living As Form (The Nomadic Version)* http://theregoes.org You are invited join us on November 3rd for “What’s the Use?”; a day of programming organized by the There Goes the Neighborhood collaborative. The first...
Foot Tunnels
Pedestrian tunnels are public space at its most problematic: lifesavers, nightmares. With tunnels fear is a given, and the standard solutions for addressing the issue — the security esthetic of gates, intercoms, and billboard-intensity signage; or the distraction esthetic of applied public art — only seem to increase the anxiety. For these reasons tunnels...
Enabling Neighborhoods
From October 4th through December 14th 2012 Agitprop will be participating in Living As Form (the Nomadic Version) at the University Art Gallery at the University of California, San Diego. This is an exciting exhibition because we get to team up with some really great people on this project. For this exhibition Agitprop and collaborators...
Michael Maas
Michael Maas is a Fallbrook-based painter. Over the past 15 years he’s shown extensively in Southern California, most recently at L2Kontemporary in Chinatown. He has another show this month at Bunny Gunner in Pomona. Maas is best known for his Alhambra series, over 200 paintings which deploy a common abstract motif — a...
Poets Alli Warren & Brandon Brown Read on 10/6, 7pm
We are thrilled to be hosting Bay Area poets Alli Warren and Brandon Brown at our first Agitprop reading of the season on Saturday, October 6 at 7pm. Alli Warren is the author of Grindin (Lew Gallery), Acting Out (Editions Louis Wain), Well-Meaning White Girl (Mitzvah Chaps), and Cousins (Lame House Press). With Michael Nicoloff,...
agitPOP: Protest Becomes Graphic Reception 10/11
San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery presents political posters and graphics by artists from the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Dealing with current topics such as the Occupy movement, women’s rights, dream activism, and environmental issues, the exhibit will be an example of the ways that art can be used as a...
Wall
Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. – Exodus 16:29 The wall encloses an area south of UCSD, roughly two miles long and one mile wide. On the north it borders La Jolla Village Drive, on the south La Jolla Parkway, on the west Torrey Pines Road, and...
Summer Salon Series – “Capitalism Works For Me!”
Summer Salon Series Friday August 10th 2012 http://www.sdmart.org/calendar/summer-salon-series-2012-beyond-banner-9 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. Giuseppe’s Bar Service 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. Capitalism Works for Me by artist Steve Lambert 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. Ad Sense, an installation by Tim Schwartz 5:30 – 6:00 p.m. The Third Party 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Art-making Activity: Money Printing 7:30 p.m....
Summer Salon Series: Swaggart Night!!!
Summer Salon Series 2012: Beyond the Banner Andrew Dinwiddie, Joe Yorty and Kelly Eginton 5:00 -9:00 p.m. Giuseppe’s Bar Service 5:00 -9:00 p.m. It’s getting darker…and darker and darker, a sound installation by Joe Yorty and Kelly Eginton 5:00-9:00 p.m. Ad sense, an installation by Tim Schwartz 6:00-8:00 p.m. The Quilt Conversation, with Ann Olsen and...
Hard Shoulder – Closing Reception Exhibition by Shane Anderson 7/28 7pm
Hard Shoulder – Closing Reception Exhibition by Shane Anderson Saturday July 28th 2012 7pm to 10pm Agitprop 2837 University Ave. (entrance on Utah St.) Hard Shoulder is a series of photographic images that depict now obsolete objects disregarded on the freeways throughout Southern California after they blustered out of the owners vehicle. Each image from the...
San Diego Public Art
A standard lament in the visual arts community is that San Diego is fated to be a perpetual Jersey-on-the-Pacific, with art remaining the odd duck out in a region known for its theatre and physical culture. The artists tend to blame this on the weather, without considering that the problem may be their art. San...