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San Diego City College Fine Art Gallery

Staffing issues keep City College gallery partially closed

Only open for 4 hours a day, the gallery is rarely open to students with tight schedules
Luke Bradbury, Multimedia Journalist • March 11, 2023
The Fine Art Gallery at San Diego City College opened a new exhibit last month titled “Mindful,” but you’d be hard-pressed to see it.
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A white wall in the City Art Gallery displays colorful artwork.

City College ‘Mindful’ art exhibit focuses on mental health

Show in on-campus gallery runs through March 16
Luke Bradbury, Multimedia Journalist • February 23, 2023
The fine art gallery at San Diego City College is hosting works created by local artists with the collective theme of mental health and the ways we deal with it.
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Guests at the NextUp birthday party smiled for the camera in a photo booth

City College NextUp gifts students with ‘the birthday (they) never had’

Former and current foster youth honored with a birthday celebration
Shamere Grimes, Multimedia Journalist • December 12, 2022
Selam Gebrekristos, the coordinator/counselor for the NextUp program at San Diego City College, threw a big birthday bash for former foster youth enrolled at the school. The Dec. 8 event was “the birthday (they) never had,” she said.
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David Contreras

Local artist speaks to City College students

David Contreras opens the spring season of the World Cultures program
Victor Ortiz, Jr. , Multimedia Journalist • February 15, 2022
San Diego artist David Contreras shared the evolutionary path his art style took in a Zoom presentation entitled “Look This Way! Craftsmanship and Seduction with David Contreras.”
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Makeda Dread Profile

WorldBeat Center’s founder connects with the community after the pandemic

A journey into Makeda Dread's life and her impact on San Diego
Aldo Ramirez, Multimedia Journalist • December 2, 2021
Supporting and organizing reggae concerts since 1980, Cheatom has produced 39 annual music festivals, although as we all know with COVID-19 came the closing of music venues and cultural centers and with that WBCC closed from March, 2020 until its recent reopening in September.
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At Joshua Tree National Park, Spencer Fields held his own art installation during Thanksgiving weekend in 2020, using balloons that are spray painted and fishing wire to make it seem that the balloons are floating. Fields photo

MAGAZINE: City College artists navigate the pandemic

City College artists continue to create during the pandemic
Rachel de la Torre, Multimedia Journalist • June 4, 2021
Due to COVID-19, artists all over the world have had to navigate creating, showing and selling their art to the public in new ways. San Diego City College is home to incredible artists of all kinds -- performers, painters, ceramicists, sculptors, multimedia artists and everything in between.
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Laurie Ann Guerrero, Texas Poet Laureatte, reads Atlas, a poem from a current project entitled Redwork, in which each poem is also represented as an embroidery piece done in the redwork style. Zoom screenshots

Former Texas poet laureate turns ancestral knowledge into art

Laurie Ann Guerrero passionately tells her stories, and those of her ancestors, through words and other mediums
Kathryn Gray, Multimedia Journalist • April 12, 2021
For Laurie Ann Guerrero, former Texas poet laureate and current writer-in-residence at Texas A&M University San Antonio, writing is like breathing.
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Robin Thicke singing Blurred Lines in the music video.

Decade Review: Songs

Music has evolved over the past ten years, here are some of the most notable songs from the past decade.
Madai Gurrola , Staff Writer • December 19, 2019
Take a look at the biggest song of each year.
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Art from drawing exhibition at City Gallery

Works of art on display

Drawing exhibit featuring art from local and outside artists is available throughout February.
Scott Gardinier, Staff Writer • February 20, 2019
San Diego City College’s Fine Arts Department is bringing professional artwork to campus with “startingLINE,” an art exhibition focused on drawing.
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“Batgirl” #41 variant cover by Rafael Albuquerque. Official image

No laughing matter

How a comic book cover pushed the limit and brought
 a much needed conversation of art to the forefront
Angelica Wallingford, Editor in Chief • April 21, 2015
How a comic book cover pushed the limit and brought
 a much needed conversation of art to the forefront
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One of several little stands where local artists can be seen selling their art in North Park. Jennifer Ovalle, City Times.

Local artwork showcased at ‘Ray at Night’

Jennifer Ovalle • December 14, 2013

With finals looming by, it can be unnerving for many and what better detour to take than a captivating art walk such as the Ray at Night event in the artsy and hipster neighborhood of North Park.This local...

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Salvador Torres works on his drawings at a local San Diego cafe in October.Photo credit: Andrew Hahn.

The Architect of the Dream

Juan Carlos Siezar • December 8, 2013
How a former City student pursued his artistic aspirations and helped change his community
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